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by mandevil 4y ago
Well, the thing is, at least based on the article, Burton- the accused groomer/pedophile/sexual assaulter- does not work for Google. If he did, I'm all for firing him right into the Sun. The article makes no allegations that
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by mandevil 4y ago
I am an Eagle Scout, and proud of that fact. That means that I am affiliated with- and proud of my experience with- an organization that molests children[1]. To my knowledge it never happened in my troop, but it definitely happened, a lot,
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by mandevil 4y ago
So, does that mean that funding the Roman Catholic Church is a fire-able offense? What about the Southern Baptist Convention? Or Penn State University (at least while Jerry Sandusky was working there)? Or Michigan State (at least while Nass
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by mandevil 4y ago
The problem here is when you have more than 2, and especially as it combinatorially expands as you get more and more locks. Now I need Lock A, Lock C, and Lock F, but then this other critical section needs Lock A, Lock D, and Lock F, and if
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by mandevil 4y ago
And keeping that discipline over many developers, over many years, is in practice impossible, which is why multiple locks seem attractive but are actually a major problem for complex systems.
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by mandevil 4y ago
The Hinkley Point story is very complicated, indeed. But I believe you will find that initial work to clear space and create parking for the future construction site started in 2008, then the EDF acquisition shenanigans and British governme
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by mandevil 4y ago
Thank you, missed those two in China. Similar to the AP1000, China can build these licensed designs faster than the flagships, missed that.
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by mandevil 4y ago
That is true for the 1970's and 1980's boom of production in France, but is not true at present: the EPR they are building at Flamenville 3 and Hinkley Point C1+C2 are the sum total of those reactors currently under construction,
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by mandevil 4y ago
An excellent (English language) podcast about Berlin's fiasco of an airport, BER: https://www.radiospaetkauf.com/ber/ (29 years from planning to completion, 14 years from construction start to opening, 9 years lat
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by mandevil 4y ago
Unfortunately, when it comes to nuclear Europe's (excluding Russia) basically in the same boat as the US. Consulting the current list of nuclear power plants under construction around the world by a pro-nuclear power group here: https
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by mandevil 4y ago
Japan ceased all construction of nuclear reactors in response to Fukushima daiichi, and since that was a decade ago I'm betting that all the competence they built up has disappeared. In other words, very similar to what happened in the
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by mandevil 4y ago
While I agree that there will be more demands for the all-in-one coder+subject matter experts, I think that coding will have to fundamentally change for it to become expected of everyone. Right now, we professional coders make our living be
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by mandevil 4y ago
My wife is a pharmacist. Over the past two decades the number of pharmacy schools has increased and some schools have gotten bigger classes, such that now every year there are about 25% more Pharm.D's made than in 2005. The result has
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by mandevil 4y ago
I can't speak for all the ways, but one way that I do know would be name: a Sikh guru in the 17th Century mandated that all of his followers change their surnames (males to Singh, females to Kaur) to try and get rid of caste discrimina
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by mandevil 4y ago
Europe seems to have the exact same problems with building nuclear power plants that the US does, which suggests that the problem is not with individual regulators who need to be replaced. Consulting the current list of nuclear power plants
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by mandevil 4y ago
Not sure about the specific instance, but Matt Levine's invaluable Money Stuff spent a lot of time discussing so-called "Manufactured Default": https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2018-04-10&#
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by mandevil 4y ago
I don't think that necessarily tracks: having a test-bed be reusable can mean you get more flights, can carry more payloads, and study many different things. Which for exploring something as complex as hypersonic flight, has obvious at
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by mandevil 4y ago
The reason that there are plenty of rocket first stages and basically no air-breathing first stages that go to orbit is that, essentially, this isn't true. OSC Pegasus and Virgin LauncherOne are the only exceptions, and both are only g
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by mandevil 4y ago
Worse- it was a 15 ton Stryker ICV versus a mere 2.5 ton Humvee.
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Yeah, back then I also thought that a leader-follower convoying system would be implemented first (with local drivers for the last mile problem), because that system made sense and was straightforward- with good logistics software (to make
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by mandevil 4y ago
Back in 2005-6 I was working on autonomous off-road vehicles for the US Army, part of the far outer fringes of the [Future Combat System] ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems ). In our tests we found tha
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by mandevil 4y ago
But SES is not on the Executive Schedule, is my point.
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Well, but Executive Schedule people are essentially all political appointees, not individual contributors. This is the several hundred people who get appointed by the President- most of them requiring Senate approval- and come in to be the
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by mandevil 4y ago
I don't think this is true. GS grades are capped by the compensation of Level IV of the Executive Schedule (sometimes with locality pay they would exceed that and so they get capped), which is roughly the same as Congress salary, but d
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The Imperial Japanese Navy was best in the world in three things on Jan 1st 1942- attacking ships from airplanes, launching night torpedo attacks from cruisers and destroyers, and having the biggest, meanest battleship with by far the bigge
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by mandevil 4y ago
_Battleship at War_ by Ivan Musicant is the full story of the USS Washington, does a good job at detailing that battle from the USS Washington perspective, and also discusses the early portions of the development of the Combat Information C
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by mandevil 4y ago
I was unfamiliar with Redpanda, and now I know and trust it. Whatever marketing budget Redpanda spent to get a Jepsen report was well worth it.
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by mandevil 5y ago
The helium was in bladders (big balloons) inside the structure and the outer skin covering. There were many bladders together inside the metal and the outer skin.
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When 11 US diplomats in Uganda turned up with NSO Pegasus Malware on their phones, the US government responded by listing NSO as a covered Entity and forbidding any US company from buying or selling with it without express permission of the
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by mandevil 5y ago
At a big multi-tenancy company I used to work at, the problem would have been the accessory machines: we had something like 15-20 different machines around the main DB and API machines, running cron jobs, terminating SSL connections, load b

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