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Clearing price for supplying power to Texas grid –$31.65(ercot.com)
102 points by asmithmd1 6y ago|254 comments
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by asmithmd1 6y ago
He made an exception during that time period for one model that was his inspiration for many figures of gods in his epic Boston Public Library murals: https://www.apollo-magazine.com/thomas-mckeller-john-singer-...
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by asmithmd1 6y ago
You can see on this map the purple DC lines between England and France and Ireland https://www.entsoe.eu/data/map/ I am amazed the grid goes all the way to Iraq
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by asmithmd1 6y ago
My father-in-law is a doctor and he jokingly told me when my daughter was born, that only the babies of doctors who work in the hospital get 10/10
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by asmithmd1 6y ago
It has already been done - and the scientist is in jail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
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by asmithmd1 6y ago
Autism and vaccine study https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2010/02/lancet_wak...
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by asmithmd1 6y ago
That was the low-level access. Below that they talk about porting a LWIP: > I developed test sketches for NTP, DNS, multicast, web server, web client, httpd with SD or SdFat-beta lib, tfttp server (SD, SdFat-beta, or SPIFFS), ftpd (get&#
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by asmithmd1 6y ago
If the US had functioning regulators, they might require Wink to let you update the device's server
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Yes, you are free to pay a lawyer and sue to attempt to invalidate a patent using your blog as evidence of prior art. Of course whichever side can afford it, will bury the other side in motions and discovery requests until they win.
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Altered name of story, actually:”Paypall pulls out of Pornhub”
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Here is a swiss manufacturer. A run-of-the-mill company with $1/2 billion in annual sales in a high margin, high tech area. https://www.maxongroup.com/maxon/view/content/product-overvi...
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
I tried to cheat this exact same way with a test on the the Newton–Raphson method. My program even showed intermediate values so I could show my work. The professor still got me, I wound up memorizing it because the effort it to write and d
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
You do that by increasing the physical size of the components
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Your comment reminds me of Peter Thiel's 2x2 matrix of opptimistic/pessimistic x definte/indefinite The US in the 50's and early 60's was definitely optimistic - everything is getting better soon because <nuclear
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
The interesting thing about the black box is that it is square to the frame of the image and slightly skew to the text boxes in the original intelligence product. This indicates the image posted is not simply a camera phone snap posted dire
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
I was surprised to see how low the gross margin is on their subscription business, it has only recently broken above 50%. The cost of revenue for their subscription business includes licensing the music in their workouts, and the costs to o
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
I am friend of Mark Bartel and helped him a little with the "wire trees" that he custom molds. I made many suggestions along the lines: "Why don't you just..." He constitutionally can't - he is the definition o
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
I agree the amps are art. Compare the Bartel amp to this https://www.designboom.com/art/leonardo-ulian-technological-... - cool, but they don’t work
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Check out the build quality of Bartel Amps. Mark Bartel has been hand making every part of the amps he designed for over 20 years. He is an EE who makes product decisions based on science - not marketing https://www.instagram.com
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Apollo Guidance Computer switching power supply works after 50 years(righto.com)
234 points by asmithmd1 7y ago|78 comments
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
The history of the Spanish Conquistadors successful search for physical gold in the new world has been written and it is a period of inflation in Spain. Instead of focusing on bringing back real wealth from the new world (coffee, chocolate,
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
The article you cite references a study that looked at mass shootings from 2006-2016, I am sure Las Vegas shootings and other more recent ones would changes the statistis. It also breaks down shootings into a category called "public&qu
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Your idea is similar to MA gun license requirements - you need two non-relatives to sign your application before you submit it to your local police to decide if you meet the requirements to hold a gun license
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Yes, the only thing the Mass laws do is stop gun deaths "caused by negligence, suicide, or accident" and justifiable homicides - self defense or police shootings
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
> Possession of rifles and shotguns This specifically does not mention handguns. Handguns have much narrower exemptions: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXX/Cha... IANAL but a sta
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
IANAL but you should read the actual law, not a summary even when it is from the state: https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXX/Cha... I am a Mass resident and know not to mess with Mass
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Do NOT fly into Massachusetts with a gun. To have a gun in MA you must have a MA gun license
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Cornelius Vanderbilt's story is amazing. He quit school at the age of 11 to work on his father's ferry in New York Harbor. At 16 he started his own ferry moving freight and passengers between Staten Island and Manhattan. He built
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
My theory is the discontinuation of large scale DDT spraying. When I was growing up in the 70s and 80s in the northeast of the US I would see maybe 1 tick a summer and I never saw an eagle or a hawk. Now I see plenty of both. Maybe we could
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by asmithmd1 7y ago
Right, like Freedom units. The temperature is 74F, the F is for freedom

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