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by lutorm 10y ago
Am I right in thinking with advanced warning this could be mitigated by simply shutting down the power grids for a few hours? That would be a big deal, but clearly not as bad as taking it out.
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by lutorm 10y ago
I'd venture to say this is not limited to software. If you design some hardware, or mechanichal machine or whatever, future maintenance const is a key factory. Just look at e.g. cars.
873.
by lutorm 10y ago
Well, the correct answer is often also "They did it that way because it was a reasonable choice then, and they didn't have the benefit of hindsight that I have now."
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by lutorm 10y ago
But transportation taxes also require you to purchase something from a private party. You just hand your money to the government, who does the purchasing for you. Don't get me wrong, I'm a strong believer in single payer health
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by lutorm 10y ago
I don't understand why people are so opposed to the "mandate". We have the same thing in so many other places, only those are handled by paying taxes for things you might not need. I can't avoid buying "invasion i
876.
by lutorm 10y ago
J-1's are issued for a maximum of 5 years per individual. Beyond that, universities can only hire postdocs etc under H-1B, because academic hires are exempt from the quotas. It's unlikely a postdoc-level position would qualify for
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by lutorm 10y ago
This is a curious statement given that both this and the VW violations pertain to diesel -powered vehicles, not gasoline ones (hybrid or not).
878.
by lutorm 10y ago
You actually carry a balance on your credit cards?
879.
by lutorm 10y ago
I wonder if the $100k would apply to academic H1B's too. If so, that's pretty much the end of those.
880.
by lutorm 10y ago
My point is that the wording "several credible causes for the COPV failure" does not imply they haven't experimentally verified that those causes can cause a COPV failure, which you seemed to imply.
881.
by lutorm 10y ago
It doesn't specify whether the mechanism proposed to have caused this particular anomaly has been experimentally verified to be able to cause ignition but, even if it had , it would still not prove it was the mechanism that was at wor
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by lutorm 10y ago
:)
883.
by lutorm 10y ago
It would be easier if you could build your entire experimental apparatus out of antimatter, but if you could do that you're probably beyond making experiments with single atoms of it... ;-)
884.
by lutorm 10y ago
Not a theory at all. You get antimatter out of many common radioactive materials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron_emission It's the building atoms out of it that's tricky, but antimatter is nothing new
885.
by lutorm 10y ago
The argument I've heard against "burning trash" isn't that it's unclean or anything but that, to the extent stuff in trash is made from oil, still amounts to burning hydrocarbons. From an energy yield perspective, m
886.
by lutorm 10y ago
Except Zillow actually does show a range. If you look at the Zestimate details on a house, you see something like this: "Zestimate $472,603", and immediately to the right: "Zestimate range $425k - $506k". The little qu
887.
by lutorm 10y ago
I pretty much just look at what the 1-star amazon reviews say. That's where you find the low-end tail...
888.
by lutorm 10y ago
I'm not sure those events are independent... ;-)
889.
by lutorm 10y ago
Probably both. The fraction of energy deposited in each depends on how the internal resistance of the cap compares to that of the load.
890.
by lutorm 10y ago
So you're all for falsely stating that something is in the product if it's not, as long as the company thinks it's sorta the same thing? Or do you mean like generic drugs say "compare to the active ingredient in Tylenol(
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by lutorm 10y ago
Pulling your own avionics is legal if your airplane is experimental. If you want to hack your airplane, you should clearly have an experimental, not a certified one. It is my understanding that, in an experimental, you can even legally fly
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by lutorm 10y ago
I'll put in my constant plug for the Trigger Point Therapy Workbook: https://www.amazon.com/Trigger-Point-Therapy-Workbook-Self-T... It was recommended to me by my PT when I had hand pain, and it's helped me not o
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by lutorm 10y ago
This was the case for me too, although I think there's something to psychological issues causing tension which definitely can exacerbate the problem. I know that the fact that I constantly pick at my nails (which I count as a psycholog
894.
by lutorm 10y ago
The rural white poverty and suicide rate is huge. This gets almost no attention since they don't matter to liberals. Didn't Bernie take flak because some people thought he cared only about this?
895.
by lutorm 10y ago
I'm a Caucasian male, too, and I've never experienced anything I'd call "discrimination". Even now when I live in a place where whites are in the minority (Hawaii, ~27%). I'm curious what kinds of experiences y
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by lutorm 10y ago
If you grew up never eating with a fork and knife, you'll certainly feel uncomfortable and out of place being put in a situation where that's expected. You can argue that culture is "wrong", but that won't really he
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by lutorm 10y ago
Newborns may be blank slates, but college- and working-age people clearly are not. By the time we are ready to join the working world, we are already imprinted by what our culture tells us are "male" and "female" jobs, f
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by lutorm 10y ago
Skin color does not tell you anything about who a person is. The problem is that this is not true. If it was, it would be much simpler. Race and ethnicity have a nonzero correlation with other factors like culture and socioeconomic stat
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by lutorm 10y ago
Diversity and discrimination are kind of two different topics, no? Discrimination clearly leads to lack of diversity, but lack of diversity does not imply discrimination. I hope everyone thinks discrimination is bad, that doesn't seem
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by lutorm 10y ago
The other dimension is turnout. With the ridiculously low turnout in US elections, the people not voting could probably elect a third candidate if they all suddenly decided to. It seems that elections are won and lost at least as much by wh

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