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by hga 10y ago
From http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/29345... “We do have some information about the Republican campaign,” he said Friday, according to The Washington Post. “I mean, it’s from a point
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by hga 10y ago
I can't imagine anyone recommending having less than two pens: what if one fails due to a manufacturing flaw, user error (e.g. it would suck to fumble it in the heat of action and drop it in an unacceptable location), etc.? And isn&#x
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by hga 10y ago
And don't forget that us Medicare Part D "customers" or whatever you want to call us have more than a little skin in the game, especially the ones who'll enter the "donut hole". I'd add that the government
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by hga 10y ago
Note who the CEO's father is.... That was even high in the list of Google suggestions when I typed in mylan ceo....
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by hga 10y ago
Because I used to live there and know the electric company was, prior to being acquired by a bigger one, well run by engineers (a good idea if you have nukes...), I expected their power rates at (eventual) massive data-center scales to be g
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by hga 10y ago
And that is how I quickly explain ORM-D ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORM-D ) class items like small arms ammunition, which of course is allowed to be packed in small quantities in individuals' checked luggage: th
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by hga 10y ago
I've read that's in part because they were pushing the edge of the state of the art at the time they were designed, sports cars were used as an analogy. Of course, it remains to be seen if SpaceX's scheme for engine reuse wil
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by hga 10y ago
Or "adequate" VoIP, e.g. Linux 4.3.0.37 on Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty on a very modest AT&T DSL line. When I account for differences in instruments, Sennheiser headset vs. an old wireless phone system with an indifferent speaker, ea
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by hga 10y ago
The flip side is that I'd started using these as a metric of products to avoid; if a retailer is playing this game, while they might be legit like flavor8 claims in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12631810 it&#x
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by hga 10y ago
We all know the type (and if you don't, hang out in rural America more). This is a human universal, not in all people, of course, but the urge to destroy for some sort of twisted pleasure is hardly limited to the domain of shooting i
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by hga 10y ago
Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy. One reason to favor startups even if they so often suck in so many other ways.
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by hga 10y ago
Note that they were using titanium, and while I'm not sure what the fuel cells were made of, until they heated up it leaked quite a bit. One of the first orders of business after takeoff was getting a refuel, which included changing t
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by hga 10y ago
You also don't see the black smoke trail anymore that was normal for the 707. I suspect you can in part thank the DoD for that, the black smoke that the F4's engines created did not precisely increase their life expectancy over
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by hga 10y ago
The problem is indeed that this is not the sort of hunter who'd likely learn from such an experience, nor have anything to teach the biologists (I'd love it, but then again, bird recognition was taught to me by my father starting
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by hga 10y ago
This is the famous 2009 JVM Languages Summit keynote.
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It counted because we had enough raw uranium to, indeed, separate one bomb's worth of U-235 in time, but more importantly to fuel the natural uranium reactors in which we bred plutonium, which got into high gear faster than the former.
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by hga 10y ago
However, in terms of how the economy "felt", it was 2007 when that started biting, with Bear Stearns' travails becoming too prominent to easily ignore. But, yeah, the mortgage market was already shows serious stress in 2016,
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by hga 10y ago
This can be very dangerous, because if for any reason Amazon decides to stop doing business with you, you must pay them to either ship back your stock or to destroy it. A little time with your favorite search engine should find plenty of ho
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by hga 10y ago
To go further down the rabbit hole, there were only two ways the US would have lost the war against Imperial Japan, and the second was Soviet subversion after the war in Europe was finished and we were not only not needed by them, but activ
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by hga 10y ago
On the other hand, we were handed on a silver platter a huge supply of hand sorted pitchblende from the Belgium Congo, with an average uranium content of 60-65% (!!!), without that we wouldn't have finished in time to finish the war.
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by hga 10y ago
But they worked, were sufficiently weaponized, and we were already assembling the 3rd, although we were starting to hold back at that point, to give them time to decide to surrender, and giving us time to debate the proposition of using 5 o
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed an impressive feat, but in physical terms utterly irrelevant to actually ending the war, since their ability to more than morally effect the home islands of Japan was all but nil. The moral effect of running through the Imperial Japa
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by hga 10y ago
But it was America's unique industrial prowess that made it work, especially in time to effect the end of the war. No less a figure than Neals Bohr believed it impossible on those grounds, said in 1939 " It can never be done unl
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by hga 10y ago
Perhaps the single most curious things in Rhode's book is what put them off the path of graphite moderated natural uranium reactors, the work of a single unreliable scientist who, as it happened, was not using pure enough graphite (too
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by hga 10y ago
His "fault" a very direct way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12568722
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And he matched that by action, delivering the results of his radio-chemistry masterpiece (e.g. getting results from just a few thousand atoms!) first to his exiled colleague Lise Meitner, which follows a very straight line to the scientific
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by hga 10y ago
While the Manchurian offensive was big and very successful, the Red Army was massively more effective than they were in 1938-9 when they'd previously stomped the Imperial Japanese Army, they simply didn't have the resources to ser
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Indeed, this I believe is the key insight into the stunning success of the Manhattan project. The scientists worked pretty hard as soon as uranium fission and it's details were discovered, Frisch and Peierls critically got all the f
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If both of those claims were the case (we really don't know that much about the meetings), the question of interpretation is still open, i.e. was this used to beat down the Army's resistance to surrender, since even more so than
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by hga 10y ago
Everybody in the chain of command, from generals up to the civilian leadership which authorized and funded the massive effort that was the Manhattan Project, " decided to kill civilians, in retaliation, to achieve pure terror. "

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