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by jhayward 7y ago
No, it didn't. They don't store their nukes in the test tunnels.
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by jhayward 7y ago
US and S. Korean officials estimate that North Korea has about 60 nuclear weapons, and can manufacture about 6 per year at present.
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by jhayward 7y ago
I think you're probably referring to Actionscript, which came much later in Flash's evolution and was indeed very much similar to javascript.
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by jhayward 7y ago
It would probably have been FutureSplash Animator, which became Macromedia Flash and then Adobe Flash. For a long time Flash was the de-facto web scripting language.
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by jhayward 7y ago
Those are interesting links, thanks. ACL/MCL injuries, and knee/shoulder/elbow injuries in general, are a subject where medical understanding is evolving and a lot of what used to pass as standard care and generally accepted
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by jhayward 7y ago
It's pretty clear you aren't actually interested in obtaining a balanced view of design flaws in aircraft, rather just trying to win some kind of points. Some design flaws take time to show up, due to life cycle aging. Most of th
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by jhayward 7y ago
It's actually worse that I stated: 2 confirmed fatal crashes, 1 severe malfunction in-flight, 4 fatal crashes that are most likely same cause, and two more in-flight loss of control incidents that are likely same. That's just what
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by jhayward 7y ago
> The US government literally spends billions of dollars to track things in outer space, and a bunch of amateurs can do basically the same thing There is a whole lot of difference between an amateur being able, once in a blue moon, to
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by jhayward 7y ago
Those are fatalities, not crashes. They had the exact same number of crashes, plus one near-crash. Very similar to me. Planes flew with much lower passenger loads in those days so total fatalities can differ. I don't know what the ex
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by jhayward 7y ago
I'm not sure the plane loads of passengers killed would agree with your professional opinion of design competence. Edited to add: the rudder design was "new" to the industry, in that it had a single control surface activated
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by jhayward 7y ago
It doesn't have the crash rate now . At one time early in its introduction it had a very bad crash rate. Which is my point.
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by jhayward 7y ago
You should probably not fly any 737, then, because it's had just as many bad, bad design flaws that killed people. Oh, and it's also the most successful commercial aircraft in history.
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by jhayward 7y ago
So do aircraft parts. It's easy to find $400 screws, for instance, for aircraft. It has to do with strict traceability, design validation, and testing-proven performance more than it does anything about nuclear aspects.
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by jhayward 7y ago
"Dude", we are speaking of injured tissue. A 50% torn ACL does not "get stronger" through exercise. The muscles supporting the joint get stronger. The ACL will always be 50% torn.
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by jhayward 7y ago
> the solution to having a hurt joint is to make that joint significantly stronger This may seem like nit-picking, but I think it's important for people with joint damage to understand: you aren't actually making the joint it
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by jhayward 7y ago
> So it's not a lack of time or money for anyone but the absolute poorest, people just don't seem to care that much. I really don't know why ? I would hazard a guess that neither you, nor anyone you know, is a single par
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by jhayward 7y ago
The correlation is environment, not heredity. Twin studies. Please do not push any further toward the underlying message of white/western supremacy.
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by jhayward 7y ago
This isn't an actual contribution, it's trolling. Future executive function is highly correlated with high socio-economic status of childhood.
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by jhayward 7y ago
I would claim that Python's context protocol [1] is exactly a general tool for resource management. [1] https://docs.python.org/3/reference/datamodel.html#with-stat...
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by jhayward 7y ago
Yes. The modern sensors and controls being built in to US electric transmission and distribution systems have resulted in a far better run grid: more stable, more reliable, more efficient, fairer, and enabling things like real-time market
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by jhayward 7y ago
> PayPal Express checkout is still a huge choice for customers It really is a big advantage, for whatever reason customers choose it. Relatedly, just yesterday I had my first web-based Apple Pay experience and man, was it ever smooth a
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by jhayward 7y ago
> I haven't found a use-case for a dynamic language in many years This seems like a rather extreme statement given the number of people in the mathematics and science communities that find plenty of use cases for Python/Scipy
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by jhayward 7y ago
This argument is one of basic innumeracy. Those things mentioned, to the extent they exist, are tiny nits on the enormous benefit. They are always discussed in isolation complete with heart-rending horror stories of suffering and no counte
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by jhayward 7y ago
> since the healthy person must devote a large portion of their emotional energy decoding and understanding the current mental state of the ill person, proverbially "walking on eggshells" to avoid a negative situation. Dealin
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by jhayward 7y ago
There's more to running a plumbing company that just the person who shows up at the job site. Plus, plumbing isn't a one-person job. Every plumber has helper/apprentices, etc.
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by jhayward 7y ago
It's not necessary to do a piece by piece rebuttal of a professional "skeptic", who is a neuroscientist, and whose reasoning relies on someone who worked at Shellenberger's "breakthrough institute", which exist
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by jhayward 7y ago
If you don't use the block-quote format, HN will make the links clickable: [edit: deleted link, OP has updated]
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by jhayward 7y ago
It's difficult to see what your main point is, but what I take from it is the idea that aircraft autopilots and self-driving cars are two completely separate problem domains, with very different requirements, resources, and operating r
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by jhayward 7y ago
The author, Shellenberger, is cherry-picking small quotes from a "letter" supposedly written by Robert Gale, who was a leading radiation poisoning treatment responder during the crisis. This is typical Shellenberger. We are not g
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by jhayward 7y ago
Right. Quantitatively: Coal declined by 48 TWh Gas increased by 4 TWh. Nuclear declined by 84 TWh. Renewables picked up the slack by adding 130 TWh of generation.

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