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by cfraenkel 4y ago
That would change the original comment to THIRD dumbest.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
As opposed to the 100% chance of massive, civilization threatening consequences if we do nothing? The contrast is illuminating.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
If you really need the "if you don't write it down, then it never happened...", then get a real bound notebook with numbered pages. It's too easy to tear out a page in a wirebound book.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Not mathy, more where philosophy is coming from, but the books I remember from about the same timeframe as GED were Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind Timothy Ferris Coming of Age in the Milky Way and the Zen and the Art of Motorcy
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
He doesn't 'say', no. He implies. Not a whole lot of difference. Unless you're in the Bill Clinton camp of wordsmithing.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
You explicitly "wondered" if H was "experienced" with psychedelics, implying that you thought so since you found it "trippy". Go back and read your original comment. No one here is saying psychedelics are mo
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
For someone who is complaining about someone supposedly not reading the exact words you wrote - you're awfully quick in putting words in their mouth. I don't see "alcohol" or "cocaine" mentioned, and yes, the
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
"radio" in this case refers more to 'cheap equipment played in a noisy environment'. Back in the 70s ~ 80s that meant car speakers playing over road noise. Now it's cheap ear bud or tinny bluetooth xyz playing ove
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Says you. Doesn't explain why drinking coffee from them triggers a corn allergy, while the exact same coffee from the same store/barrista in a ceramic cup is fine.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Three pinhole failures in 30 yr old copper pipe in ten years in this house says otherwise. We've (hopefully) torn all that out - tired of replacing 1/4 of the house every time there's another pipe failure.
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by cfraenkel 4y ago
Clearly the author didn't bother looking up any retired designers or engineers from the time, as the article is mostly speculation. There were lots of reasons why beige-ish tones were used. The biggest one was that's what IBM u
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by cfraenkel 5y ago
No NIMBY on the top of a mountain
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by cfraenkel 5y ago
I suppose that might be true if you're using a 60hz clock speed.
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by cfraenkel 5y ago
It isn't - both can kill you. DC results in a continuous muscle contraction, where AC makes for many contractions; DC 'let go' current is higher than AC; lethal AC current is also lower than DC. But we're talking mA he
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by cfraenkel 5y ago
If you're honestly looking for a citation, start with Galbraith's The Affluent Society. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Affluent_Society ). This was old hat in the 50s. They just didn't realize it
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by cfraenkel 5y ago
There are completely practical reasons.... The omni-directional antenna typically doesn't have the gain, or bandwidth, or power of the high bandwidth antenna, but does have the useful property of being usable when the vehicle might b
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by cfraenkel 5y ago
Sadly, Robert Steele passed away Aug 29th. ( https://phibetaiota.net/ )
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by cfraenkel 5y ago
Did you read the book? The limitation was that it takes 6 months+ to get there. Assemble a mission from scratch in weeks - it'll still take you six months to get there.
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by cfraenkel 6y ago
Buy CDs of the stuff you like?
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by cfraenkel 6y ago
To make enough shots for a low unit cost, the mold has to be made of very hard steel. So that takes a long time on a very expensive cnc. If you make it out of softer material to make the mold less expensive (ie aluminum), you only get ~1
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by cfraenkel 7y ago
Not really. They're launched from a base at 28 deg N. So assuming they launch due east, you can get to a 56 deg inclination and spend less delta-v than you'd need to drop the inclination to zero.
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by cfraenkel 8y ago
ha - the opposite, more like! "Overengineering" is what allows payloads to be as light as they are. You spend a fortune squeezing every last gram out of the design because it costs so much to get it up there. Lower launch cost
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by cfraenkel 9y ago
Damn, you got my hopes up. I think you're confusing these guys with "Immersion", who were the haptic feedback people.
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by cfraenkel 9y ago
Particularly when the body of the article also makes no attempt to argue for them either. The best it can muster is a weak recommendation to end the rule where H1B's are forced to stay with the sponsoring company.
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by cfraenkel 10y ago
He didn't say the car couldn't stop - there was no mention of any problems with the brakes. He chose to roll through the intersection after evaluating the safety of doing so. Please don't put words in others' mouth
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by cfraenkel 10y ago
It's not so much the key travel as the overall 'feel' relative to how your muscles learned to type. Everyone's different and react differently to different keyboards. What's most likely the issue is the not-consc
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by cfraenkel 10y ago
Agreed, and it's likely more about sending signals to the investor class. And make noises like they're doing something about not being able to afford to live here. The government doesn't want prices to crash, because then
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by cfraenkel 10y ago
um, yeah, that's the whole point. In addition to all the empty homes, there's so many teenagers driving around in Ferraris/Lambos it's become a joke. Sometimes Mom comes with the kid, other times it's just the kid
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by cfraenkel 18y ago
The two (immigration / starting a business) don't have much to do with each other. Immigration is fairly easy if you have a technical education & are fluent in either english or french, but be prepared to wait. See http://www.cic.g