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by black6 7y ago
From a nation-state perspective I would hope they attempt to interfere in the elections of their national rivals in order to eke out an advantage on the global playing field, just as I expect my own government to be doing the same.
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by black6 7y ago
In my older car I constantly flash other people with "modern" headlights believing the high-beams to be on, when, in fact, it is the low-beams which are blinding me.
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by black6 7y ago
Instead of a piece of silvered glass which requires no power input and always works? K.I.S.S.
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by black6 7y ago
I turned down an internship in Palo Alto because the least expensive temporary (< 12 mo) housing I could find in the Bay area was a bunk in a "hacker shack" for ~$1k/month. The mortgage on my 4/2 house in Mississippi
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by black6 7y ago
TFA doesn't mention it, but I've read about other Cannonball attempts where the "contestants" do their best to plan the journey so that they avoid population centers during peak traffic hours and the long stretches of de
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by black6 7y ago
Everything is linear when plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.
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by black6 7y ago
That is baffling as he says in the video! I’ve never seen anyone on any worksite I’ve been on trying to pick a LO/TO lock, so I just assumed the cores were just as insubstantial.
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by black6 7y ago
In my experience this is not true. Some LO/TO locks even have plastic shackles and bodies (for the obvious electrical work). They’re not supposed to be pick proof and super secure—they’re a visual and physical reminder that the system
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by black6 7y ago
iRedMail rolls everything into a convenient package. The basic tier (no tech support) is free.
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by black6 7y ago
I haven’t written a book (and calling myself an author is a long stretch), but I did write up a series of personal narratives based on the Wikileaks War Diary document dump and I touch on how we (myself and my battle-buddies) felt about t
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by black6 7y ago
> Professors also increasingly assign homeworks online rather than make students do it on paper. I saw this begin to get popular towards the end of my undergraduate studies. I fought against it tooth-and-nail, because all of a sudden st
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by black6 7y ago
> I've always felt like these government agencies... Make no mistake--the Federal Reserve is not a government agency. It is a Central Bank, organized by a consortium of bankers to control the money supply of the United States and,
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by black6 7y ago
That was my thought. If the data is written in some specific format, shouldn’t it be able to be read just as easily, without resorting to ML?
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by black6 7y ago
I knows how science works. That is why I am asking how we can compare the rate of change when the sample rates being compared are three orders of magnitude off. EDIT: more benefit-of-the-doubt for orders-of-magnitude difference — three inst
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by black6 7y ago
I hear the rate of change argument a lot, but I haven’t been able to comfortably arrive at how the comparison is made. Historic temperatures (pre-nineteenth century) have to be inferred from proxies—ice formations, fossilized tree rings, et
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by black6 7y ago
The SSME (now the RS-25 engine) seems to handle the H2 just fine.
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by black6 7y ago
The income tax, designed to prevent the accumulation of wealth, needs to be replaced with a wealth tax[0]. This would simplify filing for the 99% of Americans who are not the 1%. 0: http://www.cosmicweenie.com/wealth_tax.pdf
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by black6 7y ago
Born and raised right across The River from Lula. I remember when Walmart was just Walmart--the Supercenters with groceries didn't exist yet--and there were many more grocery stores. Some regional chains and some mom-and-pop type pla
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by black6 7y ago
I see this all the time where I live, and it drives me insane. Truck culture is a waste of resources. What causes someone to pay $$$$ to decrease the efficiency of their vehicle? And don’t even get me started on soft rubber mud tires that o
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by black6 7y ago
Last night the waiter topped off my iced tea three times and I continued to use the same plastic straw, whereas a single paper straw would not have lasted. It's a wetted time and solubility problem. Paper is water soluble--plastic is n
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by black6 7y ago
At least plastic straws are multi-use. It's rare that a paper straw makes it through a single drink.
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WTF Is the Federal Reserve [audio](congressionaldish.com)
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by black6 7y ago
The American health insurance system is not insurance--it's a long-term payment plan. Why does insurance need to get billed when I go for a yearly checkup with my doc, or when I pick up some prescription-strength ibuprofen? My auto ins
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by black6 7y ago
Strength and toughness are different properties in materials science. A ceramic mug is strong enough to support great amounts of weight, but it's not very tough. I would think toughness (and elastic modulus) plays more of a safety role
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by black6 7y ago
No matter how complicated you think economics is, it's more complicated than that. Just the act of trying to understand and theorize about economics changes economics, like an observer effect.
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by black6 7y ago
This is contentless. What is it--an ad for Tesla?
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by black6 7y ago
> it takes a rocket several days to reach the moon That's using an unpowered transfer orbit. Burning the whole time would be considerably quicker (and be extremely inefficient).
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by black6 7y ago
30-year mortgages are still being underwritten for beachfront properties.
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by black6 7y ago
When I was in Afghanistan I was fascinated by the long lines of circular dirt mounts that dotted the landscape[0]. I knew of qanats from reading the Dune series by Frank Herbert, but had never seen an example. It wasn't until a few yea
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by black6 7y ago
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire is another in-depth look. Part biography, part history, part math.

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