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by mandevil 4mo ago
NASA used pure O2 in space until the end of the Apollo program, but the Shuttle and later used the same air we breathe today, 1atm 80% N2/20% O2. Note that in space, the pure O2 was at 0.4atm, so roughly twice the oxygen partial pressu
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by mandevil 4mo ago
They were definitely used on Mir- in 1997 one caught fire, blocking the crew's access to their escape Soyuz, though they put it out. It looks like NASA helped redesign it to be safer, creating the modern Solid Fuel Oxygen Generator (SF
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by mandevil 4mo ago
Just a FYI, S&P rolled back the dual-class rule. It was in place from 2017 to 2023.
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by mandevil 4mo ago
There are indexes which explicitly try to capture the entire market- the Russell 3000 is most prominent, but the Wiltshire 5000 is another one, and Vanguard's Total Market Funds and ETF follow the CRSP US Total Market Index. I believe
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by mandevil 4mo ago
NASDAQ-100 following ETF. Until recently, the only one that tracked the NASDAQ-100, which is a tech heavy index.
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by mandevil 4mo ago
In September 2016 almost exactly the same thing happened to a Falcon 9 at the Cape, also on a static fire. New Glenn is bigger, so bigger bang, but pretty much exactly the same thing. Off the top of my head, I recall in SpaceX's case i
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by mandevil 4mo ago
LL Bean for me. Original at first, then the deluxe later as I got more homework. And I used an accordion folder, one slot for each class, for holding handouts etc. in addition to the notebooks and binders.
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by mandevil 4mo ago
A report by some judges tried to carefully conceal the name of a judge who did a lot of terrible things (having a multi-year affair with a senior police officer, including sexual encounters in their chambers), even trying to hide their gend
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AI used to identify miscreant judge(abovethelaw.com)
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by mandevil 4mo ago
WFH alone, let alone compressed work schedules, can improve the "fertility crisis": https://www.nber.org/papers/w34963 Couples (in prime reproducing age) where both members WFH at least 1 day a week have 0.32
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by mandevil 4mo ago
The reason that duplicates were treated as dangerous was that SO viewed their most important user not as anyone you have mentioned but instead they prized the lurker most- the person who typed their problem into Google and got brought to SO
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by mandevil 5mo ago
The US Constitution is an amazing document, I suggest you read it if you are an American. It's pretty short and has a lot of stuff that is useful to know, even if you aren't a lawyer (I am not). Because I am not a lawyer, I didn&#
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by mandevil 5mo ago
Civil Rights law is how these sorts of things are enforced by individuals who were harmed, in your example a Law Enforcement Officer violated someone's civil rights by killing them in the line of duty and their family can sue for viola
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by mandevil 5mo ago
California SB 2, signed by Gavin Newsome in 2021, removed Qualified Immunity as a defense for all lawsuits brought under the Tom Bane Civil Rights Act. I'm not a lawyer, and I have never lived in California so I don't know how muc
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by mandevil 5mo ago
Not the legislature: the Supreme Court. Qualified Immunity was created out of whole cloth by the Supreme Court back in the 1960's when a police officer arrested- and then a judge convicted- a group of black and white Episcopal priests
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by mandevil 5mo ago
If you use HTTPS they can see that you hit wikipedia (they will see you are trying to do a DNS lookup for en.wikipedia.org), but they can't see that you are viewing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundeprutterutcheba
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by mandevil 5mo ago
The threat of force is much more potent than the actual use of force: this has been the delicate dance that the US has used with Iran since the Revolution. It took an idiot to try and actually use the full force of the USAF against Iran and
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by mandevil 5mo ago
Depends on exactly the situation- when I worked on a very expensive desktop application years ago I was warned about giving too much information in error messages as it might help crackers. With how powerful Ghidra is now, I'm not sure
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by mandevil 5mo ago
I personally feel like _The Day The Universe Changed_ (his second documentary) is better. I love Connections but the basic thesis (there are hidden connections between disparate developments in science and technology) ends up pretty scatter
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by mandevil 5mo ago
So Ashburn VA is a datacenter hub because the very first non-government Internet Exchange Point (IXP) anywhere in the world was there ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAE-East ). Back in the 1990's something like hal
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by mandevil 5mo ago
I was a IC/manager for a few months. Spending all day in meetings (there are actual things you have to do to manage 15+ people) and then going home and coding for 2-3 hours every night burned me the hell out and I left that company, go
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by mandevil 5mo ago
No, the laws are different- and more consumer friendly in the US- so the US consumer behavior is different. Back when credit cards were first starting out (which happened in the US) the US Congress passed a law- the Fair Credit Billing Act
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by mandevil 5mo ago
The problem with this is now you are solely responsible for managing all of the changes, all of the variation of life. Chrome changed the shape of this API, you are responsible for finding it and updating it. Morocco changed when their dayl
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by mandevil 5mo ago
The US Government made ASML dominant when it allowed it to acquire (US Company) Cymer, Inc.- the company that was best in the world at the time at EUV. Merging Cymer's EUV work with ASML's meticulous perfection and delivery of the
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by mandevil 5mo ago
Over the past 17 years I've lived in three houses (in the suburbs of two different cities in two different states- one East Coast, one land-locked) and an apartment in NYC (obviously also East Coast). In all of the East Coast spots (ur
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by mandevil 5mo ago
It turns out there is extensive research on this, and you are mistaken. Most politicians actually do try to deliver on their promises. They might get stopped, but they try. https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/59403/1&#x2F
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by mandevil 6mo ago
When originally coined (circa 1950 around the Korean War), the First World was the US aligned block of countries, the Second World was the USSR aligned block of countries, and the Third World was all of the countries not part of either. Egy
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by mandevil 6mo ago
S&P500 had a rule from 2017 to 2023 that prevented companies with dual classes of shares (the sort that allow them to maintain founder control- like what GOOG and META did) that went public after the rule was instituted from ever being
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by mandevil 6mo ago
There is a lot resting on Starlink, 11 gigadollars in direct revenue that accounts for fully 60% of SpaceX's total revenue of 18 gigadollars. It's hard to see how that level of revenue can sustain a 1 terradollar valuation. Like
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by mandevil 6mo ago
Interesting to see if Claude Code gets a lot better with a complete set of all jira tickets along with the integration to see the associated actual PR's, the linking of issues... it would depend on who owns the Atlassian data, of cours

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