ScotterC

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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   I feel the complete opposite for my courses in mechanical engineering. The teachers really worked at it and I still use the text books to this day. It wasn't all about the lectures themselves but how they taught us to think which has become
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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   I feel that this it ignores the greater purpose that mankind has. Greater then finding a mate. Creating and building. That is universal and is gender neutral.
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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   Thanks to @robdimarco. Found something that works for MacOSX. 'SelfControl' http://visitsteve.com/work/selfcontrol/ It allows you to choose specific domains to block. For the Starcraft example, blocking battle.net would be somewhat effec
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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   What's the best way to prevent an application from launching temporarily?
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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   Hadn't seen that one yet. Thanks. However, it appears to only block online gameplay and internet game related sites. I don't see anything about blocking a specific application.
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   Need game timer software cause I lack self control

   8 points by ScotterC 16y ago|9 comments
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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   Wouldn't it make more sense if the alarm was for when you're not sending data to the Google?
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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   Just you wait for the release of SpeakerText 2.0!
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   by ScotterC 16y ago

   Sorry, If I appeared hostile. You seemed to be quite the renewable-only supporter and hadn't taken into context alternative nuclear fuels. I'm not a fan of wind or solar as a form of large scale energy production. They have there place in
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    I hope you understand that fission was the first time we have ever created energy. All other forms are just scavenging it from the sun. Nuclear fusion is unlikely but nuclear fission has been proven over the last 60 years and as Bernard Co
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Thanks for adding that comparison
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Very true. There's a calculation somewhere that if you actually fissioned all the fissile material within coal ash, you'd produce more energy then the burning of coal did in the first place. Also, as you point out, nuclear waste is very ea
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Quite true that Carter put the breaks on it. However, in the early 80's this ban was actually repealed. Now the whole situation is just mired in political/regulation muck. IMHO, (I just left my job in the nuke industry) the NRC should be
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Very true. Also, nuclear power is the only industry that contains all of its waste as a matter of procedure. Other western civilization waste products tend to get thrown into the environment as business as usual.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Nuclear fuel isn't just uranium. With enough neutrons you can fission just about anything on down to lead. However, the most promising fuel is thorium. When Thorium-232 gets 1 more neutron it decays in 30 days to Uranium-233, the perfect
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    There have been extensive studies into radiation exposure. From Navy nukes to Japan's survivors (which are numerous), there's a ton of data but we are dealing with a hypothesis that cannot be proved one way or the other. Low dose radiatio
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Bernard L. Cohen wrote this book back in 1990. It's astonishingly still very applicable.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Yea. Thinking about emailing him to see if he'd mind if I do a full revamp of it to make it more accessible in the modern web.
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    The Nuclear Energy Option by Bernard L. Cohen(phyast.pitt.edu)

    30 points by ScotterC 16y ago|27 comments
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    The '5 Rem per year' allowance was set on faulty logic. It is all based on the linear no-threshold theory which took the acute radiation exposures from the Nagasaki and Hiroshima detonations and linearly projected them down to such small a
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    It is all relative to where you are. People in Ramsar, Iran get a daily does of about 5 rems. See this paper http://www.jpands.org/vol13no2/luckey.pdf Radiation can widely vary and very little is known about low dose radiation. The nuc
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    I got this quite a bit from halo 2... It's what convinced me to stop playing competitively. Not worth dreaming about everything in FPS form. It gets weird.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Thanks. I have a lot of faith in the engineers we got going here.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Same here! Making the jump from large corporation employment to startup life.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    In contrast I feel like I have been building my tolerance up for the past decade just waiting for my moment to perform.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    At least there's some connection. Poor taste though.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    We may have tested one to many nuclear warheads in our time but for the most part they did lead to a better understanding. The fallout's damage is negligible.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    When did being a fan of Ayn Rand's philosophies make you a bigot?
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Gracefully back-pedaled but who's decision was it to place a bunch of gory screenshots in the post? Not only distracting but really added a sinister feel to his words.
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    by ScotterC 16y ago

    Too many VC firms/dumb money or not enough startups? Larger VCs should limit their fund size and do more micro seed investments with a strong value added focus. Make themselves more open to the startup community while still maintaining a