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by Mvhsz 7y ago
yeah basically, but with no driver. That was my point about over-engineering: the army didn't want an expensive re-invention of off road vehicles, just existing technology tailored to their needs. BD has a long term vision for robotics
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Actually turns out Boston Dynamics had a good idea and over-engineered it. LM built a cheaper, wheeled, semi-autonomous troop support vehicle that ended up selling pretty well. https://defense-update.com/20070529_smss.html
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
There are times that I get into the flow while coding and end up solving a few future problems in addition to right now problems. I know that the code is over-engineered, but if it passes all of the tests and there's nothing obviously
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
That sounds perfectly reasonable to me, but John Hennessy literally wrote the book on computer architecture. Towards the end of the deck he has a slide that we shouldn't expect large gains from improved architecture (on general purpose
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
So I actually have a free wework pass from my online masters degree program. I live about 3 blocks from a large wework that was built in the last couple of years. My company let's me work from home whenever I want. I have a 45 minute c
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
This seems like the winner. Although I would tweak it to looped list
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I wouldn't exactly say that rail is fantastically expensive. Acquiring dedicated right-of-way for any form of transportation (rail, bus, car) through a developed area is fantastically expensive. But metal rails and overhead wires cost
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Form Based Zoning Codes are a good step. The goal there is to focus on physical form instead of land use. So as an overly broad example - keep the height and setback restrictions but remove the rules about subdividing a residence or conver
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Laws requiring embalming/caskets are pretty uncommon. There aren't any laws at the US Federal level, and only a handful of states have any restrictions. Finding a funeral director to provide a natural burial can be more difficult,
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Ok you're arguing that there is no such thing as a liquid store of value that that offers a better return than a negative yield government bond? So let's say I'm a bank with a stack of 1B in high denomination central bank not
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
That makes sense but I have a follow up question. What forces this? For example, what's to stop a single entity from reaping the rewards of using cash while everyone else buys bonds to keep the economy moving. Is it a government regula
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I think we're in agreement... I use nutrition to mean "the calorie intake side of the equation". I hear a lot of people use the word the same as I do. It's not that I'm arguing "100 calories of kale will effect
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Not sure why this is down voted, excerpt from the abstract shows that they view nutrition as the main reason for the gap. > There is an urgent need for an integrated approach to rural nutrition that enhances financial and physical access
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Common term in defense, basically just an organizational efficiency. Since the devops people kept breaking security, we made them sit next to the security people.
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
> ...today announced that Lockheed Martin worked with Red Hat to modernize the application development process used to bring new capabilities to the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of F-22 Raptor fighter jets. They later talk about agile vs water
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Self-cleaning house seemed like it would be here already. If you had described the technologies available in 2019 to myself in 2002 (when the roomba came out) - I would have expected there to also be a boston-dynamics-esque floor, window an
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
5m^2 is too big for a car, and the panels are heavy and expensive. Toyota used to have a prius with a solar panel roof - it produced enough energy to run the fans (not the AC) while the car was parked on a hot day. Not even in the ballpark
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I think the headline for this article is unfortunate. The article didn't focus on answering the headline in the way most readers will expect, but those who have read more of Chuck Marohn's writing probably won't expect it to.
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/realestate/parking-spaces...
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
This is how most successful rail corridors in the northeast US were built. A line was built to connect two cities, then suburbs spread along the existing right of way.
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
In the majority of US cities, bus networks are optimized for coverage instead of frequency. A bus route might only run a few times a day at commute times - but city planners can check the public transportation box for all the neighborhoods
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Right - Part complexity is a big reason and so is volume. We're building carriers at a rate of 1 ship every 3 to 4 years. There's just no value proposition for automation on a lot of these parts.
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Good point. There's a precedent for separating industries when it's in the public interest [0]. I think the argument needs to be that housing both industries under a single roof creates a conflict of interest that's too stron
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I was providing a counterpoint to show that it's preferable having the whole office take off together when that's possible for your business. I don't disagree that staggering the off days could be necessary, but it isn't
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Also work in defense, this is becoming pretty common. Although typically everyone takes the same friday off - that saves operating costs (no janitors or cafeteria on the off day). There's also the benefit that people tend to plan their
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
and real estate is up there too. right-of-way for fiber and renting rooftops for base stations is a major telcom cost driver.
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
Thank you for sharing. This is similar to what we were looking for, something that gamifies the assignments to get students more engaged. Part of the problem is that there are so many free coding resources out there that it's tricky to
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I'm a teaching assistant for an intro to programming class, and I do feel that solving an endless train of toy problems is problematic for students. From my experience, the best way to learn is to understand a real problem, determine i
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
I always thought that the liberal arts majors subsidized the more expensive STEM majors, but your comment made me question that. So I took a look at my Alma Mater's financial statements and it turns out that the subsidy is less that I
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by Mvhsz 7y ago
To me it sounded like a journalist's awkward wording of a description from an engineer. Some frequencies of light will bend to the curvature of the earth due to the atmosphere[1]. Lasers apparently "hit the Earth's curves&quo

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