acjacobson

Thanks for posting the article. I wish I had known more about this when I was in high school. I have recently found myself becoming much more interested in mathematics when thinking about very simple concepts and asking why it is a certain way vs. memorizing the rule. I think my 10+ year aversion to the subject is rooted in the fact that it felt like nothing more than rote memorization in high school, and thus a dreary subject to learn anything about.

I am not really sure why so many people here are alarmed at the privacy implications. Google or Apple and your ISP / Telecom already know where you are at all times unless you are one of the very few people that don't carry a cell phone. Your ISP already knows every site that you look at from your home computer - how exactly is this different? Why is Facebook inherently any more or less trustworthy than any of these other companies? They are just happen to also know where you are when you optionally check in?

While I am no expert in chemistry he mentioned that one of the benefits of using water was the fact that it is in a liquid state and thus you could effectively store more energy within a finite amount of space. At least one of the noble gases (argon) does not compress down to a liquefied state, so perhaps that applies to the others? Large compression tanks are also quite heavy, so perhaps that is a consideration too.

Regarding foreign buyers, I am not sure if this is a bad way to invest. According to this this recent piece from the New York Times a similar phenomenon could be occurring in London with pretty good returns

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/opinion/sunday/londons-gre...

I don't think the problem is UX at this point - or even features as many others have pointed out. The issue for me is that the community left, or certainly isn't close to being the same. I used to go to Delicious for the same reason I currently visit HN - to see what's interesting today. Without a strong group of people posting interesting things on a regular basis, I am just not incentivized to keep coming back.

Here's an interesting article that stipulates Nagasaki really didn't add anything to the equation (and to your original point the Japanese were already used to this) - http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/05/29/the_bomb_di...

While I am not positive, my assumption is that 48fps was chosen as it is exactly twice the normal frame rate, allowing them to easily toss away half the frames per second to create the 24fps versions of the film.