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by jbay808 5y ago
Did you perhaps mean sodium benzoate? I've never heard of sodium benzene and it sounds highly unstable. I'd be surprised if their detector confused sodium benzoate for benzene, because sodium benzoate is so common that that would
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by jbay808 5y ago
I never realized that Democritus traveled to India. What an amazing journey that must have been.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Is it possible to play a DVD without making a copy in the DVD player's RAM? What if I extend an HDMI cable from my DVD player to your TV? My library manages to lend ebooks; they even have wait lists for them.
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by jbay808 5y ago
In fact, just listening to the system in a quiet room can be a great way to determine whether your gains are too high, much better than simulations are likely to do.
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by jbay808 5y ago
Seems fair; your carbon emissions somehow manage to reach their way into my life!
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by jbay808 5y ago
Which of those aren't already internalized?
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by jbay808 5y ago
Of course I meant their business model , but... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockbuster_(Bend,_Oregon)
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by jbay808 5y ago
Blockbusters used to be really good for this. You could even get a movie for a whole week for less than YouTube will rent it to you for 24 hours. Maybe they'll make a comeback?
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by jbay808 5y ago
You get into your parked vehicle, check your phone for directions, find a route, confirm your arrival time, then put the key in the ignition and immediately run over a kid who stepped in front of your truck to grab their ball.
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by jbay808 5y ago
That might be less true outside of the US.
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by jbay808 5y ago
See the Venera missions: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera
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by jbay808 5y ago
Did the Soviets make any major attempt for Mars? I thought that after the moon, they were mostly focused on Venus during the space race. Their ~28 Venus missions were no joke, with up to 5300 kg payloads for lander + orbiter, comparable to
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by jbay808 5y ago
> Find me a brush-less, magnet-less electric motor like this with a 95% transfer efficiency. Turntide gets to about that level with their high-rotor-pole switched reluctance motors, I think: https://turntide.com/learning-
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by jbay808 5y ago
Would it really be the earth's magnetic field? Residual magnetization of the steel laminations seems more likely.
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by jbay808 5y ago
It's actually not an induction motor. It's likely synchronous, with the wound rotor actively energized.
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by jbay808 5y ago
At least, this should be how it's done in a low interest rate environment when investors are already desperate to invest in whatever they can get an above-inflation return on.
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by jbay808 5y ago
This is a great example, because if Apple had launched the iPhone SE in 2015 at $10,000 alongside their $199 6S, it would have bounced like a bad joke, and probably only a few wealthy people would have bought them. So in one sense, yes, tec
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by jbay808 5y ago
If it's increasing because of a growing number of readers, then that's a winner take all scenario where Harry Potter sells more and more copies as each new reader hasn't read it yet. If it's growing because of one extrem
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by jbay808 5y ago
I really liked her article on understanding Japanification, which I probably found linked from HN too. I'd never heard of her before but I immediately added her to my favourites. https://www.lynalden.com/economic-japani
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by jbay808 5y ago
If you're the one asking the question for the first time, yes, you should make it clear in your wording that you know about X and you really want Y. There are two failure modes though: 1) You really want to do Y, not X. You are not ask
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by jbay808 5y ago
Perhaps the Taiping rebellion (Chinese civil war) would also qualify? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion
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by jbay808 5y ago
This is really key in these discussions and it can never be overemphasized, because it always seems to be forgotten immediately. The signal that population averages tell you about any one person is so little as to be almost meaningless, th
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by jbay808 5y ago
"Real diamond" as opposed to zirconia, or did you mean natural diamond (as opposed to a real artificial diamond)?
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by jbay808 5y ago
Maybe to go one step deeper, the moral obligation is to speak honestly and fairly to the extent that one is able, and as their honest impression was positive, then the moral obligation to speak (honestly) positively follows from that.
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by jbay808 5y ago
While it might be uncommon among software devs, it has an established meaning for circuit designers. A glitch occurs when, say, two gates that are meant to switch at the same time actually have a small asynchronicity. If the output of a cir
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by jbay808 6y ago
At least that's not the case in Canada. Neither of those qualify you to use the title "engineer", and if you do you are likely to get a letter warning you to stop. Those are both just prerequisites among several others.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Hard to say. Those tolerances would be expensive in general purpose machine work, but in engines those tolerances have been in place since at least the 1930s, and so economies of scale bring those costs down (ie, using specialized machines
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by jbay808 6y ago
> Correct. The national median income is insufficient to purchase a home in the most expensive cities in the country. That seems reasonable? It's not clear if the GP was referring to national median income. My interpretation was t
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by jbay808 6y ago
Don't toss it, please put it on eBay. Incandescents are useful for specialty applications and I'm sure some people are hunting for them.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Embedded systems programmers don't always have such luxury!

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