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  Perfect.
TTFN - Kent
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The Hubble Space Telescope discovered an asteroid in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter called 16 Psyche. The overnight shipping is pretty pricey as well
And it will likely be a bit less after it collapses the market prices on various metals.
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Quote: Asteroid 16 Psyche is possibly worth $10,000 quadrillion dollars
Is that possibly the main reason why Elon Musk wants to get to mars that bad? 
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Probably.
But then the Belters will revolt, drop a few stealth asteroids on Earth, and everything will suck (sorry about spoilers)
TTFN - Kent
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Thanks for the reminder - I've just noticed that book 9 has been announced for next year. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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It only acquires value once it can be converted into useful stuff. As long as it's orbiting out of reach in the Asteroid Belt, its value is zero.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If it's name is 16 Psyche, how could the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered it? Doesn't the "16" mean that it was the 16th asteroid to be discovered? That would be many years ago.
EDIT: The ECB can use it to recapitalize all the EU's zombie banks. 
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You are correct - 16 Psyche was discovered in 1852. List of minor planets: 1–1000 - Wikipedia
In the three cases that I was an eyewitness to events that made the local newspaper, the "reporters" did not get a single fact correct. I have no reason to assume that "reporters" elsewhere are any more accurate.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: worth $10,000 quadrillion dollars
Psych!
I see now, that's how it got its name. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
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...and that's just from tourism!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Why couldn't they just say "10 quintillion" dollars instead of 10,000 quadrillion?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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We’re amazed every day by the ways in which you, our customers, use Excel to make better decisions, leveraging the flexibility of the 2D grid and formulas to capture, analyze and collaborate on data. Excel is the #1 database in the world, part 365
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Excel is the #1 database in the world, part 365
Until you exceed the row numbers and you lose your data[^]
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But still no support for decimals, so no accuracy in money calculations. 
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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IT decision makers and employees have different views on how to improve employee experience. Yuuuuuup
OK, it's a thinly veiled advertisement for Lenovo, but if I had to get a new machine for my cranky employees (me), they're on my shortlist.
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IT decission makers and employees have different views on almost everything, specially regarding IT themes
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C++ module support has arrived in Visual Studio! Grab the latest Visual Studio Preview if you want to try it out. Get your Modules in your Classes in your Files in your Projects in your Solutions (InC++eption!)
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Get your Modules in your Classes in your Files in your Projects in your Solutions (InC++eption!)
M.D.V.
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"You walk one mile south, one mile west, and one mile north..." Yet another reason why I don't want to work for him
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Elon Musk gets interview questions from Dixie Cups
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The North Pole. Took me about 10 seconds to figure that out.
[edit] Reading the whole link, not just the question, I would not have realized that there were 2 answers, though I did consider the South Pole, but you can't walk South from the South Pole, so I dismissed any options from there. I'm still having trouble visualizing that answer. [/edit]
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Yeah. That's why he's (and you're) a rocket surgeon. 
It's the second one that's a little trickier (and sillier)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: It's the second one that's a little trickier (and sillier)
Quite so (see my [edit]) What I'm not clear about is that the starting point has to be more than 1 mile north of the South Pole, otherwise "west" is meaningless if you're right at the South Pole.
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There are multiple solutions to the Southern one. Your one mile West can be several laps of the Pole.
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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An infinite number of those, it would seem. You would know, being down under.
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