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by mmmBacon 11y ago
The biggest savings of Christmas shopping on Amazon is not having to go to a physical store to do the shopping. No driving around wasting hours in traffic, waiting in lines, and dealing with cranky people. The added benefit is that Amaz
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
My son received the game Operation for Christmas from his grandparents. That game came from Amazon in a blue felt bag.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
The architects of the Hong Kong airport paid a lot of attention to sound I think. The ceiling is very high but there are panels that are at various angles that help reduce reflections. The first time I visited I noticed it right away. As
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
A knuckle tap is a good one too. Works well when fingertips are covered in BBQ sauce, grease, etc...
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Dollar per giga bit is the current standard way to describe cost of a fiber optic system.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I guess if you want to consider a company that had a major hand in slavery. But if you restrict yourself to modern times you find: Apple just completely crushed its Q1 earnings, delivering its most profitable quarter ever — and the most p
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Kazakhstan is not the US. We are highly unlikely to see a public uprising in Kazakhstan over this when the country has had the same president since 1991 and rubber-stamp parliament. Protests in 2011 were quelled by gunning down protestors
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
These 2 things are created in different semiconductor technology (materials) that have quite different properties. Most communications are either in GaAs for NIR or in InGaAS/InP for mid IR. Visible stuff here is generally a large G
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I've had several colleagues from the UK bemoan the light sentences criminals receive in the UK. Each time I was suprised when the person referred to "proper" sentences in the US.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I think vox_mollis meant burning the healthiest years of life; this doesn't necessarily mean being self-destructive.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I agree with you only in my case I was 35. Now, I'm in my early 40s with 3 kids, one as young as 2. I wish I had my kids when I was younger because who knows how many healthy years I'll have to spend with them. I think often ho
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Driving substantially slower than the speed of traffic is extremely dangerous because of the potential speed differential. Relative velocity matters. Also Regensdorf is really pretty busy and all you're doing by going slow is pissing
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Very interesting research but they do their SW in Labview?
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I'm curious about the long-term health affects from such an experience. The parasites sound particularly nasty. [edit] It would be nice to know if he is expected to recover his physical health or if he is left with chronic conditions.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I worked on wearable sensing technology over the last couple years. Coming from a pure EE/Physics type background it was a real eye-opener to deal with the variability in human physiology. Even in the simplest sensors, it's near
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
What kind of math are you interested in and what you would like to accomplish?
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
As a person with math degrees, I cannot agree with this more. I'm fighting this battle at home now with my first grader. There is way too much focus on the mechanics of grinding out arithmetic and way too little in teaching kids how
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I used to work in this field at a big tech player that competes with Google for talent in this area. I can definitely vouch for the fact that salaries are NOT $60k and that they are more in line with what frisco is talking about.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I see this in HW too to a lesser extent. I think a lot of this comes from insecurity by the interviewer and the interviewer's need to feel smarter than the interviewee.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
This is interesting for sure in identifying novel spoke patterns that might result in a stronger/lighter wheel. Since the simulator identifies lots of possibilities it would be useful to have some kind of figure of merit to help wit
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Yes it's also dry here in CA and trees will lose leaves but not all of their leaves. The trees in the photo are completely bare. Note also that the grass in the foreground shows up in the image as dark. This implies that the grass
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
The caption says the image was taken during the summer of 1878 but there are no leaves on the trees. So either the trees around their hide out were all dead or it wasn't summer.
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
My neighbor worked for Apple's real estate (facilities?) organization during this time. His only Steve Jobs story is that one day Steve came into the real-estate office extremely angry. Apparently SJ had received a parking ticket for
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Yeah there's a bit more to it than that. Lighter stuff allows you to go further with less energy. Lighter wheels and tires make a really big difference as does tire rolling resistance. In something like a century (100 mike ride) a li
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
I agree here. I recently worked on a project that required very tiny and optically precise injection molding and coating. Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers couldn't get close to making what we needed. There was a US manufacturer t
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Germany manufactures a lot of things. I read an article once that said 30% of the BOM cost of iPhone went to Germany. It bothers me that we cannot replicate their success here in the US. Surely we are just as capable.
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This Watch release isn't new internal hardware. It's simply an increase in the options you can buy in terms of case colors/materials and bands. As a watch is something you wear, it makes sense to give people more options to
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Exactly how have they taken the lead here? They bought a bunch of bolt-on stuff and slapped together some software that works in a very limited way. Am I missing something?
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The article is from this year. What about these advanced designs makes them more cost competitive? I think the arguments in the article point out that there are lots of costs associated with these small reactors. Not the least of which i
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by mmmBacon 11y ago
Here's a recent article from IEEE Spectrum that argues that small reactors will never be cost competitive. http://spectrum.ieee.org/energy/nuclear/the-forgotten-histor...

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