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by kec 9y ago
He can't represent her in court or officially do her taxes, why should he be allowed to officially render other professional services to her?
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by kec 9y ago
Most engineers don't offer services to the public. Every public building, bridge and road you've ever used were all overseen and signed off by a PE. Same with the infrastructure for your local utility companies. Most software en
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by kec 9y ago
no, you just wouldn't be able to practice professionally until licensed, the same way medicine, law and "real" engineering work.
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by kec 9y ago
That common subset doesn't include string handling.
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by kec 10y ago
If you could solve both the heat dissipation and yield problems that 3D chips have you would be a very, very rich man.
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by kec 10y ago
You're still entitled to vote as a nonresident citizen.
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by kec 10y ago
Several of those things are inadvisible / effectively illegal for US employers to ask due to anti discrimination laws.
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by kec 10y ago
That alternative effectively means dropping support entirely (or allowing the whole ecosystem to stagnate based upon the lowest common denominator), something most android OEMs do after a year or two. You can't have it both ways. We&#x
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by kec 10y ago
Progress != planned obsolescence. The iPhone 7 has more than an order of magnitude more compute power compared to the 4s, and app developers are targeting that device as it's actually selling today.
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by kec 10y ago
And to get even more pedantic, it's even worse than that alone implies because switching power increases with the square of voltage. We're also at the point where transistor leakage current matters. All transistors leak a tiny a
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by kec 10y ago
Selective availability was disallowed by executive order in 2000. Block III satellites will not even have the capability to disable the civilian signal.
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by kec 10y ago
Well, except for the ridiculous magazine design which looks to be aggressively anti-ergonomic and couldn't actually work as rendered without bullets actually passing through one another as they're fed into the chamber.
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by kec 10y ago
The concern isn't the lack of humanity, it's technology allowing for massive scale. The potential damage of a buggy machine learning classifier is much higher than that of an unskilled psychologist.
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by kec 10y ago
How does that make it easier though? If I have the out of band knowledge that 9-5 is standard business hours, all I need to know if I'm organizing something across time zones is when our UTC offsets are. If there are no timezones, I do
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by kec 10y ago
> Changes to "two hours after sunrise". Which is more accurate in a globalized world anyway [...] That's not really any better as solar time varies by season and latitude, and becomes totally meaningless at the extremes. &
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by kec 10y ago
Sure it can. Phased shifted arrays of monopole antennas are often used to steer broadcast signals in a particular direction (If you've ever seen a group of 2-3 radio towers sitting close together in the country side, that's what t
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by kec 10y ago
Prehistoric mobile phones had effectively 0 energy drain other than the PA in the cell radio. Modern devices have many more sources of significant power drain including multiple PAs, high resolution screens, high quality cameras, and comput
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by kec 10y ago
It isn't part of the curriculum for (at least most) US schools either. Some schools offer it as an elective or after school program, but that's it.
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by kec 10y ago
The economic win (and comparatively easy problem) is to have trucks self drive on the interstate, stopping on the outskirts of whatever city or town is the destination to pick up a human driver who will take care of the "last mile&quot
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by kec 10y ago
Right. Talking about that kind of money as merely "decently high" is only a slightly different kind of bubble as the one this medium post is satirizing.
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by kec 10y ago
$60k is more than 88% of Americans make in total income. Having that for discretionary spending would place you well within the top 1-2% of Americans, regardless of how much or how little your living expenses are.
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by kec 10y ago
Most people would consider $60k/year in discretionary income a little more than "decently high".
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by kec 10y ago
It's not the most practical of vehicles, but the Mazda Miata, especially the 1st and 2nd generations (1990-2005), would be up there. Large enthusiast community thanks to spec miata racing, and parts are cheap since they've always
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by kec 10y ago
Well, devils advocate: 2, 3 and 5 are all true for Boston and have been for years. Massachusetts does allow noncompetes, but at least anecdotally no one I know in the Boston tech/startup scene has been required to sign one.
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by kec 10y ago
As a counterpoint, why do pro gun-control people always assume that violence would cease without guns? Guns do not motivate people to commit crime, only give them the means to. People in general are pretty clever. If you take away someone&#
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by kec 10y ago
I would be very surprised if you could figure out a way to reliably discriminate between the sound of a gunshot and the sound of a car backfiring given that they're basically the same thing (that is, the sound of a gas rapidly expandin
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by kec 10y ago
The question is more why do we treat assault and homicide where a firearm is involved differently from other instances of assault and homicide? Dead is dead, no matter the manner in which it happened.
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by kec 11y ago
Well, all I can really say is that among my friends who I've spoken with about this, those of us out in the bay area are making (including stock and bonuses) about 40% more than those who work in tech in metro Boston. It's more th
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by kec 11y ago
Thing is, salaries aren't comparable. My first job out in the bay area paid almost twice what I was offered by companies in the Metro Boston area.
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by kec 11y ago
The main battery in most hybrids is on the order of 400VDC which isn't nearly enough to electrocute you in anything but ideal conditions. The real risk is accidentally shorting the battery which would cause it to explode.

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