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by cjensen 10y ago
I guess this has been ignored for awhile: Google started downtown. When they are referring to Amazon, I'm pretty sure that's A9 which was started as Altavista as a DEC project in the same building.
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by cjensen 10y ago
Okay, let's unpack some of the steps in that... Breast Cancer is more common among women who defer having children to later in life, or who never have children. In the US, intentionally deferring children is a behavior seen most common
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by cjensen 10y ago
"in aggregate"
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by cjensen 10y ago
Study authors: "We found an association" Typical bad reporting: "Study finds causation" It should be obvious on the face of it that in aggregate, multi-lingual people live lives that are significantly different than mono
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by cjensen 10y ago
I was responding to the assertion that no one was investing in solar thermal -- I'm not defending the investment.
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by cjensen 10y ago
The Ivanpah solar thermal plant was funded [1] and many others [2]. Why do you say no one wants to? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_Solar_Power_Facility [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by cjensen 10y ago
There's an added complication: in C, there are just five[1] names available for signed values: signed char, short, int, long, and long long. Additional, the number of bits assigned to each of those must be >= to the previous name. S
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by cjensen 10y ago
That is an orthogonal issue[1] which has no bearing on discussion of vaping regulation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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by cjensen 10y ago
Pumped storage is routinely used to store energy. It's not theoretical. Has Flywheel storage every been seriously used in large-scale commercial applications? Someone mentions it on every energy-storage thread, and I'd like to kno
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by cjensen 11y ago
That's not correct -- the Coast Starlight runs daily from Oakland/Emeryville to Los Angeles. Amtrak hates to run non-daily trains. The twin problems of the route are (1) the train is very late very often and (2) the route is ineff
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by cjensen 11y ago
Is there a list of packages anywhere? Seems strange to download a package manager and just hope there are any packages.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Noted crank [1] [2] [3] who is associated with noted crank Chandra Wickramasinghe [4] continues to act like a crank. Dust and tiny micro-organisms are found in the Strat. This is not news. [1] http://www.skeptical-science.com&#x2
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by cjensen 11y ago
There's a lot of variation in Fremont neighborhoods from sketchy to super-wealthy, so it depends on what you can afford, whether schools matter to you, what you want to be near, etc. Definitely consider proximity to transit: the curren
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by cjensen 11y ago
Maybe, but keep in mind it's per square foot, and I'd bet the average Orinda residence is 2-3X larger than the average Rockridge residence.
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by cjensen 11y ago
It's 88 threads. The author mathed poorly.
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by cjensen 11y ago
For embedded devices which run code off of ROMs, there are "romulators" [1] which emulate ROMs. They can be fitted into the ROM socket to work just like a ROM except that you can reload it at-will without burning a new ROM. Makes
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by cjensen 11y ago
Yes, that is the normal advice for California too. Usually it's immigrants who die from death caps due to mistaken identity. The article is shocking to me because it involves a non-immigrant picking and eating mushrooms without expert
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by cjensen 11y ago
After the Revolution, the US owed money to many including soldiers who served in the War. After a few years, it seemed like the payments would never be made, and speculators began buying up the debt at steep discounts. These speculators bas
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by cjensen 11y ago
The US had a lot of debt to "Vulture Funds" after the Revolution. The US paid. Like the US, Argentina's decision to pay its debts will enable the country to borrow, which is useful if you want to invest in stuff which will im
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by cjensen 11y ago
Overcast[1] has an index. At least for the incredibly small subset of podcasts I looked at, Overcast is a more complete index. Podcat does not seem to get the names of podcasters correct. For example, searching for Marco Arment links to onl
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by cjensen 11y ago
Or you could just look up the year the house was built. "All houses built before 1978 are likely to contain some lead-based paint." [1] (If you do have such a house, don't panic. Read the article below for what you need watc
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by cjensen 11y ago
To be clear: I'm describing the outcry, not expressing an opinion on it.
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by cjensen 11y ago
The concern was that performing a slingshot around Earth with a RTG-equiped probe has risks. If early in the mission the probe loses the ability to guide itself, then the probe may be off course enough to hit Earth. The Cassini mission to S
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by cjensen 11y ago
On Linux and Windows, the NTP update daemon "sanity checks" the new date. It refuses to update the time if the new time is "too far" from the current time. Is the Mac any different on this front?
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by cjensen 11y ago
There's no barrier to entry on anything solar-related. A wise investor would assume that serious competition will occur prior to reaching a trillion-dollar jackpot.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Did that. It did not set a date close enough to now to work.
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by cjensen 11y ago
In this case fixing the issue required knowledge of how certs work in order to guess that there is a date issue. That's probably pretty rare at fix-your-computer shops. It's pure luck that I'd seen this type of issue before b
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by cjensen 11y ago
I repaired a MacBook Pro which had been powered off for an extended time and couldn't load OS X onto it. Turned out it was using hardware time to determine if a cert was valid when validating the OS X install image. (Validation is done
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by cjensen 11y ago
I think you are reading stuff into my comment that I simply did not say or imply; worse, the things you think I said you describe as "toxic"! I don't think side projects are necessary to further your career, and it's bee
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by cjensen 11y ago
Sorry: I meant that as a response to the notion that the Soviets made a unique error with the Aral (hence the "don't blame us" stated in the parent) rather than being a common symptom of water diversion worldwide. It was not

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