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by mwbajor 4y ago
In my experience, when it comes to inflation discussions, everyone dances around the subject because there is an R or D after a name that they don't/do like. Hows about this: Both R's and D's have printed too much money
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Does this not invalidate everything we know about thermodynamics? Shouldn't the real question be " if we can reverse entropy somehow, shouldn't it be testable and what would that test look like?"
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by mwbajor 4y ago
As much as I love metcals, we had a $100 Aoyue hot-air station in graduate school that probably soldered on 500+ custom ASICs over its lifespan. The thing with prototyping chips (as with anything else) is you don't want to insert a var
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by mwbajor 4y ago
I disagree, but in the absence of shop-class and summer factory jobs, then yes.
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by mwbajor 4y ago
They came out with decent slip jaw pliers that were almost as expensive as real channel locks for about the same quality. At that point, the question becomes "do I trust a new brand?" instead of "do I buy lower quality?"
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Bad tools or consumables break at the most inopportune times and yes, in most cases bad = cheap. People like to compare to Snap-On but forget that Snap-On subsidizes their delivery service with the tool cost. Also, yes, Snap-Ons are in fact
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Cheap isn't bad in this case because of the iron: it gets hot and melts solder. Many people including myself learned on $10 radio shack irons. What people like adam savage are overlooking in their explanation is details, in this case,
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by mwbajor 4y ago
The new wellers are very good. I have a weller WE101, a Weller Curie-point iron from the mid 2000s and a Metcal 5200. I also have a Metcal rework station at work which was actually cheap for a metcal rework station at just under $10K. The
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by mwbajor 4y ago
I've lived next to Amish briefly and have friends that still live among them as non Amish. Im not going to argue with you because its just going to be anecdotal, but I can tell you that the kids are not brainwashed if thats what you&#x
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by mwbajor 4y ago
"Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage" Or in todays language: "You aren't free if you are bound by your desires". This is a quote by Emmanuel Kant and I think it applies well to the Am
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Lookup project Argus by the SETI League: http://www.setileague.org/argus/
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by mwbajor 4y ago
What most people don't know is that there are two SETI organizations. The SETI institute and the SETI League, http://www.setileague.org/ SETI @ home is run by the SETI Institute. As a participant in SETI @ home, your o
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Alot of airports used to make it to cut costs. Some also had special drain systems for reclaiming the fluid. Others had a subcontractor company come and suck it up as you sprayed the planes. There was also type 1 and type 2: Type 1 was the
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by mwbajor 4y ago
There was a guy at where I worked that would pump it from the deicing truck into the fluid recycling truck when no one was looking. He owned the recycling truck and also worked in the deicing operation (this was jersey...) Eventually he got
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Yea, back in ~2004 it was I think $16 the first year, and if you were good, $18 bucks after the second year. If you did it for > 5 years you became something like a supervisor.
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by mwbajor 4y ago
I deiced airplanes at newark airport during college. The deicing company just grabbed anyone they can practically off the streets. Training was 4 hours on a saturday in the fall. In the winter, folks would slam into planes all the time and
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by mwbajor 4y ago
"When they got a number closer to Millikan’s value they didn’t look so hard. And so they eliminated the numbers that were too far off, and did other things like that. We’ve learned those tricks nowadays, and now we don’t have that ki
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Wow, you did quite the somersault there.
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by mwbajor 4y ago
no one is going to care if the deaths were "intentional" or negligent.
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by mwbajor 4y ago
I agree but also disagree. There are too many conflicting interests and I don't think you will ever get a straight answer. People also can't look at the lab leak with a critical eye because they think it makes them look like trump
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by mwbajor 4y ago
I know, basic engineering, so simple and straightforward right? And when a country says "no", I assume we issue a series of stronger and stronger worded warning letters to them right?
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Doesn't matter if they understand the nuance. The lab leak theory takes a back seat for the following reason: Lets say it is found out with definite proof that it was a lab leak. Then what? Grandma's dead, china killed her and the
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by mwbajor 4y ago
You know you're right. Remember when Saddam closed his labs to us? The ones that never had WMDs? What was the "confidence" threshold for invading iraq? I also bet its the same exact people now telling us about more "conf
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by mwbajor 4y ago
" I have no idea why you think that has anything to do with the FDA, just buy the supplements if you think the circumstantial evidence is good enough." Can the FDA turn the circumstantial evidence into real evidence? I think they
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by mwbajor 4y ago
In my opinion, its more likely wallstreet that doesn't want to loose their cheap Chinese sweatshop labor.
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by mwbajor 4y ago
So if a tech from the Wuhan lab on one of these expeditions, does that count as a leak?
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by mwbajor 4y ago
I don't understand the mental gymnastics to discredit the lab leak hypothesis. The fact that the lab and epicenter of the virus are in the same geographic area make it the likely scenario and warrants the most investigation. The effort
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Its hardly a science, you can look up the arguments but I'm not the only one that says this. Covid is over, we can stop worshiping the medical field.. And if trying to take physics and organic chem at a community college during the sum
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by mwbajor 4y ago
Its not that I don't trust MDs, its that I don't trust them to be at the forefront of their field.
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by mwbajor 4y ago
There is too much contradictory evidence from the medical community on the efficacy of vitamin supplements. However, enough circumstantial evidence exists to prove two things: 1) Diet studies are hard 2) Pharmaceuticals are not going to fun

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