Grishnakh

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by Grishnakh 10y ago
How is fission possibly as clean as fusion? Fission leaves behind radioactive waste material; fusion leaves behind helium. This doesn't make any sense at all. Yes, we can't do fusion in any practical manner at the moment, but we
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Thanks for the info, that's very useful. If this is the intention, it seems like it'd make more sense to throw up roadblocks to only someone else who's in the comment chain, rather than to someone who hasn't been involve
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>If our new president fulfills his promises, friends of mine will be cataloged, deported. My own hopes of US citizenship and the life me and my wife had planned for ourselves is now uncertain. Are you sure about that? He's already
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I can't reply to stouset for some stupid reason, but why is it "absurd" to not want to eat horse for texture reasons? My understanding is that horse meat generally does not taste that good and is very tough, because those an
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
I have to agree that it's not a great sign if she insists on this. What other trendy stuff is she going to demand just because "everyone else does it"? I'm somewhat recently divorced now, but one good thing about my ex
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
That's the really annoying thing: there's no really good reason cities can't build more decent housing in high-rises. I suspect the problem is bad zoning laws and developers able to make more profit doing other things. Idea
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>(Never mind that I'm perfectly content to put my tent up if I don't find a room.) Just curious: where exactly do you pitch a tent in a situation like that? It doesn't seem like it's that easy to find some open groun
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
There's other reasons you might want fusion power: any place you need a large source of power, but siphoning off ambient energy (i.e. wind, solar) isn't feasible or sufficient, fusion is the way to go or else you have to use fissi
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Except that it's not 50/50, at least in the case of humans. With humans, it's about 1.07/1, in favor of males. The mechanism is much more complicated than a 50/50 chance of inheriting some chromosome.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Well you can also raise kids in a single-room mud hut. That doesn't mean it's a desirable way to live in 2016. Also, in most localities in the US, good luck getting custody of any kids if they don't have a separate bedroom.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
American cars are generally less expensive than foreign cars, not more. German cars are generally much more expensive than comparable American cars, and Japanese cars are usually a bit more expensive too. Both these nations have tried r
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
What, you don't think deriding them as "deplorables" is a good way to convince them to vote for a more progressive candidate?
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Maybe because you can't raise kids in a one-room efficiency?
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
If we want to stop wasting so much valuable time commuting, we need to be building the SkyTran system. There's natural network effects to people congregating in larger cities rather than small towns (at least towns too far from cities
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>Implement policies in the State level then? Wasn't that the original idea of United States of A? Yes, it was. That's why they had a confederation, not a union, organized under the Articles of Confederation. It was an abject f
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Education and training for what? This is the question people like you never answer. Welders are already trained--for welding. What are they supposed to do now? Retail sales? You can't support a family on that. And what do you do
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Bush wasn't elected by progressives. Being pro-war isn't going to earn you progressive votes. The progressives sat out this election because Hillary wasn't progressive enough. There were 4M fewer votes cast this year than
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Bernie's been in politics for longer than that, and he doesn't have a long trail of scandals behind him.
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Good point. Was turnover high there? Did you manage to find a place with a better working environment?
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Only so much. Things like rent and medical insurance are impossible to avoid, and rent is highly dependent on your location, which is tied to your job. You could get cheaper rent by moving to rural Wyoming, but you're not going to fi
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Sounds like you'd be much happier at a place like Bloomberg, where there's just a big open room and a lot of noise and zero privacy and lots of talking and "teamwork". There's no shortage of workplaces like this. G
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Go into the defense industry. There's no overtime there (except on very rare occasion, and you're paid for it).
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
You don't need a PE to call yourself an "engineer". Every working engineer calls himself an "engineer" on his resume. What you people are forgetting is the Industrial Exemption. Companies are allowed to call thei
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
This is silly. This is like claiming that just because you have arms and legs and can run, you can play football. Yes, almost anyone can toss a ball around, and lots of people can play amateur football (choose whichever definition of &quo
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Compared to factory workers of 50+ years ago? Certainly. Compared to programmers 25 years ago? Absolutely not. The pay is worse (inflation-adjusted), and the working conditions are far, far worse (see: open-plan offices).
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>I learned quickly, eventually got good at interviews, and ultimately got a job at bloomberg, which is fairly difficult to get past their interiew process. Bloomberg, where it's just one giant open noisy room? Doesn't sound li
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
How could one observe the machinery of a simulator from within the simulation?
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
>I was at a champagne tasting of 60+ wines from the best producers (Krug and Roederer come to mind), and made it through 25 or so, spitting each one, and was still terribly buzzed. I've never actually had that feeling, and always wo
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
Every day, I become more and more convinced that I'm living in a dystopian "mirror" universe like the one on Star Trek where the humans are all evil, and somewhere out there, there's a "prime" universe where hu
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by Grishnakh 10y ago
This is easy to fix: get rid of the keyboards altogether, and just use on-screen touch keyboards. Give employees screen wipes to use. I can't imagine why office workers wouldn't mind typing in lengthy documents using an on-screen

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