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by kec 12y ago
Microwave ovens most definitely function as faraday cages, however they are specifically designed to attenuate 2.4GHz signals. Anything higher or lower which isn't a harmonic (integer multiple) of 2.4GHz is going to experience much les
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by kec 12y ago
Just because an app is multithreaded doesn't mean it's going to scale to use more than one core on average. It doesn't matter if you can do networking in a background thread if your UI is just going to block until the results
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by kec 12y ago
Engineering as a profession has a licensing system similar to medicine and law. In the US this involves several years of on the job training as a Jr Engineer and then passing two exams: the generic FE (Fundamentals of Engineering) and then
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by kec 12y ago
Quarantines are not orthogonal to using or developing medicine. Quarantine is also the only reliable way to prevent the spreading of a disease, and really the only way we have to deal with a disease like ebola which has no known cure. It su
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by kec 13y ago
One man's research is another's DOS attack in this case, and is explicitly against Uber's TOS[0]: "You will not impair the proper operation of the network". [0]: https://www.uber.com/legal
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by kec 13y ago
Grouping kids by perceived intelligence could actually be a net harm in the socialization aspect of school. Public schools are currently a more or less heterogenous mix of everyone in the community. Splitting by perceived intelligence would
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by kec 13y ago
Who the hell offered a fresh grad with only a BA in philosophy a development position with a salary of 180k!?
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by kec 13y ago
Is providing a service to the community not payment enough?
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by kec 13y ago
There isn't really a good way to quickly and safely dump all the energy from a battery the size of the Tesela's. Think about it: to drain in an hour, the battery would have to source 65kW continuously, converting all that energy i
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by kec 13y ago
I think you're misreading the emphasis there. GNUstep is driven by an interest in objective-c/cocoa, not in making yet another cross platform framework.
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by kec 13y ago
It doesn't matter how good the man pages are, I can't give emacs and latex to my mother and expect her to produce a document. In general, FLOSS really sucks at supporting nontechnical, mainstream users.
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by kec 13y ago
>Peace - bwahahahaha how many global conflicts, or even local conflicts between any two major powers, have there been in the past 60 years? While "Pax Americana" obviously isn't perfect, it's hard to deny that it does
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by kec 13y ago
You can survive pretty much indefinitely off of rice and beans and more than eat your fill of them for about $1 or so a day if you buy in bulk.