chris_va

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by chris_va 8y ago
I'm not really a huge fan of hyperbole--I don't think it makes for useful conversations online (which are hard enough already, even on HN), and I don't believe any reasonable interpretation of my comment above supports your a
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by chris_va 8y ago
Well, PGE a pubic company (currently worth about $400/Californian). It's a free country. If you are a shareholder, or affected by their gross negligence, feel free to sue them to force a staff turnover.
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by chris_va 8y ago
No offense, but what makes you think this would be any different if it was a zero-profit government monopoly instead of an "allowed rate of return" government monopoly? And, to be honest, any cause less than ~1000 deaths per year
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by chris_va 8y ago
2012 paper on this subject that is a little more technical on the thrust aspect: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1202.4604.pdf
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by chris_va 8y ago
Probably worth revisiting with Q-learning
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by chris_va 8y ago
To play devil's advocate, looking at 5-year survival rates by country, you'd be 15-20% more likely to survive in the US after you contract cancer than in the Netherlands. YMMV.
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by chris_va 8y ago
Similar to the Four Pests Campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Pests_Campaign By April 1960, Chinese leaders changed their opinion due to the influence of ornithologist Tso-hsin Cheng[2] who pointed out that s
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by chris_va 8y ago
Does "Grabb-It" seem like a public nuisance to anyone else? Tracking conversions must be pretty creepy.
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by chris_va 8y ago
!pip install pyhash import pyhash ... seems to work fine.
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by chris_va 8y ago
I was curious about the potential for other compounds. SF6, per molecule is about 22,000x better than CO2: https://whatsyourimpact.org/high-global-warming-potential-ga... And there is a seemingly nice paper here on the pote
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by chris_va 8y ago
Failed capitalization... metric ton (MT or mt, I guess)
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by chris_va 8y ago
First rule of any hardware system: Something is always going to go wrong. When your system is one giant 62,000mT cable with the kinetic energy of 62 Hiroshima bombs, I think you'll lose your $30B investment pretty quickly.
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by chris_va 8y ago
Obligatory How It's Made on gold recycling from e-waste: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sp6Qhe1i8Y&t=3s
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by chris_va 8y ago
A key difference is that diesel can “recharge” a bus in a matter of minutes, so buses simply queue up at a pump and then drive off. With electric, it takes a few hours overnight, so they had to install a long line of charging points right
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by chris_va 8y ago
Technically it is a solution, but it sounds like you don't like it for cultural reasons. This gets into the purpose of governments in general. Culturally, let's say you don't want pollution. How do you solve that? You can try
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by chris_va 8y ago
If what you care about is pollution, just tax the pollution instead mandating a specific solution. In this case, it seems easier to add a $0.50 deposit to the plastic bottles.
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by chris_va 8y ago
If I had to guess, overly aggressive safety regulation adds about 50% to the cost. A lot of the cost is actually just in concrete (it is amazing how much concrete a nuclear plant uses), and concrete costs wouldn't have come down with v
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by chris_va 8y ago
I work in a Climate and Energy R&D group, so while I agree it would be great if nuclear power was resurrected (being safer and cleaner than any other form of power, solar included, despite its representation in the media), it very likel
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by chris_va 8y ago
Devil's advocate question, why? We are talking about an ~200,000 person industry, why does the federal government need to go take care of each small industry that gets out-competed? I could see having a generic program in place for r
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by chris_va 8y ago
When that works, it works well. When that fails (e.g. people disagree as to how they performed relative to their peers), it fails badly. Performance reviews (if done well) lower the risk of system breakdown. (Not to defend performance revie
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by chris_va 8y ago
For those similarly curious: """ char * STRNCPY (char s1, const char s2, size_t n) { size_t size = __strnlen (s2, n); if (size != n) memset (s1 + size, '\0', n - size); return memcpy (s1, s2, size);
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by chris_va 8y ago
I don't think these questions are uncommon in the industry. I've seen brain teaser questions from Microsoft, for example. I think when people write about them they just attach the examples to something emblematic for marketing, an
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by chris_va 8y ago
Google interviewers were never supposed to ask brainteaser like questions, even before the company "admitted" they don't work. The title is disingenuous, and implies that Google switched tactics after finding out that these q
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by chris_va 8y ago
This reads more like an annoyed rant based on hearsay than actual journalism. I am not a lawyer, so it may be that there are legal reasons why the TSA (specifically) cannot maintain a list of people, but ... The majority of large organizati
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by chris_va 8y ago
Technically that is exactly how you make a solution ... of carbonic acid! <walking away now>
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by chris_va 8y ago
You could always ban the chemical scaffold.
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by chris_va 8y ago
A theoretical EM-drive would run on electricity, as well, so thus wouldn't be propellant-less? Well, assuming one can violate only one law of physics at a time, this is just semantics.
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by chris_va 8y ago
Yes, of course, but there is no finite propellant being consumed.
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by chris_va 8y ago
With some exceptions, depending on how you define reaction-less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_anomaly
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by chris_va 8y ago
That's not entirely correct. Gold is malleable and does not tarnish, both of which are nice for making jewelry. E.g. the Incas used gold for jewelry despite it being fairly abundant.

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