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by aardvark291 8y ago
> And when you get rear ended, you're rarely at fault. It was my understanding that in California, it is (legally) _always_ the rear-ender who is at fault, and not the rear-endee.
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by aardvark291 8y ago
My PhD in experimental physics took seven years, which is also the average time to completion in that field. The discrepancy here may be that "PhD time" in the US usually includes a masters, while it is counted separately elsewher
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by aardvark291 8y ago
Life finds a way.
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by aardvark291 8y ago
meant to write, "rest of the _civilized_ world". :-) Germany is my main example ... my German friends were astonished when they visited the US to see our rickety electrical infrastructure (among other things).
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by aardvark291 8y ago
This is why the rest of the world has abandoned above-ground power lines in favor of secure underground power lines. Fewer fires, fewer black outs...
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by aardvark291 8y ago
Privatize the profits, socialize the losses...?
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by aardvark291 8y ago
Does this mean Otto is being shut down?
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by aardvark291 8y ago
What is explosive welding?
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by aardvark291 8y ago
Can this be summarized as "competition is good for the marketplace"?
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by aardvark291 8y ago
> giant SAGE installations at McChord and in Moses Lake What's that?
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by aardvark291 8y ago
> earns enough to buy 100k kcal per day Calories alone is a pretty limited view of nutrition. Sure, I could drink vegetable oil or eat donuts for every meal...
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by aardvark291 8y ago
"________ is not very complex and uses pretty much only textbook data structures and algorithms" is pretty much a false statement for any engineered product.
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by aardvark291 8y ago
Suppose your laser-zapper spacecraft is solar powered. The force of the sun on its solar panels is approximately the same as the force imparted by its laser beam on the target garbage. This is to say nothing of the propellant required to tr
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by aardvark291 8y ago
>Databases are not very complex and use pretty much only textbook data structures and algorithms skeptical expression
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by aardvark291 8y ago
You're not arguing that it's legal; you're arguing that you're unlikely to get caught. That's different.
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by aardvark291 8y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1969979
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by aardvark291 8y ago
> You will have signed an Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement for anything like you mention to be enforceable Yes, and signing this agreement is a condition of employment.
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by aardvark291 8y ago
If your side-project is at all related to your day job, this most likely runs afoul of your employment agreement and IP considerations. Typically, your employer claims ownership of all IP you generate that pertains to your work or its busin
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by aardvark291 8y ago
NPR is "publicly funded" in a colloquial sense (pledge drives, etc), but it is not significantly "publicly funded" in the sense of "funded by the government". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by aardvark291 9y ago
> Scott Meyers ... promptly exited the C++ community Huh, TIL http://scottmeyers.blogspot.fr/2015/12/good-to-go.html
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by aardvark291 9y ago
> 10/20/30/40 vesting schedule What does this mean?
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by aardvark291 9y ago
1990's era "Software Defined Radio" ... sounds like it's running Windows, using CORBA?!
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by aardvark291 9y ago
I think there must be a net increase. In Oakland, parking lots are being replaced with mid-rise apartment complexes. There is an impressive amount of construction under way at the moment.
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by aardvark291 9y ago
What does this mean? I don't really understand the quote.
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by aardvark291 9y ago
I love it for the wonderful, engaging "war stories" and practical approach. It's not as theoretical as CLRS but much more practical, approachable, and readable, making it likely a better choice for most programmers.
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by aardvark291 9y ago
It's almost certainly not in the form of elemental mercury (which would be a liquid), but a solid mercury compound.
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by aardvark291 9y ago
It turns out that manned space flight capability just isn't very useful.
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by aardvark291 9y ago
> Long story short: some people will make a mint. A lot of people will lose their shirts. Zero. Sum. Game.
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by aardvark291 9y ago
I agree that that's how it should work, but I wouldn't be surprised if Coinbase wasn't completely orthodox in their accounting. Replies below indicate that they may indeed be counting customer deposits as "revenue&quot
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by aardvark291 9y ago
> "People have been safely and intelligently using cruise control for... decades?" More than half a century in mass-market automobiles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_control#History

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