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by lutorm 10y ago
No, that's not what a class is supposed to be. The view of a classroom as being a conduit where the teacher transmits knowledge from their brain into the students is entirely outdated. That's not how learning works. To learn, you
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by lutorm 10y ago
One thing that I don't understand is why all these people that complain about Facebook don't just ... stop using it. Just seems like a gigantic waste of time to me... ;-)
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by lutorm 10y ago
Some people like to say things like that, but it's more accurate to say "this proves our current model is consistent with data". I only skimmed the article (and haven't read the actual paper) but it focused on surroundin
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by lutorm 10y ago
No, this sim is done using GIZMO (a derivative of the GADGET-2 code) which uses a hybrid of SPH and AMR methods: http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/GIZMO.html
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by lutorm 10y ago
The question is how to obtain happiness, though. Does it necessarily have to entail ruining the environment? “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
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by lutorm 10y ago
I don't doubt that there's a wide range in people's aptitudes for various subjects. However, when it comes to the study cited, it seems there's no control sample so you can't tell what part of the outcome is really
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by lutorm 10y ago
This seems like a good place to point out that we are hiring! See the "Who's Hiring" thread. :-)
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by lutorm 10y ago
Note that we also have openings for flight software, which has more emphasis on C++ and embedded systems, and autonomous systems (see "Software Development" under spacex.com/careers.) You might have seen in other threads toda
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by lutorm 10y ago
Maybe I should have been clearer: Just because you say it's derivable "from logic" doesn't mean it is. No logic system can do anything without axioms, and the adoption of those axioms is an arbitrary choice.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Didn't you say this earlier, though? The purpose of government is to protect our rights. It sounds like you also think "you logically have a right to the services of someone else", otherwise who's doing the protection?
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by lutorm 10y ago
Good luck with that.
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by lutorm 10y ago
You can't divine rights out of some fundamental logic. The only ones who can decide what rights humans have are the humans themselves, and then we structure our society to make sure those rights aren't violated.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Government is force - nothing more. People state this as if it's some obvious truth, and it makes no sense to me. My statement would be: Government is a mechanism which we, as a group, have decided should handle certain functions of
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by lutorm 10y ago
A fair number of people would consider the right to health care a fundamental human right.
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by lutorm 10y ago
I live in Hawaii. When I need something mailed to or from here, I use USPS. FedEx or UPS are an order of magnitude more expensive and, in my experience, not faster or more reliable.
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by lutorm 10y ago
At least one has: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_health_care_reform It apparently didn't work well, though.
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by lutorm 10y ago
It's not quite as easy as you might think, but there is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-STARRS . The data analysis is quite a challenge, though. According to that site, the data rate from the PS1 telescope is ~ 1
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by lutorm 10y ago
In the meantime, Prime seems to get less and less available for me here in HI. You go to a product that says "Prime", but then when you attempt to check out it says "actually, this can't be shipped to your destination&qu
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by lutorm 10y ago
That's an interesting theory.
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by lutorm 10y ago
I have mild tinnitus, it's not really bothering me but is noticeable in quiet environments. I find it interesting that I can exacerbate it by pulling on my jaw or clenching my jaw. If I'm feeling a bit under the weather, it is als
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by lutorm 10y ago
I'm not sure the diffraction formula has much relevance for computing shielding. I thought that formula was an idealization where you assume that the field strength on the blocking parts is identically zero, but I don't think that
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by lutorm 10y ago
I guess i should have added a ;-). Although the laser sintering printer downstairs produces quite nice surface finishes. Not good enough for an optical mirror, but definitely good enough for mm-wave antennas.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Obviously it's for a metal 3d printer...
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by lutorm 10y ago
Define reproduced? Do we mean "conduct the same experiment multiple times so we can assess the variance on the outcome"? Or do we mean "conduct the same experiment multiple times to figure out if the first result is a screw-u
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by lutorm 10y ago
Doesn't the auto pilot function as a normal cruise control, ie the driver sets the speed, unless it's following traffic?
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by lutorm 10y ago
This was not my experience. In the Honolulu office everyone except the guards were wearing aloha.
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by lutorm 10y ago
When 70-80% are reflown , that might be true. So far there has not been any cost savings whatsoever...
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by lutorm 10y ago
They may have liquidity events even if they aren't going public.
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by lutorm 10y ago
Who doesn't think that your bank balance affects the outcome?
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by lutorm 10y ago
By 2020 any airplane that flies in controlled airspace is required to be equipped with ADS-B out. This applies to VFR as well as IFR flights. Of course, VFR flights can continue flying VFR if GPS shuts down, but IFR flights wouldn't

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