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Even though some of these are pretty old, they look fascinating. The human imagination is really something. That skyscraper bridge would look so badass in real life!

I have a N5 (ya...), and I've found that somedays I'll be getting ready to go home from the office (where I sit like 20ft from a WiFi AP), and find my phone down to ~20-30% battery…

Thats because you have enough thermal mass and evaporative cooling capacity to withstand those temperatures for a short period of time - ie, very little of your body will experienc…

I wouldn't use 'probably' at all. The level of proof submitted is incredibly light - it only inspects two and a half proteins - and doesn't attempt to inspect the relationship betw…

No, its just too expensive, and probably too heavy. If OP is right (pretty sure he is), he said that by using something completely free (average weight), we were able to achieve li…

I mean, most of what North Americans do in their every day life is robbing a child in Africa of... all sorts of things.

Can you clarify what your culture is? And who specifically these out-groups that you worry about are? I'm not trying to bait you - you're essentially making an argument that relati…

Sure. It's just xenophobic. And since the OP's culture was clearly a white man's culture - a culture that has been relatively slow to accommodate others, in many ways its still a r…

Because the story is useless. Story shows that cancer death rate in SF is ~160-200 per 100,000 depending on demographic. Overall US cancer death rate is about 170 per 100,000 ( htt…

They are all pluses, but most of those didn't exist till the last couple years. So effectively the first 6 or so years of Python 3 existing had much less incentive. I think the fli…

You can interpret that statement in any number of ways. That quote originated no later than 1994. The semi-conductor industry then was certainly dominated by men. In that sense, th…

I've found the ftp-sync extension's sftp support adequate for my use so far. I've definitely found full-syncs to be a bit slow when there's a lot of stuff in the folder, but it see…

Are they sleeping 3 hours a day every day? Or is that just their average when they get a shitty on-call rotation? I think both cases are ridiculous, but it's worth separating the t…

It's worth noting that many developed world's medical systems have a problem with the acute-chronic gap. Remember that pretty much all systems grew out of acute care - as a result,…

Practically no one in the time period you care about thought that the Earth was flat.

Ok, maybe the second paragraph is kinda bunk, but there's still good stuff in the third paragraph. I mean, the question is 'diversity in the workplace' in western nations pretty mu…

Not denying the asymmetry of power and actions, but I think calling the relationship as purely "US is bady" is while less wrong than just "Iran is bady", it still pretty wrong, and…

I think calling the relationship between two countries who do bad shit to each other, but generally don't want to have to do bad shit to each other (if nothing else because it dist…

Thats because the US Navy has two rear admiral ranks. The lower rear admiral is a 1 star officer and is equivalent to commodores in other navys. The upper rear admiral is a 2 star …

Intel will probably end of spinning this as the first (more impressive) set of numbers being estimates of the potential limits of the new technology. Almost certainly those nice ro…

It appears that once you remove the g-load, recovery is relatively fast ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16696261 )

In the field of materials and fabrication? Not that much. Fundamentally, the problem is that for many of the problems that we consider interesting in materials or fabrication, mean…

The Air Force requested the ability for the shuttle to take off from Vandenburg Airforce Base, go into polar orbit, and then land back at Vandenburg at the end of that one orbit. T…

Well, they've almost certainly been trying that. And as the OP said, it hasn't been paying off in a big way. If they've been doing it (I'm guessing they have), then they've probabl…

Should probably begin by saying that there's no fundemental reason why China could not eventually develop their own modern turbofans without outside assistance. But obviously now i…