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Really cool example was the Aladdin ROM that had unreleased sprites that shipped till on the ROM image. All of the development tools are intact so one can explore the source code for some of the unreleased material. https://gamehistory.org/aladdin-source-code/

Bart Hendrickx and Bert Vis, Energiya-Buran: The Soviet Space Shuttle, 2007

>The IPM studies were conducted under the leadership of Yuriy Sikharulidze and Dmitriy Okhotsimskiy, two of its leading scientists.

>The IPM studies focused on the Shuttle’s possible use as a bomber, more particularly its capability to launch a nuclear first strike against the United States. Efraim Akin, one of the institute’s scientists, later recalled:

>“When the US Shuttle was announced we started investigating the logic of that approach. Very early our calculations showed that the cost figures being used by NASA were unrealistic. It would be better to use a series of expendable launch vehicles. Then, when we learned of the decision to build a Shuttle launch facility at Vandenberg for military purposes, we noted that the trajectories from Vandenberg allowed an overflight of the main centers of the USSR on the first orbit. So our hypothesis was that the development of the Shuttle was mainly for military purposes. Because of our suspicion and distrust we decided to replicate the Shuttle without a full understanding of its mission. When we analysed the trajectories from Vandenberg we saw that it was possible for any military payload to re-enter from orbit in three and a half minutes to the main centers of the USSR, a much shorter time than [a sub-marine-launched ballistic missile] could make possible (ten minutes from off the coast). You might feel that this is ridiculous but you must understand how our leadership, provided with that information, would react. Scientists have a different psychology than the military. The military, very sensitive to the variety of possible means of delivering the first strike, suspecting that a first-strike capability might be the Vandenberg Shuttle’s objective, and knowing that a first strike would be decisive in a war, responded predictably” [14].

Your examples are matters of opinion, the Exxon case is a matter of hiding facts known to the company which are not vague as an opinion of quality.

I feel like the youtube channels of OOUKFunkyOO and EELF have pretty good wide variety of new and obscure artists. Great old footage VHS videos set to the music as well.

Would be interested to chat some time, I've been doing the same, Uber's H3 has some interesting possibilities for mapping irregular objects.

There’s this article that talks about how they could be radar reflecting balloons specifically designed to be seen by the navy to test their response and radar capabilities, like we have in the past against other countries.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/28640/could-some-of-th...

Headphone jack, water resistance, pick one.

No PWAs

$0.99 or free with all the important features a $19.99 in app purchase each.

To be fair Musk was a billionaire before Tesla, and considering a company like fox Conn getting 3 billion or $230,000 a job to make a plant in Wisconsin, Tesla getting a subsidy is par for the course.

Similar story as Four Roses rye whiskey, they make most of the rye whiskey in the United States and it all gets relabeled and marked up by branding marketing etc...

This seems like the basis for stripe handling amounts in cents to maintain integer values.

Separating security updates from general new feature updates would be the key for old phone updates but that is unlikely to happen.

Good use of PWA service worker features.

I would be interested in a demo key. Former GIS, now web developer.

Biggest thing I gathered was the public safety barrier was damaged from a previous crash, 12 days earlier, so the driver basically hit a hard wall. This has more implications for the US’s infrastructure than Tesla’s safety IMO.

I subscribed to Wire because I remember how awesome the articles were at my tech-industry family member's house. It has definitely gone downhill from what I had remembered, all ad selling articles.

laughed out loud at the old AOL goodbye sound byte

Amazon has diversification, an extremely profitable web services, and logistics department covers competitive losses in e-commerce pricing and shipping. I do not feel Uber has the same diversity in its revenue generation, wondering when they are going to drop their uberEats platform.

I recall a congressional hearing where a person from SpaceX stated that Couldn't figure out why ULA rockets cost $422 Million while SpaceX rockets only cost ~$90 Million. Methinks there are some established players pulling their congressional strings. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/air-force-budget-rev...

Would love to see a Seveneves cinematic production! A trilogy or three-part series could do well.

Phil Stooke has an interesting method for modeling small space objects, would be interesting to apply a non-spherical coordinate system. http://publish.uwo.ca/~pjstooke/plancart.htm

Though imagine if we spend what we did on the F-35 on space missions/exploration.

robocode taught me javascript way back in elementary school!