jbay808

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by jbay808 6y ago
One of my favourite books, especially for his demonstration of how they know what's going on at each point of the chemical reaction. Also, he explains clearly what fire is, which is something that many people puzzle about for all the
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by jbay808 6y ago
Unfortunately, this would probably force them to treat purchase revenue as a liability on the accounting books.
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by jbay808 6y ago
It's mostly not survivorship bias, actually, and the ones that remain haven't been continuously maintained over the centuries. Many of the ones still standing today suffered from centuries of neglect, damage in war and rebellion
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by jbay808 6y ago
If you never come out positive, capital gains tax is the least of your worries.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Hey Earth, guess how your scientists learned about the risk that CFCs posed to your ozone layer, just in time to solve it before it was totally destroyed? - Your friends, Mars and Venus.
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by jbay808 6y ago
If you can still credit past losses against your gains, that should account for the risk shouldn't it?
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by jbay808 6y ago
In practice it means that the offer isn't conditional on their financing being approved.
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by jbay808 6y ago
"We thought we were ancient, but this is even older than us!" It's easy to lose sight of the fact that the ancients also had scholars and studying ancient-to-them history. They considered themselves modern...
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by jbay808 6y ago
> What do you think will happen if the net exporters experience a global supply crisis? The way that countries that manufacture PPE halted exports last year is a good reminder that the same can happen with food!
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by jbay808 6y ago
Starting from roughly zero, I'd recommend this page and its neighbours: http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Workshop/advice/coils/force.html
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by jbay808 6y ago
An unused machine sitting in the middle of a busy factory floor gets in everyone's way and quickly finds itself being thrown out so the factory can run more efficiently. An unused plot of land sitting fenced off in the middle of your c
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by jbay808 6y ago
Consumption taxes are harder to make progressive; that is, they tend to have a disproportionate burden on the poor, whose consumption is a higher fraction of their income. But that could potentially be countered by something like a UBI, whi
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by jbay808 6y ago
The story you linked is a bit more complex than the headline. It's kind of appropriate for the deeply confusing and paradoxical experience of shopping for a Sony phone. And it confirms the GP's thesis that Sony is committed to kee
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by jbay808 6y ago
All of Touchstone's patents would have been transferred to Silicon Labs, and they still own them despite discontinuing all the parts. The founders would probably find it very hard to try again.
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by jbay808 6y ago
It was sad to see what happened to Touchstone Semiconductors. They made some really excellent components with no equal. It seems like a VC pulled out, they were forced to sell to a big company at a terrible price, and then that company disc
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by jbay808 6y ago
Exactly this! I find it bewildering -- they're by far the best in every respect that matters to me, and yet most people I meet are surprised to hear that Sony even makes phones, even when they express interest in mine. SD card, excelle
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by jbay808 6y ago
Keys in my left pocket, phone in my right.
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by jbay808 6y ago
I put my phone in my front pocket. My front pocket can accommodate reasonably thick items like my wallet, but if they're too wide and long, it interferes with my ability to bend at the waist.
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by jbay808 6y ago
> I.Q. represents the idea that intelligence can be usefully captured by a single number, this idea being one of the assumptions made by proponents of an intelligence explosion. I think it's not a load bearing assumption for the i
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by jbay808 6y ago
It's funny how much memories change with time. I almost forgot that the surgeon general and Health Canada recommended against wearing masks, and that the motto was that the real danger was fear/hoarding/overreaction.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Those numbers in brackets look like citations.[12, 16] What are you citing?
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by jbay808 6y ago
Not the GP, but my guess is probably Canada?
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by jbay808 6y ago
> They "almost" instated it shortly before the handover, but didn't succeed for some reason. Extremely amusing indeed. Perhaps because China declared that they'd invade if HK was allowed to self-govern? https:/&
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by jbay808 6y ago
The TechDraw improvements in this version are a big deal. They've made it good enough for me to make actual shop drawings with proper tolerances, section views, and so on.
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by jbay808 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's probably outside the reach of science, just like we can't expect artificial life in a simulation to learn what happens outside their computer by conducting experiments inside the computer. So all that we'r
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by jbay808 6y ago
SKiDL (circuit design library) does this to a very large extent... https://github.com/xesscorp/skidl
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by jbay808 6y ago
> cybernetics was also a prohibited "bourgeois pseudoscience" in USSR at those times Huh! This surprised me, because the USSR made pretty major controbutions to cybernetics and control theory. I guess that happened after they c
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by jbay808 6y ago
Yeah of course they're not. My post is about not being able to contact an embassy (or any other critical service) that offers only a web interface, when you have embassy-relevant business to discuss. It happens that the very time when
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by jbay808 6y ago
The US built those industries only in the same sense that they built Germany's. Japan's industrial base was built before the 40s, with an extensive domestic supply of machine tools and industrial equipment, rail infrastructure, an
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by jbay808 6y ago
No problem! I'll try to make it simpler... We believe things must have causes because, inside our universe, all things are caused by other things at earlier times. That's because our laws of nature are causal, and our universe has

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