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http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/gao/im92026.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha... Whether or not this can be attributed to technical debt, I don't kno…

I'd imagine I'm pretty similar to grandparent post in this respect. If I find something interesting, I save it. Even if it's seemingly arbitrary or not immediately useful. With pow…

I was more trying to explain the intuition of why single nucleotide mutations (resulting in non-viability or undesired effects) are probably more likely in a strand of DNA with reg…

Imagine a general with a finite amount of artillery shells and a Howitzer on the fritz (i.e. the intended trajectory of the shots are somewhat off the mark today). Given the choice…

This actually kind of reinforces (or at least points to) one of the central ideas of the essay, that we cannot know what it is to be a bat--we would always contextualize or specula…

This is not my creation, but I've read the essay before and I was intrigued by the game. It's pretty cool. Here is the essay if anyone is interested: http://organizations.utep.edu/…

For what it's worth [ ] , I'm pretty sure CERN(/LHC), ESRF, SLAC Nat. Accelerator Labs, Lawrence Livermore, Lawrence Bekeley, Sandia, Princeton Plasma Phys. Lab, Brookhaven, Fermil…

I also disagree with the 'firsts' argument, to a certain extent. I didn't articulate my point well enough. I was responding to the 'I'll trade this time now, for more time later' l…

> But selfish in a good, weird way - working 80 hours a week so someday I don't have to work 40, so I can take my wife and kids to Hawaii for the summer someday, or whatever. Epoch…

If you've got about an hour and a half to spend, and you enjoyed this article, I'd like to recommend a lecture given by Will Wright in 2003. He covers his background, early compute…

IIRC, what you are referring to is in the text-epilogue/credits of the film. It said something along the lines of 'the Camorra even invested in the reconstruction of the Twin Tower…

> "many of these families have moved to completely legit businesses and just keep the fear factor in place to secure large city / gvt contracts." Protip: If your business model rel…