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Video Offers Glimpse of Biosafety Level 4 Lab(bu.edu)
13 points by davidmr 12y ago|2 comments
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by davidmr 13y ago
That's certainly true, but you could also make a strong case that flight recorders aren't necessarily a place where you're going to have a race to put as much technology in them as possible. I doubt we'll see a YC startu
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by davidmr 13y ago
Legislation is what set the CVRs at two hours in the first place. §121.359(i)(1) [1] sets the minimum. It should hardly be surprising that these manufacturers don't exceed it. My strong suspicion is that there's a design that meet
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by davidmr 13y ago
The initial downvotes were because the comment was much shorter and less informative when it was originally posted.
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by davidmr 13y ago
If you can read meaning into a one-day price fall of 0.08%, you're a smarter person than I am.
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by davidmr 13y ago
I'm always surprised at the passion this subject always generates, particularly in how many people express an opinion on how many hours a week I should work. I can understand being upset by having to work >40hr/wk when you do
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by davidmr 13y ago
It might not be what you were looking for, but to say it's not "built out" is a bit of a reach. I don't see how a department whose faculty include Alexander Razborov and Laszlo Babai can be considered lightweight. If you
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David Lowery is on a crusade for copyright, fairness and art(salon.com)
11 points by davidmr 13y ago|3 comments
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Wrap-up for the Supercomputing 2013 (SC13) conference(hpcwire.com)
2 points by davidmr 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidmr 13y ago
And woe be unto you if you refuse: http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2010/04/i-am-detained-by-fed...
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Python and the homogenization of scientific computing(r-bloggers.com)
5 points by davidmr 13y ago|0 comments
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by davidmr 13y ago
I think you dramatically underestimate the quality of the people the NSA has on staff. I know of two people who almost certainly worked there (obviously nobody confirms anything, but when two agents show up at your office to ask about their
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by davidmr 13y ago
> It seemed like a foregone conclusion that the 10-inch tablet market was done for, with all interest and excitement shifting to smaller, but equally capable 7 or 8-inch tablets instead. Did I miss something? I've been happy with my
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by davidmr 13y ago
I'm not being sarcastic, but I wonder what the intersection of the sets of people who leave smoke detectors disabled for convenience and people who are willing to pay $120 for a smoke detector looks like. As an aside, I genuinely have
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by davidmr 13y ago
If you asked the neighbors who might die in the fire stared in your place or the fire brigade who would have to run into your burning domicile to save you, the equation might change. On the anniversary of the Chicago Fire, it might help to
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by davidmr 13y ago
I'm really having a hard time envisioning a functional improvement on the standard Kidde smoke detector. There are two states: "it's cool", and "hey guys. There might be a fire". I really can't imagine muc
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by davidmr 13y ago
You are both right, in a way, in that neither particularly matters: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/chem03/chem03364.htm "As would have been predicted by the Second Law of Thermodynamics, CO infused any
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by davidmr 13y ago
This might be the killer feature I mentioned in a previous post on this article. I own a 120 year old house with odd nooks and crannies and strange airflow. My thermostat knows the temperature in my living room, but not upstairs by my bedro
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by davidmr 13y ago
I remember listening to an episode of This American Life many years ago on the subject of the saying "build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door". The long and the short of it was that that particular say
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by davidmr 13y ago
What you defined is not market microstructure, but the platonic ideal of a matching engine. The microstructure of a market is defined (by a Wikipedia source) as: "the study of the process and outcomes of exchanging assets under a speci
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by davidmr 13y ago
Any time synchronization protocol I know of takes into account network latency and attempts to compensate. As measured by perfectly synchronized clocks against the same reference source (leaving aside for the moment that there is no such th
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by davidmr 13y ago
It's not just the government that buy these things. Oil and gas, heavy manufacturing, automotive, genomics, financial, etc. all have them. The poster I was replying to appeared to be under the gross misconception that all parallel prob
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by davidmr 13y ago
After I moved from academia/gov't labs to private industry, I was absolutely flabbergasted at the waste. Many companies literally just buy whatever their vendors throw at them to solve a problem, and if a reasonably intelligent te
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by davidmr 13y ago
I wrote a different reply but deleted it. I'm curious about something: if, as you claim, supercomputers are wasted money, why are there so many of them? Have all the world's top supercomputing sites somehow colluded to convince al
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by davidmr 13y ago
While I couldn't agree more with the general point of the article, I have some small additional comments. Just as a bit of background, I think that Chris would very much agree that I am not the intended recipient of this advice, and so
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by davidmr 13y ago
> In the Nelson dream curriculum, all incoming students take the same four yearlong courses. His common core won't make students read the Great Books. "We want to teach you how to think," Mr. Nelson says. A course on &quot
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by davidmr 13y ago
Are you suggesting that the TSA agent interviewing this woman called up some TSA hotline who called up someone at Facebook who just gave it to them, sans warrant, all within the span of a couple hours? Words fail me for an adjective to desc
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by davidmr 13y ago
Just like Mark Klein knew nothing about the NSA room in the AT&T building? People without clearances come across classified information.
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by davidmr 13y ago
Are you surprised that the Constitution is venerated more than the Declaration of Independence? The former is the supreme law of the land (or rather would be if it were not ignored without consequence so frequently), and the latter is rheto
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by davidmr 13y ago
I've never heard it said that anyone was required to deny involvement. Did you mean that exactly as you wrote? I think there's a world of difference between a gag order where you are not allowed to confirm, and an order to explici

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