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by BMc2020 4y ago
MintPress News (MPN) is an American far-left news website founded and edited by Mnar Adley (née, Muhawesh) which was launched in January 2012. It covers political, economic, foreign affairs and environmental issues. Editorially, MintPress
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1991, American Economic Association, John Bates Clark Medal. Since it was awarded to only one person, once every two years (prior to 2009), The Economist has described the Clark Medal as 'slightly harder to get than a Nobel prize'
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by BMc2020 4y ago
tl; dr: Intern, side projects, make stuff. If you don't know what to get a degree in, choose accounting. You're going to be dealing with money and taxes the rest of your life, might as well get good at it. This is doubly true i
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by BMc2020 4y ago
5. Assume there is at least one other side or version to every story.* Shape of the Earth, opinions differ.
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As a consumer of all things science but who will never be more than a fan cheering from the stands, one thing I read somewhere stuck in my mind. It went something like: "We are close to understanding the genome, which will lead us to u
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by BMc2020 4y ago
What do a lot of giant corporations like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Cisco and now Capial One have in common? They write their own software. What's in your wallet? All the money you saved.
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If I were to ask you the answer to two plus 2, what would it be?
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by BMc2020 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dr+daniel+griff... Daniel is a practicing doctor, Vincent is a virologist. They know their stuff.
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you could try 'stream decks' on amazon - basically a box of buttons that are keyboard macros. Made for youtubers and live streamers so they can not have to talk and type complex commands at the same time. Xah Lee's site: ht
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by BMc2020 4y ago
I so hoped this would be about HPs purchase of Autonomy: Autonomy was acquired by Hewlett-Packard (HP) in October 2011. The deal valued Autonomy at $11.7 billion (£7.4 billion). Within a year, HP had written off $8.8 billion of Autonomy&#x2
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by BMc2020 4y ago
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I see by your bio you've been on yc since 2013 and a "Nuclear reactor physicist in Seattle. If you want to talk about how best to push the envelope in nuclear for climate change, I'm in!&quo
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*These days I don't see why we don't just build lots more regular old LWR fission reactors.* Because they lose money. Nobody, not the USA, Russia, China, France, Japan, Korea has ever made them profitable. They are always subsid
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Fun Fact: Dickson Despommier is actually a professor of parasitology, speciliazing in the worms you get from eating raw pork. He and his friend Vincent Raccaniello (rhymes with black and yellow) started a podcast way back in the day (2010?
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You don't do it for the money. *DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER*
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Yes. I was so new I didn't know that a cell full of ####### meant the column was too narrow.
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I would save a copy of my main excel spreadsheet with the date as the file name. Once a day. Not perfect but it worked.
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"I see you’ve managed to get your shirt off." — Galaxy Quest
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If you read the novel Contact by Carl Sagan (it's not in the movie) you get to find out what secret is hiding in PI's digits.
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Reminds me a a company I worked at, I can't say it's name, let's just say it rhymes with Dewlett Dackard. 1) Start with a $55 billion dollar company... 2) Hire a new CEO and cronies that are going to make miracles happen wi
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Whenever JP comes up I feel the need to remind people to never click on a JP video on youtube. You can't stop them showing up after that. Click on never show this again and theres a hundred other channels. It's straight right w
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by BMc2020 4y ago
That logo..why not just brag a goa'uld is running it? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_SG-1_charac...
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by BMc2020 4y ago
missed https://www.laarc.io/ (actually an hn clone but whats the dif?)
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https://interestingengineering.com/us-military-orbital-recor... *The secrecy over the purposes of the space plane has even prompted Russia to say that apart from carrying out surveillance, the space plane could be harboring
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yes, so very nonsensical" *Deployment of X-37B space plane For all its features and achievements, the primary objectives of the X-37B have remained largely classified during its existence, which has now been for more than a decade. The
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I knew it would be this experiment. I was just commenting (in a different thread) on how decent people underestimate how evil evil can get a few minutes ago too.
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Last I read 1/2 of all murders come pre solved, because the killer a) calls the police and says I just killed someone, or b) kill themselves.
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You have to put yourself in the mindset of people who think big, are completely amoral and money is no object. A couple examples: There's encryption in use the NSA can't crack (SSL). So they..record the entire internet because s
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The responses seem to fall along the lines of 'it can't deliver a lot of warheads', but I think it's more for the scenario of delivering a single nuke clandestinely. Some terrorists in Absurdistan are trying to make a b
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I think its real purpose is to deliver a nuclear warhead with less warning and less attention than a traditional ICBM launch.
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Whenever the X-37 comes up I always re-state my theory that the real purpose is to keep a nuke in orbit at all times. Why not keep nukes on satellites? - It's against treaty - satellites run out of fuel - it's harder to control

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