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901.
by JackFr 4y ago
The problem is, the Jones Act has harmed our shipbuilding capacity as well. According to the artcle our ship building capacity is 1% of China's and US built ships cost 6-8 times as much. That's not helpful.
902.
by JackFr 4y ago
> Ships transport almost exclusively foreign made products, today. You understand that this is because the Jones Act makes shipping domestically prohibitively expensive. Which is precisely why ground shippers are insistent that the Jone
903.
by JackFr 4y ago
All those cultures were running on the same hardware, so to speak. Let's see what the squids have to say.
904.
by JackFr 4y ago
Your brain is lying to you. It's not your brain's fault, really. It doesn't know any better. Your brain has a way of interpreting the sensory perceptions communicated to it. It conflates this with 'reality' becau
905.
by JackFr 4y ago
I did have a job at a very small defense contractor, where I was 99% a software engineer, but when we had to move the safe (happened twice) as the largest man in the firm and still reasonably fit in my 20's -- I also had to do that.
906.
by JackFr 4y ago
The coercive power of state for thee, but not for me.
907.
by JackFr 4y ago
> This involves paying teachers paying more and treating them with respect? It seems like paying the same people more money to do the same job won't change outcomes in any meaningful way. Why would anyone expect it to? Paying teac
908.
by JackFr 4y ago
Do you believe that the current cohort of teachers would better serve our students if they received more respect? Or do you believe that if the profession were more respected, it would attract a better, more qualified class of teacher, who
909.
by JackFr 4y ago
Stores should be perfectly free not to accept cash. While our money says "This note is legal tender for all debts public and private", that assumes there has been a meeting of the minds who agree to conclude a transaction. But u
910.
by JackFr 4y ago
They also have reference data on tens of thousands of bonds, and have correctly implemented bond math and risk analytics for these issues. As retail typically trade stocks and not bonds, retail traders miss what makes Bloomberg terminals in
911.
by JackFr 4y ago
In my experience Terraform was a horrible pain point, and yet I'd happily suffer it again. We can spin up and spin down transient UAT environments which are pristine and match PROD exactly in a matter of seconds and we can robustly te
912.
by JackFr 4y ago
What an insipid, jejune bad take. Not sure which I hate more -- the author's smugness or the tired tropes supported by cringe-worthy assaults on straw-men.
913.
by JackFr 4y ago
> All that momentum is focused in a single direction, straight down Well, no. Straight down is possible, but not necessary or even necessarily likely. I think there's relatively little empirical evidence with respect to relativisti
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by JackFr 4y ago
You are not your job. If, in addition to a living, your job provides you with meaning, identity and self-worth, bully for you, but you’re the rare one. There is no shame in treating a job, well, like a job.
915.
by JackFr 4y ago
New job. Difficult to see a path forward here.
916.
by JackFr 4y ago
You better tell that to the people living in the county with the highest per capita income. Message to Manhattan residents -- you're failures!
917.
by JackFr 4y ago
Steam radiators absolutely dry out the air.
918.
by JackFr 4y ago
I long for the day when the idea of enhancing cognitive ability with 'a chip implanted in the brain' is as quaintly amusing as starship captains using their slide rules to navigate.
919.
by JackFr 4y ago
To answer both you and in passing GP: ——— My liege and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night, night, and time is time — Were nothing but to waste night, day, and time. Therefore, since brevity is
920.
by JackFr 4y ago
> I still cannot see a value in studying classical literature. And that is the real tragedy of modern education.
921.
by JackFr 4y ago
I had the experience of coming upon a differential equation, in the course of some research, which I could not solve explicitly. Mathematica choked on it and my boss and his office neighbor (both math PhD's) were unable to solve it ex
922.
by JackFr 4y ago
Replace “Twitter and Facebook” with “printing press”.
923.
by JackFr 4y ago
"Increase? But I'm getting 40% fewer nm's!"
924.
by JackFr 4y ago
> A lay person's opinion on the matter is worth nothing. And yet they still want my money. Weird.
925.
by JackFr 4y ago
I wonder what they're saying over at https://www.mild-weather.eu ?
926.
by JackFr 4y ago
I'm shaky on this - it's been thirty years - but I believe the Calc I epsilon delta proofs relied on the notion of an open and closed intervals on the real line, which we all intuitively understood. The upper level Real Analysis m
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by JackFr 4y ago
When I took 400 level Real Analysis: “All that calculus you’ve been learning your whole life? It’s a lie. Those epsilon delta proofs? They were fake - none of you were smart enough to challenge us on ‘limits’. And now we’re gonna do it all
928.
by JackFr 4y ago
Crazy -- just brought up Wolfram in response to a sibling comment before I saw this. Happy to see I'm not the only one.
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by JackFr 4y ago
> My theory is that physics is stuck in a local minima where it's not sufficient to change just one, or even two or three fundamental things to get unstuck. That's too big a leap via traditional incremental publishing of new th
930.
by JackFr 4y ago
I don't think that is true. People claiming to be brutally honest, are often far more interested in being brutal than in being honest.

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