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by iaw 9y ago
Of the broken arrow incidents I'm aware of this was one of the least dangerous in terms of detonation threat. > Its difficult enough for a super power to safely store and control its WMD. There has never been an accidental detonatio
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by iaw 9y ago
I hit "flag" and the title was already changed.
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by iaw 9y ago
Did you create an account just to criticize the original posters work?
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by iaw 9y ago
I like the idea but a $0.10/kWh marginal cost is not the same as $0.10/kWh electricity. If they plan on extracting 6GW they'll need to put it somewhere, what's a people hub near Yellowstone? ... So they'll have to b
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by iaw 9y ago
An open problem that's "sexy" but may be intractable is that of fact checking. Can you determine which articles in a corpus of news, or other documents, agree/disagree with one another? Can you cluster and sub-cluster a
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by iaw 9y ago
Thank you for this.
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by iaw 9y ago
I dated the granddaughter of a nuclear physicist involved with U.S. government projects. The CIA always watched him and he knew it as part of the job. They wanted to make sure he didn't leak and that he was safe. I'd rather be w
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by iaw 9y ago
I wonder if there was any update to this in the last 4 years. >But the most pressing issue isn't who might be behind the murders, but that the Indian government's apathy is potentially putting their high-value staff at even gre
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by iaw 9y ago
Independence does not mean without trade.
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by iaw 9y ago
Something similar happened a while back. I can't remember the stock name but it was pretty clear people were buying/selling it because they thought it was a different non-public company. Investing this way is more like roulette.
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by iaw 9y ago
I have to hand it to them, they are doing a damn good job on safety. I wonder how this bodes for the future of hazardous professions like offshore oil-drilling.
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by iaw 9y ago
My suspicion is that it would become a game of whack-a-mole where the cost of identifying perpetrators is higher for the advertisers than it is for perpetrators to create a new identity and start again.
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by iaw 9y ago
That was attributed to returning veterans from Vietnam being hooked on opiates and creating a massive market, also the baby boomer generation coming off of "free love" didn't help the problem. It's generally understood f
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by iaw 9y ago
There's a hypocrisy intrinsic in claiming that OxyContin is too dangerously addictive to go generic but still pushing it in under-saturated markets. It's the disregard of human life/experience innate in this line of behavior
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by iaw 9y ago
Do you have ties to Purdue or the pharama industries? You seem super defensive about this/not open to discussion and your submission history seems to be pharma related.
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by iaw 9y ago
There's a point where it switches from a lower level to a higher level, seemed pretty clearly manual to me.
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by iaw 9y ago
Very good write-up from Esquire, I'm thoroughly impressed with the article. That said, my visceral emotional response is strongly negative especially when reading the following paragraph: >In May, a dozen lawmakers in Congress, insp
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by iaw 9y ago
In the article they note that epidemic opioid addiction was correlated with OxyContin prescription volume in a region. This article isn't about Purdue, it's about the Sackler's that influence Purdue, MundiPhrama, and a number
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by iaw 9y ago
I think the author is painting this in the worst possible light. The UX is a little misleading but I could see this being an effort by Uber to pre-commit drivers as a means of reducing surge pricing. What makes this potentially unethical (i
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by iaw 9y ago
My understanding is that mosquito's make up a very small amount of the total insect biomass (happy to be corrected). I'm wondering if there aren't environmental factors like the rise of plastics or other chemicals in the envi
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by iaw 9y ago
There is no way that men like Da Vinci and Newton were easy to be around, they were so beyond the norm in intelligence that they probably came off as abrasive and severely arrogant.
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by iaw 9y ago
This reminds me of inertial navigation system demo's that I saw a while ago [1]. I'd suspect that the targeting gyroscope in an ICBM would look very similar to that system. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ya
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by iaw 9y ago
> He said he still considers it a “unique event” and doesn’t think it’s likely those homes will flood again any time soon. Of all the things that came across in this article as disastrous this really caught me. This event wasn't &q
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by iaw 9y ago
The article makes it clear that these man-made reservoirs aren't considered a flood plain. The article also makes it pretty clear that regional legislation around the issue has been complicated by competing local interests.
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by iaw 9y ago
This is a brilliant gimmick for promotion, catch the intersection of gamers interested in game design.
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by iaw 9y ago
Yes. It actually was LOL
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by iaw 9y ago
With one exception I've never looked back at code I've written and thought "well that's well designed." Typically every few months I've improved enough to notice the quality difference.
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by iaw 9y ago
My inherited spaghetti codebase took only 24 months for my predecessor to build. I was told: "don't worry, it's in SVN and all of the important switches are clearly laid out at the top." Well, it was in an SVN repo... w
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by iaw 9y ago
>Google is not going to shut something like this down that enhances their revenue Right now this product is losing substantial amounts of money, we're talking on the order of tens of millions USD per year. If the net present cost o
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by iaw 9y ago
After some of the product shutdowns by Google I feel like there's a huge risk building your visualizations on this product. There are so many alternative ways to achieve the same goal for free or very low cost that unless Google has so

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