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by joncrane 6y ago
Right, and how long is that investigation going to take. Meanwhile Apple is short dozens of security guards to have a full detail necessary to protect the lives and wellbeing of the highest ranking executives in the country. The head of sec
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Actually, if your employer has a EAP (Employee Assistance Program), they do!
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FAA “Ungrounds” Boeing 737-Max Airplanes(thepointsguy.com)
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I know that from an ethical standpoint, the RFP is iffy, but from a technical standpoint, I find it fascinating. Basically a big RDBMS with a bunch of stored procedures. Maybe something fancy like Tableau in front of it. The hard part wo
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by joncrane 6y ago
Your county isn't doing free COVID testing?!?! In my county in Maryland every day there are about 10 sites you can get free testing (though they are not all open all day, but at any given time between 7a-6p you can get tested at least
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by joncrane 6y ago
The thing is narcissism in and of itself is not necessarily negative. We're all the stars of our own shows/lives. Some people want attention and do all the right things to get it: pursue the right goals, get people together to do
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Yeah you'd still need a bootstrap to get the reaction going, and therefore generate the pressure. The question is, does this material have two superconduction modes: one at low temperatures and pressures, and another at high temperatu
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I wonder if this has implications for fusion. In fusion, you have trememdous pressure outwards from the containment vessel due to the magnetic field "squishing" the plasma to a density that's enough to promote fusion and red
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> I wonder if the acquisition will harm Keybase? There were many discussions about it when the "Zoom acquires Keybase" story was on the front page of HN, and the overwhelming sentiment was "yes."
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Yes, it removes ONE funding obstacle because as the OP I replied to says cost increased with the 4th power of the size, but that just means you move to the next limiting factor: the neutron blanket, designing to be able to swap out the shie
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I remember a Popular Mechanics cover that indicated that soon, Nuclear reactors would be powering houses and even cars. I don't believe there's a practical limitation that means that a ship has to be huge to be nuclear powered.
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>the way to make fusion generate power more efficiently without changing the underlying technology is to make it bigger Actually there was a front page item on here a couple of weeks ago showing that there's a new superconductor tha
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by joncrane 6y ago
I kind of feel like there's a vein of culture in humanity that celebrates opulence. Solid gold plates? Exclusive entrances that only rich people know about? I hope for a day when spending money simply for the sake of spending money
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by joncrane 6y ago
I have to disagree with you here. The cars can store and deploy energy. Often times the optimal strategy is to alternate storing and deploying energy on consecutive laps. So there is a ton of skill involved in staying as close to the driv
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Let me put it this way: if you were to create a Venn diagram of habitual drug and alcohol users and people who get incarcerated, 90+% of the incarcerated people would also be in the habitual users circle. I know correlation doesn't imp
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by joncrane 6y ago
I expect that the hourly rate for the CSR dwarfs the cost of the telecommunications, and efficiently allocating resources and being more convenient for the customer vastly outweigh a few fractions of a cent per minute cost.
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by joncrane 6y ago
What's not captured here is that drugs are a contributing factor to many of the crimes committed. An old and rather tired example is the junky stealing to get his next fix. The crime is robbery, but the cause is drugs. I would argue
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by joncrane 6y ago
I think it depends on how each person values their time, and how much they like/hate keeping up with that kind of stuff. I can confidently say that I'd come out ahead by working (billing to a client) the time I would otherwise spe
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by joncrane 6y ago
If there was a federal popular vote, the airlines would spend millions and millions on ads, op-ed pieces, and social media engagement farms to try to get people to vote in their favor. Given the current climate, I think they'd have a
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by joncrane 6y ago
What does breakage mean in this context?
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by joncrane 6y ago
Did you mean "expect" or "except?"
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To add to the others' responses on the purposes of ports, many of them are essentially vacuum pumps to maintain the near-perfect vacuum required for fusion to work.
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by joncrane 6y ago
I believe that coal releases more radioactivity into the environment than nuclear energy.
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by joncrane 6y ago
I'm not sure this is true. I've been told that, for example, the "city" MPG of hybrid cars with regenerative braking is higher than the "highway" MPG. This is because it simply costs energy to maintain speed
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I personally know several(!) instances where “the smart and brilliant sibling” went for university, the “quiet one went for an apprenticeship” - and the pay off has been substantially more beneficial for the people taking the apprenticeship
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Agreed. I have heard many positive things about Germany's "career funnels," for want of a better term. Something they could definitely improve on in the USA.
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by joncrane 6y ago
>Accellerating, decellerating, and managing mass costs joules Ideally, aside from parasitic losses, shouldn't decelerating pay joules?
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>Still looking for my pit chief. Do you mean crew chief? That's what they're called in NASCAR. I think they are called race engineers in F1.
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>Feigning sincerity in a convincing way is extremely difficult. So if you take any of this career advice, it's best to learn to candidly believe it.
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>dark when you go to the office and it's dark when you leave for the day You guys are still going into the office?! We're 100% remote "for the foreseeable future" here.

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