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by bdunbar 15y ago
To me, re-reading that chapter, it's clear that the neither the platoon leader nor his immediate chain of command knew how to obtain atomic warheads at the time. Years later, the author met a key responsible for implementing the weapon who
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by bdunbar 15y ago
war was unlikely to break out with absolutely no warning, and they could be stationed at the border if tensions rose I have recalled where I first heard about the Davy Crockett a - from Hackworth's memoir 'About Face'. Looked it up in go
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by bdunbar 15y ago
... needing much more advance notice and planning Without disagreeing with your point ... The Army being the Army - while the weapons were issued, the troops trained on the system with dummy warheads, I suspect that issuing live atomic wa
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Paying food stamps is a great way to reduce crime and bolster the stability of your country. You (mostly) had me up to the first point. How are food stamps a positive / negative on crime?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I don't hold out a lot of hope for actual AI. AI has been promised 'real soon' as long as I've been doing computer stuff, haven't seen it yet. Automation can get us close. Already has, but this just moves the labor out of the field and in
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by bdunbar 15y ago
RDL already pointed out that shipyards (and other large manufacturing sites) do operate this way. There is one problem with a y-combinator approach to capital intensive work: someone has to be in charge. There is 'a' party responsible for
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by bdunbar 15y ago
(As transaction costs (search costs, costs to contract, costs to outsource, etc.) go down, optimal firm size goes down. Optimal size will still depend on the industry. Seventy guys can operate a dropbox. You'll need a few thousand guys, m
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by bdunbar 15y ago
To me, the article is exactly like the examples above. No, it's not. I have been a casual user of emacs, in the past. It did not seem like such a big deal to me: as a text editor it seemed better than average, but the arcane commands nee
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I would probably still be on 10.5, but the new laptop came with 10.6.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Fascinating. I'm still on 10.6: no compelling reason to upgrade. By the time I _do_ upgrade I'm in for some future shock: like dropping a Victorian gentleman into Haight-Ashbury in 1968.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
9. Designate a referee to say If the guy who _called_ the meeting isn't doing this, it's time to leave.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
My apologies, grand-parent: I mis-read your comment. Never-mind.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Also how does something like this work with county inspectors? My experience with county inspectors is they don't build anything. They show up to inspect the work after it's done, certify it's to standards and call it a day. If you're rea
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Freelance hacker? Greatest swordfighter in the world? Used to deliver pizza? That guy? Pretty cool guy, I hear.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
systems fail for many reasons at once. Disagree. Now, I will allow that very complex systems can mask that root cause. One might _never_ be able to find out the root 'why' for a number of reasons: lack of time, inability to see into the b
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Instead, you send your best people in a small warship right into the enemy lines, where they can be picked off at leisure? Not to mention perching all of your senior officers in a bubble, on top of the ship.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Well that's nice. I have some favorite bread recipes that call for sugar. Not a ton, just a pinch. Sugar - added sugar - is just a tool for creating edible food.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
It is possible there are better ways to regulate booze than having a government do it for you.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
The headline is misleading. The researchers propose regulations such as taxing all foods and drinks that include added sugar, banning sales in or near schools and placing age limits on purchases. It's for the children, of course. And for
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by bdunbar 15y ago
and the inclusion of oh-my-zsh as a reason to switch That's the reason why I switched. Perhaps I'm missing something: what's wrong with 'oh-my-zsh'?
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I've bought 'a' car from Craigslist. Took us about eight hours, from 'first car' to 'I'll take it'. Looked at ten cars in person. In one day. Granted, we were motivated, needed a car that day (long story) but it doesn't have to take week
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Hi-rise buildings are prohibited in Washington D.C. The traffic there is as bad as any big city I've been in.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
When cities are walkable, grocery stores are nearby too. I live in a small town in the American midwest, considered very walkable, lots of bike lanes, etc. We don't have smaller retail stores within walking distance. Instead we have big-
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Now a days your kid would have to create the next Call of Duty. Your mileage may vary: my kid was quite happy to muck around with a text-based game he crafted. Then he laid it to one side: he's enthralled by actual engineering: building t
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Ah - in context, for that problem, I agree it's 'okay'. Thanks for clarifying.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
FTA: Twitter had a service that would have a terrible GC pause every three days. Solution: just bounce the machine after less than three days. That is not what I would call a solution. It's a work-around . And not a very good one.
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by bdunbar 15y ago
Eggs in one basket, etc. Preacher > Choir
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by bdunbar 15y ago
I don't think that the 2012 cost of transferring water from Earth is relevant. Think of it as a benchmark. We know X costs Y, so Z needs to cost less to be viable. This is useful even if the value of Y declines. It ought to: there is mon
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by bdunbar 15y ago
of course, you could have done tons of research to support this, I'm not sure Not tons, but some, in support of work for a prior employer. But it turns out one of the ordinary byproducts of ordinary rockets is water, which is why all spa
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by bdunbar 15y ago
You underestimate just how unhospitable space is and how little we are adapted to living there. It may appear to be that way from one post. I don't. The health of astronauts coming back from the ISS has deteriorated. The short-term aff

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