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by jmpman 5y ago
Interesting statistics. I’m an American, and out of everyone I’ve personally ever known to have gone to jail, one was for rape, another for methamphetamine production, drunk driving, financial crimes. They were all white, and many of them w
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by jmpman 5y ago
I’d interned at a military contractor, where I was writing tests for a project that was supposed to be delivered in 18 months. The project was already 3 years late, and expected to be another 18 months. Asking the senior engineer on my team
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by jmpman 5y ago
I had heard about a technique where tiny particles are spread over the media, and then optically imaged. This method was used to recover the most damaged media.
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by jmpman 5y ago
So, much higher estate taxes, and lower taxes on those on the cusp of becoming rich? Sounds good to me.
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by jmpman 5y ago
Butt chugging oxygen? What will the millennials think of next.
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by jmpman 5y ago
Right, you need Lebanon NJ residents to decide they’d prefer doubling their property value to some crumbling old buildings. Disney was able to have his way in Orlando. It can be done.
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by jmpman 5y ago
Check out Lebanon NJ. Still massive tracks of farmland and woods. 50 miles from midtown, currently with property for sale at $50k/acre. 5 mile radius is approximately 50k acres. At $50k/acre = $2.5B. With construction costs of $1B
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by jmpman 5y ago
Why doesn’t some industrious individual purchase an entire town roughly 50miles from midtown Manhattan, owning say a 5 mile radius, and install a high speed rail (150MPH straight into Grand Central - no stops) 20min from Grand Central to th
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by jmpman 5y ago
I’d rather we pay the $5M in ransom, and then $5T to track the hackers down and eliminate them. Certainly someone died due to the pipeline shutdown. Eliminating the hackers would be fully justified.
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by jmpman 5y ago
21 of 122 failed? That’s a concerning statistic. I’d expect closer to 99% success, not 82%. How many fatalities when the parachute failed to deploy? 100%? If so, then you have almost a 1/5 chance of dying when you engage the parachute?
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by jmpman 5y ago
Let’s say that I know precisely where the AstroTracker is - X,Y,Z all within ~ 1 centimeter, and my goal is to point a laser in a specific vector from the base, how accurately could I do that?
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by jmpman 6y ago
Why is Dogecoin any less viable than Bitcoin? Both look like tulips to me.
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by jmpman 6y ago
Add in a global minimum estate tax, and we’re on our way to an interesting new world.
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by jmpman 6y ago
Can they drive pilings on the edge of the canal, and attach cables from the pilings to the boat at various points? Seems like driving pilings is an operation which can be done in parallel, while unloading the containers is mostly serialized
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by jmpman 6y ago
I went cold turkey at the start of Trump’s presidency. Although I will break it for specific searches such as “compare X vs Y item” when shopping, or to view links my wife sends. Wasn’t as hard as kicking my TikTok habit. It’s become a hive
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by jmpman 6y ago
A 99% estate tax on money over $10M, and revocation of any visas on any heirs who attempt to avoid them.
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Three year anniversary of Uber self driving death(reuters.com)
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by jmpman 6y ago
Is the model available? Would be interesting to see how it classifies members of Congress, governors, state legislators, etc. Assuming politicians weren’t used for the training set? (Also assuming Kanye wasn’t either?)
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by jmpman 6y ago
$1.3B / 10M households in Texas = $130 per household. By having this arrangement, did Texans get power for $0.07/kWh instead of the $0.08/kWh in more “normal” regulated environments? If there was that much savings, then a $13
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by jmpman 6y ago
I’d always heard that male balding protects against STDs.
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by jmpman 6y ago
I’ve wondered why California doesn’t leverage Prop 13 to encourage more housing units. Say for any property which isn’t owner occupied, the number of rentable units must increase by N per year in order to maintain Prop 13 tax lock. Seems li
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by jmpman 6y ago
Are there any studies looking for genetic differences in mothers of gay men? Is it possible for the mothers to have a genetic trait that increases the chance of a gay son, but doesn’t get passed down to that gay son?
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by jmpman 6y ago
Older Sega arcades used encrypted 68k processors. Would be interesting if this emulator could emulate the encryption, allowing CPU replacement. Probably no longer required, as all games have ultimately been decrypted, but should still be co
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by jmpman 6y ago
Ok, when I went to Carlsbad, I first drove to Carlsbad NM via El Paso, spent the night, and from there drove to the caverns, returning to Carlsbad that night. As my hotel didn’t have a destination charger, the drive couldn’t be done in the
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by jmpman 6y ago
Many times the third party chargers are broken, or vandalized. Some have screens which are completely unreadable after a few years in the sun. They’re sited in inconvenient spots, such as mall parking lots, which have nothing open after 9pm
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by jmpman 6y ago
The author doesn’t explicitly call out the classic reliability engineer’s concept of a bathtub failure model. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve Thermal abuse (running at a high temp for many hours), duty cy
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by jmpman 6y ago
Perfect use case for Splunk.
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by jmpman 6y ago
I found that my commute had predictable timings. Drive at exactly 28 mph, and you’d hit the green wave. As my commute was over 50% of my travel, and the pattern was learned in just a few days of observation, I question how valuable this ser
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by jmpman 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/03/...
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by jmpman 6y ago
They’re suggesting that one drink a day for men is better than two? In my experience, it’s the people drinking 12+ in one sitting or 30+ units in a week who are having the health issues. Feels like suggesting lowering the speed limit to 55m

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