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by iSnow 11y ago
>He wasn't such a large elephant (his shoulder reached about four feet tall) If I am not mistaken, that's 1.3m in the SI world. Isn't that a bit small for an elephant? That's nearly what a very large dog reaches.
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by iSnow 11y ago
>I think it's an alternative to just saying "no". Some people are assertive and can simply refuse a request. Personally, I find assertiveness very cognitively taxing And this is where too little sleep helps: it makes you a
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by iSnow 11y ago
Is this why on the Antonov-70 and the military Airbus, they have those strange curved multi-blade props?
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by iSnow 11y ago
High-Tc superconducting cables?
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by iSnow 11y ago
>Ask them "are you bored?" whenever you have a 1-on-1 meeting. Why would they answer honestly and not what they believe is your expectation? I know I have been in lots of situation where I chose the nice over the honest answer
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by iSnow 11y ago
I think you can have sparks in any system while plugging in a large enough load. My 85W Macbook adapter sparks in honest-to-god German engineering sockets.
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by iSnow 11y ago
Worked for me with scriptblock (ytimg unblocked).
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by iSnow 11y ago
Since we are constantly broadcasting at high energy and with interesting patterns, I wouldn't worry about that. Everyone who sees this flag is either from Earth or knows its position very well.
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by iSnow 11y ago
I just wanted to take the time to thank you for fixing that bug. Since I keep dozens of tabs open all the time, the memory consumption of FF has caused me a lot of pain (the browser gets really slow if it crosses 2.5GB real RAM consumption)
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by iSnow 11y ago
>We really need corporate "death" penalty. Well, IDK. Those who order criminal behavior are the ones higher up who have a lot of connections and will find a new job. The average worker will pay the price by being long-term unem
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by iSnow 11y ago
Came here to comment on the same thing. That's hair-raising - everyone will try to crowd the speech time of meetings now instead of taking in what others have to say and only talking when they have something valuable to say. Of course,
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by iSnow 11y ago
Do you really have zero interests than those met at work? Never want to see other countries, or at least other parts of your country? Never want to spend times out of the office in nature? I am very happy I have six weeks of vacation and I
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by iSnow 11y ago
But that only would work if the hole leads to an open tunnel. If there's a gravel bed on the bottom, your equipment just sits there.
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by iSnow 11y ago
I don't exactly see what they are bringing to the table that Xiaomi hasn't covered already, they design is somewhere between Xiaomi, htc and Nokia. And have fun in Germany with obi.com. They are in a different sector but are such
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by iSnow 11y ago
I'd go with a combination of 1. and 3. Obviously, you'd need quite some budget to pay an analytics team to find a plane out in the ocean. You can't just conjure the money out of thin air. And if you go to your superiors and a
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by iSnow 11y ago
Thanks for the interesting posting. I was trying to speak facetious, but well, that bombed.
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by iSnow 11y ago
Well, of course the middle ages would never invent sex toys - that chastity belts exist now can only mean they are recent, because people had not kinky fantasies back then.
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by iSnow 11y ago
I am not sure if I'd classify Twitter as content, but to be less snarky, focused platforms tend to stay more on-topic than twitter. I find small subreddits to be very much on-topic, for example.
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by iSnow 11y ago
The legal liability would be significant too, I guess.
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by iSnow 11y ago
> As I understand it, it's March 4th in European usage British usage. For Germans, 4/3 means 1.33333. April 3rd is 3.4. here. If you do i18n, do NOT assume there is one consistent European convention. Either use ISO 8601 or a l
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by iSnow 11y ago
Like the Amazon suggestions system that after buying one bicycle pump tries to sell me more of the same because obviously collecting bicycle pumps is a hobby of mine. Exchange bicycle pump with vibrator for an even less welcome example. Eve
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by iSnow 11y ago
I would even pay double this if I had the assurance Google stopped recording my every move. The stuff they make is fantastic, their services are great and I'd be happy to pay for them. But not on top of them selling my data.
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by iSnow 11y ago
Ask intel. Whenever Skylake ships and Thunderbolt 3 is ready.
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by iSnow 11y ago
The author however has focused specifically on the often read speed advantages. They use it themselves and he apparently likes it.
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by iSnow 11y ago
>Sorting out intellectual property and ownership is _the_ 21st century problem Uhm, no. Only for the HN crowd and maybe open source. There are a lot more and more pressing problems that have to do with things like the environment, food p
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by iSnow 12y ago
> Charged particle or EM radiation might damage your body's chemicals Which is probably the biggest problem for biological systems - alterations in the DNA caused by radioactivity.
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by iSnow 12y ago
That does not make sense. If the radiation culled the weakest, then it would also affect the stronger individuals. Essentially, radiation would make the stronger weak and make the weak too unhealthy to survive.
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by iSnow 12y ago
Probably because a rocket engine is pretty hot on landing, so the thermal shock upon contact with the liquid would deform it or cause cracks.
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by iSnow 12y ago
That memo sounds exactly like each "we need to embrace change"-memos I have read in old-style enterprisey enterprise where some external consultants are called in and make serious money by selling the latest and greatest managemen
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by iSnow 12y ago
Add to that that men are incredibly competitive - in the workplace, in sports, concerning women. At the age of 40, you either made it or know a lot of other guys who did and start to realize you won't be part of them. And of course, a

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