r-bryan

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by r-bryan 7y ago
You mean BTU/hour.
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by r-bryan 7y ago
Sounds like a perfectly classic version of the growth trajectory characterized in "Innovator's Dilemma" (Clayton Christensen). Company grows into a big fat dinosaur, leaving a soft underbelly for a scrappy little mammal to c
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by r-bryan 7y ago
Actually, just leave it all in the ground.
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by r-bryan 7y ago
That "mind-melting" equation looks like it could benefit from common subexpression elimination.
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by r-bryan 7y ago
Would it appear to be fixed in place if actually moving down the screen?
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by r-bryan 8y ago
When learning some Italian I was both dismayed and fascinated to discover that it was necessary to avoid every diminutive ("cute") and augmentative I could think of, because they all carry sexual innuendo.
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by r-bryan 8y ago
Although I join you in deploring the sloppy usage of "enormity" to merely mean big size, I thought the word perfectly captured the _scariness_ of the size of the research task ahead. Centuries of usage agree: https://w
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by r-bryan 8y ago
hobbyist
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by r-bryan 8y ago
In Cory Doctorow's _Little Brother_, some characters would put pebbles in their shoes so gait-recognizers wouldn't recognize them.
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by r-bryan 8y ago
I can't find it now but I recently read of one or two guys who systematically tabulated juggling tricks. Gaps in the table led to new tricks which astonished experienced jugglers -- the way gaps in the periodic table led Mendeleev to
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by r-bryan 8y ago
Maybe we've been looking at the wrong cost. As you suggest, voting machines wouldn't make it cheaper to count the votes. They would make it cheaper to hack the election! "No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep
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by r-bryan 8y ago
Suppose your coal or nuclear steam plant suffers not just fuel cost, but an additional cost every time you ramp its output up or down. At times when instantaneous demand is less than you are producing, it could well be cheaper to pay someo
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by r-bryan 8y ago
Boston (also in North America) paid 21.9 cents/kWh in June. As I type this, Ontario residents are paying on-peak 13.2 cents/kWh. https://www.oeb.ca/rates-and-your-bill/electricity-rates https://ww
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by r-bryan 8y ago
...or bury that length of communication fiber you remembered to bring along. "A backhoe will be along presently to dig it up."
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by r-bryan 9y ago
Not Equifax but here's a story about how another David once met his Goliath in Small Claims Court. I wish I could find an online citation to confirm the details :-( In the 1970's, financial conglomerate Transamerica owned a credi
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by r-bryan 9y ago
I can recommend: Bernard F. Schultz, _A first course in general relativity_ It's accessible to undergrads! (who have studied SR, vector calculus, electrostatics).
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by r-bryan 9y ago
I was a child of the 1950's. Only 50 miles south of New York City, we little grade school kids were routinely drilled in cowering under our desks in case of a nuclear attack. Every time I heard an airplane, I was afraid it was going