nikdaheratik

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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
I disagree about needing more "humility". The problem is that climate modelling is much more difficult than many of the "solved" physics problems, but due to what we already know about the problem of Climate Change, we n
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
I think the problems the fossil fuel industry are having, such as they are, have little to do with climate change and more to do with either economics being against them, in the case of coal, or fraking in the case of natural gas. The &quot
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
I think for Tesla, it is less about the workers and more about the entire design process at other companies that they're skeptical of. There are alot of items in the product design and manufactoring for GM, etc. that are there because
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by nikdaheratik 8y ago
It's not "magic accounting" it's looking at different aspects of the business. You can look at the cost to make each vehicle (in terms of components + labor) vs. the price you're selling it at, or you can look at th
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Machines like the scanning electron microscope or an x-ray crystallography machine allows us to peer inside atomic structures to some extent. The problem is that of scale: visible light has a wavelength of 380-750 nm (10^-9 meters) while th
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
The laser light is absorbed by the atom and is released at a different wavelength. While the radius of the atom is 200 x 10^-12 meters, the wavelength of the light being emitted is in the visible spectrum, so between 380-500 x 10^-9 M which
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
> The problem is that it could be a slippery slope with no transparency, oversight, or recourse. There's actually a very simple recourse: don't pay them any more money or play the game. In this case, Blizzard is definitely more
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Except that they can just pay it with their overseas money in whatever form makes sense. On top of that, debt repayment comes out before the profit/loss that determines income so they could even use that to selectively lower their tax
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Yes and no. You have to do a 1040 no matter what and you have to include a number of special forms that you must get absolutely right or you deal with alot of BS from having to talk to the IRS. And that's just for a simple tax situatio
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
I'm going to miss this site but I'm also surprised it lasted as long as it did. At least the writers they brought in are still working so there's something to look forward to.
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
My work situation has been much less draining since moving to Australia. I think the biggest difference is that 6-12 month contract work is more common in tech jobs, and there are a lot more small companies where your contribution is bigger
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
We don't actually know that. From what I've seen, the Syrian government faction was maybe a third of the fighting force, but they had air power and the other factions were never able to unite for various reasons. The arms from the
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Syria is a huge mess, but the U.S. isn't the one paying most of the costs there (for good or ill). It's closer to the proxy wars great powers fight all of the time while the U.S. was and is on the front lines for Iraq and Afghanis
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
I guess that depends on how much you trust a government news source when that government is headed by a guy that murders journalists that disagree with him.
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Alot of the same arguments I heard from old people 20 years ago. I agree with the foreign policy critques, especially regarding the middle east, but we had similar issues with Vietnam 50 years ago and even larger ones with the Civil War and
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
The effects of alcohol are interesting in that it slows down your central nervous system which makes it a depressant but it also can reduce anxiety and trigger the release of dopamine and other chemicals in the brain that make you feel good
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
I don't think the comparison is to the service industry, but rather to other in demand jobs that require the same level of education and don't get pushed into some kind of massive grind based on artificial deadlines. If you get in
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
It's because potentially the ISPs could try and force both the tech companies and the consumer to pay more or have their service downgraded. They already tried that with Netflix before these regulations were added in the first place. A
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
They can't filter the posts, but they can make it so that the data coming from those sites end up coming in at such a slow speed that they're pretty much unusable. And that would be just fine under the new regulations. > Why no
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
I don't understand how you claim that these actions are exclusive. More alternatives for the consumer are good. Regulations preventing unnecessary charges for the consumer, directly or indirectly are also good. If you are happy with yo
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
So the policy change is a good idea because it won't affect you personally. In which case, why are you wasting our time since it doesn't affect you personally?
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
It's very tiresome how these threads seem to pop up on this site that basically boil down to how "Nuclear is the savior of all" and people are too scared/stupid to see it. The problem is that "people" aren&#x27
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
It's not just about Cost of Living. When you're an immigrant you know very little outside of your own family/community. The options are either be your own boss or be underemployed forever because you can't get hired t
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
There's a difference between life, and the economic system of capitalism. More than that, if rich people are only willing to fund the ideas of other rich people, eventually society becomes static as does technological progress. And the
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Discovery stacks up very well against their last attempt (Enterprise), and I like the way that they're willing to avoid fixing whatever problems show up using tachyon particles, or other magical plot devices. It also compares very favo
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Except that Turnbull was in charge of alot of this stuff in the Abbott gov't before he became PM. However, no one running this project to date has done a very good job.
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
It's not the people that work in the industry that I'm annoyed with, it's the people running the game dev cos. And to a lesser extent the "startups" that are also poorly ran and exploitative. It's this same lat
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
That's not always the case. In places like SF, the only way to build is up, which is expensive, requires alot of capital, and is risky by itself even if you don't have NIMBY people fighting it. In this case, Monopoly has it exactl
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
The real estate market is not like most other markets in that the turnover of "inventory" is very low. Any speculation, foreign or otherwise, can have a huge effect on the price. On top of that, you can't just create a new li
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Alot of good recommendations even if they may not meet strict personal definitions of either "hard" sci-fi, or "AI" sci-fi. If you haven't read the Culture books, by Iain M. Banks, I'd recommend them (as others

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