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by jhayward 7y ago
> Western sources routinely dismiss claims that plasma stealth is in practical use / is of practical Given that the A-12/SR-71 were designed to use A-50 fuel addition for plasma stealth I am confused by this statement.[1] [ed
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by jhayward 7y ago
In the US, that practice is black-letter illegal. A major hotel chain had to pay a rather large fine for doing exactly what you describe.[1] There is no private property right to the radio frequency energy traversing someone's propert
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I haven't seen any evidence that the coders were doing anything other than accurately implementing the system design that the control systems engineers dictated. What ethical safety standards would you have them implement? I assume tha
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by jhayward 7y ago
> Use C++17 with minimal features To paraphrase JWZ, "now you have N+M problems"
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Drones flying nighttime patterns over NE Colorado leave law enforcement stumped(denverpost.com)
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We live in a society.
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The planes you are noticing are all below the 10,000 ft level (i.e., on approach or takeoff) and are required to fly no faster than 250 knots. No supersonic aircraft will be flying supersonic on approach or at low altitude. If their engin
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by jhayward 7y ago
It's 5 hours later, so the data may be different but the largest red blob I see right now is in the region of the Gulf Coast near Corpus Christi. Since it's showing PM 2.5 readings, I suppose it could be a strong offshore wind pi
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by jhayward 7y ago
Perhaps you could contribute positively to the discussion rather than just taking badly aimed potshots. You objected, you do better.
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Ok, I provided one example. It's on you to prove the point then. Please provide relevant facts proving your case. Prove my point is wrong. Oh, and the majority of present-day ignitions in automobiles are still the exact same mechani
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by jhayward 7y ago
> How many gasoline vehicles spontaneously burst into flame? Ford recalled 8.7 million cars for spontaneous fire risk.[1] And that's just one case. It happens more often than you'd think, and coverage of it in media tends to b
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> A lithium fire takes hours and thousands of gallons of water to subside. Tesla battery fires are not lithium metal fires. They are primarily organic solvent fires which evolve flammable gasses when overheated.
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No, because you'll be telling 1 out of 20 healthy people they tested positive for cancer. Or, if it's 95% selectivity per test , which it probably is, 13 out of 20 healthy people will test positive.
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> In the same way a dog is never going to understand calculus, Dogs may never understand calculus as you mean it but they can certainly solve related-rates problems in real time physical situations.
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No, they really do talk incessantly about style and looks. Really. Including flamewars about which manufacturer has 'ugly' or 'beautiful' characteristics.
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> I think aesthetic considerations aren't supposed to figure into buying a truck Oh, geez. "Truck guys" in the US are some of the most opinionated, style-conscious folks you will ever meet in an automotive context. The
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by jhayward 7y ago
6.5' is a 'standard bed' in the F-150 line. 'Short bed' is 5.5', 'long bed' is 8'.
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> the costs of false positives will out weigh the returns. We have several 10's of millions of people killed in the 20th century that put this statement, which is speculative at best, to the lie. People killed because disinformat
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It's where they keep all the other evidence of foreign intelligence operations - a secure classified intelligence facility. Where should they be keeping it?
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by jhayward 7y ago
> a healthy plurality of us here don't even really believe that the state's existence is just to begin with The idea that the largest group of people on HN do not believe states should exist is straight up delusional. Why is
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by jhayward 7y ago
Funny how he ended up being Putin's bitch and working with the GRU to throw the US presidential election to Trump then, isn't it?
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by jhayward 7y ago
Using JVN who was one of the most distant outliers of human cognitive performance ever seen as an example is not helpful.
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Apropos DHH's recent high-impact complaint about Apple's new credit card basically shutting his wife out despite her higher credit rating than his. Someone should do a running collection of all these "I'm sorry, that&#x2
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by jhayward 7y ago
> There was a study earlier this year, that revealed a Tesla charged by a power plant using coal generated more emissions than a standard unleaded gasoline car. There is no where in the US electrical grid where that statement is true.
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by jhayward 7y ago
No. In fact, they make marginal agricultural operations economically viable by providing a second source of income to the farmer/land owner.
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Offshore siting also allows for much larger wind turbines, which are needed to economically exploit the higher quality winds given the extra expense of offshore construction and maintenance. Onshore turbines are size constrained by transpor
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by jhayward 7y ago
> The point is that even MDACC figured out is was too expensive to continue their own EMR. I think then that the example does not prove your point. It would have been vastly better, financially and medically, for MDACC to have continu
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> To store 3 days worth of current US energy use, There is absolutely no need, of any kind, to store 3 days of US energy use. It's a complete strawman.
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> To give you an idea of the scale, I have two examples. The first is MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. They used to have 200+ engineers working on their sophisticated home-grown EMR. It was a huge undertaking. But even with MDACC r
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by jhayward 7y ago
> So in just this story we have a maintenance failure (bearings) They are replacing the bearings on all the azipods, which tells us this is a design and engineering failure rather than a maintenance failure.

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