Caerus

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by Caerus 14y ago
Unfortunately no. The Supreme Court has already ruled that this is legal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_v._Concepcion
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by Caerus 14y ago
While great, creditkarma.com only provides your score. If you're looking for a complete credit report, there is no reason to not use https://www.annualcreditreport.com/ . It is the official site set up by the three reporting agencies, as m
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by Caerus 14y ago
Rendezvous with Rama has a lot of back story involving early solar system exploration/settling, and the main plot is exploration of an unknown object. One of my all time favorite books, but the sequels are mediocre at best. http://www.amaz
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by Caerus 14y ago
I imagine it has something to do with the "level" of credit card you have. My card is fairly high end; nothing in the $500,000 per year solid gold card league, but definitely not in the "sign up for this card and get a free pizza" type eith
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by Caerus 14y ago
After reading this story, I was curious how much Google News had personalized my homepage after several years of using it as my primary outlet. Somewhat surprisingly, there wasn't any I could find other than things I had told it to do: more
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by Caerus 15y ago
This is in no way rigorous, but hopefully the analogy helps. Imagine you want to encode something like y = 2 * sin(2 * x) + .1 * sin(10 * x) to save space. http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sin%28x%29+%2B+.1*sin%2... That is composed o
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by Caerus 15y ago
Actually, no they didn't. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power... Yes, all systems fail. Fukushima was hit by a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and a 10m tsunami, which is about the worst environment imaginable and it alm
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by Caerus 15y ago
True, but the problem is many, many orders of magnitude larger. Looking at US numbers only, we would need to figure a way to store 51.69 TWh and supply over an 18 hour period. They are storing 233 MWh and distributing over 5 minutes. For a
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by Caerus 15y ago
The fact that old technology which should have decommissioned and replaced years ago is still in use is a public policy failure and in no way "refutes" nuclear as a safe technology.
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by Caerus 15y ago
Both of those events were predominantly due to 1960s technology, namely generation II nuclear power. Generations III and IV are significantly more robust with many more fail safe mechanisms.
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by Caerus 15y ago
I've been a huge proponent of "green" energy for years, and after watching it for those years, it's becoming more and more obvious the technology just isn't there yet. The best we can do is pump more money into research and ignore these poo
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by Caerus 15y ago
I read through their "full report" ( http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/files/FSTbookletFINAL.pdf ), which is barely more than a press release, and the only mention of how they conducted the study tells me it was a poorly controlled experiment:
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by Caerus 15y ago
Also, utilities. I only pay for electricity at my apartment, and thanks to some 12" stone walls it's quite low. I talk to people my age who have bought homes and their utility bills can be as much as 40% of my rent.
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by Caerus 15y ago
Speaking as a mechanical engineer, experience in fields related to your own, however tangentially, is extremely valuable. Two example from my career: I spent two summers working construction on job sites. Running pipe, cutting beams, and b