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by olympus 9y ago
NASA usually has a duplicate system (full mechanicals, not just a simulation) to test things on to make sure they don't create a brick. NASA can also use the dupes as a backup in case there is an accident during launch and the first s
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by olympus 9y ago
Funny anecdote I heard from a friend who's a United pilot- he wouldn't take a job with AA because they have such a bad reputation among pilots: The AA pilots had a big dispute with AA corporate once, and nearly went on strike over
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by olympus 9y ago
Pretty much. Here's an expanded, but still very simple way to think of the way this noise jamming works: - A GPS receiver needs a signal/noise ratio above X dB to get a lock - Higher gain antennas, more sensitive receivers, and h
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by olympus 9y ago
The backlash here shows that Uber has already been found guilty in the eyes of the public, the case isn't resolved. Waymo have a team of lawyers too, and they can't all be saints. They are in this to win and set back a competitor
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by olympus 9y ago
Maybe this was why Tesla was being slow to ramp up their Model 3 production.
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by olympus 9y ago
That was most definitely not the point I was trying to make, nor was it the question I asked.
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by olympus 9y ago
Wow my comment was gravely misinterpreted it seems. I was asking if Alsup could fine Uber for their bad behavior. Normally a judge would throw a person in jail for contempt but you can't do that with a corporation. You can be held in
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by olympus 9y ago
Can a judge hold a company in contempt and fine them for disobeying a judge? Even if Uber isn't guilty of stealing IP from Waymo they have certainly been less than forthcoming. I'm sure that Waymo has done some shady stuff too.
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by olympus 9y ago
Google wouldn't be selling individual user searches, just something like "TSLA has had 52 queries in the last second." Nobody's privacy is violated there. Google already reports historical search trends, so it is plaus
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by olympus 9y ago
I know that they will probably kill it like they do all of their useful products, but it seems like this could turn a profit for Google. A moderately trained monkey should be able to turn a profit either by selling people's financial
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by olympus 9y ago
I'm not sure GP's claim is true. HN search shows one "Show HN" post and two comments with that website as links, all submitted by different usernames. I don't think this is an inappropriate level of promotion.
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by olympus 9y ago
Recycling batteries is obviously profitable since there are many companies that do it.
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by olympus 9y ago
It is likely that someone did realize this, did the math on the labor costs to pull all the wire up across the country, and realized it wouldn't actually be profitable. There are guys that track individual ships across the ocean to de
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by olympus 9y ago
"For only the second time in the last century, the number of farmers under 35 years old is increasing..." Not surprising because this is cyclical- the only difference is that the cycles in the past were shorter because life expect
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by olympus 9y ago
Anecdote here: I think that self help books are full of two things 1) obvious stuff, and 2) garbage. I've never found much use for self help books. My roommate in college read several self help books, and put into practice a lot of
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by olympus 9y ago
Preferring one group of people over another based on the color of their skin or where they came from is pretty much the definition of racism, regardless of whether a stereotype about a particular person is true. I'm not saying my thoug
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by olympus 9y ago
Not GP, but presumably making an H1B harder to get would decrease yazaddaruvala's competition for a job. I'll admit that this next thought is racist, but I think a lot of companies would prefer hiring a Canadian over someone from
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by olympus 9y ago
Will it really? I'm not saying you're definitely wrong, but I can also see an argument that fewer Indian IT workers in the USA means that more IT workers will stay in India and look for jobs. More job seekers could drive wages do
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by olympus 9y ago
"...graphene based..." Oh. So this is vaporware. My opinion is also backed up by buzzwords like "2.5D," and the fact that everything in the article is written in future tense. Nothing has been demonstrated yet.
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by olympus 9y ago
Well I think having a hangar with three F-22's in it would be pretty dang artistic. We're talking about spending money on frivolous stuff, at least mine can be used for transportation.
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by olympus 9y ago
The buyer of the Da Vinci painting could have also done that. The difference is, instead of me having fantasizing about having $450mm, he/she actually has the money and didn't do it. And you're judging me?
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by olympus 9y ago
You could buy three F-22 Raptors with that kind of money. Well, Congress would never approve the sale, but this painting went for triple the per-copy price of the F-22, according to Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by olympus 9y ago
Technically you are correct (the best kind of correct). But on a standard PC motherboard/configuration, DIMM slots are used exclusively for RAM which is much faster than ROM/storage. 3dxpoint was specifically marketed as being a
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by olympus 9y ago
Twitch ignores it because they get tons of views and advertising money. They won't kill a golden goose.
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by olympus 9y ago
What I think is crazy is that this industry exists at the scale it does. It has replaced reality TV for a segment of the world population. There are legions of people that watch these streams, just to watch someone doing something that the
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by olympus 9y ago
You can pass rent controls as a separate measure. But I think adding high-end apartments will still open up some of the regular apartments and lower prices.
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by olympus 9y ago
The website says "teachers and working families." Seems to me that that working families catches a decent chunk of the population. Single people will still benefit because with increased supply in another area will reduce the de
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by olympus 9y ago
After that: A bunch of nerds blow the LSAT out of the water, get admitted to Yale, and become crappy lawyers because they lack every other skill necessary to be a lawyer(social skills, mainly).
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by olympus 9y ago
If you run a company then everything is your business. He might not directly participate in the management of warehouse workers, but if the are being treated badly then it is his responsibility to fix it. It is his job to set the direction
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by olympus 9y ago
Oh wow. While recording audio is concerning, I am so glad to be living in the timeline where I can control my sex toy with my smartphone. The next thing they need is an Alexa skill (which someone might already have).

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