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by dmfdmf 17y ago
"I think you are grossly underestimating how difficult it was to build a ship capable of traveling for a few days, landing at islands with no source of food or fresh water, and returning safely home 1300 years ago." If I am, so what? That
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
> The thing is, nobody has compared the moon and North America. The comparison is implicit and my statement was a generalization; that spacefaring means traveling and colonizing the moon and beyond. > Instead.. the moon is analogous
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
I agree. Manned space programs are a waste of money. Space is a dangerous place inimical to life. There is nothing out there, no places to go, no economical resources to claim. The analogy to seafaring implicit in the term spacefaring is
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
>the response of the operators at the time can only be called a ridiculous clusterfuck. This is unfair to the operators. The accident revealed some reactor and control room design flaws plus some equipment out of service that left the o
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
The current reactor designs are safe enough, let's build them now. Debating the pros and cons of advanced designs is dumb and accepts the enviros false claim that current BWR or PWR light water reactors are "unsafe". Moreover, significant
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
As a mathematician, haven't you abstracted from the what? Isn't that the point of math?
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Thanks
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
But the connectors are plated in GOLD!
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Does anyone know if there are any plans or way to add universal DC to the standard electrical system? It seems with all the electronic devices it is wasteful to generate AC and then convert to DC in switching power supplies and in wall-war
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Interesting talk but irritating, neurotic woman. She advocates dissociating self from one's creativity and manifesting it in some kind of cosmic force or god external to the writer to overcome the anxiety of past success. A popular strateg
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Agree. I was thinking more along the lines of don't tip your hand and let the guy lay it all out. If company rep is laying out plan A,B,C and you get all excited at B, he might drop and never mention C. Also, as you say you could even pres
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
The strategy of "what else can you offer me?" is a good one. Present the problem and let them answer the question. Be ready in your mind with what you are willing to accept but you might be surprised when their offer is a high multiple of w
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Its a good rule but not always true. It depends on what price is being negotiated, e.g. salary, car price, etc. If someone throws out a number that is clearly too high (seller) or obviously too low (buyer) just to get the ball rolling the
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
I think the detection of virus signatures is a failing strategy. I have seen computers that I know are infected and scanning with multiple products leaves some of the bugs undetected. That said, it would be pretty stupid to run Windows to
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Its the carbs making us fat... read Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories". The medical/nutrition profession really have egg on their face and can't yet admit their error.
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
I drove out to Moffett Field in Mt View to see the show. It was pretty weird driving on to the base at 3:30am and I was impressed to see probably about 4-5000 people there. They had a giant 50ft screen and an excellent sound system, tent a
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
The backup thing is critical... I once had a client who's tape backup drive died. He was out of town, I was busy with other clients and it was a Fri. I said let's deal with it on Monday. Monday comes around and the secretary calls me and s
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
A note of caution. The power output from a UPS while running on battery is not a pure sine wave like line AC. Its an approximate sine wave consisting of a collection of square waves. This output is generally very noisy (i.e. has a lot of
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
> To make money as a trader, assuming your motivation is to make a profit, you need to buy low and sell high. Not to pic a nit but most traders also sell short, i.e. reverse the order to make money; (borrow stock) Sell High and Buy Low
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Yes, but the good weather and the fine wine make my little hole quite nice -- even if it is a little expensive and overcrowded....oh wait, I take that all back... don't come to California, it really sucks like apotheon said.
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Chuck Yeager
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
This is an interesting post but the topic has drifted off the main question and into questions revolving around what you should do with your life. I won't presume to tell you what to do with your life because I don't know you... but I do h
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Out here in California the state is broke and to balance the budget the state reneged on funding some local programs, confiscated county and city money (as a forced loan back to the state) and other chicanery -- so the local cities are step
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
"No Comment"
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Lead systems engineer for ABWR Feedwater Control System Units 1 & 2, Lungmen Nuclear Power Station in Taiwan. Designed it 10yrs ago, just going online now. http://www.power-technology.com/projects/lungmen/
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
> As science writer Gary Taubes noted in his 2007 book Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health, "The obese tend to expend more energy than lean people of comparable height, sex, and bon
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
You might look into the work by Dr. Sorno. I know people saved by his methods from RSI/CT... I don't necessarily agree with his repressed anger and hostility hypothesis but I think the basic idea that the mind can generate these body pains
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Outlier, if you accept the Rare Earth argument. http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Rare_Earth_hypothesis_accor... Interesting book...
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
Yahoo is my default homepage and for a while there has been a link in the corner to view the new design. I didn't click on that till now, since then my default homepage is the new design. Looks about the same as before to me. If they get
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by dmfdmf 17y ago
http://www.netflixprize.com/closed

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