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blastofpaston SpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time

Ah, I believe I understand now. Here's an older tweet from Musk which mostly explains it: "Crush core is aluminum honeycomb for energy absorption in the telescoping actuator. Easy to replace (if Falcon makes it back to port)."

blastofpaston SpaceX successfully launches and lands a used rocket for the second time

Musk tweeted that the rocket booster used "almost all of the emergency crush core" which, according to the article, "helps soften the landing".

Can someone explain what this means? What is an emergency crush core?

blastofpaston Ask HN: Top request from the new MacBook?

Please don't remove the headphone jack!

blastofpaston Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling

Title is probably misleading many people. This new feature does not do standard calls to phones. From what I can tell, it's more of an "in-amazon-network" voice chat, between amazon apps/devices.

blastofpaston Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling

#1 solution that I've been using, is setup an ifttt skill, then "alexa, trigger call my phone"

blastofpaston Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling

According to the article, it's not real telephone calls, yet.

blastofpaston Amazon Cash

Getting people to physically visit their B&M store, for whatever reason, is hugely valuable.

blastofpaston Ask HN: What do you want to see in Ubuntu 17.10?

- FLAVOR: Desktop

- HEADLINE: Full VR Support

- DESCRIPTION: VR isn't just for games. And using VR for productivity is a no-brainer. Ubuntu should be the go-to operating system for the most immersive VR desktop experience. Ubuntu should lead the VR-on-the-desktop revolution by supporting desktop VR (by working with Steam/FBOculus/MS/Google/Samsung as necessary to get the hardware and drivers correct and plug-n-play).

blastofpaston Boards in Asana

Yet even in chrome, the slowness of Asana is just too painful for me to use.

blastofpaston ‘Black Mirror’ Finds Terror, and Soul, in the Machine

After binge-watching the latest six episodes, I really enjoyed this "Twilight Zone"-like promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di6emt8_ie8

blastofpaston All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

My guess is child seats.

blastofpaston All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware

I take it as a hint that Tesla may be producing more than just "cars" in the near future.

blastofpaston A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral

It was just yesterday we read about SpaceX launching their first reused rocket. However, after searching for the news article, it's now clear to me that this was scheduled to happen "late this year".

source: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27935/20160901/space...

blastofpaston A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has exploded at Cape Canaveral

I am surprised that no one has mentioned whether or not this failure is related to SpaceX's first time reusing a rocket. If so, hopefully this isn't too much of a setback!

blastofpaston Tesla Model S Can Now Make Custom Engine Sounds

And here's more info about how: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2992605

blastofpaston A Third of Valve Is Now Working on VR

You might be right, but it would still be interesting to see how a holocracy run company would cope with being public.

blastofpaston A Third of Valve Is Now Working on VR

I wish Valve was publicly traded so that I can invest.

blastofpaston Oculus hints of issues shipping (or billing) Oculus Rift CV1 on Reddit

And a likely Oculus insider hints at a vendor/partner problem here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/4csc3e/certain_part...

PL tried to solve it with his own money.