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by pkaye 4y ago
A lot of what is happening makes sense from a national security perspective. If the global supply chains get broken how much can a country continue to function. Like Germany cannot produce enough ammo because it depends on cotton from China
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by pkaye 4y ago
Hasn't this treatment been use for a while now?
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by pkaye 4y ago
I had an PCW for ages. My dad got it so I could write up school reports. Screen was pretty crisp text. Main drawback is it uses a 3" floppy which was hard to find. Also only after purchase did I realize it was not IBM compatible.
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by pkaye 4y ago
I think if the new DNA kept the DNA encoding for the HLA markers there wouldn't be any rejection risk. HLA markers allow the immune system to tell which cells belong to your own body. When they do transplants, they check for HLA compat
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by pkaye 4y ago
Kind of nice that cubesats and (SpaceX) rideshares brings down the costs enough that more of such experiments can be done.
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by pkaye 4y ago
Blender is the one program where features are added faster than one can learn them.
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by pkaye 4y ago
I've read Spruce Pine, North Carolina has the world's purest source of natural quartz best suited for making silicon wafers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spruce_Pine_Mining_District
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by pkaye 4y ago
The biggest semiconductor equipment manufacturers in the US are Applied Materials, LAM Research and KLA. AMAT is a pretty big company with a wide portfolio of products but it doesn't do lithography which the Dutch company ASML has the
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by pkaye 4y ago
The machines are made by other companies. Lithography is the most expensive now and its made by ASML in Netherlands is the only solution for EUV lithography. But there are many steps in manufacturing and a machine for each. The major equipm
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by pkaye 4y ago
So it will go from 92% unprotected to 99% unprotected? Seems not a big difference since they don't accomplish much.
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by pkaye 4y ago
Do package updates to Linux Mint soon after they come to Ubuntu?
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by pkaye 4y ago
Beyond some minimal throughput, low latency is a bigger factor in video conferencing and screen sharing and Starlink has low latencies from my understanding.
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by pkaye 4y ago
The WARN act requires 60 days of notification before a mass layoff. So the company can choose to either notify employees 60 days before layoff or pay 60 days of severance pay and layoff immediately.
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by pkaye 4y ago
TN visas have some advantages. There are no yearly caps and it can be renewed indefinitely. Also easier to get a new job. One disadvantage is it is not dual intent.
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by pkaye 4y ago
What kind of bureaucracy are you facing? The biggest I've noticed is making sure everything is perfect on submittal so you don't get put into the exception handling path of approval. Common mistakes are wrong/missing forms, f
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by pkaye 4y ago
I think they are working with Microchip on the rad hardened CPUs. Microchip acquired Microsemi which used to make these kind of processors. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-awards-next-generati...
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by pkaye 4y ago
Nestle Buitoni frozen pizza in France. https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-prosecutors-prob...
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by pkaye 4y ago
NASA has plenty of vacuum chambers that they can control the pressure and temperature. They even tested the entire JWST hardware in a massive vacuum chamber.
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by pkaye 4y ago
According to Dr Becky ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=385JLByRtVE ) there are ways to remove it but its not a perfect process.
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by pkaye 4y ago
What I heard it now they think galaxies started forming pretty early after the big bang.
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by pkaye 4y ago
Those are diffraction spikes. They are caused by the segmented mirrors and struts. Even the Hubble telescope has them just a different shape. The spikes are more noticeable on brighter point like objects like stars. https://en.wi
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by pkaye 4y ago
Looks like some of the politicians are re-gift the donations to charity. https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/15/politicians-sam-bankma...
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by pkaye 4y ago
Is the Brightline also high speed rail?
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by pkaye 4y ago
US is one of the 5 countries (US, Germany, Austria, Hungary and Czesh Republic) that pays for plasma donations. It represents 60%+ of plasma donations worldwide. Most other countries other than the 5 don't sufficiently produce plasma d
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by pkaye 4y ago
How do you determine the class of student being admitted?
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by pkaye 4y ago
Looks like other countries have it too. What country were you visiting? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1045618/spam-calls-per-m...
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by pkaye 4y ago
So why is he able to get smart people around him? Its not like he pays them a lot or offer a good work/life balance in their job.
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by pkaye 4y ago
According to the article, it lasts shorter time in the atmosphere compared to CO2. > Since methane only lasts in the atmosphere for about ten years, compared to the centuries that carbon dioxide sticks around, reducing methane emissions
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by pkaye 4y ago
I think their algorithms make it hard to discover this stuff. Another good set of documentaries is the "JPL and the Space Age" series by the NASA JPL channel. Also their Von Karman lectures. https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by pkaye 4y ago
PBS Terra had an tour of this waste water processing plant along with other episodes on how it is to live at the McMurdo station. An interesting fact is food doesn't get spoiled there so you can keep it around for a long time. https:&

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