chungleong

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by chungleong 7y ago
Lift-induced drag goes down with the square of velocity. At high speed, the need to stay aloft doesn't cost you that much.
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by chungleong 7y ago
One thing I've been wondering is whether is possible to power a ground effect vehicle from overhead wires. That would sort of be like a hover train. The "tracks" would be cheap to build. Just need to compact the ground to a s
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by chungleong 7y ago
Mint Linux is the only distro with a sane UI if you ask me.
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by chungleong 7y ago
There certainly are a lot of Americans who mismanage their finances. Standard advice is to have at least six months of saving at your disposal. If you can't take a afford a break at a time of your own choosing then how are you going to
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by chungleong 7y ago
I do my shopping at Auchan and I often opt for the basket because I don't have the right coin on me. They probably lose more than they save because people are buying less. Given the prevalence of contact-less payment in Europe, hyperma
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by chungleong 7y ago
Paid leaves aren't mandated by law. The norm is two weeks for salaried workers. Most people don't used them up anyway. There's no tradition of everyone going on vacation in the same month in the US. That makes people feel som
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by chungleong 7y ago
I think the concept just doesn't work as well in the US. Parking lots are larger than in Europe. You'd need a guy to move the carts from satellite collections points back to the store anyway.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Well, someone has to prop up the humanities. Universities are supposed to be communities of scholars. They aren't job training centers. Unless some students are persuaded to pursue less-career-oriented majors, all our universities woul
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by chungleong 7y ago
Normally transportation projects seek to complement existing mode of transport. CA HSR was doomed to fail it was envision as an alternative to driving and flying. The lack of synergy means benefits would come at too high a cost and to too f
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by chungleong 7y ago
We have to beware of unintended consequences. Deployment of facial recognition tech could very well make the crime situation worse. You see, teens are rebellious by nature and they think everything is about them. They'll likely react b
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by chungleong 7y ago
I just noticed that the head of the New York of Sciences studied English lit at UC Berkeley.
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by chungleong 7y ago
You're begging the question. Whether Apple in fact controls the market is the key point of contention here. If the company is simply responding to market demand then there is no credible theory of harm. I don't have any hard data
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by chungleong 7y ago
That's why the suit will probably fail in the end. In terms of app selection, Android is not inferior to iOS. People aren't choosing Apple's products because they have no other choice. They're buying them BECAUSE Apple h
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Grabbing hold and letting go: The exploding bolts that bring us to space(popsci.com)
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by chungleong 7y ago
Oh man, I wish I had seen this thread earlier. I've been trying to get Capital One to send text to a Skype number to no avail. Then my card got swallowed by an ATM.
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by chungleong 7y ago
By networking I meant business social networking. Key people could be killed or seriously injured in the quake. Or just preoccupied with recovery efforts.
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by chungleong 7y ago
From a national security standpoint, it's probably a good thing if hi-tech firms are dissuaded from the SF. A magnitude 9+ earthquake is going to hit the area one of these days. It's simply inevitable. Making the city a critical n
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by chungleong 7y ago
I live in Krakow and I definitely see AirBnb as the culprit. Students are having a much harder finding housing than before. The situation in Europe is somewhat unique in that there's both a large disparity in nominal income and a large
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by chungleong 7y ago
AirBnb also makes real estate investments more liquid. You can sell a property on short notice. No need to wait for tenants to move out. That drives speculation and influx of foreign capital.
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by chungleong 7y ago
What logically follows from the two statements below: 1. "Automated tests are software" 2. "all software tends to have bugs"
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by chungleong 7y ago
> 1) Automated tests are software Which is assumed to be free of defects because people are suckers for circular reasoning.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Running shoes don't integrate from lack of use. A membership at a health club, on the other hand, goes to waste if you don't use it.
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by chungleong 7y ago
The best way to learn a language is spending a good size chunk of money. People are loss adverse. The need to extract value from the sunk cost is a powerful motivator. That's why in-person classes tend to be more effective than books.
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by chungleong 7y ago
I took many courses through UC Berkeley's concurrent enrollment program. It allows non-students to attend courses on a space-available basis. The professor has to sign off on it and it costs a thousand bucks or so.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Europeans probably eat raw meat and eggs more often than Americans. Beef tartar isn't a dish that's commonly found on menus state-side. Is it even legal to serve a raw egg yolk in California?
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by chungleong 7y ago
There aren't many software companies that would let a programmer just code these day. Daily stand-ups must be torture for those with autistic traits.
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by chungleong 7y ago
That depends on where the person is on the spectrum. People who suffers from mild autism--those who can maintain normal social relations with some efforts--probably would choose to not have the condition. People at the extreme end would cho
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by chungleong 7y ago
A paradox of modern society is how a greater equality in material well-being has led to a greater feeling of inequality as people have more and more reference points.
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by chungleong 7y ago
Good test questions are hard to write. That's why standardized tests usually have lots of them so deficiencies with individual questions become statistically irrelevant. At the end of the day, we aren't trying to probe exactly w
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by chungleong 7y ago
The library was original written for class-based React. Version 2 was rewritten from scratch (more or less) to support hook-based React. I have also reworked all the examples to use a clearer style.

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