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Even in Japan it's cheaper to fly between Osaka and Tokyo than take the train. The train is a lot more convenient, though. There are only a few corridors where high speed rail make…

For a moment I thought it was going to be another chat app. Instead it's... something? A one sentence description at the beginning of the page wouldn't hurt...

Landscape pictures can serve as a reminder of what you were doing, a sort of diary. Sure, you could find professional photos, but they won't be as rooted in your memory. By looking…

MOND does work a lot better than Lambda Cold Dark Matter (L-CDM)... but only for explaining the rotation of galaxies. It can explain this rotation almost perfectly given only the m…

Although there are teething issues, for US allies the unit the F-35 is attractive due to a unit cost which is lower than any of its competitors (such as the Eurofighter Typhoon). F…

It's worth mentioning that while electric turbopumps are a lot better that pressure-fed designs, for larger engines they aren't as effective as using pre-burners (due to the weight…

I think this article misses the point of Georgism: that the land tax replaces all other taxes. In other words, while land belongs to the government (people), individuals are entitl…

Not having fast FP64 is a design decision. Space isn't free, and FP64 takes up a lot of space that could be used on delivering higher FP32 perf, which is more important for video g…

Well, he's not Gavin Newsom, so good luck if this is true!

What should the US do than? Spend our tax dollars on foreign handouts? If US companies want to invest in SE Asia there is nothing stopping them.

Google's hardware is for inference, not training.

815 mm^2 die size! That's at the reticle limit of TSMC, a truly absurd chip.

A bit suspicious right before the US election, maybe it's under attack. We'll find out soon enough.

Railroads in the US are privately owned, for the most part.

Cargo dragon doesn't have a pad abort system. Dragon 2 would be able to escape just fine, though. Cargo dragon could _technically_ survive if didn't get blown up too much.

I took the class (6.828) last semester at MIT, and the labs do a great job of handling a lot of the annoying x86 stuff so that you can focus on the more interesting parts of writin…

Also don't forget Japan's Akatsuki space probe which will will attempt to insert itself in orbit around Venus in November. It "missed" in 2010 due to an engine failure and had to w…

Rinon, you are correct. The Supreme Court (perhaps foolishly) decided that private to private transfer of land is permissible under eminent domain. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kel…

The only thing I found annoying was his pet peeve about "the internet being down". I might tell someone that to get the idea across. Of course, I could say that "I was unable to es…

It's disheartening that despite the continual stream of information pouring in about the NSA the average citizen remains comparatively indifferent and the media and most representa…

http://tech.mit.edu/V133/N7/hoax.html

This is an example of a how to do a great OSS website: http://git-scm.com/ Granted, it is a bit easier to make a succinct website for something like Git rather than the entire Pyth…

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