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Comment · 7 years ago
Realistically we take these beautiful designs and wrap them in Otter Boxes (and similar)
Comment · 7 years ago
Er, that does not leave too many options if you wish to fly...
Comment · 7 years ago
> In fact, if we delay until the distant future, or even 50 years or so, such an effort probably will become impossible. This is because us humans will consume the Earth's non-renewable energy and mineral resources almost completely within the next 50-100 years, severely reducing our discretionary income for costly activities such as space travel.

I wonder when that was written...

Comment · 7 years ago
Understand the sentiment, but can anyone be sure that Airbus isn't doing something similar.
Comment · 7 years ago
I am pretty sure Google Drive does this as well.
Comment · 7 years ago
Perfect for mining bitcoin
Comment · 7 years ago
You may be right (about Windows) but I am not going to pay $100 (for a new Windows license) or so to find out.

edit for clarity

Comment · 7 years ago
So is entropy really about energy, or information? Or is there any difference.
Comment · 7 years ago
Does the universe require perception in order for there to be existence?

If so, does the perception require consciousness?

Is consciousness constrained to the universe, or orthogonal to it?

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Comment · 7 years ago
That's what Java applets were supposed to be originally, they were supposed to run in a sandbox....
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Comment · 7 years ago
I believe they are in EAI - Enterprise Application Integration space. Broadly speaking this is a "swiss army knife", if you want to take a CSV file from an FTP site and load it into a relational database, then do queries off a table and POST JSON to a webhook, It can do any of those things.
Comment · 7 years ago
How great would it be if Apple built CO2 and particulate sensors into their products.

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