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see also, "great wall of sand": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_wall_of_sand …

I'm curious: How does an ecommerce physical product delivery service in India solve a major problem, namely that there are taxes and customs tariffs when goods are transported exclusively within …

All of these challenges you've described are why Facebook's drone group also has a team working on 60/70/80 GHz PTP millimeter wave radio tech. Not very dissimilar from existing hi…

If I were a national signals intelligence agency with a correspondingly huge multi-billion dollar budget, it would be trivial to run a large percentage of tor exit nodes... You could probably achieve…

That's great how there is a measurement of 2.5MB per cubic meter. I've love to see a 1 x 1 x 1 meter cube of rope memory... Imagine the person hours required to do something like that, you&#…

This is how NASA got many billions of funding from the USAF for part of the space shuttle program - look through the list of flights in the 1980s where the payload was an unspecified national security…

Even better are the manholes you can see near major satellite earth stations labeled "TELEPORT" http://lh3.ggpht.com/_hVfE2qcyzXU/TJvJ6mq58zI/AAAAAAAAAhA/uW...…

It might depend where in the flight the engine fails, assuming we're talking about the first stage. If I had to guess, a GTO mission (placing a payload in a 36,000 km x 350 km elliptical orbit) c…

If you ever want a directory of every sketchy unsafe third world airline on the planet, here it is: "List of airlines banned from EU airspace" http://ec.europa.eu/transport&#…

I'd be surprised if any insurer would touch the first few re-uses of a first stage, considering how risk averse they are... For the largest commercial market segment which is geostationary telec…

Possibly of interest, the giant engines used in the Delta IV Heavy have 80% less part count than an SSME, but they were never intended to be human-rated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&…

I am guessing it will be more like an engine rebuild on an engine for a 777 - tear down and xray of key parts. The turbopumps and compressors in a rocket engine are very sensitive, high precision part…

Trucking companies care a great deal about fuel efficiency, actually: http://www.stemco.com/product/trailertail/ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/30&…

Since when are checksums for Debian ISOs "hard to find" ?

Hyperloop One preliminary budget priorities: a) hookers b) blow c) everything else

Could also be a reference to Mentats in Fallout(1,2,3,4) which are an addictive drug. Recursively, also a reference to Dune.

DPI can most definitely distinguish encrypted phone calls and traffic patterns. It's a lot more kbps of flow than messages.

This is ridiculous tinfoil hat bullshit - a radioisotope thermoelectric generator with encapsulated pellets is NOTHING like a "fat man" design atomic bomb.

How are you supposed to do gasoline delivery without keys to the vehicle, when the driver is absent, if nearly every car sold these days has a fuel cap door that can only be opened from a button insid…

Can we promote it with the Cloud to Butt extension? Seems like a logical marketing strategy.

In many major areas there are only one or two refineries anyways - it all comes from the same place and is rebranded. Sometimes with a tiny percentage of some special fuel additive poured in when they…

If "Yo" can raise $1.5m of funding at a $10m valuation... https://techcrunch.com/2014/07/18/yo-raises-1-5m-in-funding-... …

fixed that: "tl;dr: If you use software with “Symantec” or “Norton” somewhere in its name, stop what you’re doing and remove it completely."

The primary difference being that kimsufi has basically no support, you're wholly responsible for whatever OS you're running on the box. The only support is 'wipe and start over'. …

kimsufi = OVH , just FYI.

good luck creating a fried chicken filter targeted at south korea and convincing people it wasn't part of some thinly veiled "fried chickenz and watermelons" plot to insult a large perc…

If Caucasian engineers at an American company created fried chicken, sumo wrestler and sushi filters for specific ethnic target markets they'd be accused of ethnic stereotypes and racism.

Port Moresby is one of the more dangerous places to travel, no matter what gender you are: https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/papua-new-guinea/sa... https://…