a_thro_away

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by a_thro_away 1y ago
Your parents efforts, like many of the the good efforts to move humanity forward over many decades, have been thrown into the trash. The next generations of Americans will have social/educational gaps that CPB/PBS filled for educ
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by a_thro_away 1y ago
May I add; the Democrats In Name Only(DINOs) of Manchin, Synema, and others? destroying the slight majorities Democrats seem to put together when ostensibly "in power"... They need to exert more control over the membership, as the
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by a_thro_away 2y ago
Sarcasm, or not, I hate your correct assessment in so many ugly, broken people's perspectives.
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by a_thro_away 2y ago
The game we have now is you win by the most voters, might as well be the most voters to sit on a scale and weigh more, wins. It is Mob rule. A significant portion of the electorate has no real idea of what is being asked, nor if its true,
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by a_thro_away 2y ago
Exactly; if you wish I replied below. That is exactly the point of staying in such organizations, especially if you wish to be on the edge, and especially if you wish to publish, yourself.
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by a_thro_away 2y ago
True, but it does depend on your field. I was fortunate/unfortunate to have my feet in both over the years, and could not afford either early on, when I truly needed access.
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by a_thro_away 2y ago
In the past I wouldn't go to IEEE for IT and CS, except maybe, possibly for the physical level; that's the ACMs bailiwick. I had the distinct fortunate/unfortunate to be an absolute crossover, but could afford neither exsxcep
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by a_thro_away 2y ago
Of course you do; and thats where a lot of the papers are locked up, behind IEEE/ACM/Science/Nature, other journals. I guess that's a huge reason to stay involved, if nothing more to access the different subgroups, both
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by a_thro_away 2y ago
I'm truly interested in your thoughts... where would you discover truly hard problems? What do you feel would make you qualified to work on them, over, say someone else? enough to prove it to someone that could authorize such a salary
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by a_thro_away 4y ago
agreed with your points... as a user of the current ath9k wireless problems, code changes to address security issues completely broke the wireless - for over two kernel releases until people alarmingly realized that noone was coming to help
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by a_thro_away 6y ago
US is over twice Canada's mortality per capita. Trump did a deadly job in handling Corona.
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by a_thro_away 6y ago
6th Grade US, early 70s. We made fake checkbooks, we were given an income, had a small school store to spend it, had to balance checking and savings accounts. Learned about S&P 500 and looking up stocks, only avail. in book form at the
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by a_thro_away 8y ago
I use 1600 for main living, and 1200 in a nice "unfinished" poured wall walk out basement, with (insulated) concrete floor with no posts, as area for all storage, hobbies, crafts - kids roller skated, skateboarded, build forts, pi
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
There it is; they were "pushed" to vote for him. What do you say about someone who decides instead of incrementally fixing a problem with discipline and superior solutions and consensus, instead decides to spin the wheel with an u
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Michigan has Proposal A, which limits property tax rise to inflation (or something close), until sold when it reverts to the current valuation. IIRC, it is exactly to counter throwing older people out of their homes, and other people who do
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Agreed on the coherer, and on the motor-generator combos, but that seemed to be later than 1916? I understand that the coherers hated the broad spectrum of the spark-gap, so who knows?
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Yes, A NOESY would be boring compared to the aesthetics! Long live Varian, Bruker, and Oxford mags!
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
At the least, they were very much first principle kind of thing, often a tour de force of electromagnetic and mechanical nightmares. Mainframe line printers or upright vacuum columned 9 track tape drives come to mind and cause shudders. I m
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
On page 89 in the book Marconi's remote controlled boat doesn't talk about the transmitter (that I saw), but used a coherer as a receiver detector, something like a primitive diode I think. But if so, they probably used a spark ga
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
That is what I understand; lie implies intent, which is impossibly hard to do. IMO the media is trying to being courteous, even delicate, when it is and should be an all out brawl, when the truth and fact are at stake.
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Yeah! So lets pull from everyone basic, guaranteed health insurance, because every 1 in 68 persons should be able to generate a buck, somehow. And the other 27% of US population that has an existing condition too. Double good if a child, le
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I don't disagree, but where I saw it begin was approx. +25 years ago when business started demanding degrees for jobs that had previously had no requirement, and for career advancement, as well as refusing on the job training. They wou
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Education, educated IS work, and profitable, but apparently not the kind of preferred work. Just wondering aloud, how will Mr Trump satisfy the wealthy, wall street, and the fiscally conservative to do prevailing-wage infrastructure? The sk
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Thanks you for the reply. Your rigid definition of GDP is only one of many models. GDP(I) and GDP are similar and should be exact but because of statistical and measurement defects, they are not. But GDP(I) does in fact use taxes. I underst
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I mispoke; GDP == taxable transactions. If it was taxable (privatized), it would increase the GDP, whereas if not (as if the government performed and didnt tax it), it would not increase the GDP.
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
The OECD defines GDP income method as "an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and institutional units engaged in production (plus any taxes, and minus any subsidies, on products no
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Taxes are included in the GDP income method, which is why taxing even air (even if free) would increase GDP. The OECD defines GDP as "an aggregate measure of production equal to the sum of the gross values added of all resident and ins
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I understand GDP as "taxable transactions".
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
Anything that is done at cost by the government is viewed by many as a lost potential profitable and taxable business; one that would drive up the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), a well used measure of an economy. Problem with using GDP, in m
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by a_thro_away 10y ago
I disagree (I think); I recently went to the Henry Ford where it has been transformed into a "learning place", where they present a narrative, catering to strolling through, the ambiance (and restaurants). The Henry Ford used to b

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