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811.
by azernik 6y ago
Even later - it was the main German naval strategy of WWI.
812.
by azernik 6y ago
Tesla is not a good representative of the field; they are waaaay behind Waymo (Google) and Cruise (GM).
813.
by azernik 6y ago
The money (and hence most of the engineering time) is in making people's lives and jobs easier, not in exploring deep philosophical questions.
814.
by azernik 6y ago
I don't have a lot of information about the scale required; however, I will note that grid-attached energy storage is a big field that is not limited to batteries. Batteries are generally more energy-efficient, but relatively expensive
815.
by azernik 6y ago
It exists, but because changing rates for existing customers is political toxic you have to opt in.
816.
by azernik 6y ago
Because the people involved have political and legal power.
817.
by azernik 6y ago
ICANN has been managing/backing it since 2011 ( http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2011-October/008090.html ), when the maintainers were sued by some random astrology company.
818.
by azernik 6y ago
That's octopodes; squid are much less intelligent. They're moving on next to much smaller (and hence even less intelligent) hummingbird bobtail squid.
819.
by azernik 6y ago
It's in the first sentence of the article: "...the first use of CRISPR in cephalopods, a class of marine invertebrates."
820.
by azernik 6y ago
And the advantage here is that it's the start of development of a genetic-modification toolkit (similar to that we already have for fruit flies and c elegans and zebrafish) for using them as animal models. Much more complex of a brain
821.
by azernik 6y ago
Having done some IR work in college while pursuing a mainly CS degree: Even with decades of professional experience as a diplomat or analyst, your sample size of countries and international situations will be very small. Having both a theor
822.
by azernik 6y ago
And in fact, the judge ordered the government to either sell it off or put it in safe storage... about 6 years ago.
823.
by azernik 6y ago
Note that this is specifically in a form factor made for mining explosives (i.e. to be mixed with oil at the worksite to make ANFO) - not necessarily very convenient for military use.
824.
by azernik 6y ago
Yeah, Arabs in general are super into fireworks - mostly on the personal-size firecrackers scale, but put enough of those together in a pile and you'll get a good ignition source.
825.
by azernik 6y ago
Interestingly, I've seen the equivalent of this on the low end - workers in third-world machine shops or electronics recycling places with an opaque block between them and the workpiece, with a cell phone and its camera slotted into a
826.
by azernik 6y ago
That's where the incompetence comes in. When the crew was allowed to leave and the explosives were brought onshore, the judge ordered the government to either sell it off or move it to a more permanent storage facility; the government
827.
by azernik 6y ago
Syrian refugees are about 20% of the Lebanese population, so they're the bulk of the low-paid, low-skill labor force. (Low-skill not necessarily because they don't have any skills, but because the skills they have don't mat
828.
by azernik 6y ago
Sometimes they end up in the private sector, where small enough firms can avoid the corruption that gets into larger bureaucracies. Often they end up leaving the field or the country - there are lots of great Lebanese engineers outside of
829.
by azernik 6y ago
This is possible , but we don't actually know for sure. Only in the last few years has there been hardware on the ISS capable of creating partial-g for rodents [1], and so far (in published research, at least) it hasn't been us
830.
by azernik 6y ago
Even if they're not in SSO, satellites are hard to hide. The timetables might be more complicated for a rank and file soldier to use, but you can time your actions to be missed by any specific low-orbiting satellite.
831.
by azernik 6y ago
Note also that the rather extreme, even by American standards, racial disparities in Ferguson policing were driven by the city refusing to levy sufficient taxes, and funding itself instead on extractive fines and court fees (the latter not
832.
by azernik 6y ago
I like the traditional "Member of Technical Staff". Don't know if that's an IBM or Bell Labs coinage.
833.
by azernik 6y ago
At 3m resolution a tank is about 3 pixels; a sedan is around 1 pixel. It's very hard to distinguish objects from each other and therefore to track one at that resolution.
834.
by azernik 6y ago
On a judicial system that covers a lot more than the US Federal Judiciary. Most cases in the US are run by state judiciaries.
835.
by azernik 6y ago
What is your experience of the frequency of Planet's reimaging? And at what resolution?
836.
by azernik 6y ago
1. Yes. Not just state actors - Planet Labs ( https://www.planet.com/ ) in San Francisco, for example, is a commercial satellite company that photographs the whole globe once per day and sells that imagery online. 2. Live fee
837.
by azernik 6y ago
I would argue that you're underestimating labor costs - your baristas still need to be paid even in between customers, when there's no latte-making to do. At my work, labor costing is something we don't even try to model, b
838.
by azernik 6y ago
The key to such a business surviving is volume - there are lots of fixed costs and very narrow margins, so you need to be getting lots of people per operating hour. Driving around to various residential areas will just never get you nearly
839.
by azernik 6y ago
I think that would be less bad than trying to start a normal cafe. Part of the business case for food trucks is that the capital expenses are so much lower than buying and configuring a fixed space - the trucks themselves are more or less m
840.
by azernik 6y ago
Yes, that's the claim (which seems supported elsewhere in the thread). You are probably underestimating the magnitude of the effect, though. A single square of blotter paper weighs on the order of 10 mg; it holds a dose on the order of

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