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I've always liked this layman's animated FAQ: http://www.vinylrecorder.com/faq.html

Save on fuel weight, but is rather large, and wonder how it fares in harsher weather conditions

Agreed. In its current incarnation, social is merely a utility. Network effect inertia ~ Natural monopoly

They would still be constrained to degrees by their marginal costs (the price floor) v what the market will bear. Who knows what the actual costs will be the day they have a giant …

By default, yes. Only whitelist sites that I support and aren't abusive with ads/tracking

Exactly... the political and economic institutions of Russia have not progressed and have likely regressed in the last 10 years. Who led Russia in 2002? Putin. Who is leading Russi…

Thanks for the FLAC support, with 24/192 and 24/96 working!

The proposal mentions that the NYC campus will largely serve graduate students and graduate school programming. Stanford already has a satellite campus in Monterrey, CA for marine …

afaik, it's android's lack of GPU acceleration for the UI

I also assumed that the storage/bandwidth/computational costs of particle accelerator data sets would make open access practically useless

The proposed site is on Roosevelt Island

It was also one of the most important cultural capitals of the US http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Detroit (i.e. Motown to techno was based in Detroit)

33,808 deaths in 2009 from traffic fatalities http://www-fars.nhtsa.dot.gov/Main/index.aspx

Actually my experience growing up in NYC (and this may be an outlier, but I see it elsewhere) is that immigrants are more likely to be entrepreneurial because traditional employmen…

At the same time, Hong Kong served as a model for China to emulate when it gradually liberalized its economy, beginning with the SEZs in coastal southern China in the 1980s. I thin…

I wouldn't be so hopeful. One of my professors who works in Antarctica and drills lots of ice cores was bemoaning the Russian mismanagement of the Vostok drilling project.

This kind of testing is already done in certain contexts. I am thinking specifically of air quality and automobile efficiency standards which are "tested" in California before bein…

granted, feral cattle can be quite nasty (wouldn't want to meet one in the wild)

There are many works that fit into this format, e.g. Joyce's Ulysses, the classics, etc.

from Verizon (CDMA coverage) * Bermuda * Canada * Dominican Republic * Guam * Israel * Mexico * Northern Mariana Islands * South Korea http://support.vzw.com/faqs/International%20S…

It boggles the mind how much economic rent and inefficiency is gotten through pointlessly proprietary formats.

Exactly. An old, old technique. Do people still study rhetoric in school, grumble grumble?

perhaps why a bottle of vodka is 3 dollars *also fun fact: doshirak is a Korean brand

it's happening ;)

Also, the Gates building (and others) at Stanford has bits of computer history including a plaque to Vint Cerf and one of Google's lego servers