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by abduhl 10y ago
No serious casino running a card game has allowed midshoe entry at a table for years now. This is method of counting is why.
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by abduhl 10y ago
People like this do what they do because they enjoy the challenge of a sophisticated adversary. The only other place this guy would be happy is crypto.
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by abduhl 10y ago
This is a ridiculous statement. Are you seriously saying that birds regularly fly at over 30000 ft? Or are you trying to imply that autopilot during landing/takeoff actively tracks birds and tries to avoid them? In other words, the pla
934.
by abduhl 10y ago
"If it flies, floats, or fucks you should rent it" is the common advice passed around by jaded and wealthy divorced men that I know.
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by abduhl 10y ago
"That's on them" sounds suspiciously like victim blaming.
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by abduhl 10y ago
The 200th hour syndrome refers to when a pilot has reached their 200th hour in the air and their confidence in their abilities is enough that they begin to get careless: "Enough experience to be confident, enough to screw up real good.
937.
by abduhl 10y ago
This is hard to describe without being pedantic and without being able to draw but I will attempt. A motorcycle performing a stoppie experiences rotation because the inertial force couples with the braking force to create a moment about the
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by abduhl 10y ago
For someone who is self-admittedly not knowledgeable about the testing requirements, you seem very certain of your conclusions about this Toronto falling glass problem. Testing of components is usually by the manufacturer and it is their r
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by abduhl 10y ago
As an aside, fiberglass (similar to carbon fiber) is used frequently (but still not much, relative to steel) in many applications. We use it extensively in underground applications. The problem with fiberglass reinforcement is that it does
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by abduhl 10y ago
Straw could probably be used effectively for lightly loaded structures (slabs, bearing walls in nonseismic areas) the same way that fiber is used currently. It is essentially for crack control and provides nominal flexural capacity which i
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by abduhl 10y ago
Inspectors do not typically check plans and calculations for adherence to the code, they check whether the work matches the plans. Checks for whether the plans match the code are generally done by the reviewing agency, to varying degrees o
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by abduhl 10y ago
I don't practice in Canada, but my understanding was that the CSA is an analogue to the ASTM codes here in America (and internationally apparently, if you believe their name change). ASTM codes are very thorough when it comes to mater
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by abduhl 10y ago
so your argument is that microsoft keeps on hand enough accounts with high enough karma to downvote you and then also upvote you when you call out their conspiracy so that they dont seem to be downvoting you? your life must be a constant wo
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by abduhl 10y ago
I move around and travel a lot for work - I've lived in 4 states in the last 2 years (CO, WA, CA, TX) - and one of the universal things across all the midwest and west coast that I've found is that while most people like the weath
945.
by abduhl 10y ago
Well he might have been using the Slack iOS or Android app so I think it's a bit premature to assume that he wasn't using a phone at the time.
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by abduhl 10y ago
Have you tried using email and/or a phone? These seem to work well for all other industries.
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by abduhl 10y ago
We agree with each other. The other poster is the one who did not recognize the similarities between a poker mindset and an engineering mindset. I am well aware of how risk mitigation, planning, and safety factors roll themselves into eng
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by abduhl 10y ago
I 100% want engineering to be like poker. I say that as a registered professional engineer with many friends on crews currently standing in holes that I have designed. Understand what I mean when I say "like poker": the poker min
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by abduhl 10y ago
The opinion being raised here is not supported by evidence. The only testable claim that can be evaluated in the original poster's comment is that, in the Swiss system, planning is 50% of the work. I ask specifically for any breakdow
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by abduhl 10y ago
As I note, I can't read German so I don't know what or when the fraudulent materials were caught. If they weren't caught until they were installed then no, there wasn't proper quality control. My more important question
951.
by abduhl 10y ago
I completely agree, HN is not a safe space. That is why I feel justified in blatantly calling out a comment I see as disrespectful. I didn't try to "outlaw" his comment - I upvoted the comment, as I upvote any comment I fee
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by abduhl 10y ago
Thank you for the comment but your recommendation is unnecessary - from reading your post it is clear that the major components of my complaint were understood without issue. Disrespect occurs with or without intent. The original poster&#x
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by abduhl 10y ago
This is incredibly disrespectful to the professionals in other parts of the developed world who do infrastructure or construction related work. Every mega project (and most mid sized projects) invests significant money and time in planning
954.
by abduhl 10y ago
I don't read German so maybe this is covered in your article but what does strict planning have to do with getting a TBM unstuck or fraudulent materials? Wouldn't these issues point towards a lack of planning/quality control?
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by abduhl 10y ago
Ponzi schemes do not have a set time line and any successful Ponzi scheme will have most participants exit with a profit until the Ponzi scheme collapses and then the remaining participants will be holding nothing.
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by abduhl 10y ago
We can work out the math easily. Given a 100% success rate for $350 million each for ULA and assuming a SpaceX cost of $100 million and assuming a 95% success rate (I have no idea what the actual rate is) then, per launch, the true cost to
957.
by abduhl 10y ago
The body notices "suffocation" through detecting carbon dioxide levels. Simply replacing oxygen with another inert gas (like nitrogen) does not trigger the suffocation response in the body and so you essentially just exhale all o
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by abduhl 10y ago
What about announcing it and doing it six times? That's the number of times we landed men on the moon. Let's not try to downplay NASA's previous successes as "lucky" and "adventurous" in order to make Spac
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by abduhl 11y ago
This source would disagree with you about the reason for taxi medallions: https://books.google.com/books?id=VXpyNs5EaHEC&pg=PA119&lpg=... It confirms the story that I have heard previously that taxi medallions were
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by abduhl 11y ago
I'm not very familiar with this issue but could you please explain how China can soak up $1T of LIQUIDITY when most of this $1T is, as I understand it, in bonds. Wouldn't this debt being in bonds mean that 1) there is a schedule

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