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by nether 13y ago
I worked for Boeing, we definitely considered ourselves an American corporation. Because of ITAR [1] we could not simply pick up with all of our IP to another country. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITAR
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by nether 13y ago
So tying the dollar to the gold standard is meaningless, because paper money is in itself intrinsically valuable? I thought the dollar was fiat [1], i.e. without intrinsic value. Just like bitcoin. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by nether 13y ago
> [1] The Onion is a satire newspaper, one of the first newspapers to heavily adopt an online format. They just killed their print edition for good last year. The Onion originated online actually. The print edition was mostly an experime
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by nether 13y ago
Because NASA's mission is not to turn a profit.
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by nether 13y ago
> The American public perceives the NASA budget as commanding a much larger share of the federal budget than it in fact does. A 1997 poll reported that Americans had an average estimate of 20% for NASA's share of the federal budget,
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by nether 13y ago
Big difference between US and DPRK is that we have heard of it, and are free to criticize it without repercussions.
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Scientists prove that fears and memories can be inherited via sperm(extremetech.com)
2 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
> However I am not an engineer, never finished college, and am over 35 which may have hurt my application :) I think it was more that the idea is far afield of what YC typically invests in (computer software/hardward) and what YC un
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by nether 13y ago
Yeah, that sounds reasonable. I don't have firsthand experience with Harvard, this is what I've just heard to be the general case with universities.
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by nether 13y ago
This is why I think concerns over grade inflation are overstated. High grades for outstanding students doing outstanding work are warranted, and these are the kids Harvard by-and-large admits. The apparent grade "inflation" over t
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by nether 13y ago
It's also due to the fact that easier grading brings more positive student evaluations of profs, which are taken into account with salaries and tenureship.
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by nether 13y ago
Holy shit, it's happening...
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You Need To Go After The Things You Want(thoughtcatalog.com)
3 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
Batteries are less energy dense (J/kg) than fossil fuels at any scale. For flight applications this makes batteries not so great because reducing weight is so critical. This becomes especially pronounced for larger aircraft sizes. You
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Google Fosters South Korean Startups(online.wsj.com)
2 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
InnoCentive and Quirky do pretty much this. > InnoCentive is a Massachusetts-based open innovation company that accepts by commission research and development problems in a broad range of domains such as engineering, computer science, ma
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by nether 13y ago
Except liquid meal replacements already exist (Ensure etc.), and the entire world isn't Valley geeks. You could eat cheap fast calories everyday but gourmet restaurants still thrive. Not everyone is obsessed with food practicality.
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Dozens executed in North Korea 'for watching foreign films'(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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The Fighting Style: Reading the Unabomber’s Strunk and White(english.illinois.edu)
1 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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Seagate CEO: Google, Web service giants upgrade storage almost yearly (2006)(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
1 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
Does ANYONE know what hard drives Google, Facebook, and Dropbox use at their datacenters? This 2006 article says Google buys Seagate: http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2006/11/16/seagate-ceo-google-we... .
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by nether 13y ago
Makes me think of the multiple coffee brewing devices out of Stanford: Aeropress, Clover. Can't imagine something like that arising at MIT.
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by nether 13y ago
> Our final design project was our one true chance to show that we could actually build something, and for many teams that too resulted in failure. This is why student engineering team projects exist. Solar Car, Formula SAE, Human-Powere
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by nether 13y ago
When I fell sans helmet, I rolled on the ground but my head never contacted the ground because my shoulder was in the way. I still wear a helmet for long distance or traffic rides.
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Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset(blogs.parktudor.org)
2 points by nether 13y ago|0 comments
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by nether 13y ago
I think everyone feels most of these, or at least says they do. If anything, all the head nodding in this thread is a nice example of a Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Hypersonic missiles: Speed is the new stealth(economist.com)
11 points by nether 13y ago|4 comments
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by nether 13y ago
I doubt a pretty girl would have so many employees bending over backward to help her if they were all women. You're kidding yourself if you think a female-dominated industry wouldn't have handled her more appropriately.
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by nether 13y ago
> I'd love to read some honest, uncensored interviews from people working on these things, mostly to just get their side of things. Because losing their job and being charged with a felony for breaking a TS clearance is totally wort
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by nether 13y ago
Do you think instead of coming up with a new XBox logo or whatever he's tasked with at Microsoft, he's going to show them a popsicle? Or a new kind of bookshelf? I think now that he's being paid to do what he wants, he won&#x

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