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by ocschwar 7y ago
In my undergrad years, if the campus police got a panicky parent call, they'd send an officer to the computer club to ask us to finger every host on the campus.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Wow, I'm old
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by ocschwar 7y ago
17'.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> (Full disclosure, I went to school till I was 28. It fucking ruled and I think everyone should do it if they want to). If they want to, sure. Hurrah for education-for-its-own-sake.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
In my day, the rest of MIT called it the Remedial Lab
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by ocschwar 7y ago
So, let's see: we have a surge of stock market speculation driven by day traders seeking to get rich quick, in a country with a growing influence from Protestant Evangelicals preaching the prosperity gospel. Brazillians, you can ask an
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Just shut the place down. The grants won't be coming in any more. Let's not pretend otherwise.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Look up "Bradsher Bars." They're designed to make sure in a collision with a car, the SUV frame will catch the car and not overtop it, which would be even worse for the car's occupants. BUt they also mean less crumpling
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Cars are more designed to have the front crumple, and that makes the influence much less, because less kinetic energy is conserved in the collision.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
And could get locked up for doing so.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> If they are going to use minor violations of the law as a pretext for revenue collection, they should call it what it is: kleptocracy. Fancy word, there, son. 'round here we call it Dixie.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
When controlled through TCP/IP, every air conditioner, ice maker or refrigerator can function as a battery.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Renewables in CA are difficult because when the sun sets, electricity demand is high, but there's no source of solar power to the west. (And coastal wind in CA is hard since the costal shelf drops much deeper than on the East Coast.)
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Renewables mean lots of BOTH for a simple reason: supply and demand. When the wind is blowing and the sun is shining, renewables can provide lots of power no matter what the live price is. (The cost of renewables is 100% installation, 0% op
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Past tense. I still have an extremely conservative outlook, and I have no ideological opposition to the private sector, but when "conservatives" are the ones running around upsetting apple carts and setting fires, it becomes hard
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by ocschwar 7y ago
You can thank the McCormick Reaper for putting that to an end. No need for Roundup.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
That in turn boils down to a reluctance people have to acknowledging the magnitude of an externality of they are the ones imposing it on others, or even its existence. It's particularly severe when it's up to an MBA running a com
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> However, there are still very real farmers out there who need real solutions to avoid going bankrupt The financial risk for farmers comes primarily from having to compete with farmers who are resorting to these dangerous products. And
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by ocschwar 7y ago
History repeats itself. When Clair PAtterson started researching the environmental persistence of ethyl-lead (leaded gas), Du Pont offered to sponsor any research he wanted to do so long as it wasn't ethyl lead. Not only can you not tr
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Um, perhaps it's because the entire entertainment industry views tenors as having talents that are worth developing, and baritones as disposable extras? (Baritone here. We ARE disposable extras. But can't they pretend at least a l
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Didn't Solar City rely on local installation firms?
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> Where is this obsession with cars being the issue come from? Cities that have the whole motor vehicle danger thing under control are safe for kids under 8 to wander around barely supervised. SRSLY.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
And keep the fuel from going bad.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
NYC's aqueduct system is gravity driven. And food comes in over the interstates. Sandy knocked out neighborhoods for way more than two days too.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
> Agreed. One suspects the concept of quality time came in with the rising incidence of divorce. I'm old enough to confirm that the etymology of the phrase comes from the divorce generation. Now my wife uses the phrase as a code for
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by ocschwar 7y ago
It's here: depression. Opiate addiction. And the whole 2016 derangement.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
It really depends on where you are. Local cultures differ on this, and the only place stronger than Facebook at encouraging peer-enforced group think is the break room at a police station. If the cops in your town are cool with kids running
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Well, Poland and Alabama both have Putin's malicious attention when it comes to political interference.
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by ocschwar 7y ago
That massive flood of Chinese tourists is a one time thing. China is prosperous enough that middle class mainland CHinese can now go on tours of the world just for recreation. There was a first wave of Americans doing that a few decades ago
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by ocschwar 7y ago
Here's a counter example: The floating islands of Lake Titicaca. The islands take a lot of work to maintain, they're actively dangerous to live on, and not especially comfortable. The islands continue to exist because tourists vis

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