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by iaw 10y ago
I wont detail specifics but I took longer than normal to attain my BS and I'm not shy about it on my resume. In all my interviews it came up once as an afterthought "Oh, why'd this take so long?" and a quick story was s
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by iaw 10y ago
My understanding is that target selection is more involved, but launching is essentially reading numbers off a list into a cell phone...
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by iaw 10y ago
Gotcha, didn't mean to come off aggressive but trying to understand if I missed something. To my knowledge, numerous failsafes have been improved over the years (human and technical) but the President is still the sole decider. They h
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by iaw 10y ago
Why would you believe that?
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by iaw 10y ago
There is a parallel universe where Windows 8 was the beginning of Windows as a flavor of Linux and the attempt to create a new ecosystem with Windows 10 never manifested as Microsoft became a new creature. It's sad that a company with
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by iaw 10y ago
When Bill Gates was at the helm he skated a fine line of legalities in order to build a sustained monopoly. The ecosystem continued to evolve as his priorities shifted away from Microsoft and none of his replacements were able to adapt as
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by iaw 10y ago
SnapChat was what made me realize I was old. I never got the hang of the UI.
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by iaw 10y ago
Fair point, although I'd replace WeChat with SnapChat (WeChat being created by Tencent). I don't think it's impossible to convert a large non-monetizing user-base into a profitable company (Google, Facebook, Snapchat, etc.) b
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by iaw 10y ago
There are a body of accusers who don't want to be targeted or draw out a process. In some circumstances it sounds like Jacob walked a fine line in terms of what is lawful making successful prosecution unlikely. There should be an unbi
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by iaw 10y ago
I was a huge naysayer about the Facebook model that Joi espouses in your story. Facebook ended up being very successful with their users first approach surprising everyone. I suspect that in 10 years Facebook will be an exception rather th
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by iaw 10y ago
Maritime shipping...
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by iaw 10y ago
Lichen may be a good next step for manufacturing more complex energy-intensive chemicals than yeast can. There is a good chance that this discovery will be invaluable in 30 years time.
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by iaw 10y ago
I suspect deformation due to decomposition. Without doing any research I'd say that the decomposition process may rapidly change finger prints enough to no longer be recognized. Alternatively, and possibly more likely, as a murder vic
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by iaw 10y ago
I agree in theory, but in practicality I don't. ∆ and δ have distinct and separate meanings in some of my coursework that can't be exchanged. The nomenclature/symbolism is so screwed up in some engineering fields that it wou
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by iaw 10y ago
Overloaded symbols became a nightmare in some of my later undergraduate work. It is not the math classes where I'm worried that this would be a problem, it's in the engineering courses. There's a few situations in mechanics&
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by iaw 10y ago
Doug, set up a shop with your designs for sale.
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by iaw 10y ago
Beautiful, elegant, and I disagree it should be taught. ∆ Is used for delta's so frequently that I could see some nasty issues arising in notes for higher level maths. I think this could be an excellent teaching tool, to be honest I so
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by iaw 10y ago
Some people seem to be downvoting you because they disagree with your view point. I'm not sure I agree with you but your views are valid and a positive contribution to this thread. Just want to call out that I'm a bit disappointe
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by iaw 10y ago
In this area there weren't any traffic controls. The level of planning and understanding that corvids demonstrate in most tasks exceeds anything I've seen from even the smartest of dogs. I wish I could know what they were thinkin
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by iaw 10y ago
A decade ago I was driving through a quiet street when a crow limped into the middle directly in line with my tire. I slowed and tried to steer around but the guy seemed intent on limping into his own demise. Rolling forward at 5 MPH he di
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by iaw 10y ago
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
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by iaw 10y ago
I got the same reaction. He felt a bit dismissive from the gate, I've only thus far skimmed the paper but some of what he references is in the old music theory texts I've looked it.
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by iaw 10y ago
Hence the "not very big." If they didn't have a couple buildings my response would be "non-existent."
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by iaw 10y ago
Not very big at the moment. They would never relocate from Redmond but a satellite office (from my naive uninformed perspective) isn't out of the question.
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by iaw 10y ago
Funny thing, I never thought about this, but compared to Football and Boxing, UFC is unlikely to cause debilitating long-term damage. As you are alluding to, what we are now becoming aware of as a society is that by padding our combative at
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by iaw 10y ago
There are two components to UFC: the violence and the skill. You don't sound like you're comfortable with the level of violence displayed (completely understandable). As others have pointed out, the combatants are willing partic
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by iaw 10y ago
This idea is so much better than a bootcamp. Paying ~$100/hr a few times a week to chat about projects and direction with someone in industry is going to be way more effective.
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by iaw 10y ago
Reading up on decoherence, the phenomenon itself doesn't lead to a many worlds hypothesis but allows for the conjecture of many worlds. Information becoming immeasurable/irretrievable is not proof in and of itself of a multiverse
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by iaw 10y ago
I think you're making a leap when you say it "predicts a multiverse." (please correct me if you have field expertise) To refresh my memory I ran through this paper [1] briefly. My understanding is that multiverse arguments
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by iaw 10y ago
The fields that results in the Casimir effect are non-quantized, correct?

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