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901.
by avn2109 13y ago
A reliability engineer might say that as a first approximation, the time-till-failure of the human animal (really just an electro-mechanical-chemical machine) has a governing equation which is a linear combination of many Weibull equations
902.
by avn2109 13y ago
It's worth noting that neither I nor anyone I know has heard of this bus bombing/mentioned it in conversation, and it's not on TV/frontpage of NYT, etc. But if we switch $Bus for $Plane, this becomes a major media event
903.
Headset to read dog's mind(dailymail.co.uk)
2 points by avn2109 13y ago|2 comments
904.
by avn2109 13y ago
Not "might." Absent face pressure, the tunnel would definitely be filled with water. This is precisely why they've gone to the trouble of inventing slurry face TBM's and building a recirculating slurry plant on the topsi
905.
by avn2109 13y ago
Seriously. I live in Harlem (Hamilton Heights) and tech/bankers/celebrities are not extant anywhere near me.
906.
by avn2109 13y ago
At the TBM face, there is a pressure chamber that uses bentonite slurry as the working fluid. The slurry pressure in this chamber is adjusted carefully to equal the local hydrostatic head. This seals against the axial forces on the machine&
907.
by avn2109 13y ago
For the jaded Manhattanite, upstate ≡ 5 blocks north of the home/office of the person who is speaking. Since I work on 120th, everything north of 125th is upstate.
908.
by avn2109 13y ago
But in your tract house, you can watch your giant TV and devote your life to consuming the maximum possible quantity of industrial products! How can you say no!?
909.
by avn2109 13y ago
Jane Jacobs is rolling in her grave right now.
910.
by avn2109 13y ago
Does he live a billionaire's lifestyle? In the pure sense of Mikhail Prokhorov models-and-bottles, jet-boat-race-to-Monte Carlo.
911.
by avn2109 13y ago
Liquidity != Volatility. There are many cases when it's hard to turn BTC into $US/Danish Pastries/Gold Bars; this makes it illiquid. Try getting your money out of MT Gox.
912.
by avn2109 13y ago
I guess my claim here is that the content of your comment ought to be in general decoupled from the number of downvotes you receive.
913.
by avn2109 13y ago
The cynic in me likes this interpretation, but "the documents" aren't capture-able any longer because they're not all in one place. Several people have access to them, some of whom are not stupid (Bruce Schneier, etc.) a
914.
by avn2109 13y ago
This is something I often wonder about on HN: Is this guy being downvoted simply because we disagree with him/he's making absurd claims? His comments are correctly punctuated, grammatical, at least tolerably respectful, etc. Thoug
915.
by avn2109 13y ago
TeX, especially with the MicroType package, still produces the highest-quality machine typesetting available to mortal man (eg. people who are not employed by Random House or something). Any effort to replace TeX with some other tech stack
916.
by avn2109 13y ago
Yeah, legally impossible indeed. It's always helpful to check the practicality of one's thought experiments by asking, "Will legislative change X help or hinder the unearned incomes of the upper class?" In this case, pro
917.
by avn2109 13y ago
>>"These contracts are in place specifically because the market demands them." The devil's advocate here would say, "These contracts are in place because the market is rigged here by powerful, entrenched, rent-seek
918.
by avn2109 13y ago
Yet the temporary housing market in NYC (and probably in other places) is deeply, fundamentally broken-on-purpose. Public perception attributes this to the actions of a hated group of entrenched stakeholders (landlords/hoteliers/e
919.
by avn2109 13y ago
(Owning few possessions) + Roomba + Scooba = tolerably clean bro pad. In this case technology really is driving a social change. Even 10 years ago my dudely apartment would not have been anywhere near this clean. You can eat off my hardwood
920.
by avn2109 13y ago
Data of the sort shown in Table 3 certainly exists. However, it's often inaccessible to the public because companies tend to treat it as a trade secret. Any large company that makes things employs a bunch of reliability engineers, who
921.
by avn2109 13y ago
This, I suspect, is the strongest evidence in favor of the argument "The man created Bitcoin to surveil you."
922.
Macro photographs of single snowflakes(natureknows.org)
3 points by avn2109 13y ago|0 comments
923.
by avn2109 13y ago
Much has been made lately about how HN comment quality is declining, but it seems to me that we're still the civilest, most on-topic bunch around. As exhibit A I submit the fact that this thread has not devolved into a silly Theologica
924.
by avn2109 13y ago
Yeah, in NYC this is a major pain point. If I am not home to receive a package, I have to pick it up at the local post office, which has the following properties: 0) Often loses packages (~25% of the time) 1) Does not re-attempt delivery un
925.
by avn2109 13y ago
That's a really solid point. From the Chinese perspective, a US invasion of DPRK might be analogous to the Cuban Missile Crisis or something.
926.
by avn2109 13y ago
Having real undo sounds great. Also, thanks for fixing plot legends in Version 9. Because of that I now use MMA for publishable figures.
927.
by avn2109 13y ago
Invading the DPRK seems like a nightmare and I don't support it. But if the NATO powers were going to do it, I suspect they'd employ an overwhelming first strike, probably from the air/missiles, to knock out DPRK artillery, a
928.
by avn2109 13y ago
Tribologist here, about to publish a study of reciprocating friction and wear in graphene-loaded plastic composites. We see two orders of magnitude wear reductions at 30,000 cycles for 10% graphene by mass (dry reciprocating conditions) and
929.
by avn2109 13y ago
Srsly. It is unbelievable that they didn't fix this in Version 9. In many ways MMA is incredibly sophisticated software, but it lacks this most obvious of features.
930.
by avn2109 13y ago
I'm imagining the opacity of language that would result from this scheme, and it is frightening.

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