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The guy writing this article is not very good at mathematics or astronomy.Quote: It goes about 23 mph. That means an elevator going that speed would take over an hour to go up
He thinks that an elevator travelling at average of 23 mph will take over a hour to travel 12 miles. He also says the space elevator will be 12 miles high and then later he says it will be 14 miles high - a typo, perhaps?
[Edit: I have just re-checked the article and he actually says the space tower is 12 miles high but will have a 14 mile high elevator to reach the top - perhaps it curves back down and around at the end to create a Las Vegas roller coaster at the top of a building style ride!]
Quote: ...the carbon nanotube string to the moon. Right now, we can make carbon nanotube chains that are as long as 3 centimeters. Only 59,652 miles to go. I'd convert that into centimeters for you, but I don’t have space for that many zeroes. Let's call it 1.4 trillion to round it off.
In addition, he seems to think it is only 59,652 miles to the moon. It's actually around 238,900 miles - which is 38,447,228,160 cm.
His 59,652 miles figure also converts to a little over 9.6 billion cm, which is a lot short of the 1.4 trillion cm he claimed/guessed - He must have run out of fingers to count on!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Considering he uses a Taylor Swift video and something that looks a lot like Wild Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm-Flailing Tube Man as examples for a space elevator... I think his lack of math skills are the least of his problems 
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I prefer the explanation of "Limit" I find it cooler
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IT matters more than ever, which means enterprises need to get serious about developers and the language they speak: open source. "Nine women can't make a baby in one month"
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I'm willing to help them try.
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Based on my 10+ years experience as a software developer I put together a list of actionable guidelines that can help anyone get closer to 10x. If I read it twice, do I become a 100x developer?
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Kent Sharkey wrote: anyone get closer to 10x.
Not with Java it won't.
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They might if you recognise that 10x is expressed in binary...and is little-endian.
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After a gas station monitoring system was hacked earlier this year, Trend Micro researchers Kyle Wilhoit and Stephen Hilt decided to take a closer look. Well, I guess that might be one way to save at the pump
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Big data and machine learning are going to be used everywhere, even our operating systems. "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."
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In this JAX Magazine preview, testing guru and JAX London speaker Colin Vipurs runs through the strengths and weaknesses of common approaches to testing databases. Mocking mocks
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A group of Israeli researchers have improved on a way to steal data from air-gapped computers, thought to be safer from attack due to their isolation from the Internet. Would this mean I'd get better reception?
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You can finally experience Android Apps on Windows 10 Mobile but be warned, it's not an easy process and can force you to re-flash your device, so move ahead cautiously. This is not the droid you're looking for
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That does not sound like something that would be a good idea. Maybe just get a VM and do it on there? Emulate Android inside another Windows 10 emulator?
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Every time you use WiFi, ask yourself: could I be connecting to the Internet through a compromised router with malware? I thought compromise was a good thing?
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Wired: Adam Rogers 08.06.15 1:24 PM. "Google’s Search Algorithm Could Steal the Presidency"
"IMAGINE AN ELECTION—A close one. You’re undecided. So you type the name of one of the candidates into your search engine of choice. (Actually, let’s not be coy here. In most of the world, one search engine dominates; in Europe and North America, it’s Google.) And Google coughs up, in fractions of a second, articles and facts about that candidate. Great! Now you are an informed voter, right? But a study published this week says that the order of those results, the ranking of positive or negative stories on the screen, can have an enormous influence on the way you vote. And if the election is close enough, the effect could be profound enough to change the outcome." [^]
«I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.
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No, I won't say that is a bad thing, neither is a good thing at all. Google's due a good respect I'd say.
A vote is not the outcome (should not be the outcome) of a Google search, or even Bing search. A vote is how you chose someone to take command of the government. I haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life. Not his Google's life. I'd say a good candidate for any official seat would be someone who takes care of what others have to say about him and doesn't looses his temper. Simple.
At the end, I'd say someone whose vote is so paper thin that it could simply turn 180 degrees after a Google search of opponent doesn't deserve to be given a chance to vote.
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life.
Quite difficult to know about that real life. At the end we are speaking about the better actors and liers of the world, oh sorry... about politicians
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: Not his Google's life
Do you prefer Facebook'`s?  
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: At the end, I'd say someone whose vote is so paper thin that it could simply turn 180 degrees after a Google search of opponent doesn't deserve to be given a chance to vote.
Altough I agree that statement... Welcome to "like's" world.
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Quote: Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote:
haven't voted yet, but my vote would go to someone who is a good guy in his real life.
Quite difficult to know about that real life.
Nope, I would love to. But you know, this is Pakistan. A lot of theocracy and the Mullahs (you aware of them?) claim us (community to which I belong; Ahmaddiya) to be infidels. That is why, our votes are totally cancelled away by claiming that an infidel cannot vote for, or take part in electorate for muslims. So why waste our time then, just to get a label of being infidel. 
Nah, to compare Google against Facebook is like comparing donkey to horse. Indeed, Facebook is better, even if we compare it to Google+. I wonder what was Larry Page thinking when he tried to start Google+.  But Google as being a search engine, well... A lot of politics going on. A lot of. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Don't think it is much better in other countries. Infidel or not... conservative or not... republican or not... center or not... it is overall just a mess.
Afzaal Ahmad Zeeshan wrote: But Google as being a search engine, well... A lot of politics going on
I would say it is business, not politics
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True, no matter how much one agrees to another person on something, they would be ready to cut throats just because of a slight difference in psychology or theology at worse.
Uh huh, in this game. Politics and business are synonyms just to overcome the emotional meaning of one in a context. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Ofcourse if the first results are bad messages the candidat has a problem. Google is for the democrats and against the republicans.
I'll test my theory with Hilary Clint and Donald Trump. OMG 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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I know quite a few republicans that are against any notion of Trump being president.
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Otherwise known as old media (Conde Nast) complaining about the influence of new media.
Its like all the newspapers running reports about the inaccuracies in Wikipedia. They just feel threatened.
I'd rather have Google influencing votes through their search algorithm that Rupert Murdoch through printing outright lies about politics.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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