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by olympus 9y ago
That was just this renewal term of the contract. He has been superintendent since 2014. It sounds like there is something wrong with the board if four consecutive supts have quit because of disagreements. If he's been putting up with
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by olympus 9y ago
No, price correlates with the number of "features" that a wisky has- brand prestige, single barrel, single-malt (not a blend, but possibly multiple barrels), aging time, etc. Taste is subjective, and I find that Hibiki Harmony is
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by olympus 9y ago
Here's two things that science can't deliver for us: 1. The x-factor. Contrary to their claims, chemists and food scientists don't have it figured out. They are only 99% of the way there. It's true that people won&#x
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by olympus 9y ago
That's why I wrote "such as in your example." I think that if each individual was randomly compatible with some subset of the population, we don't have 200 sexes, we have one sex and a 25% fertility rate.
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by olympus 9y ago
If a mapping between compatible sexes existed such as in your example, it would be more useful to think of sex as continuous spectrum rather than a discrete collection.
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by olympus 9y ago
It's not just himself he is putting in danger. There are people surrounding the airport that could be hurt in a crash. If he were able to go to an airport with no people around then it could be safe. I'm not very familiar with
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by olympus 9y ago
The typical use case for a TV is fine, since the images are constantly changing. An iPhone has a static image by default (your home screen and lock screen). You can have a 3D effect for the background, but the app icons stay in one place.
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by olympus 9y ago
Why would Apple put a screen with this issue on their most premium phone ever? They've acknowledged the problem, and I would like a way to fix it when it develops. I'll be cranky if their only offer is to replace the screen when
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by olympus 9y ago
Because of askvictor's point. Logging every single pixel value would suck down battery life equivalent to recording your screen every moment it is on. If you stored cumulative pixel activations in an array (like I would think of doin
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by olympus 9y ago
Your idea would indeed take a lot of power and probably suffer from precision issues. What GP was talking about was a set up where you would be able to take a picture of your phone's screen and then overlay a transparent inverse image
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by olympus 9y ago
Bezos founded Amazon, so he's definitely had them for over a year :)
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by olympus 9y ago
Minor correction: Google finance shows average volume at 3.7M shares, which at $1,100 per share is about $4B daily. Selling a billion dollars is still a significant chunk, so your point stands.
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by olympus 9y ago
The Mercedes-Benz S-class is a better car than the Model S in many ways (not all). A lot of people could afford either but buy the Model S because it is electric, not just that it happens to be electric. Just a quick thought from someone
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by olympus 9y ago
I didn't say they were identical, but there are some important similarities: To tulips and beanie babies: There were direct substitutes (other flowers and other stuffed animals) in terms of the actual utility, but tulip prices shot up
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by olympus 9y ago
Two tips: 1. Don't keep your BTC in any exchange account for very long, and check the popular forums for people complaining about transactions being held up before transferring BTC into your account. Lots of people got screwed by MtG
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by olympus 9y ago
Maybe not better in the long run. You need to overhaul the batteries (replacing dead cells can be done individually) every decade with current technology. You also need to overhaul a combustion engine (cylinder bore/hone, worn parts
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by olympus 9y ago
Plus there's the environmental impact of strip-mining lithium for the batteries. This impacts hybrids as well as EVs. Owning a Tesla (the current fad) or Prius (the previous fad) has long been about looking like you are environmenta
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by olympus 9y ago
Perhaps more appropriately "the trouble with Mensa members." A study consisting only of Mensa members might not generalize to all people with IQ >130. There are two things needed to get into Mensa: 1) a high test score on a q
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TV Companies can modify product placement in reruns to stay current (2011)(ew.com)
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by olympus 9y ago
This has nothing to do with a software engineer looking down on other types of engineering, since I'm not a software engineer. My post was all about Boom's marketing mouth making claims that it won't be able to back up, or p
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by olympus 9y ago
> Finally, it is worth remembering that the Concorde was a very profitable business for British Airways, with operating profit of ~40% for the Concorde! You make some good points, but BA received their Concordes for free. It's easy
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by olympus 9y ago
I'm sure the airlines know exactly what they are getting. The passengers are going to be the mad ones when they find out they can't afford a ticket. When this happens the demand will plateau for the few high-demand routes th
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by olympus 9y ago
I wish Boom the best of luck in getting a working product, but they need to fix their marketing. There is absolutely no way that plane tickets will cost 75% less than Concorde tickets, unless something drastic changes from the norm of air
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by olympus 9y ago
One thing jumps out at me from the article beyond the main point. All of the cases listed have a ruling that was"conservative" except for one. The one exception is Arizona v. US, where the main ruling was "liberal" but
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by olympus 9y ago
This seems a little like nitpicking. Interested parties file briefs with the court, and opposing parties can also file a brief with the court. It appears that none of the errors are so grave that they should change the ruling of the court
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by olympus 9y ago
Brady was the IT guy, thinking about crimes wasn't his gig. The inmates weren't going to say anything. If the lieutenant mentioned is a police LT and not just a generic term for assistant, then it's the lieutenant's fa
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by olympus 9y ago
Correct, I meant physically breaking some part of the board as a whole, not trying to imply that there was a mechanical aspect to the CPU. I've only broken two Pis. I stepped on one because my cat knocked it on the floor, and the oth
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by olympus 9y ago
Looking at the specs, (linked in another comment), it appears that the USB-C port doesn't support Thunderbolt 3. Seriously, Microsoft, you can't charge this much for a laptop without TB3. I know that TB started as an Apple stand
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by olympus 9y ago
The lifespan is comparable to a cell phone (as in you'll probably break it mechanically before you burn up the CPU). If you're overclocking it and running it hard without cooling, I'd expect it to die after a year. I'v
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by olympus 9y ago
Would a RamanPi [ https://hackaday.io/project/1279-ramanpi-raman-spectrometer ] work for verifying that you made the correct thing? It is probably lower cost than getting a hold of an old lab machine.

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