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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Would be a super-useful to have a sciencecode.com service which is a long-term CI system for scientific code and its required artifacts. Journals could include references to sciencecode.com/xyz and sciencecode.com/abc could be de
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
First, this is not an argument against posting this post... This is an excellent post (I've shared it on). It'd be a great service to the HN community to do these as an AMA-type-thing. Deva is on here and is very generous with h
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Agreed. Pricing transparency in healthcare has been wonderful for pricing (see The Atlantic's Fallow's article). My point was that pricing transparency is not a panacea. It seemed that some people were reacting as though pricing
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Price transparency can harm prices. Competitors can use it as a mechanism to signal appropriate prices to each other in order to reduce pressure to reduce prices. It's highly industry/context specific but transparent pricing d
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Agreed. I did a napkin-back calculation on a giant (50m diameter) grid-scale flywheel back in grad school in '95 (when there was talk of powering cars with them) and failures would have been catastrophic since the flywheel would dissi
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Disney bought BAMTech for this. Wasn't too much of a leap to expect that a giant content producer/owner (+ distributor) when combined with a huge content distributor would be successful...
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Per TFA: Kaepernick will be writing stories ...
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
This is an excellent point and one I had not considered. I'm generally anti-intervention but do strongly support the notion of driving diversity-of-business within markets. A common measure of market concentration is a sum of squares
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Got this question in an interview at National Semiconductor (out of MSEE school). I didn't think it was too paradox-y: we didn't work the math through fully but my answer of "start with the circuit with a resistor with value
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Does lethality after the contagious period matter? Doesn't seem that there would be any selective pressure if the host (and its extant, too lethal viruses) perishes...
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
And they were right. Since magazines are just the TVs of the 1940-1970s, they effectively changed our lives by offering us glimpses of the Kardashians, Trump, Miley Cyrus, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan, FoxNews/MSNBC, SlapChop, etc.
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Didn't know that Apple was working on this. I'm not a huge Apple fan but they certainly did the right thing by not telling Trump (of whom I'm neither a fan nor a hater) or by having a strong NDA to cover the work so that it
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Title is sort of incorrect: "Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act" should be "Zoom needs not to do stupid shit"... I'm a fan of the product but this is ridiculous behavior (great Linux support). I have a hard tim
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Forrester came in to teach SysDyn (2004) and went over the wheel-of-real-estate. Eye-opening. Definitely a humble, nice guy. Contract info is in my profile. Drop a line and we can grab 6-foot-distance coffee!
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Ha! Same here. Almost started an IAP session with Senge to let people play it multiple times (with varying demand curves) because it seemed to have a lot of exploration left...
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Any comments on the following? Serious? useful? Garbage? https://harvardtothebighouse.com/2020/03/19/china-owns-natur...
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Love seeing more Rust. It's good stuff. extern crate rocket; I thought "extern crate XYZ" was old-style? "use XYZ"?
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
This is a fun read but should read as a description of a fairly common method of developing products and remediating "deviations". A lot of words are spent on describing what is essentially a root-cause-analysis (see GxP, ISO 900
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
This is a significantly-incorrect, surface-level understanding of the "Sinclair Method". As another poster noted, naltrexone (or similar) prevent one from feeling much of anything from alcohol (though you'd still be physical
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Argh. Was just upgrading a Debian machine and was wishing (again) for parallel downloads. apt-fast is a severely limited hack (I couldn't figure out what it actually supports). I assumed any significant apt update would include pe
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Didn't know that ALBs could front Lambdas... Will be so happy to be able to be rid of APIGW...
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
While I much appreciate Steve's work on Rust, this does seem a little high on drama and low on substance. Rust really does seem to be a nice language and here for the long haul so bumps in the road are opportunities for improvement ra
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Sure but it takes quite a bit of energy per shot. A fairly standard 7.62mmx51mm NATO shell puts out a bullet with about 4000 Joules of energy. That's roughly a 0.4F, 100V capacitor or 2,000 200uF, 100V capacitors (around $2,500) _per
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Looks as if you're receiving a decent number of downvotes (I upvoted) for expressing some truthiness mixed with too much vitriol. >Who cares about unintended consequences if you're >the first person to study them? Everyone w
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
In the US? You should have been able to get heavily subsidized health insurance (which is a hassle), unemployment, etc. Still crappy but it's not $0. But that's exactly my point: it's very difficult to discuss this when pol
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
> The bottom of the ladder is the unemployed, who make $0/h. If government programs are included, the unemployed definitely don't "make" $0/hour. As is often pointed out, taxpayers are effectively funding the un
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
I consider myself a fairly educated fence-squatter on this topic but I think it's too early to tell and any assessment is highly confounded by our central bank's actions. That said, I have talked with SF restaurateurs and they&#x
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
Agreed^2. Grab a highly qualified, talented person in India or Australia (or wherever is +12ish) from TopTal: solve the [first level] overnight issue, use them and onshore talent to drive the process of improving security and documentation
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
That's a nifty idea: put all the fuel and luggage out towards the wings and the passengers down the center. No more discomfort for passengers (during turns and turbulence) and you'd still reap the benefits of the BWB design. Tho
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by CoffeeDregs 7y ago
This is the umpteenth commercial flying wing we've seen and none every fly. Perhaps this time will be different... MIT also came up with D8 or double bubble (see: https://www.nasa.gov/content/the-double-bubble-d8-

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