D_Alex

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by D_Alex 13y ago
OK I have now read the entire report, up to and including the first appendix. My now informed opinion is that with the issue of this, umm, mild report, MIT have missed an opportunity to address the "one issue for reflection" ident
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> What have I said that suggests "MIT is not to blame for very much at all"? My comments have dealt with factual issues; I don't see where I advanced any opinions on MIT's deserved level of blame. My comment should ha
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Well... I believe they deserve some blame. This is well argued by others, I shall not bother rephrasing their statements. Now to be clear: do you believe that MIT deserves no blame?
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Thanks for stepping up to argue MITs case. I understand you personally hold the view that MIT is not to blame for very much at all. IANAL... I just notice that other people said that MIT could have put an immediate stop to the proceedings
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I hope you are being sarcastic...
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> I expect several foreign countries to ban American tech company operations That will probably not happen. But what will happen, and have a small but ultimately significant effect, is that American companies will lose some contracts, by
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No, silly! "Finance" pays well largely (most certainly not exclusively, but largely) because the of the opportunities for smart and unscrupulous people to exploit the systems they themselves helped to create, for personal gain. Of
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I think he meant: Punishments are PERMITTED to be either cruel, or unusual. But not both.
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>Major terrorist acts e.g. 9/11 have a devastating impact on the economy. Citation needed! 9/11 did indeed have a devastating impact on the economy - because of the very poorly thought out response of the Bush administration. O
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Dunno about "free", but what really bothers me is that someone decided to seek asylum from the US. US used to be the gold standard in democracy and justice.
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Wow... good job! But now that Snowden left the US, he must be an ex-patriot. The traditional response is an extradition request.
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>I'M MAD AS HELL...AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!!! I understand your anger.... and i am curious: what actions are you planning to take?
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Now consider also this: the medical privacy rights have the effect of withholding from research vast amounts of medical data, which would be extremely valuable in, say, cancer research. How many people did CANCER kill in the US 2001-2012? R
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Ehh... this is all relevant, but indirect. How about: 22. What is your credit card number, expiry date and security code? And on the subject of "nothing to hide from the government ": the government in United States is - still -
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Unpigmented "paint" is not white, it is usually* clear-ish. Titanium dioxide is the usual white pigment. On the topic of why iron oxide pigments are used rather than keeping paint clear: they protect the surface from UV light. * There are m
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You are right about the arbitrary government and red tape. I think you are wrong about "virtually no access to EU markets", but I will not argue it here. You are wrong about "lack of workers skilled in post-1950s technology", and completely
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I'm sold. Lets go for it!
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> There no 'shitty conditions'. Based on my 2 trips to India - Mumbai and Chennai - this is either naive or dishonest. I'll go further, and say that out of all the roughly 50 countries I visited, which include Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Iran,
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Bullets are very easy. All you need is a mold, some lead and a fire. https://www.google.com/search?q=bullet+mold&rls=com.micr... You might have meant "cartridges". But they are not hard either, or even necessary. Black powder is prett
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by D_Alex 14y ago
I received a 3d printer last week, at work. I ordered it to try and make some oilfield equipment models. My expectations in truth were low, the printer is a cheap hobbyist unit (Makerbot Replicator 2). After using it for 2 weeks, I am very
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>...it currently operates at a $12 million annual deficit. The number reflects several factors ... most significantly, $10 million a year in payments on a $175 million loan the school took out a few years ago, in part so that it could i
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Nice, this needed to be said, have an upvote. But let me talk about point 3. Science has many parts, one large part is gathering observations without even trying to explain - eg. look at the work of 19th century naturalists, who travelled t
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>did you know they are the world's biggest ship builder? Nope... they are not. That would be Hyundai, and the second largest is probably Daewoo. Samsung could be third. (I worked at Daewoo and Samsung shipyards). Tangential funny: the s
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Depends on your definition of "a motorcycle", "a car" and "much lower" of course... If you compare a brand new entry level 250 cc japanese motorbike to a brand new entry level korean hatchback,over say 5 years, the motorbike TCO will be les
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...morale.
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Or perhaps... in fact...in the end... we all won?! The situation resolved itself in a way that demonstrated that the community is tolerant of political correctness slip ups, and intolerant of those that blow them up out of proportion. But p
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Not according to NASA, and they should know best: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/news/16411537/nasa-deni...
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I am curious why this comment has no downvote arrow.
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Interesting information, but look: >Many of the top players get 5000 to 7000 viewers every time they stream their games That is not very much... it would take about 400 years of to get the audience for a single Wimbledon tennis match. &
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Valeri Polyakov spent 437 days on the space station "Mir" - an environment at least an order of magnitude more limited than Mars, I'd say. Wikipedia has this information about his mission: "Polyakov underwent medical assessments before, dur

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