FiatLuxDave

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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
As far as I can tell, the problem isn't so much a lack of jobs or a lack of homes but rather that they aren't in the same place. In small town America, the problem isn't a lack of housing stock, it's that it is hard to
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scoffing https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/scarf... https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/engl
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
I once stayed at an honesty box motel near Hell's Backbone (a road through rough country in rural Utah). There was a basket of keys on the porch and a sign that said, "We're out. Please take a key and leave $20." The p
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
People desire to bad ads because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of them, especially of the lower value ones which don't do anything for them. It's not the entertaining informative ads for things they want that anger them,
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
Not the poster above, but as someone who also has a copy of Ignition! in their library, I think you might enjoy the pdf version: https://library.sciencemadness.org/library/books/ignition.pd...
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
This is the best answer. The area of the plane is 0.0196 m^2, so the heating of 10^5 W/m^2 is actually around 2 x 10^3 W, which seems much more reasonable. Also, I noticed that I missed that the plane is made from 4 sheets of A4 paper
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
Hmm... the paper plane has an initial kinetic energy of (0.004 kg) * (7800 m/s)^2 / 2 = 121.6 kJ. But it is supposed to experience 10^5 W of heating for several minutes? The atmospheric heating comes from converting the kinetic
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
You are probably thinking of: "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
As someone who tried to put together a CVT startup in 2000-2001, that first graph on transmission production share over time makes me feel... damn vindicated. Too bad we missed that opportunity.
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
I think that a large reason why the discourse sucks is because the public is seeing hardly any discussion using language that is specific about types and features. Let me explain. With older technologies, the language to talk about it is w
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
Big powerful lasers can actually be quite noisy. Once I was talking on the phone with a friend who was working on one of the big lasers (don't remember which one, but it was in the bay area) and he said,"What? What? I'm so
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
Does anyone know of any weather sites which show the actual outcomes? It is very easy to find forecasts. It is quite difficult to find what the weather actually was on a given day at a location, but at least it is possible. I have never
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
The reference you were looking for is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinkenlights
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
I thought this was going to be a Fred Hoyle thing, not a Borges thing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_the_First_Is_Too_Late
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
I've gone with people I've known (friends, basically) rather than finding partners at meetups etc. I know I'm lucky in my choice of friends. This worked really well one time and not so well another. Case 1: I started Fiat Lu
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by FiatLuxDave 1y ago
Anyone who is interested in this may enjoy the book "Black Thursday" by Martin Caidin: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Thursday-Story-Schweinfurt-Raid...
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Honestly, I think you might be missing something here. "Azimov on Numbers" was maybe the most real math book I read as a kid. I don't know of any other book aimed at a kid's reading level that covers aleph-null and Canto
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
It's nice to see this book referenced! I am proud to have two old copies of the book in my personal library, one from 1880 and the other with no date on it. Prescott was an ancestor of mine, and the copies were passed down.
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Sometimes because we aren't the one who bought it (again!). A few years back, my sister bought a HP scanner/printer, then moved away and left it to me. She always liked it, but I never did. Then, after my mother died, I needed t
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
I believe that is referred to as the Silver Age of science fiction ;)
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Greybeard former fusion founder here. Wishing you guys all the luck in the world! Email in profile in case you wish to chat. For all the naysayers, as a fusion startup, targeting the marine market is a good move. They aren't even th
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
You are thinking of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coonskin_cap , which is made from a racoon. The hat which was made from beaver is more familiar to most people as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
I thought this was a pretty decent article. At the very least, it answered a question I always had always wondered about: how he had graduated Stanford so quickly. He's only a few years older than me. When he and Tim funded Fiat Lux
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Your math on that is bad. You can't use the profit ratios, you have to look at the revenue. Making a TV costs more than selling ads on one does. From the earnings report referenced in your linked article ( https://investors
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poor_Little_Rich_Girl
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
If that is what "tensegrity" makes you think of, I'm guessing you haven't seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkzeE6BVNIk [Super Ball Bot, NASA]
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Their direct reports were the decani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contubernium_(Roman_army_unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decanus
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
I agree about how aligning the incentives can make a huge difference. The first product I was ever a product manager (and SME) for, I assisted the support team with escalations. This meant that every weird new bug or strange situation wou
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
At first I was very interested in this post, because I believe that a strong visual representation can really help people to understand something and how it works. Even if it is somewhat simplified, just being able to envision how a princi
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by FiatLuxDave 2y ago
Oh man, that reminds me of a mistake I made a few years back. I had opened up a motor controller to fix it, and I knew to discharge the cap before messing around inside. I applied a screwdriver across the terminals to short it out, and was

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