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by ctdonath 8y ago
From this, I can trust that any GA Tech OMS graduate has covered those subjects to the satisfaction of an expert on the subject. Maybe "covered" is kinda thin, yeah, but at least I know they've been covered to at least a se
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by ctdonath 8y ago
You're paying for certification, acceptably proving you've learned what an accredited institution expects you to learn. The problem I've seen with "I don't need a degree!" people is gaping holes in their self-t
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by ctdonath 8y ago
Helps the discussion to bracket possibilities. If there's an absolute hard limit somehow, let people know so they don't assume it's possible to go further. I find this useful in discussing solar power: there is an absolute ma
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by ctdonath 8y ago
Minimum wage is debtor's prison redux: if you don't produce enough, you're not allowed to produce anything at all. And some jobs just don't entail that much productivity.
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by ctdonath 8y ago
Swift took a well-developed language, looked hard at what was lacking/worked-around/deprecated/old/annoying, and rebuilt the language from scratch to get it right/modern this time. Would we could do this with other
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by ctdonath 8y ago
Agreed, even if unpopular. What puzzles me is the "climate advocates" pressing for such environmental engineering show little interest in changing their own behavior - say, more concerned about grandiose systems for removing CO2 r
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Then take your business elsewhere. There are options.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
What "gatekeeping"? The whole fascinating point is that there isn't any "gatekeeping" on SO. The demographics may be remarkably skewed, yes ... not for any categorical exclusion, but for self-selected choice to no
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Solar Thermal appears to offer 3x the kWh/m2 over Solar PV I'm wondering at the difference between your measuring "kWh/m2" vs mine of "W/m2". Upshot: averaged over a year, what's the power outp
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Then perhaps the real data point is bias about biases: operating in a profoundly neutral forum, blind to practically any "group" indication, individual "they're thinking X of me because I'm Y" bias emerges. T
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by ctdonath 9y ago
My rule of thumb: solar power generates 10 watts per square meter. There's a fixed maximum of 1300 watts per square meter of sunlight. For large scale technology, assume 10% efficiency. Another 10% from that survives air occlusion, clo
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Principles shouldn't depend on price for applicability.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
He's practically the only one who could do it, having enough influence to get the plethora of intellectual property required to make the movie work. You just can't make an 80s nostalgia trip work without a director everyone can tr
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by ctdonath 9y ago
That's the point . It's an 80s nostalgia fest for the narrow audience who grew up & wallowed in the media of the time, presenting the grand fantasy pulled together by the then-promise of VR (tragically lacking the hardware ne
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by ctdonath 9y ago
If US hadn't neglected borders & trade imbalances, they'd be doing the same - with better human rights.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
There's plenty of low-income areas in flyover country, with high gun ownership - used fairly for defense & provisions. That they can own guns at high rates responsibly points to cultural choices; don't punish them for bad beha
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Fun fact: Kodak's headquarters had a rifle range in the basement.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
That claim is massively wrong. See my above comment.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
I've reviewed many relevant stats. Even the CDC concluded guns save far more lives than they take. Remember: "defensive use" includes simply raising doubt that an attacker will survive, deterring even the consideration of ass
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Up to the employer, and whether they know about it ("concealed means concealed"). I've worked places where several employees (owners included) were known always armed. No big deal. Safety was assured precisely because they we
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by ctdonath 9y ago
The great thing about YouTube is precisely that, in theory at least before questionable policies are applied, ANYONE can publish their video to the world and monetize accordingly. Understandable that anything less than standard "comm
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Interesting that those low-restriction states have such low violent crime. In fact, those US counties with zero murders (about half) have the most lax gun control laws. Were the premise of your comment true, those other states should be the
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by ctdonath 9y ago
A very common factor in such mass murders is the use of antidepressants. Having seen up close what happens when someone on such medication misses a few doses (extreme & systematic rage), I'm stunned that there has not been intense
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Not just for entertainment, but a great many for legitimate self-defense. Why should those rationally feeling need to prepare protection be denied by laws which ultimately do not stop the unstable deliberately acting to harm?
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by ctdonath 9y ago
There was nothing to indicate she should be denied such. Self-defense is a valid and widely-exercised human right. Just because Policy X has problems doesn't mean Policy Y doesn't (and may unleash the Pandora's Box which Poli
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Having bandwidth is paramount. I've long opined network routers should have an "ad-hoc" mode (preferably on by default) whereby users can create a decentralized network, leveraging whatever long-range/high-bandwidth co
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by ctdonath 9y ago
FB is among the last places I'd look, and would not be impressed by that being the only web presence for a small business. Seriously, seeing such induces an involuntary "ugh". Putting up a website is trivial & cheap, and
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Google News notes 21,000+ news stories. A few minutes' work, huge talk about Tesla & SpaceX. Very cost-effective marketing.
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by ctdonath 9y ago
He didn't indicate there was. He's just asking. Strikes me that he somehow recognizes you from there. "OT" = Off Topic, so the question wasn't about "the man".
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by ctdonath 9y ago
Making the best of a bad situation (the essence of unemployment) does not equate to choosing the manner & location of frolicking (the essence of vacation).

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