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by iaw 8y ago
F-hundred and c-tee-five doesn't just roll off the tongue does it?
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by iaw 8y ago
There's either an article or a documentary detailing how some of the modern pipe glassblowing has its roots directly in scientific glass blowing. The one problem is they don't seem to need anywhere near the degree of precision.
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by iaw 8y ago
I think there's a large group of people that don't want to be retrained, fossil subsidies create a number of problems and screw with electricity market incentives in a way that could have horrendous repercussions. Welfare for this
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by iaw 8y ago
Just to be clear, at the end of the day it will be rate payers who subsidize coal power producers if this goes through. Ignoring any of the environmental problems, I'd rather just be taxed if we're going to be giving coal workers
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by iaw 8y ago
They are charged based on their amount used relative to their fair allocation. If they use more than their fair allocation everyone else on the grid is subsidizing them so they get charged more to prevent a subsidy. If they use less than
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by iaw 8y ago
I occasionally wonder about whether there are any objects out there traveling at a measurable fraction of c, could something even get through the atmosphere without disintegrating near those speeds?
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by iaw 8y ago
It's because your intuition is on a human scales. White dwarfs apparently have a density near 1 tonne/cubic centimeter and consist of plasma which only runs analogous to fluids so far before the analogy breaks down. One differenc
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by iaw 8y ago
So, he borrows $600K to attend 7 years of school starting at age 24 and he makes $225K now at age 37 with 2 children and a $1M debt that he only pays $1600/month on? Doesn't he take home in the ball park of $10k/month?
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by iaw 8y ago
OpenCV + some kind of industrial controller could do this. hackaday.com/blog/ will have some details on how people set up computer home controllers as well as working with OpenCV
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by iaw 9y ago
I'm just generally impressed that they can get it done in 2 days. Those seem like a pretty filled-up 48 hours.
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by iaw 9y ago
That's not what I read to be the point of the post. The way I read it the question becomes: is it acceptable for a game to spy on you in a way that violates your privacy? Are your programs private? Is it reasonable for a cheat detec
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by iaw 9y ago
> "One of the country's favorite sayings is 'women are for children, boys are for pleasure," Cultural relativism... I heard about a Marine going to town on a ranking Afghani for something like this a few years back.
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by iaw 9y ago
Light travels from one point to another in a direction. Perpendicular to that direction light "wiggles" on it's way from origin to destination. The direction of the 'wiggle' is the polarization of the light. Unpolar
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by iaw 9y ago
Flagging for a title change, perhaps: "Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields due to protein in their eyes" or the original, more clickbait-y title: "Birds Can See Earth's Magnetic Fields, And We Finally Know How Tha
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by iaw 9y ago
1) My guess would be a lawsuit of some sort.
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by iaw 9y ago
> The FTC hasn’t said which six companies it sent letters to, just that they “market and sell automobiles, cellular devices, and video gaming systems in the United States.” Does anyone else read this to imply that Tesla got a letter?
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by iaw 9y ago
Look, at this rate in ten years we'll be making 10x global GDP! Just have to make sure we keep up on hiring...
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by iaw 9y ago
>"the Russian-American psychologist Aleksandr Kogan, who built his own personality quiz app for Facebook" Didn't hear that he was a Russian American, is it possible that Kogan is one of the academic spies?
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The Superfund Sites of Silicon Valley(nytimes.com)
247 points by iaw 9y ago|119 comments
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by iaw 9y ago
The ionosphere is not the same thing as the atmosphere. The ionosphere is a shell of super hot gas outside of the atmosphere.
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by iaw 9y ago
Peter Thiel openly believes that allowing women and disenfranchised the ability to vote undermines his political cohorts ability to reshape the country/world based on their ideology. Now, don't get him wrong, he isn't making
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by iaw 9y ago
I can't upvote you more than once, but thank you! This'll be interesting to look into.
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by iaw 9y ago
The company that produced the payload for the rocket is in the US and was denied their application to launch this payload because it poses a risk to other satellites and spacecraft. If all companies were outside of the US then it would come
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by iaw 9y ago
The researchers describe a mode of malfunction where the interference patterns of two separate audio sources can create the same audible effects recorded in Cuba. The course of reasoning I see proposed is: -> Personnel in Cuba received a
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by iaw 9y ago
> faculty positions still generally pay reasonably well, Not in certain fields when you consider opportunity cost > especially when compared to those living in conditions of poverty. I really hope that we're not going to set the
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by iaw 9y ago
I wonder how his parents feel about him? Are they proud? Disappointed? Indifferent?
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by iaw 9y ago
There is a distinction between working a temp position and people that worked in factories for a career. I'd argue that temp positions will bias away from skill and devotion by the nature of position undermining your anecdote. It&#x27
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by iaw 9y ago
There seems to be a level of arrogance coming across in your descriptions of "Low-level factory jobs." Having spent time in both worlds I have to say that your assessment of the skill and devotion required to work in those positio
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by iaw 9y ago
I have to commend WSJ, not a fan of paywalls but at least they're trying to innovate within the space.
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The Geeks Who Put a Stop to Pennsylvania's Partisan Gerrymandering(wired.com)
30 points by iaw 9y ago|9 comments

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