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>>> Also, putting your first number in scientific notation helps put this in perspective: 2.2 x 10^12 . Seven orders of magnitude. Close to 15 000 0000 times as much. Hm, I made a …

Hm. I don't think that's going to be a problem, it might take me a while to read his work, but that's okay. That said, I'm used to such books and a world rife with war, famine, dis…

I've actually thought about this a bit, and I think that a really interesting design for a launch gun would be to encase the payload in a cover composed of diamagnetic material and…

>>> Why? We have a whole solar system right on on our front porch This is an honest question, not a rebuttal. How would you get those resources here, or us over there? >>> Water do…

Yeah, I'm thinking about buying the book as soon as I have the spare cash.

Now I certainly plan to. Thank you.

I might be wrong, but I'm sure I read a detailed discussion somewhere about how they analyzed burial pits and found large amounts of cuts as if the flesh had been flayed and so on.…

Sorry I have dyslexia, I tend to get muddled up like that sometimes.

>>> nice prose of your Thank you, but my prose is far from being nice. You should see my boss with a red pen around my prose. :-) >>>but the tiny blue ball thing is bullshit Carl S…

Whenever I see an easter island head, I can't help but draw parallels between our global civilization and theirs. The eastern islanders consisted of around a dozen tribes, each com…

The problem lies in how will you define the other parameters over here. First up is the question of defining that 1 KG itself and the configuration; how will we define the paramete…

I think that you could get a lot of mileage by selling unique trinkets. Imagine taking a Escher style moebius ring and creating an actual ring or a necklace out of it (imagine doin…

They keep pounding the same misconceptions again and again in endless repetition, and I can't help but wonder, who hired these guns? (that's not to say that some of their arguments…

What if the child has a learning disability? What happens then?

I disagree, look at the options given to Skype employees [1], being in the valley doesn't magically mean that your safe from the dark side of the force. [1] http://techcrunch.com/2…

It's not about the attribute itself, but affirmation along that attribute. It's the same conundrum facing parents of gifted kids, praising innate ability vs. hard work backfires in…

I think that the hardest lesson to internalize over here is, "every no gets you closer to a yes". Most hackers thrive on finding, solving problems and getting the solution just rig…

I love what you're trying to do, but how will you monetize this? Will you pursue amazon based referrals for songs? (I'm guessing it won't add up unless you have scale) Or will you …

(note: I don't mean to be rude, but this comment has barely been up for 1 minute and I'm already being down-voted. Surely no one can read something this long this fast and down-vot…

>>> MrMan 14 minutes ago | link | parent | flag HN members' opinions of themselves are inflated and entertaining. I really enjoy the stream of sometimes-interesting links posted on…

There actually might be a precedent over here. Heinlein came up with a "waterbed" for a few of his books (it was mentioned quite prominently in Stranger in a strange land) Later on…

I work in a distributed office, and over the past few days I've been trying to find a "concept mapper", which helps us to make projects more concrete through flowcharts etc. The pr…