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by niels_olson 10y ago
The problem is that people take the accidents as reasons to retreat into pre-scientific beliefs in gods and goblins. One step forward, two steps back is still a step back.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
True or false: a reactor accident costs more in political capital than all the capital of building it to begin with...
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I don't understand what you mean. What consumption shall we reduce? Less oil? Working on it (see: solar). Less food? Working on it (see: /r/progresspics, and all the science and journalism on this, soda bans, etc). Less cars?
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by niels_olson 10y ago
My undergrad is in Physics and I took engineering classes in Rickover Hall. I was stationed on a nuclear ship. Even after deploying for the Fukushima disaster, I am a fan of nuclear power. But I have a hard time justifying new investment in
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Are we talking DoD or DISA? DISA is probably close to a Fortune 100 company. DoD's annual spend exceeds Apple's market cap. The annual research budget is $40B+
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Ask HN: What's your favorite router these days?
1 points by niels_olson 10y ago|3 comments
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by niels_olson 10y ago
In other news, Microsoft just bought the most lucrative position for corporate espionage available on planet Earth.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Pretty sure DoD helped motivate development of cellular networks in response to lessons learned from Vietnam.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Windows 7 still does this with Pandora in Chrome when loading a new tab. Oh, wait, the world moved on from 32-bit Windows 7? Let me tell my boss...
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Well that's a surp ... no, no it's not. I think the precedent got set when the government offered $3B to subsidize roll-out and they realized they could just pocket it without any real oversight.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I would change it to "Italian doctors graft kidney to splenic vasculature, sacrificing immune function for intra-abdominal real estate".
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Not thermodynamics, thermal physics. You very literally start from quantum states and work you're way up to large collections about which you make estimates which are highly consistent with the real world. Perhaps "statistical mec
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by niels_olson 10y ago
The title should be "Italian doctors graft kidney to splenic vasculature, sacrificing immune function for intra-abdominal real estate".
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Interesting. Instead of just an emergency brake, you want a second emergency handle: a mechanical linkage to a circuit-breaker on the mains.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Hey, those innoculations aren't the end of the story. I was involved with a patient who went swimming in a waterfall pool in Hawaii and came down with leptospirosis. He didn't mention to his primary care provider that he'd ha
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by niels_olson 10y ago
> how the classical world arises from quantum laws seem particularly boneheaded What classical world do you refer to? Newtonian physics? That's well understood, the general area of study is called thermal physics. Are you talking ab
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Dictatorships thrive in austere environments. They are no friends of internet access. You might want to travel to more austere environments. Like small towns in Kansas. Or the Philippines.
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Show HN: Two HN tabs I found together, that concern me
5 points by niels_olson 10y ago|1 comments
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New England Journal of Medicine SPRINT Data Challenge(challenge.nejm.org)
1 points by niels_olson 10y ago|0 comments
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by niels_olson 10y ago
> Master battery disconnect which auto locks all brakes probably want to separate those. Kill the engine at 80 mph, you can coast to stop. If you lock the brakes at 80 mph, you immediately lose most of your control, and, since you killed
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I just searched for "Calcifying Fibrous Tumor", and got exactly what I wanted, the most recent review article on that tumor. What are you looking for?
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Hi, pathologist here. Keeping up with updates to classification schemes is a non-trivial part of our practice. To the point that many visit the CAP protocols before signing out any malignant case, just to make sure they're going from t
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Erm, correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Fresno need something like 50 years of rain to replete the water table?
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I can't connect, and the Google cache is unreadable. Can anyone repost on a mirror?
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by niels_olson 10y ago
No, but I do believe they have an intrinsic desire (money/sweets) that can be used to manipulate their behavior.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
I think between USDS and 18F, 18F has been showing more stable growth and they're on an eat-what-you-kill budget.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
In the ML world, yes. But the biologists know how to do the experiments , most of which is raising fish and looking at them under a confocal microscope. Give them an effectively infinite supply of confocal microscopists and they could rais
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Balgair was responding to me. I'm a pathologist with an undergrad in physics. Balgair's assumptions are well founded. It's like trying to convince horsemen to buy this new carriage an otto cycle engine. Maybe one of those hor
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Browse federal websites and check how many Sun icons you still see. My hypothesis: Oracle killed Solaris once they realized USDS and 18F had solid long term growth prospects.
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by niels_olson 10y ago
Why don't you train a machine to analyze the tail deflection. Then do all the fish gene knock-out experiments?

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