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by ocschwar 10y ago
>1. High schools that tend to send high numbers of people to schools with acceptance rates less than 20% tend to be dis-proportionally represented. [1] > 2. High schools that send kids to good college are more expensive (either inhere
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The workshops there are famous for building entire diesel trucks from scrap. That takes really nimble hands at the lathe and milling machine.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Given the neglect the military is inflicting on the A-10 warthog, I fully expect the next war to involve the desperate recruitment of the only community of machinists nimble enough to pick up the A-10's blueprints and start rebuilding
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I hear it's getting fashionable to use TCP/IP to coordinate consumption of electricity with power availability from wind/solar
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> Sorry but i cannot let this silliness be repeated. The primary supplier of US imported oil is Canada. Canada alone nearly equals all OPEC suppliers of which some but not most are from the Middle East. Then tell the President to withdra
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"I don't feel overwhelmed by trolls, except when I read yet another fucking headline about gluten." You may not feel overwhelmed by trolls, but if you live in the United States, you have been overwhelmed by trolls.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"Don't feed the trolls" was a useful thing to say back when the word meant something far more specific than just "someone behaving badly on the Internet."
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Well, if a professional organization of tech workers actually managed to hold some sway in DC, it would be an improvement over the status quo at the moment.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Middle American suburbanites can go to their suburb's zoning board and get the codes changed to allow infill. That's how it starts.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Doesn't matter that much. A disruption of the Gulf's flow would still cause every single producer and importer out there to change where they route the product, and the price spike would affect affairs stateside. That is why the C
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by ocschwar 10y ago
"2. If the Freedom Caucus is really committed to reducing the powers (and spending) of government they should be fervently resisting budget plans to expand the armed forces and pull us back from pointless non-productive conflict in the
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by ocschwar 10y ago
You and I would consider Berkeley Earth to be a "red team." But for right wing politicians, a "red team" either produces evidence against AGW or stays silent.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The debate on Item B pretty much ended in 1957.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
There already are red-teams looking for evidence against the main consensus on the climate. Let me explain why you've never heard from them. Let's start by what climate scientists actually do. Very few of them actually gather any
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by ocschwar 10y ago
It's a shipwreck from the 1970's. The crew was attacked by natives, and had to be rescued by helicopters. Natives and invaders have been reclaiming the wreck's iron ever since.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
The first Puritan settlers of Massachusetts were from Lincolnshire, and the people of that region were still called Jutes in the 1600s. So we already are an extension of Jutland, complete with morose temperaments and bad cooking.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Don't tell Jonah Jameson.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Yay, it's the 90's again!
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Moving a small bomb to the luggage compartment does help, because it is not pressurized. I'll grand that much.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
What utter bullshit. If they allow phones at all, then the threat cannot be an issue of a passenger sending a command out of one of these. The threat has to be the device itself. Now, a standard issue iPad is no threat, so we're talkin
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Not just the pH. The salinity too. Plain old road salt in the water messed with the calcium plaques that were protecting the pipes.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
> In the US, cities manage their own municipal services including water supplies. The state only intervenes when the city runs out of money to provide basic services to their inhabitants -- and this happens very rarely. In most of the co
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Dude's missing an important point: If you mess up the syntax on a dd invocation, a nice thing happens: nothing. Use a shell command and pipes, and your command better be perfect before you hit return.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
What scares me about both settings is 1. the way comic fans freaked out about things like Marvel casting Nick Fury as a black man for the movies, and 2. Gamergate. Both cases had thousands of people freaking out about the details of their f
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by ocschwar 10y ago
6 hours of running around a fantasy world, rescuing damsels in distress who fall out of their dresses and embrace you. Or 10 minutes watching real people having sex, knowing those people use aliases so that after the camera shuts down and t
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by ocschwar 10y ago
NOAA does not design and launch birds. That's a NASA task.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
One of those gadgets is designed to measure refraction and radiance from greenhouse gasses. I.e. to confirm or correct the only assumptions in climate modeling that are even remotely controversial. Gee, I wonder why they want to cancel it.
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by ocschwar 10y ago
Whoops.
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Israeli Jew here. And I think that's a bit unfair. There's a critical difference between Islam and Christianity, and it bears nothing, because without grasping this detail you can't really give Islam a fair understanding. Sec
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by ocschwar 10y ago
I'm going to comment here with a plug for the March For Science, on April 22. Why? Because the opioid epidemic started with a simple matter of scientists not being allowed to science. Purdue Pharmaceuticals marketed oxycontin as a drug

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