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by pardavis 6y ago
See also the similar book NeuroTribes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroTribes
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by pardavis 6y ago
The one in Georgia is pronounced Al-binny. Sometimes Awwl-binn-eeh.
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by pardavis 6y ago
>The large recording device was designed to detach if the cable was raised for repair. Clever!
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by pardavis 6y ago
It sounds like you're right. Also, that's the book I read way back then! Neat, I'll have to pick it up again.
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by pardavis 6y ago
Unrelated but fun story about antagonists and undersea cables that I saw in some Cold War history book in college. The CIA had cooked up a bonkers covert mission to send a submarine with an airlock right into the soviets’ top submarine harb
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by pardavis 6y ago
Documented testimony of flagrant disregard for interstate law might have something to do with it. If one of the many jurisdictions passed through has camera footage with the car and face uniquely identified, that’s a lot of legal exposure.
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by pardavis 6y ago
You are replying to OP who wrote the article. I might have missed it but I don’t think they described any ongoing legal action against this particular copycat.
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by pardavis 7y ago
Friction stir welding is popular in rocketry because it is very controllable.
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by pardavis 7y ago
This twitter reply sums it up well: “SUCCESS! We now now max pressure the tank can hold and the damage a rupture might do.”
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by pardavis 7y ago
Why not both?
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by pardavis 7y ago
"There have been five X-37 orbital missions. The spaceplane's first mission, USA-212, was launched in April 2010 and returned to Earth in December 2010. A second X-37 was launched on mission USA-226 in March 2011 and returned in J
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by pardavis 7y ago
Where I’m from in southern USA, there are 65mph state highways with 4 way traffic light intersections. There is always a “stop light ahead” sign, and the rule is simple: if you are traveling the speed limit and you pass the “stop light ahea
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by pardavis 7y ago
A lot of Amazon warehouses operate roughly 24/7, so there are multiple shifts. Also, keep in mind that there are truck drivers, vending supply stockers, safety specialists, IT folks, etc supporting the whole operation.
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by pardavis 7y ago
Actually, pretty much every Amazon FC (at least in North America) has free coffee machines in the breakrooms. Some FCs have really bad coffee, but it is there and it is free. It used to cost money at some sites (to pay for the vending machi
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by pardavis 7y ago
https://medium.com/@josefow/streets-paved-with-gold-sfs-ridi...
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by pardavis 7y ago
For reference, in the United States, the amount of money spent on road maintenance per state controlled mile looks something like this: * $2,700 in Alabama * $80,000 in Massachusetts * $84,000 in California * $208,000 in New Jersey https:&
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by pardavis 7y ago
False equation. It is silly to compare the operation of the entire US government to a small special ops team from a 3-letter agency using a small special ops court to compel a small special ops team within a corporation to do something. The
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by pardavis 7y ago
I’m 24 and this is why I switched to iPhone 6 or 7 years ago, I was being left out of group chats.
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by pardavis 7y ago
When I was a foolhardy college student I figured out that if the cited vehicle make on my city parking ticket didn’t match my registration, I could get appeal the ticket via a web form very easily and succeed every time. Naturally I removed
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by pardavis 7y ago
True. However, I feel that UPS has the customer obsession factor that other 100 year old companies don’t. See, for instance, the parent headline. UPS is fanatical about delivering packages and is therefore willing to work with a doomsday co
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by pardavis 7y ago
You’re talking about amazon packages. I’m talking about all packages in the entire world.
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by pardavis 7y ago
Yes, it is coming (google Ship with Amazon) but UPS will be fine. In much the same way Amazon has a head start on other e-commerce firms, UPS has on Amazon. They have been customer-obsessed in one of the hardest spaces (Meatspace logistics)
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by pardavis 7y ago
UPS is enthusiastic about working with Amazon, but Fedex is not. Simple as that. Fedex is a gap-filling option within Amazon.
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by pardavis 7y ago
Those animated paragraph breaks are awful. I can't read the content without strategically covering them by scrolling.
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by pardavis 7y ago
https://sites.google.com/a/slu.edu/swartwout/cdw2019
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by pardavis 7y ago
Woah. This is awesome! I travel for work and keeping my plants happy has been vicious trial and error with passive auto watering stakes. I've been looking for a convenient sensor package so I don't have to muck around with wires.
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by pardavis 7y ago
https://outline.com/www.economist.com/asia/2017/05/18/as-cri...
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by pardavis 7y ago
I had one of these on my commute in Atlanta for a while. (Left turn) It was impossible to read the sign unless you came to a stop, at which point a cacophony of honking emerged from behind, whether it was the right time or not. At some poin
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by pardavis 7y ago
https://outline.com/www.economist.com/asia/2017/05/18/as-cri...
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by pardavis 7y ago
The reddit AMA author seems to have worked at a ‘traditional’ FC where there are miles of bookshelf or pallet style storage. In this layout it is difficult to place optimized restrooms as one pick worker may cover half of a million sqft bui

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