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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> not particularly concerned about the risk of undiscovered long-term side effects We don't know the long-term effects of corona or corona vaccines on the female reproductive system, especially eggs. Considering that if eggs are att
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
The 2 leading theories are: 1) it has a floating foundation (in sand, not to bedrock), unique for this size of building in SF. I talked to an architect once, and he acted like this would be ok. Guess not. 2) workers on the nearby tunnel &qu
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
They meant employer NDAs, etc.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> Waymo drove 29,944.69 miles between "disengagements" last year. You know better. If most of those miles were in sunny Mountain View suburbs, they don't count.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
I grudgingly give credit to the British for being very clever (magnetron, battle of the beams, etc.) during and after WW2. Having said that, London had food rationing for 9 years after the war, and really didn't have the money or facil
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Your comment matches common anecdotes, but I can provide more detail (I study aerodynamics.) The background is: - Britain sent data on the Miles M.52 supersonic jet to the US, so at least some Americans knew about the flying tail before the
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
1) A lot of high-level chess players lift weights, so could be burning twice as many calories daily as an average person. (Pro US bodybuilders average consuming over 10,000 calories per day, with the record being 20,000 per day. They all ta
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Yes, I expected Japan to have its own.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> Now I feel bad about that. Sure, you should pay for software when required. But don't feel too bad. Note that even Microsoft realized that individuals and developing nations using software for free were expanding the market for fu
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
The reverse of your question is very interesting. In 2000, W2 contract programming rates were about 2x employee salaries, $75/hr - $100/hr vs. $75k - $100k/year plus stock options. In 2021, W2 contract programming rates are l
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Some info on the word metal as used in astronomy: https://briankoberlein.com/post/hydrogen-helium-metal/ The short answer is that the fraction of metal is so low, they don't care enough to call it something e
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Most of the original airplane inventors died testing their inventions, and even more helicopter and submarine - and half of the X-plane pilots. It sounds like he was using the "tie it to the ground with a rope" technique, which mo
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Prior to 1960, famine and war did limit population for thousands of years. Famine was an ever-present issue since virtually everybody on earth was a farmer, and one bad crop could be fatal to their family. That's still true today in mu
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Thanks for posting that information. Another thing to keep in mind with infants/very young children is that if they get diarrhea, they can lose 30% of their weight (mostly water) in 2-3 days and die without hospitalization. So that mea
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> forest myths of germany and Robin Hood There are dense forests in that region, including some that are primeval. I had the good fortune to grow up next to a national park, and can speak un-ironically about tree-hugging. Battle of Hürtg
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
The US government has mostly retreated from corporate oversight. 1) Mergers are often denied in the US, but once a company is large enough, there's no breakup. The Bell breakup didn't really help, as some of the Baby Bells later m
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
This happens every day, all day in Detroit. The police do occasional helicopter overflights, but there's an endless number of "brick thieves." Items like aluminum doors go for $5 a piece at the local bar, and you can do &quot
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
1) IDF "kneecaps" reporters (shoots them in the knees) to get them out of their way. This has been reported for decades. 2) The SJWs, regardless of side, refuse to recognize there is a war. Protesting isn't going to solve any
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
The parent is largely correct. In addition, Iran is financing and using Gaza as a proxy war with Israel. I wouldn't call the IDF "100% humane", as they deliberately shoot reporters, but they are fighting a defensive war to av
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Chernobyl is one of the main reasons the USSR collapsed. Communist parties, as always, cover up disasters to maintain "stability" (ie. credibility as the only governing party.) The Chernobyl coverup became public, discrediting the
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
The answer is clearly yes, as money was granted to WIV, which specializes in corona viruses. The questions are: - why was EcoHealth Alliance/Daszak used as a cutout between the NIH and Chinese govt? The US govt. sends money directly to
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
1) Canada is easy for immigrants with a degree and a job offer since it's a points-based system. The historical reason is that Canada is underpopulated for its size. As far as STEM, a large percentage move to the US, so foreign STEM wo
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
"The Electric NXT or E-NXT is a single-seater aircraft developed by Electroflight and the aerospace giant Rolls-Royce" Not so little.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
SOMA in 2001 had tumbleweeds blowing down the street, and you could park on the sidewalk and there was nobody to notice.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Well, as a DBA, I periodically use a 3rd party tool to print out the schema. It's mainly for new hires to learn from. But sometimes I'll flip through it and notice: - mis-spelled table names, usually duplicate tables - missing FKs
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
There's a documentary on Youtube that covers both countries. IIRC, in Russia it affected wide-area pipelines and phone networks - systems nobody wanted to screw with. Anyway, the tests scared both sides shitless and I think they stoppe
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> The U.S. set off a nuclear bomb in space in 1962 So did Russia. Both countries stopped doing that because of the excessive damage to man-made systems in both space and on the ground.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> Because "just rewrite your program in C to avoid GC pauses" is such a flawed argument False. All popular databases are written in C, and continue because of the GC issue. I would not use a general-purpose database written in
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
Most smart missiles in the past 2 decades attack tanks by detonating on top. You don't really need classified tank data for this well-known vulnerability. A-10 pilots fire into the ground obliquely to ricochet into the bottom of tanks.
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by redis_mlc 5y ago
> Isn't creating a sequence a bad idea in general, anyway? No: - sequences are very common. I recommend using them on every table for mgmt. and internal efficiency reasons. For example, with Innodb, if you don't have a numeric

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