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by hugh3 15y ago
Actually, the base level GS-11 pay grade, with a location adjustment for Houston, apparently translates to about $65K. I really hope that, like military pay, gets boosted with all sorts of crazy allowances, because $65K just seems... unbeco
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'd still do it just to pick up chicks. I guess NASA frowns upon getting "I'm an astronaut, bitch" printed on your business cards, though.
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by hugh3 15y ago
The best perk, as far as I'm concerned, is that when they do need you to go to another city they apparently give you one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_T-38_Talon and tell you to make your own way there. The worst part
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by hugh3 15y ago
I don't think that's how it works. (Also, no offence, but I'm disinclined to take suicide-prevention advice from anyone named "necro"...)
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm really not sure how fast food product ideas contradict my point about adding unnecessary complications to home electronics, but... damn, a one-step microwaveable baked potato sounds great .
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by hugh3 15y ago
I'm not sure this is good advice. I have no experience of this kind of thing, but it seems to me that cutting yourself off from everybody who cares about you is one of the worst things you can do. Now you have no money, no friends, no famil
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by hugh3 15y ago
Voronoi Polygons have been used in mining to estimate the reserves of valuable materials, minerals or other resources. Exploratory drillholes are used as the set of points in the Voronoi polygons Interesting idea, but I don't see why they
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by hugh3 15y ago
NORAD is built into a mountain for a good reason. China has plenty of mountains, so if they have a NORAD I assume it's under one of those.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I've been hearing about fridges-that-order-groceries for at least ten years. It's one of those dumb ideas that just keeps coming up, despite the fact that there's no demand for it. Basically, I don't trust my fridge with my credit card... a
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by hugh3 15y ago
What's the other half?
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by hugh3 15y ago
Many of the enlisted men in the military aren't all that smart, and most of 'em are pretty darn cheap. If there's a takeaway lesson it's that even not-so-smart, cheap-to-hire people are actually surprisingly capable of doing stuff, if you
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by hugh3 15y ago
I can't find any reference to a Baron Schlep having ever existed, leading me to suspect (along with the fact that he only had twelve dollars, and what sounds like a suspiciously made-up sort of name) that he may have been a fake Baron all a
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by hugh3 15y ago
As I sit here, waiting for a few thousand CPUs on the astronomy department's cluster to free up so I can run my code, I say "hah!"
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by hugh3 15y ago
If the best thing you can say about it is that "it mimics the effects of caloric restriction and exercise" and the worst thing you can say about it is "it screws around with your genes in ways we haven't figured out yet", then I'm thinking
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by hugh3 15y ago
Yes, except it's a new liquid phase rather than a new solid one.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Look closer, Ice IX is on that phase diagram. Temperatures below 200K, and a very narrow pressure range just above I and XI.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Just to clarify, this isn't a fourth state, this just seems to be a different liquid phase. Water has a hugely complicated phase diagram -- there's fifteen phases of water ice known experimentally and a few more predicted in theory. I haven
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by hugh3 15y ago
I must say, that's the most aggravating site I've read recently. It's bad enough to start off the page by begging me to give it my email address (how about no?). But then I start scrolling down and... bingo, black screen and another beggi
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by hugh3 15y ago
I am unfamiliar with the verb "to bome".
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by hugh3 15y ago
with a Mac OS X dock-like magnification so I can choose my country easily That's fine if you're in a medium-sized country like the UK. But think of the consequences for the San Marinans, the Andorrans and the Liechtensteinians, who would
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by hugh3 15y ago
Reading the actual paper now. Important bits: The composition of excreted normal human urine, is:4 urea 6–18 g day−1, uric acid 1.8 g day−1, creatinine 0.5–0.8 g day−1, amino acids 0.12 g day−1 and peptides 0.5 g day−1. Variable amounts of
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by hugh3 15y ago
1. Politics 2. Editorialising 3. Inaccurate in its implications (what, no judge has ever "stood up to Wall Street" , whatever that means, before?) 4. From Rolling Stone, and not on the subject of music.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Except the possibility always existed that they could get fired and not get that stock. The only thing that has changed is that Zynga is now saying that they're willing to fire you just so you don't get that stock. Deeply unethical, and
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by hugh3 15y ago
mammography is often the least preferred sub-specialty (my wife is a radiologist and feels this way, and I've encountered many radiologists with the same outlook). Why? Because breast cancer is hard to diagnose? Because nobody likes looki
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by hugh3 15y ago
I notice that most of the people in this thread talking about how they do successfully work from home talk about their wives and children. Living alone and working alone sounds like a recipe for insanity. You've gotta have some time w
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by hugh3 15y ago
That's just "moon" in another language. If you rename Earth's moon you're just shifting the problem into the Romance languages.
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by hugh3 15y ago
Mostly because we'd had the words "Earth" and "Planet" for a helluva long time before we realised that the Earth was a planet. The sense of "Earth" which came first was the sense of "soil", so our planet is really just called "Soil". It's
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by hugh3 15y ago
Well what other reporting angle are you hoping for? They can hardly have an article which leads off with the launch and then mentions in paragraph eleven that "Oh, by the way, it's stuck in Earth orbit and will probably never get anywhere n
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by hugh3 15y ago
32 kg an hour? I used to have an Alfa Romeo which rusted that fast.
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by hugh3 15y ago
I was going to say "also, galactic stuff never actually falls into the central black hole", but I'm wrong-ish. According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_the_universe#Stellar_... it's expected that on a timescale of 10^20 years a

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