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An Inside Look at NASA’s Most Powerful Rocket Ever, the SLS(wsj.com)
5 points by dctoedt 4y ago|1 comments
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> use their own (metal, wood, designer, whatever) clips/pegs to seal the bag We've long used wooden clothespins and/or office-supply binder clips.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I imagine there's tons of stuff you're not allowed to talk about Yep. > but have you ever written down any stories in a book or blog or anything like that? Nope. But thanks for asking — I appreciate the interest!
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Newer reactor designs with entirely passive safety features remove the need for operators to take particular actions in the event of a problem, so "loss of brain accidents" are no longer possible. That would be excellent —
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> and consists mostly of watching gauges and other indicators And logs. You forgot taking logs* — or is that done automatically these days? It's been decades since I've been in a nuclear plant, so I have no idea. * That is, r
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Another ex-nuke here — when I got out and went to law school, coincidentally right after Three Mile Island, my dad (neither a lawyer nor an engineer) tried to convince me that I should specialize in nuclear-energy law because I'd have
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Nuclear power is expensive in no small part because of the safeguards needed to try to avert catastrophic accidents. Humans are fallible, and our best intentions can be subverted by inadequate training; fatigue; inattention; laziness; or wh
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by dctoedt 4y ago
AOC put it well: <quote> I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Not every program has to be for everybody. People with apartments pay for first time homeowner benefits. Young people pay for Medicare for our seniors. People who tak
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Every Dollar Spent on This Climate Technology Is a Waste(nytimes.com)
6 points by dctoedt 4y ago|5 comments
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Led Zeppelin should reunite with the deceased drummer’s son playing drums That's kind of how it worked when Zep was one of the recipients of the Kennedy Center Honors a few years back, with Ann and Nancy Wilson + Jason Bonham,
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by dctoedt 4y ago
(Warning: Semi-religious response) We are, as Lutheran theologian Philip Hefner once put it, "created co-creators" doing our infinitesimal bit in advancing The Great Project of the last 13.8 billion years (that we know of), helpin
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> SCQA - Situation, Complication, Question, Answer I've found the SPUR agenda to be helpful: - Status; - Plans (includes 5W + H - who, when, what, where, why, how) ; - Uncertainties (includes explicitly identifying possibly-flawed
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by dctoedt 4y ago
I don't understand how he made full colonel after that. In the Navy, that kind of thing is normally a career-ender. https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=46421 https://www.jetlinx.com/ch
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I’ve never met anybody that is “against who I am.”" That's because in the era of mass- and social media, many racists have become quite skilled at encoding their views in dog whistles. I went the opposite direction from you
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> I'm from Texas A relative grew up in Minnesota but moved to Dallas as a young adult and ended up with a mixture — now there was an accent! (The MN part is now more or less gone.)
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Nit: TFA refers to "Matriarch Judy Jetson" — Judy was the teenaged daughter; Jane was the wife/mom. (I'm old enough to have watched religiously during the original run ....)
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> such luxuries as lettuce double in price. Only if the supply of lettuce doesn't keep up with the increase in the supply of money. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/16/18251646/mod
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Can you spell "copyright infringement" and "disgorgement of your profits from the infringement"? https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/504
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger#Kaplan's_2014_...
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> send it to collections When my now-adult son was in high school, he had a summer job working as a moving man for a friend's dad's company. The company had a contract with the local constable's office. One of my son&#x2
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Something I wish I'd learned much sooner: From birth, be unfailingly patient, warm, and loving with the little bugger, no matter how frustrated you might be feeling. Matter-of-factly communicating unhappiness with him* is fine, but
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> The fact that relatively small states like Delaware have as much representation in the Senate as large populous states like New York is by design, and was a critical for the creation of the Union in the first place. Yeah, but conditi
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Similarly: In the Navy there used to be a saying that when you relieve in a billet (i.e., take over a position from someone being transferred), your predecessor left you "a total can of worms," but when you get relieved, what yo
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by dctoedt 4y ago
One thing that intrigued me is how courteously the German Navy officers treated their American-officer captive as a fellow professional — in part no doubt because they didn't realize that as the son of German immigrants, he spoke Germa
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WWI US Navy officer's report on capture by German submarine, escape from prison(history.navy.mil)
4 points by dctoedt 4y ago|1 comments
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> A lawyer usually cannot get in trouble for saying No. They can only get in trouble for saying Yes. This. AND: There's seldom if ever much near-term personal upside for the lawyer, just downside if things go wrong --- and lawye
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Not a patent, a trademark - big big difference.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
Um, UT Austin used "The University" (typically in our burnt-orange color and/or with a particular script) decades ago for window decals and the like.
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> Most people just ignore the second and third sentences in a paragraph. The military expression is BLUF - Bottom Line Up Front. (It works for paragraphs as well as for entire documents.)
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by dctoedt 4y ago
> George Bernard Shaw put those words deliberately into the mouth of a character you in particular would find absolutely insufferable. Akin to Shakespeare having the evil Dick the Butcher saying, "The first thing we do, let's

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