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by burfog 8y ago
The USA already has this. Russia and China have similar systems. If you fly a kamikaze attack against a large US warship, Raytheon's Phalanx CIWS will automatically fire. I believe it handles speedboats as well. The Patriot system is s
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by burfog 8y ago
I think this applies to families too, explaining why many well-organized and cautious people end up missing out on children. There may never be a time when you feel ready. There is always something more -- a dept paid off, a larger house,
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by burfog 8y ago
The synagogue shooter was a leftist who hated Trump and pretty much quotes Farrakhan.
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by burfog 8y ago
There is something really hypocritical about the difference in how we treat guinea worm and wolves. Going by what we've done with wolves, we would reintroduce the guinea worm over the objections of the people living in the area.
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by burfog 8y ago
The average engineer can afford a 4 bedroom house and 6 children in 2019. The same goes for somebody who might be called a software architect, but not for the type of architect who draws floorplans and rooflines for houses. Maybe that doesn
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by burfog 8y ago
The point of the visa is supposedly to bring in unusually high-value workers. The value of a worker is called into question if they need a second income. The same is true if a child consumes "most of the limited income". You shoul
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by burfog 8y ago
Some kinds of fraud are easier to stop than other kinds. The existing problem, involving bad ideas of market rates, is really hard to stop. We can do this well. Here: The salary is bid for based on family income percentile in the county. Th
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by burfog 8y ago
The difficulty of assimilating in a strange new country is enough to make many people want to go back, with or without employment. I don't think employment is the issue here. Culture shock is real. You're also away from extended f
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by burfog 8y ago
Spouses with advanced degrees and prior work experience are exactly the sort of people who can raise children well. Due to exponential growth of the number of descendants with time, this has a far more beneficial impact on the world than an
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by burfog 8y ago
You could say an obligation comes from the USA providing a legal framework and a market and the military force needed to dissuade others (countries, pirates, terrorists, etc.) from interfering too much. No obligation is required however. Th
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by burfog 8y ago
No, the steam comes out. The water won't boil if it is contained under pressure, and it must boil in order to keep the temperature down. Dirty water and a bad choice of steel will lead to corrosion, so don't use those. Purify th
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by burfog 8y ago
Build the structure with steel pipe. Fill it with water. The temperature can not exceed the boiling point of water until all of the water has been boiled away.
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by burfog 8y ago
Usually nothing, because this pretty much doesn't happen. It is nearly correct to say that steel buildings never burn down. The last exception to this rule involved luggage, seats, and lots of jet fuel.
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by burfog 8y ago
That is a different problem, called illuminant metameric failure . See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamerism_(color) Illuminant metameric failure can happen with relatively normal LED and fluorescent lighting
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by burfog 8y ago
If you are standing on the Moon, the Sun is white. If you are standing on planet Earth, the Sun is yellow. As viewed on Earth, sunlight directly from the Sun is also yellow... but normally we include the blue light from the blue sky, which
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by burfog 8y ago
The compilers were expensive. This is probably because Ada was mandated for government projects. The people buying compilers were most likely able to charge that expense to the government, possibly even with a mark-up. The language had a we
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by burfog 8y ago
People eat okra, escargot (snails), and natto. All of those have slime. The name "pink slime" isn't from ABC. It's from an FDA employee who got to examine the stuff.
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by burfog 8y ago
The intentional mislabeling bothers me most, but yeah I'm not so fond of ammonia. In the human body, ammonia is a lot like alcohol and carbon dioxide: it is a poison that we are well-equipped to remove. Well, sort of. Just as people wi
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by burfog 8y ago
It's not honestly lean beef. If it were, it would be red. It's connective tissue, with a bit of lean beef mixed in. This has a different nutritional profile. There is less iron, and the amino acid proportions are different. We cou
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by burfog 8y ago
Couldn't you live in the mountains? Where will we grow food? Already, the Bay Area development ruined some of the world's best farmland. There was no better place to grow apricots than San Jose, and now that is gone forever. Centr
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by burfog 8y ago
Isn't it weird that picking fruit and cleaning our houses are the normal examples? I suspect that "picking fruit" is a dog whistle along the lines of "picking cotton", showing how people actually feel about Mexicans
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by burfog 8y ago
This is as designed. Prior to the anti-nuclear NRC, we had the pro-nuclear AEC. Progress stopped, as intended, when the NRC took over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Co...
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by burfog 8y ago
Skip the turbopump. That is the whole point of pressurizing. Pressurizing has weight advantages. You can use a balloon tank. The tank no longer has to have the rigidity to support itself. Rockets with typical cycles have used balloon tanks.
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by burfog 8y ago
Looking at the list of cycles on Wikipedia, I'm surprised that nobody seems to have used preburners to pressurize the tanks. Use a fuel-rich preburner to pressurize the fuel tank, and an oxygen-rich preburner to pressurize the oxygen t
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by burfog 8y ago
Non-stop rail doesn't have to be that awful. Airlines have figured this out, in recent decades providing lots of point-to-point service. This is possible with trains. Use tickets, an accurate schedule, and passing tracks to avoid waiti
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by burfog 8y ago
BART exists. This isn't different. Put a couple tunnels under the bay, one just north of the bay bridge and the other at SFO. Connect them, staying safely east of the San Andreas fault. Try to route the tunnel to allow stopping at at l
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by burfog 8y ago
I sort of am the target audience: I'm currently teaching C. The lack of important standard features means I can't just say "this is C". For teaching, normal data type sizes are important. Being able to have static data i
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by burfog 8y ago
People don't have the right to vote, at least not unconditionally. That's not how this works, nor how it has ever worked. If you register to vote in Georgia, then move to Ohio and register there, you might have the right to vote
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by burfog 8y ago
Nice, but some of the missing features really hurt: I couldn't do a simple #define. This is pretty fundamental to typical C programming. One would also expect stringification, token pasting, and variadic macros. I added a goto, and it
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by burfog 8y ago
An equivalent to being wrongly purged is when somebody voting the other way is wrongly not purged.

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