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by cjensen 11y ago
To me, the real horror show is the 1:18 ratio between contributors who publicly identify themselves as a Woman and contributors who publicly identify themselves as a Man[1]. There's so many hypotheses one could make about that (ratios
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And the US eliminated the largest freshwater lake West of the Mississippi [1]. [1] (largest by area) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulare_Lake
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by cjensen 11y ago
You are right. That said, diversion of water for agriculture is also a confounding factor in the case of Lake Poopó.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Here's the problem with Net Metering: suppose you have two neighbors with exactly the same sunlight conditions: 1. A person whose house is large, inefficient, and uses a lot of electricity 2. A person with a small efficient house. If b
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by cjensen 11y ago
No, I'm suggesting the timeline is wrong and the fogging either is apocryphal or occurred later during hydrogen testing.,
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Indiana is heck of a long way from Trinity, and Trinity was an Atomic Bomb with far less fallout than a Hydrogen Bomb. So while the latter clearly caused health problems for Americans, I'm skeptical of the claims that photos were affec
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by cjensen 11y ago
The solution is easy: convert all H-1B Visas to Green Cards. If an H-1B employee is underpaid, they can jump ship. If we really have a shortage of engineers, then what harm is done? When H-1B expansion was first proposed, this is exactly wh
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by cjensen 11y ago
In addition to the points made by 'thesimon' about OneDrive pricing: Apple's cloud storage offering includes 50GB ($12/year), and 200GB ($36/year) tiers. I'd bet 99% of Dropbox users could fit in one of those t
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by cjensen 11y ago
I agree and I'm also a happy customer of Dropbox. But how long will it be until OneDrive or iCloud Drive catch up? I have 1TB of OneDrive space for "free" with Office. I have plenty of spare space in my iCloud storage plan. I
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by cjensen 11y ago
On a technical note regarding archiving: the tape is Quadraplex[1]. Quad was the first video tape format and was replaced by much cheaper/smaller/quieter/better helical-scan tape. Very few Quad machines still function, and as
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by cjensen 11y ago
My bad, this has already been discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10978672
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VMware Fusion, Workstation team culled in company restructure(arstechnica.com)
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It looks to me like Consumer Reports did an awful lot of cherry-picking of the data in that video. First, it looks to me like they made the collision happen at the max speed the Malibu could tolerate without collapsing the Malibu's pas
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by cjensen 11y ago
Including the 4.7% in the list really stands out. Given that the number of professional tennis players in the world exceeds 100/4.7 that sure looks like it should have been rejected due to the green jelly bean fallacy. [1] [1] https:&
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by cjensen 11y ago
There's a weird urban legend going around that DDT would solve mosquito problems -- usually with the implication that environmentalists are evil for banning this terrific substance. You appear to have succumbed to this urban legend. Th
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Copyright lawsuits can only be initiated by the copyright holder -- the person who wrote the code being copied. StackOverflow does not claim copyright ownership of a user's comments. Which is exactly how Wikipedia and others work.
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tcdent didn't say redundancy for a thermostat . For example, a fireplace and some wood is redundancy that covers both thermostat failures and power failures. If you live in dangerous weather as mentioned in the original comment, it wo
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Summary: 802.11ah: Better range, lower bandwidth 802.11ad: Better bandwidth. Doesn't go through walls. 802.11ax: Successor to 11ac expected in 2019
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by cjensen 11y ago
The government owns all land until it is transferred/sold to a private owner. That's not a new thing: that precedent goes back to Day 1 of the United States, and maybe further. I've never heard Ranchers request the opportunit
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by cjensen 11y ago
This is the worst use of the neologism I've yet seen: (1) It's not perfectly clear what the definition is in this particular context. Usually the word is used to indicate "our stuff is rad fast bro" implying that speed i
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by cjensen 11y ago
Their Atomic Bombs had notably low yields [1], suggesting that the designs were poor. I'd be really surprised if they managed to successfully construct a Hydrogen Bomb. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_North_
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by cjensen 11y ago
I grew up in the Bay Area in California. We only memorized up to 9x9. Though 12 is used often in measurements, I can't say as that I've missed having rote knowledge of the multiples of 12.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Was the issue that the company was moving to away from SF, or that the company was moving to an Office Park?
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The universal checklist for calendar change: http://qntm.org/calendar
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by cjensen 11y ago
The linked article claims "antidepressants increase risk". Linked JAMA article plainly says "association". Sure they eliminated a couple of known associations, which is good. But this isn't a slam dunk cause->eff
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by cjensen 11y ago
It says a lot about the broken sensibilities of higher education that an Historian describing how an outcome occurred feels obligated to explicitly dissociate herself with the outcome ("I don’t intend any of this in triumphalist spirit
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According to MS' blog post, this is based on the current modules proposal that the committee is working on. Isn't Clang also following the same proposal?
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The article says "emits a soft glow". Since that's impossible for something which isn't radioactive, I assume the reporter misunderstood something. What property of the material were they referring to?
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by cjensen 11y ago
The claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme is nonsense -- though it seems to fit the definition at first glance, if you think through it far enough you will see it does not fit. Since a Ponzi scheme is defined as an "investment&q
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by cjensen 11y ago
I have seven year-old chargers which work fine. Neither you nor I are unicorns: there are plenty of others for whom it breaks constantly or never breaks. I'd love to know what it is we do differently.

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