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by dmfdmf 9y ago
How old, what grade in school and what country? Context matters.
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Prior to this change you needed 3 or more engines to cross large bodies of water or ice. When ETOPS was revised the abbreviation was backronynmed to "Engines Turn Or Passengers Swim".
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by dmfdmf 9y ago
It could be fueling issues. I once had a Summer flight which was suppose to be direct from Athens to NYC that had to make a pitstop at Heathrow for fuel. It was so hot in Greece they couldn't fit enough fuel on board to jump the pond w
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https://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/
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I enjoyed your podcast and I agree, it looks dire for Tesla.
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No. "Now observe the practical demonstration of the fact that without property rights, no other rights are possible. If censorship and the suppression of free speech ever get established in this country, they will have originated in [t
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by dmfdmf 9y ago
I never denied it was complex, I denied that it was an attack on free will which is impossible. I think it is a real psychological problem and I think blaming capitalism or the "the system" or "the man", etc. are themsel
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> In that scenario, we're effectively no longer in control of our own free will as long as someone else can profit by controlling it. This is a self contradiction. You always have the choice to turn off or tune out the distractions
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Here is one answer. "This collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics. According to Ayn Rand, the choice we
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http://www.afcm.org/Health-Care-Is-Not-A-Right_(c)-Leonard-P...
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If you really are brand new to the working world I would give it time before looking for solutions to a problem that might ease with time. Soon the newness will wear off and you'll become proficient at the admin portions of your job, i
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by dmfdmf 10y ago
Here is an interesting blog post by John D. Cook on how too much news creates an "Inverted Sense of Risk" http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2014/09/05/inverted-sense-of-r... While I highly recommen
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< "Shut up and calculate" is the mentality that produced nearly all the XX century advances on the quantum physics theories. > I tend to agree with the gist of this comment but there is an important wider context. The Copenh
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<... but I believe any claim that "Physics is solved" that might be stated after that would be as misguided as lord Kelvin's claim at the time. > Perhaps and maybe even for a long time but you can't have an infinit
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by dmfdmf 10y ago
Sounds like Reefer Madness Redux to me but instead of going insane from MJ use you get a tummy ache and it makes you lazy. The article sounded totally fishy to me too.
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< A different principle and different considerations are involved in the case of public (i.e., governmental) scholarships. The right to accept them rests on the right of the victims to the property (or some part of it) which was taken fr
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by dmfdmf 10y ago
Its tagged as "satire" at the bottom and is meant as a passive-aggressive smear of Rand's Objectivism and her moral defense of Capitalism.
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Yeah, an article in the NYT was only about the author's bemusement. I find that as incredible to believe as the idea that mass surveillance is for the local police.
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I absolutely agree, its not a "my side versus your side" issue, i.e. Left -vs- Right, it should be universal but somehow people (not just millenials) don't realized how potent the power of surveillance is in the wrong hands.
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I'd like to see these numbers using GAAP.
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< At first there was a palpable sense of "O NOE" as the NSA scrambled to discover what exactly had been stolen. And then just as suddenly, it seemed to go away. > I think a big part of them not commenting on the issue was th
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Or put them on a yellow sticky under their mouse pad.
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< I rarely start anything because I can't come up with any 'perfect' ideas. > You have probably heard the expression "the perfect is the enemy of the good" which might be the trap you are in. The meaning of t
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< One last point... when you do have an idea, make sure to write it down, before you forget it. It may be that you have more good ideas than you realize, but just aren't capturing them. > This is really good advice. I was going t
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< During a routine test on April 26, 1986, reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant experienced a power surge that triggered an emergency shutdown. > Not routine. Operators disabled numerous safety features to perform a t
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by dmfdmf 10y ago
Thanks. This is why I love HN for finds like this, after poking around a bit this site looks like a really good blog that doesn't hype AI nor deny it which is congruent with my views.
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I'm not sure why someone downvoted you but I read a book, on psychology I think, and the author argued that one mistake people make is trying to stop a bad habit by shear force of will. Just applying "don't do X" never w
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by dmfdmf 10y ago
I think the way I would phrase the advice is; If you are inspired or challenged by the "big" problems keep an eye on them but work on other things that are not directly or obviously related but may be related. What Tao warns aga
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Or... Einstein, the reluctant Kantian.
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< Good luck doing any kind of fundamental science without government funding. > This is exactly the issue that Rand addressed in her article regarding the Establishment. It is insidious and (eventually) undercuts even an honest rese

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