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It's not a stupid question. The problem is twofold: Any place that's nearby is already too expensive to make the move worth it; and any place that's cheap enough to be worth it lac…

I'd believe that, but your MBA also has an SSD, which partially masks the effect of swapping out pages. True, SSD is an option for the new iMac, but it's not included in the base p…

You could start by estimating the time cost correctly. You're assuming that the time required to select the right monitor is zero, that the time required to understand the various …

The Turbo Boost clock speed is only around 15% lower than the other iMacs, though (2.7 GHz vs 3.2 GHz). It looks like the same processor as the MacBook Air. The bigger problem is p…

> FCs don't operate via the carnot cycle so in theory can be 90+% efficient in electricity generation. Sorry, this is wrong. FCs are not heat engines, so the thermodynamic limitati…

I doubt the feedback loop would be very severe, simply because most tuition is not used to pay for faculty. Instead, most goes to the ever-increasing army of administrators whose a…

As the density of receiver sites increases, it will likely be possible to use trilateration to identify broadcasts which are obviously bogus.

HNers tend to be technical people who like numbers. It's my experience that such people tend to dislike what might be politely called 'bovine excrement.' The lack of numbers[1] is,…

> His cost argument doesn't make any sense. He is comparing some mythical 12x12' $10k panels to the same size of asphalt and is magically breaking even. That stuck out at me as wel…

> is the "hockey puck" mouse. I don't disagree that they're terrible, but didn't they end production of those 15 years ago?

I think the part most people are having trouble with is not what is contained in your first paragraph, but how the legislature/executive goes from there to "Every manufacturer, inc…

> In 2014, this may not be the case. Level3 wants to send much more traffic to Comcast than Comcast would ever send to Level3. This is because Netflix (a Level3 customer) is asymme…

> Demand for faculty positions is pretty stable. Well, that's certainly one way of putting it. You could also say, "Academia has the potential to absorb about 10% of PhDs produced …

Actually, the Apple chargers in that link displayed the expected behavior for the USB 2.0 "extended power" (can't think of the actual title) specification. The author has a fancy o…

Well, considering that altitudes above FL1000 have been, for the last 60-odd years, considered to be outside the FAA's jurisdiction... what is the problem exactly?

Isn't that a major functionality regression? I mean, didn't we stop saying "This website best viewed in IE4 with screen resolution set to 800x600" a decade ago?

Honda sold a CNG version of the Civic here in SoCal for a while. It didn't sell very well because the tank took up most of the trunk and the range wasn't much better than most elec…

Most journals now have a "supplementary content" section where authors upload their results. Anyone can download that without a subscription. Obviously, older results are still loc…

Have you tried looking for motors that aren't designed for 60 Hz operation? I think you might be in for a surprise...

When Musk unveiled Hyperloop, he used sleight of hand to make it look dramatically less expensive than the conventional rail system currently being built. Specifically, Hyperloop, …

It's hard for me to square your assertion that the article was not a hit piece with the verbiage of the article. For example, the reporter used heavily loaded language to convey th…

You're misunderstanding. There is a single circle, which people are calling two arc. That is because they know the airplane can't fly more than a certain distance from its last kno…

I realize that central Michigan has a fairly low cost of living, but that seems surprisingly low for a tenured professor.

Sure, the J variant has upgraded engines and avionics, but the airframe is the same. The article simply says that the PLA uses the "Soviet designed airframe" of the Tu-16 and the "…

Because Nissan was a little stupid and didn't include any sort of active cooling system for the battery. No heat pump, no liquid cooling, not even an air-cooled heat sink (unless y…