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811.
by abduhl 8y ago
Everyone sent into space was for a political reason. Whether or not you think it's a stupid-ass reason is more of a reflection on yourself than the message.
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by abduhl 8y ago
Isn’t that the whole reason this is a breakthrough? It’s even discussed in the article... Professor Duncan Hand, director of the five-university EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Laser-based Production Processes based at Heriot-W
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by abduhl 8y ago
It’s 5 requirements man. Are you seriously trying to say that: (1) working for the government (2) full time (3) with loans taken out under a Direct loan from the government (4) and making payments on an income based repayment plan for your
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by abduhl 8y ago
148 ft of water is ~64 psi (4.4 bar). Challenges are probably not so big once the thing is constructed. External earth and groundwater pressure offsets internal water pressure I would assume and the real challenge is actually designing for
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Elon Musk sur-reply to SEC contempt reply(plainsite.org)
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by abduhl 8y ago
Yes, we should actually expect them to spend more time and effort. It’s their job! Would you be happy with the local plumber spending more time and effort fixing their own water valve or yours? Do you expect construction crews to spend more
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by abduhl 8y ago
I noted similar issues as well. Particularly for the Silver Line (which he later calls the Orange Line) the guy neglects the fact that this is a government job, despite being in a Right to Work state, and is a federally/publicly funde
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by abduhl 8y ago
I assume he's referring to platform lock-in ala Microsoft Office, AWS, Oracle, or Apple's walled garden driving future decisions. So the first software decision is a down payment until your technical debt hole is so big you can&#
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by abduhl 8y ago
My point is related but not exactly the same as his section 8. Litigation in America is what has driven defensive design and construction because we are ALWAYS positioning for claims, especially from third parties. The author is zeroing i
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by abduhl 8y ago
I have worked in the tunneling industry for nearly a decade designing, building, and procuring these jobs. Tunnels are generally the last option chosen when third parties are the concern. They are the most expensive option, by far, unless
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by abduhl 8y ago
Also just as a point on High Speed Rail: this job was put out to bid and awarded before the owner had secured property access for the contractor (Tutor) and Tutor sought damages for this legitimate delay. Shame on Tutor for being good at pl
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by abduhl 8y ago
I haven’t had time to read through the entire article in detail but my skimming indicates that the article fails to identify what I believe is the true reason for tunneling increases in the USA: third parties and their ability to sue projec
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by abduhl 8y ago
"within an order of magnitude"
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by abduhl 8y ago
Shorting any stock always has the potential of unlimited downside. The only thing that makes this different is your personal evaluation of the riskiness (i.e. - "essentially gambling"). All stock positions are "essentially
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by abduhl 8y ago
But if someone commenting on a tax measure claimed to be an accountant then you’d certainly think they were a licensed CPA, wouldn’t you?
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by abduhl 8y ago
My capitalization means exactly what it says: someone with a license has met the minimum requirements from the state. Nothing else can be garnered from someone possessing a license. The minimum requirements have, historically, resulted in e
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by abduhl 8y ago
Absolutely there are entire fields that have abandoned licensure or have no real need for licensure. These are usually fields where designs are not public facing or reviewed by a state agency and so no implied liability occurs. However, I t
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by abduhl 8y ago
Let's not oversell the PE or the FE: I took both drunk and completed them in under 3 hours each. The true point of being a professional engineer is that you've satisfied the MINIMUM requirements to be licensed and, therefore, you
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by abduhl 8y ago
Thermal contraction would typically not change a particular part/material’s coefficient of friction but rather would potentially decreasing acting normal force. Friction is reduced because contact decreases not because some material ch
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by abduhl 8y ago
I believe research has shown that humans have been malnourished throughout most of human history, which would indicate that we haven’t had a stable weight throughout history.
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by abduhl 8y ago
What would these companies be getting sued for exactly in your mind? Do you own any stocks? Even holding a broad exchange fund makes you a stockholder. Have you led the charge in any lawsuits or is this just lip service outrage?
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by abduhl 8y ago
From yesterday's article by Matt Levine: Now I do not mean to be rude, but is it possible that a CEO who is constantly tweeting attacks on journalists and jokes about bankruptcy, who is also busy running two other companies, who built
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by abduhl 8y ago
Musk's entire compensation package is tied directly to stock performance targets in the form of market value. Saying that the stock price does not financially impact (positive or negative) Musk is flat out incorrect.
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by abduhl 8y ago
What a joke of a statement. You make $1000 a month but have a credit card that offers you increasingly poor rates due to your inability to make payments on time. Your monthly expenditures on medicine, food, and rent are $1500. Are you at fa
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by abduhl 8y ago
"At root was a failure to grasp the elemental point that currency unions with no treasury or political union to back them up are inherently vulnerable to debt crises. States facing a shock no longer have sovereign tools to defend thems
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by abduhl 8y ago
Europe is not the EU. Europe's total trade is 696.3 billion (with 403.2 billion exported); however, subtracting out JUST the UK's 78.5 billion brings this down to 617.8 billion and 343.6 exported. Remove Russia and you're at
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by abduhl 8y ago
My question is pointed at companies that rely on Google Maps, not Maps itself. If a company is spending 80% of their cash on HR related items and 20% on miscellaneous infrastructure costs (hosting, Maps API access, etc) with 25% of that mi
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by abduhl 8y ago
This is actually my real question: can these companies afford it? If a company has X months of runway and their Maps costs just went up by a factor of 11 then Google may have just gone from "less than payroll" to "more expen
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by abduhl 8y ago
Is this price increase imposed on X-sharing outfits like Uber/Lyft/Lime/Bird/etc.?
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by abduhl 8y ago
When I worked for BNSF I heard a story about a guy crushed between two cars in the knuckle because he lost line of sight with his engineer and they were using hand signals instead of a radio. They were able to keep him alive long enough to

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