You can also use a $10 webcam, cover the lens, and turn the gain up until it starts producing noise. Compensate for outside interference by calculating delta between two disjoint sets of random pixels.
You can fix this by generating enough random numbers, apply appropriate hash function, and use that as input on a good cryptographically secure pseudo random generator.
The biological imperative and all, with women who will, consciously or unconsciously, look for a partner that is stable and can provide for her children.
Also, unconsciously, they will look for a wild and exciting unreliable partner, because she wants his genes for her sons and grandsons.
What that translates to in the real world is that we could use gold instead of copper from transmission lines
Bad example. Real transmission lines are made from aluminum, because the weight/current ratio is better. Gold would be a really bad material. It's too heavy and too soft.
The drop in market prices *is* the benefit of asteroid mining.
That may be true, but even at current prices it's not worth the effort, let alone at even lower prices.
Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too. That's right. Five blades, two strips, and make the second one lather. You heard me—the second strip lathers. It's a whole new way to think about shaving. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge—the razor's edge—and I feel like dancing.
The value of something in an open market is not the same thing as the value to one crazy investor. Just because someone is willing to pay an unreasonable price for something does not mean that is the market value of that item to any other buyer
We have plenty of examples of the open market being very unreasonable too, even for extended periods of times.
Presumably humans make rational economic decisions.
Not necessarily, but on the whole, I would expect a few private investors with a lot of money to do better than the general public on the open stock market.
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In that sense, a tulip bulb is more useful than a bar of gold. Still, bars of gold have been able to retaining their value for thousands of years.
You can also use a $10 webcam, cover the lens, and turn the gain up until it starts producing noise. Compensate for outside interference by calculating delta between two disjoint sets of random pixels.
You can fix this by generating enough random numbers, apply appropriate hash function, and use that as input on a good cryptographically secure pseudo random generator.
Talking to a computer may be a good way to enter the chemical structure of transparent aluminum, though.
Even if it were suicidal for the North African country, a terrorist may not care.
The biological imperative and all, with women who will, consciously or unconsciously, look for a partner that is stable and can provide for her children.
Also, unconsciously, they will look for a wild and exciting unreliable partner, because she wants his genes for her sons and grandsons.
How much CO2 does an average person produce, compared to a dog ?
What that translates to in the real world is that we could use gold instead of copper from transmission lines
Bad example. Real transmission lines are made from aluminum, because the weight/current ratio is better. Gold would be a really bad material. It's too heavy and too soft.
The drop in market prices *is* the benefit of asteroid mining.
That may be true, but even at current prices it's not worth the effort, let alone at even lower prices.
We don't have the technology to do it for an acceptable cost, even if we put Apollo levels of effort into it.
There is no off-earth market, so nobody's going to fund an industrial base in space, which would cost an insane amount of money.
If $10 Quintillion worth of asteroid minerals were brought down on Wall Street all at once, it would cause a huge crash in mineral value
I don't think we have to worry about this happening any time soon. There's a lot of mass * delta-v to deal with.
No need to rent. You can buy a DVR for $200.
The ads I'm seeing online are mainly for products I have already bought.
Or things that I've looked at, but decided I didn't want.
Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too. That's right. Five blades, two strips, and make the second one lather. You heard me—the second strip lathers. It's a whole new way to think about shaving. Don't question it. Don't say a word. Just key the music, and call the chorus girls, because we're on the edge—the razor's edge—and I feel like dancing.
http://www.theonion.com/blogpo...
Fortunately, there's an easy trick to spot a lying CEO: his lips move.
I can't find really good close up photos, but the black grid pattern suggests an air intake rather than a spoiler.
https://www.indiacarnews.com/w...
Why would you have a grille opening in a car that doesn't need an air intake?
That black area underneath where the grille opening would be looks like an air intake.
Either way, the front looks ugly. For a minimalist design, it has unnecessary curves.
The article was written at the beginning of 2017. We are now halfway in 2017, and the launches and landings are exceeding expectations.
I hear that the sea levels are rising.... at about a foot per century. We can adjust to that without getting all in a panic.
How are you going to protect Florida, where the ground is made from porous limestone, and the sea will penetrate underneath levees ?
The value of something in an open market is not the same thing as the value to one crazy investor. Just because someone is willing to pay an unreasonable price for something does not mean that is the market value of that item to any other buyer
We have plenty of examples of the open market being very unreasonable too, even for extended periods of times.
In actuality private equity investors invest on a portfolio basis no different from you or me
So, they invest a few million in Apple, just because they like the latest iPad ?
Were they buying them bulk off Amazon
Probably not, as they had store advertising on them.
Presumably humans make rational economic decisions.
Not necessarily, but on the whole, I would expect a few private investors with a lot of money to do better than the general public on the open stock market.
Presumably the people responsible for the $351 million in funding got a good look at the value before committing the money.
Good times ahead for the American eye-care industry.
Not really. If you have a damaged retina from excess sunlight, there's nothing that can be done, except waiting and hoping it recovers.