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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Because the set of events that could "wipe away" your (reasonably-intelligently diversified) assets has a large intersection with the set of events that could "wipe away" your saving account in a bank. Things like nucle
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Spacecraft Attitude Determination and Control, edited by Wertz, is another classic. Used copies are available for around 35 USD, but new copies usually over 200 USD.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Yes, and in states with a 'basic speed law', or similar, you can even earn a ticket for driving substantially below the posted speed limit. The Utah driver's handbook and license test, for instance, explicitly call out that
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
The test protocol is a fairly specific schedule of engine power demands, is it not? It seems like one could look for any behavior outside of what is expected from the test, and then activate the 'defeat device.'
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Because that's how money is defined. At least, the first few hits on Google for "money definition" are: 1) <Google> "a current medium of exchange in the form of coins and banknotes; coins and banknotes collectiv
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
I think different people may have differing ideas of what "counter-steering" means. That said, the correct way to ride a bicycle down a curvy mountain road is for the rider to put his weight on his outside foot and inside hand (p
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
That's a silly question. Of course it doesn't have AirWave. AirWave is Nest's trademarked name for the very simple technology of continuing to run the fan a bit after the compressor has switched off. But even old cheap digi
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
I'm not so sure they were 'dangerously close' to stall speed. While I can't find specifications for the N2Y biplanes hosted by the Macon, keep in mind that the N2Y is a two-seat inter-war biplane trainer with a 115 hp en
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Maybe they were talking about net[1], or maybe they have a large number of short trips? From memory (from talking with drivers), the formula is: driverDollars = (fareDollars - 1)*0.8 If a driver is mostly taking people one or two blocks,
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> avoiding untenable population density San Francisco is already at an untenable population density. You can have a livable city by going light or going dense, but being in the middle is what kills you (which is where SF is right now).
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> I'd think that for $300K you could have demanded an API. Perhaps on the next one? "Why certainly, sir! We can provide that for only $EQUIPMENT_COST * 10. Do you prefer floppies or a CDROM?" I wish I was joking.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
As are many of the PIC series of microcontrollers.
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
But the top prize is one million miles, which would get you lifetime status. Delta and United don't (yet) have spend requirements for lifetime status, AFAIK. Conferring lifetime status isn't necessarily even that expensive to the
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
That doesn't really make sense. Electric utilities require capital investment proportional to peak usage, but only earn returns on average usage. This will only increase the ROIC of an electric utility by reducing the peak:average rat
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Not necessarily. The x87 implementation (which is relevant to everything PC, prior to SSE) of IEEE 754 internally uses an 80-bit extended precision representation for floating point numbers. Numbers are rounded to 64 bits for loads and st
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Suunto's watches have done that for a while now (5-6 years?), though they use a capacitive chest strap, rather than the optical method used by smart watches. Edit: And as far as I know, Suunto was really the first company to pursue mea
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
Certain functions in a bank (any bank) require sign-off from a person who is an officer of the bank. That is usually equivalent having the words "Vice President" in their title. The result is that, to get anything done, a large f
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by fancyketchup 11y ago
> In the article it states that drivers have been fired for not taking a certain percentage of passengers. While it isn't a strict hours, it is firing someone for not meeting their determined amount of work. Drivers are only fired f
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Well, the heart-rate monitor for starters (and I suspect, based on the optical design of it, that it was built with an eye toward measuring blood oxygen content in future incarnations). Extant activity trackers on the market don't rea
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> Why does it have to be fair to the landlord? Well, it doesn't have to be. But prospective landlords tend not to build new units (or maintain old ones) when they don't feel they are getting a fair deal. It leads directly to
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> [...] losing farms in California would be a huge loss: CA produce is not evenly geographically distributed. Production in the coastal ranges is less affected by the drought (compared to the Central Valley), but coastal production is s
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Anecdotally, what you're saying simply isn't true on many counts. On my twice-weekly airport run, I usually ask the drivers what they think of Lyft and Uber. Their characterization of the relationship is diametrically opposed to
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> If you're rich and you get fined doing well over the specified speed limit but you only have to pay at most a few hundred dollars for potentially putting someone else's life in danger, what is the deterrent? Many US states h
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
The article did say that the ice is kept below ground. Perhaps, if it is economically efficient, it is because below-grade real estate is less valuable? I'd imagine the ice could be in places that are difficult to use for other pur
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Do cars typically run on plastic and fertilizer where you're from? If it's true that a Volt can drive 25ish miles on the electricity used to refine a gallon of gas, then substituting electric miles for gas ones is a wash in ter
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
I wonder if a whole-house version of a lamp timer would be useful in this situation? Suppose there were a device that turned off power on a schedule, and which could only be reset from inside the apartment. Power would turn off automatica
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Ah, I see. Sounds like the author was just confused then. But I'm afraid I still don't see the advantage of having a fuse or (circuit breaker) in the plug itself. What is the rationale behind having two over-current devices in
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
These are really not very strong arguments: Prong Design (probably the strongest of the bunch): I'll grant that it is possible to accidentally electrocute oneself with North American plugs, but I've never heard of this happening
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Also, as a rule of thumb, fuel consumption per unit distance is proportional to speed squared. According to the chart, the "Double Bubble" cruises at 490 MPH, while the 737 cruises at 596 MPH. The "Double Bubble" achie
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Well, the sort of obvious explanation is that amount of BTC in active circulation is much smaller than bitcoin proponents claim.

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