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by mhalle 9y ago
Whether the pedestrian is legally at fault is only part of the issue. Failure to yield is a ticket, not a death sentence. The driver also has no legal right to strike the pedestrian. Every driver (or equivalent) has a responsibility, be it
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by mhalle 9y ago
Actually, the yielding rules for pedestrians and drivers vary widely from state to state. See this page for a summary: http://www.ncsl.org/research/transportation/pedestrian-cross... But the legality is to some e
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by mhalle 9y ago
In general, there weren't "all those holes" because most sites didn't have that many networked computers. This was the pre-PC era. 10BASE5 could only have taps every 2.5 meters. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mhalle 9y ago
Vampire tap. You had to place them at marked locations on the coax because of signal reflections.
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by mhalle 9y ago
No, I was just noting two other examples.
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by mhalle 9y ago
Two other interesting examples: Trazadone is one of the most commonly prescribed insomnia medications. It isn't FDA approved for that. It is a decade's old generic antidepressant. The sleep dose is much less than the regulated the
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by mhalle 9y ago
Shoe wear is an interesting investigate tool. The most easily observed wear, sole wear, is the result of friction due to foot motion relative to the ground, not force. Midsole compression and heel counter distortion better correspond to for
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by mhalle 9y ago
James Holmes was mentally ill, stopped his therapy, and wrote journals filled with details about how he was going to kill people. His perception of reality, his interpretation of threats, and what drove his motivations were are an exception
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by mhalle 9y ago
I am actually impressed by the resiliency and positive outlook of the people in the article, at least relative to what I initially expected. Take the woman who offered the reporter an inside tour of her fragile iron lung, and finds someone
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by mhalle 9y ago
This article is (2013). Same magazine posted another article in 2014 that provided a different look at the same broad topic: https://www.quantamagazine.org/beyond-the-bell-curve-a-new-u...
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by mhalle 9y ago
Here is an approachable article that puts the subject in more perspective: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/a-second-draft-of-... And here's journal paper that gives some examples outside of phy
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Why the Navy's top spy sub flew a pirate flag pulling into port(thedrive.com)
4 points by mhalle 9y ago|0 comments
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by mhalle 9y ago
It is an interesting idea, but most of the lighting industry is interested in reducing flicker, not increasing possible sources of it. You'd be fighting the current.
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by mhalle 9y ago
Thanks for bringing this point up. Without that context, this issue could seem fairly trivial. I would go as far as to say that living group culture (e.g, which side of campus, living group, floor, and even finer grain) is the strongest s
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by mhalle 9y ago
I would alternatively suggest not treating groups of people, particularly young people, like monolithic machines. "Put them on notice": who is "them"? Senior House, like any dorm, is a bunch of people living together. So
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by mhalle 9y ago
A related question is, what other equivalent email/postal mail do parents get about their kids? Things may be different recently, but my parents got nothing from MIT short of bills, grades, and fundraising. The article seems to confirm
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by mhalle 9y ago
Completely agree, and it puts this aspect of the case into an interesting legal realm. There is certainly a question of misuse of protected health information, which can be treated quite harshly by the US government, especially when involvi
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by mhalle 9y ago
As a Senior House alum and former instructor at MIT, what bothers me the most is how MIT is teaching horrible standards of ethical behavior through their actions. Improper use of metadata to track down individuals in a confidential survey a
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by mhalle 9y ago
Easy way to tell a faked 3D display: look for imagery lying along a line of sight that doesn't intersect the display medium. For example, the dinosaur's head and the tops of buildings stick out above the display's edges as se
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Blocking a key enzyme may reverse memory loss(news.mit.edu)
1 points by mhalle 9y ago|0 comments
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by mhalle 9y ago
Completely agree that the reporting on this memo would have benefited greatly by more careful reporting by the journalism community. While that may be the case, however, it isn't like the uproar and misinterpretation couldn't have
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by mhalle 9y ago
But Gabor's holograms were not display holograms of the type we think of. The long coherence length of the laser was essential to display holography as pioneered by Leith and Upatnieks at University of Michigan in the mid 1960s.
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by mhalle 9y ago
You accurately describe properties of a fairly narrow class of holographic displays. There's a larger class of display types out there. For example: White light transmission holograms (Benton or rainbow holograms), invented in the 19
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by mhalle 9y ago
Submitted article extremely light on details, and conflates the researcher's incremental improvements in holography with long established techniques such as holographic stereograms. See actual paper for better signal to noise: https:&
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by mhalle 9y ago
To expand on your point, retinas talk a limited number of overlapping spectral responses. That's why we can have an essentially identical perception of spectral yellow and a mix of red and green light.
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by mhalle 9y ago
The hemophilia example you mention is a relatively weak one (e.g., no hemophiliac and carrier were known to have had offspring). See https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/23648/was-inbre...
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Are Men Better Risk-Takers Than Women?(nautil.us)
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by mhalle 9y ago
You might want to look for a better example. Even before prices for HCV drugs went down due to competition, they offered a cure for a life threatening disease for less than $100K in the US with minimal side effects, typically in 8 weeks, an
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by mhalle 9y ago
Perhaps your tone got you downvotes. You are correct about delays, if you compare the "scramble" to a concurrently signalled intersection where pedestrians and vehicles move simultaneously in a given direction on green. Put anothe
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by mhalle 9y ago
Ask your doctor about a liver enzyme test, and get an HepC test if you have any possible risk you contracted it. The liver enzyme tests will tell you if the liver is fighting off anything. That said, you're probably OK if you don'

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