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by pge 4y ago
If the position requires a Top Secret clearance (as many of them do), the background check is quite extensive. Expect your family, neighbors, former colleagues, college roommates, etc to get knocks on the door from guys in suits that will a
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by pge 4y ago
Just read the Emerald Mile - great read. I was interested in the story of running the river, but the story of the dam and its near failure was the best part. For anyone interested in the engineering of the dam, it’s well worth a read, and
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by pge 4y ago
There are two takeaways from this story: (1) always know the risks you are getting into - while she was an experienced outdoorsperson, the author clearly had little to know awareness of the dangers of moving water. (2) statistically, things
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by pge 4y ago
if you are comfortable with the LaTeX style editing, lilypond is an amazing editor and layout engine for scores that can produce tab or traditional sheet music output (and fretboards for fretted instruments or most anything else you could w
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by pge 4y ago
In saying that about Middlemarch, he may also be alluding to Virginia Woolf's famous comment that the book was "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."
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In the fraud case at tech company NS8[1] (for which the CEO was recently sentenced to prison), the CEO apparently edited PDF bank statements before sharing them with his CFO. I think most people naturally assume that a PDF is unalterable so
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by pge 4y ago
Cavitation isn't just a noise problem; it also causes damage to the blades. The forces on the blade are surprisingly strong. When a propeller has been experiencing cavitation, you can see the pitting on it, almost like you hit it with
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by pge 4y ago
Thirty years ago, I worked for the Navy and had some exposure to propeller design for submarines. Military propellers at that time were already employing complex shapes for efficiency (and noise reduction). While it certainly takes time for
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by pge 4y ago
Sadly, some people do. I am a regular whitewater kayaker, and I have had to help numerous people over the years that got a kayak (new or off craiglist or something) and drove out to the river and got in, with no research or training. They s
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by pge 4y ago
identical twin too - my brother and I were accused of cheating on standardized test once in elementary school because our answers were so similar. Got called into the Principal's office. Fortunately, we were sitting far enough apart th
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by pge 4y ago
I’m not quite as pessimistic as you, but it does seem like college and sports need to be separated. The athletic departments (specifically the revenue producing sports of football and basketball) operate with different incentives than the u
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The same is very true in VC investing. Because any individual partner does not make that many bets per year, and the time frame to exit is long, it is very difficult to distinguish skill from luck (including being in a long-term bull market
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Isn't this essentially what a PAC is?
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There is also a version published by his estate that shows all his rough drafts and edits. Fascinating to see his creative process at work.
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Ex-CEO of antifraud startup NS8 sentenced to five years on fraud charge(reuters.com)
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by pge 4y ago
I generally agree, but it's not "people," it's institutional funds (endowments, pension funds, etc). The way venture returns are distributed is that a small number of funds (of which Sequioia has historically been one) s
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by pge 4y ago
It is dangerous to extrapolate from one case (or even a few notable cases in recent years) that venture funds have "little oversight" over portfolio companies. These are the exceptions rather than the rule. Obviously, some boards
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by pge 4y ago
It's also (as I understand it) international law at sea that it is the duty of any ship able to help to go the aid of a distressed ship/person.
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by pge 4y ago
what's the incentive for a chip manufacturer to put out a better ARM chip (eg comparable to the Apple M1)? I don't know that world well, so my best guess is that the margins go to the OS manufacturers, so unless you have guarantee
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by pge 4y ago
Access to food sources, maybe? Compared to most terrestrial game, fish are easier to catch and provide a plentiful source of protein.
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by pge 4y ago
The statement that he is the first employee at a US venture-backed software company to sit on the board is comically wrong. Venture-backed companies have had employee board members as regular practice for at least as long as the 20+ years I
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by pge 4y ago
background for anyone that didn’t get this joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
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by pge 4y ago
That’s YYZ not YKK and is a reference to the airport code for Toronto airport.
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by pge 4y ago
or LaTeX is a fun and nerdy distraction from their work (speaking from experience here…)
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by pge 4y ago
H, M, and L will move the cursor to the top, middle and bottom (respectively) of the screen. That is, H moves the cursor to the top visible line on the screen, L to the last line currently visible, and M to the middle. Cursor moves but text
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by pge 4y ago
Michael Shermer, for whom this condition is named, is also a prolific science journalist: long-time columnist for Scientific American and author of several books about pseudoscience.
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identical twin here - I share your experience, but at the same time I recognize that the "big" differences I see and accentuate between me and my brother are in fact laughably trivial when compared the differences between non-twin
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by pge 4y ago
I have served on a lot of private company boards (VC-backed companies) as well as a mnumber of non-profit boards. I agree with the sentiment that non-profit boards are weird, and I have found them significantly less productive than for-prof
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by pge 4y ago
I've participated in a number of layoffs, and while I agree with the advice to be honest, not fake smiley, with you'll-land-on-your-feet platitudes, I would strongly recommend not talking about your own feelings. It's not abo
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I used mutt for awhile but ultimately switched away from it because of two issues that came up a lot: * calendar invitations (google or outlook calendar). I could not find any program that could process the invitation, respond and save to m

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