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hatandsocks
12y ago
You're probably among the top 5% (if not top 1%) of people in physics, and you attended top institutions. That's fantastic (I really mean that), but it gives you a skewed view of academia. Most physics PhD candidates do not hav
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hatandsocks
12y ago
Well... As someone with a brand new physics Ph.D., I think you're wrong that the pay doesn't need to be competitive. Ph.D. programs are really coasting along on the ignorance of the Ph.D. candidates, and I'm not sure how muc
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hatandsocks
12y ago
> If a pilot of a real plane is flying under 400ft outside of the landing or takeoff pattern in Class B airspace there's an issue with that pilot or the plane. Well... not really. First, rotary wing aircraft don't have the sa
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hatandsocks
12y ago
> I've heard of planes getting hijacked and going to Cuba but nothing in the way of mass murders on airplanes. Now you have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Air_Lines_Flight_773 http://en.wikip
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hatandsocks
12y ago
> The entire ruling was about compensation. Right, and, plain as day, private pilots cannot fly people around for money. That's the baseline. You can't accept money in exchange for flying an airplane unless you hold a comme
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hatandsocks
12y ago
If you were building a system like this for real, you'd probably put sensors on toilets and trash cans in addition to the cash register connection. Real sensors fail, and, in a system where workers are explicitly discouraged from us
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hatandsocks
12y ago
> >Manna was connected to the cash registers, so it knew how many people were flowing through the restaurant. The software could therefore predict with uncanny accuracy when the trash cans would fill up, the toilets would get dirty an
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hatandsocks
12y ago
Unfortunately, the original USB spec recommended connectors with spin-1/2 rotational symmetry, so you sometimes have to rotate the plug more than 360 degrees to make it fit in the port.
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hatandsocks
12y ago
> 100: Boiling point of water Nope! Boiling point of water at 760 Torr . In contrast, Fahrenheit uses a frigorific 1:1:1 mixture of water, ice and ammonium chloride as the second reference point, which does not depend on ambient press