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by planteen 9y ago
Nuclear deterrence has been a controversial topic for 50 years. There have always been arguments for nuclear disarmament instead. I took the point of this article to be that the ICBM portion of the US triad does not work on NK since a missi
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by planteen 9y ago
From big companies? Which ones? And my limited understanding of labor law is that Massachusetts has more regulation on this sort of thing than most states. Read https://www.thelayoff.com and typically any big companies layoff di
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by planteen 9y ago
> I think in almost every situation you shouldn't be spending a half-mil on a logo redesign. That's super excessive. How is that an excessive one-time marketing expense for a company with an annual revenue of $50 billion? That&
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by planteen 9y ago
In general, there is some sort of severance that is at least 2 weeks plus some additional days based on years of service.
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by planteen 9y ago
Yeah... I mean how bright of a future does HP/UX have as long as it is tied to Itanium? It seems like a x86-64 port is necessary for future life.
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by planteen 9y ago
Oracle is killing Solaris. At least HP has a recent precedent with licensing the rights to another OS (VMS) to a separate company to let its life continue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS And I doubt that HP&#x2F
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by planteen 9y ago
The also still make enterprise hardware (servers, storage, networking).
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by planteen 9y ago
Uber doesn't offer service in much of the rural US now. There's a ride service specifically for rural areas called Liberty: http://libertymobilitynow.com/ But even these are for micropolitan areas with populations
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by planteen 9y ago
There are some details here: http://pe1nnz.nl.eu.org/2013/05/direct-ssb-generation-on-pll... It says a dynamic range of only 13 dB on the levels.
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by planteen 9y ago
Aside from the many satellite internet solutions that already exist? Let's see, we have Globalstar, Iridium, Hughsnet, Exede, Gogo, and others. And who says SpaceX will be first for global broadband? OneWeb already has spectrum rights
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by planteen 9y ago
Huh? I use make all the time on Windows. You don't even need Cygwin, MSYS, or Windows Subsystem for Linux. There are make binaries that work well, for example: http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/make.htm
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by planteen 9y ago
I get it. I drive silent often myself when I am alone.
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by planteen 9y ago
> Also, the "everything happens at once" is not true either. In fact with out the delay between two events happening, synchronous digital design would not work. (specifically flip-flops would not work). I think the author means
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by planteen 9y ago
I have no idea why you are being downvoted. This thread makes me think eternal September has arrived on HN. People are running their mouths without any basic knowledge of electricity and national electric codes.
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by planteen 9y ago
Intersting. There's a link to here on the Wikipedia page: http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/ But if I'm reading things correctly, it still took over two orders of magnitude longer to boot than it did to reply. So what s
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by planteen 9y ago
Just curious here, what OS can do millisecond boot times? How many milliseconds are you talking? And the constant boot time of the OS is so much less than the OS responding to the web request that this is actually worth it?
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by planteen 9y ago
There's a diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Al Jazeera is from Qatar. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Qatar_diplomatic_crisis
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by planteen 9y ago
Wow. The worst part is that Einstein's original paper is quite clearly written and works through though experiments itself.
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by planteen 9y ago
Seems more like a century ago.
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by planteen 9y ago
Foolish activities, like hiking above treeline afternoon in the summer, greatly increase that risk.
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by planteen 9y ago
Very neat, thanks for sharing.
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by planteen 9y ago
It would probably work if you made it out of copper foil and grounded it. But then of course you are no longer mobile and the enemy could easily snip the ground wire coming out of your hotel room. ;-)
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by planteen 9y ago
I think the fear was more about contaminating Enceladus where liquid water is known to exist than Titan where it does not.
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by planteen 9y ago
Often humorous and witty comments are my favorite parts of HN. They are far better than posts on a topic where people seem not to have read the article.
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by planteen 9y ago
My wife has a Fjallraven Kanken backpack she uses for daily use to work that she likes a lot. They have a specifically sized 13" backpack: https://www.fjallraven.us/products/kanken-13-laptop-backpack MSRP is $110,
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by planteen 9y ago
First, the amount of data this would generate is huge. The Pluto encounter was about a day worth of measurements that took over a year to downlink. The link is slow, about 1 kbit per second. What instrument do you watch? The cameras are mor
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by planteen 9y ago
I thought the same thing. I lived in a crappy building in college where the elevator broke all of the time. I just used the stairs, but some people insisted on using the elevator. They would pull the doors open and climb out on a floor. Not
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by planteen 9y ago
Are houses ever sold in auctions in France? How long are typical houses on the market? It seems in this situation that you would start the house price high and then lower it over weeks/months until you get an offer. In the US, sometime
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by planteen 9y ago
Yes radiation would be the reason here. Power is not a concern - as another poster commented, the RTG is always on whether you like it or not!
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by planteen 9y ago
It is still linear as far as I know. And the linearity is quite good, within a few percent. There is a community of astrophotographers interested in making photometric measurements with DSLRs (American Association of Variable Star Observers

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