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by lutorm 8y ago
They don't care if you're a citizen or not, they care about whether you're legally allowed to work on rockets. From an ITAR perspective, a green card holder is the same as a US citizen, and from a recruiting perspective there
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by lutorm 8y ago
The equilibrium temperature of a grey-body is actually independent of its emissivity. A black-blackbody absorbs more radiation than a white-blackbody, but it also emits more. The emissivity factors in both on the absorption and emission sid
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by lutorm 8y ago
covering large portions of our planet's surface with solar panels Have you calculated it? If I recall correctly, it's actually not a large portion at all. It's large in the sense that it would be a large infrastructure proj
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by lutorm 8y ago
extending the landing legs will reduce roll rate for exactly the same reason a figure skater slows down when they extend their arms: roll axis moment of inertia goes up.
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by lutorm 8y ago
Jobs. Work. Church service. Community service. Or simply helping some other alcoholic out of the hole that he or she is in. All fit. Sitting at home collecting a check doesn’t. This doesn't make sense. Church service may give someone
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by lutorm 8y ago
The Governor decided that three telescopes would come down. One of these is the tiny UH Hilo education telescope, so it's not really anything like the others. Many people think that this particular telescope, the only one whose purpo
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by lutorm 8y ago
We love our induction range. It gets both way higher and way lower power than any gas range I've used. It doesn't dump a crapload of heat into the kitchen, which if you live in Hawaii is a big feature. And we power it with our P
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by lutorm 8y ago
What would those devices do? A pressure regulator is designed to handle a range of input pressures. If the pressure really got 75x higher than the design pressure, the regulators probably just failed.
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by lutorm 8y ago
What was the range of the Mosquito compared to the Lancaster?
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by lutorm 8y ago
How about everyone gets to bill through the hospital instead of every person who tangentially heard of you one way or another sending you their own bill. If the hospital is in-network, they bill based on in-network rates, and all those &q
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by lutorm 8y ago
Even if the actual labwork is flawless, there are still the issues of DNA contamination where your DNA is spread around on objects and persons you touch. And this problem just gets worse the more sensitive the detection methods are.
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by lutorm 8y ago
You actually go into a legally binding contract to attend the school? I've never heard of such a thing. Do they sue you for breach if you don't show up?
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by lutorm 8y ago
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." Cultures have appropriated each other since the dawn of humanity. I understand how some can feel irritated that "their" concepts, whatev
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by lutorm 8y ago
I've worked remotely from the Big Island for 5 years. (I brought the job with me when I moved here.) The local tech work scene here is pretty nonexistent, possibly with the exception of the observatories.
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by lutorm 8y ago
This is cool! However, you know space is ... empty, right? ;-) It also seems like the physics is off. Like you're flying through molasses. There's just a lot of damping. Finally, I think it would be more fun if the <--> rot
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by lutorm 8y ago
This is a ridiculous question. Of course teaching, like any other skill, can be taught. I'm sure there are differing aptitudes among people, but unless you think that "good" anything can't be taught, it's hard to
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by lutorm 8y ago
The question really is whether the gay people think it's fine, not whether you do. It's true that insults generally require intent, but that's different from being aware that other people find the expression insulting and con
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by lutorm 8y ago
I think it's funny that Americans (I assume you're American, just based on statistics) thinks that moving to another country is just a thing you can decide to do, given the current immigration debate in the U.S...
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by lutorm 8y ago
Indeed, many people are, for one reason or another, unable to drive, especially elderly. My grandparents were, and soon my parents will be, facing this in Sweden. Even with its comparatively awesome public transportation (Sweden also has se
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by lutorm 8y ago
You mean Amazon would get by without any employees at all?
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by lutorm 8y ago
Some of the rationale for the flight software design is explained in https://lwn.net/Articles/540368/
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by lutorm 8y ago
If you’re going to take this to management, I would not bad-mouth the original developer. This. If there are deficiencies in the code base, focus on those, their effects, and the gains from fixing them. Blaming people is rarely a good ide
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by lutorm 8y ago
We don't have 200 years experience with the market economy itself, so it seems if UBI is a 200 year solution that's pretty good.
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by lutorm 8y ago
This is why happiness can only be reached by learning to appreciate what you have. You're much better off pondering how lucky you are to have, and how miserable you'd be without, the things you already have, rather than how happy
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by lutorm 8y ago
yes.
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by lutorm 8y ago
I always use the self checkouts at Home Depot. You just drag every item across the scanner and then pay. If something is too large to scan, the assistant will hand-scan it for you. At the grocery store, it's a totally different story.
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by lutorm 8y ago
Sure it does, because if you have deductions, your effective tax rate isn't actually flat.
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by lutorm 8y ago
I really like SHIF, if you have a physics-y bent it's great.
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by lutorm 8y ago
The car in front also had unobstructed vision. If you tailgate a car that blocks your view ahead, a human driver is just as susceptible to being surprised like this.
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by lutorm 8y ago
Unless you have unique insight into Elon's mind, I don't see how you have any idea about that.

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