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by pavement 9y ago
Double plus good point.
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by pavement 9y ago
I do believe that the altitude of detonation is a tactical decision, based on target selection. A commander might attempt to destroy some types of hardened bunkers by penetrating the ground before detonating, or completely destroy a fleet o
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by pavement 9y ago
It's a perfectly cromulent word, and embiggens every sentence and phrase that includes it.
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by pavement 9y ago
In other words, knowing what we already know about Wal Mart, while this might be good news for share holders, this isn't likely to be good news for employees.
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by pavement 9y ago
See also: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt (1997)
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by pavement 9y ago
Works on contingency? No, money down!
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by pavement 9y ago
By my purely speculative opinion, only 4, 5, and 6 apply to televisions, and only 4 applies to refrigerators.
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by pavement 9y ago
I guess a similar level of movement isolation would probably be required for all those repurposed oil rigs and maritime-oriented machine rooms that anticipate taking advatage of sea water as server coolant.
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by pavement 9y ago
I like to use the XYZ metric. (aka: eXamine Your Zipper ) 1. Does the zipper on the fly of your pants need to be automated? 2. Does the zipper on the fly of your pants ever need costly repairs? 3. Does the zippe
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by pavement 9y ago
They had him invert a binary tree on a whiteboard.
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by pavement 9y ago
bring back genuinely affordable housing Housing is not entirely the problem, it's the commute to work. People will still have places to be, even with basic income. That, and the depersonalization of cookie-cutter homes. Getting
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by pavement 9y ago
The counter-point being that you'll have people getting vanity tests, and harping on about their smart genes, even though none of them are the sort of gene that confers actual palpable intelligence. Some of these are not smart genes, i
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by pavement 9y ago
Okay, I'll break it down for you: Open office plans are soul crushing and noisy. They are not explicitly given to disorganization and distraction, but prone to it. Cubicles are soul crushing and organized. They are not explicitly priva
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by pavement 9y ago
It's not about whether everyone onboard dies, it's about how easily a small, common, trivial event can cause everyone aboard to die.
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by pavement 9y ago
Put another way, Americans subsidize 97% of the financing of assisted post-high-school education, regardless of profitability or how inefficiently such financing is structured.
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by pavement 9y ago
The Dark Forest Theory has some substantial flaws that render it little more than a simple conceptual gambit, rather than an actual strategy for crafting interstellar civilization. Destruction of all peers, to achieve the safety of solitude
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by pavement 9y ago
But why call it a yacht? While technically correct, it does not seem to embody the spirit of the word.
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by pavement 9y ago
...and Bank Butt might just be an entirely accurate name for that color.
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by pavement 9y ago
When plenty of hereditary monarchies are given a hall pass, I cannot fathom why anyone thought cracking open this one might have been a good idea. I've tried to mull over whatever calculus might have been at play, when a room full of p
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by pavement 9y ago
$30-40k a year Put another way, distilled to an abstraction, that's 30 students assembling in a room, to be lectured by one person, for maybe 6 or 9 hours, 4 or 5 days a week, for two 15 week semesters, at that price. [0] So on
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by pavement 9y ago
Oh, fair enough. Even so, I don't think that sort of thing (refined collective memory, among simple tasks) happens, except in select societies and subcultures. Large retail operations in the United States do well at supply chain effici
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by pavement 9y ago
Thing is, no one I've met ever expects to spend eight decades of their life mastering wrapping paper and little else. In fact, many people might consider that a prison sentence and a slow death. Some jobs are menial, unattractive, dead
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by pavement 9y ago
So, I'm a bit unclear on how some of these ideas reconcile with violating thermodynamic laws as well, but we are probably not alone, since it's an area of active research, so, I'm pretty sure these are Unanswered Questions. T
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by pavement 9y ago
The general premise is that electrons would remain trapped in their shells, bound to protons, even in the cold dark. At the subatomic level, the system is still in motion, even if the temperature of the atoms themselves is zero. Even if the
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by pavement 9y ago
Which is curious, because you'd think there'd be conceptual understanding with regard to " ornamentation ," " amusement/diversion/boredom " and " craftsmanship/showmanship ." The amount
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by pavement 9y ago
C[A-Z]O
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by pavement 9y ago
If you've been paying attention at all, whistle blowing is actually a learned technique. Some blunder forth into hell unimaginable, and others create a springloaded safety net before cutting away. It's often difficult to distingui
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by pavement 9y ago
I really, really, really don't understand why Pakistan and India are engaged in such a high-tension struggle. Looking at it from the outside, there seems to be nothing of value at stake. There's no great prize to claim. Nothing
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by pavement 9y ago
Put another way, at absolute zero, in the void of deep space, does time effectively stop for a quantum system that does not otherwise change. Does time exist for systems with no events? If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to
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by pavement 9y ago
Abstract for paywalled PNAS paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/19/4920.abstract The image transmitted was a monochrome bitmap graphic of a Chinese knot: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe

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