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by ciphol 5y ago
The solution to nuclear waste is "status quo". As far as I know, no person has ever been harmed much less killed by waste from a nuclear power plant. Also, the dangerous isotopes are also the ones which decay most quickly. Let the
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by ciphol 5y ago
That crazy looking chart (except maybe the push timing loop at the bottom) can be implemented with 100 lines of branching if statements. The 20 or so questions it asks probably can be answered by querying ~3 simple APIs (user preferences, c
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by ciphol 5y ago
It's predictable that the walls/ceiling of a building will take X time, and the wiring/furnishings Y time. Software development is different because even after you have allotted time for every issue you can imagine, unexpecte
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by ciphol 5y ago
Luckily the internet is a big place, and it's easy to run experiments where you show half the people one version of the site and half the people the other version, and see who buys more.
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by ciphol 5y ago
That comment is 9 years old and Scott is still a relatively young guy, so hopefully he has grown out of such ideas.
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The doctors care. They just don't have any better treatment options.
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The problem is that college selects for intelligent, functional, successful people. Whereas this institution (yes I used that word) would select for dysfunctional people. So it would be less pleasant, and the likelihood of making high-quali
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by ciphol 5y ago
Again, why should one LB resident get to decide what another LB business does? Just because this sort of restriction is common doesn't mean it's right.
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by ciphol 5y ago
What exactly is the problem with 8-9 high, or 20 high, or whatever the technical limit is? The land belongs to the port owners, why should anyone else be able to restrict how they stack containers?