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by rfugger 7y ago
It's helpful to the extent it demonstrates just how much our energy infrastructure needs to change.
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by rfugger 8y ago
Locomotives have been diesel-electric hybrids for decades, so it probably makes a lot of sense for trucking, I agree.
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by rfugger 8y ago
A scenario where one person is getting secret sales kickbacks by and selling pipe dreams from a large corporation to unsuspecting "friends" doesn't sound out of the ordinary under capitalism as we know it. That's not an
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by rfugger 8y ago
I think I read that longer landing gear wouldn't fit into the fuselage without major reconfiguration.
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by rfugger 8y ago
I think the article is a good example of why universal healthcare would have to remain in place when UBI is implemented. UBI is unlikely to be enough to afford quality healthcare.
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by rfugger 8y ago
And this is in Canada, where the author's surgery and other medical care was covered in full by universal health care. Without that, her situation likely would have been far worse, and yet we can still do so much better.
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by rfugger 8y ago
I feel like the advent of Trump has taken some of the urgency out of tearing down the worst parts of the national security infrastructure, and probably removed that as a possibility while he's around, since he seems to only want to des
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by rfugger 8y ago
Using flight data from two crashes?
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by rfugger 8y ago
You can bet the FBI didn't wait two days to take action on that lead. It turned out to be nothing, but "out of an abundance of caution" should be the standard here, not balance of probability.
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by rfugger 8y ago
The conclusion in this case is, "two of the same type of plane crashed under similar circumstances so until we know more, no one should fly this plane." I have no problem with a regulator jumping to that "conclusion" un
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by rfugger 8y ago
If you're a regulator, and you have unvalidated data that suggests a plane may be unsafe, how long do you wait for validated data before deciding to ground that plane "out of an abundance of caution"?
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by rfugger 8y ago
They claim this is based on new "validated" satellite tracking data they received this morning showing similar altitude fluctuations to the Lion Air crash. Somehow every internet forum had this figured out within hours of the cras
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by rfugger 8y ago
I have chronic fatigue syndrome since a bad viral infection in 2001. I find this article quite unfortunate. There is plenty of good research being done into CFS that does not generate the outrage that the PACE trial has. There are many reas
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by rfugger 8y ago
Seat pitch and width is largely up to the airlines. Korean Air 787s aren't bad at all in economy.
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by rfugger 8y ago
Not really 2FA, just private key transfer to another device.
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by rfugger 8y ago
It can be, certainly. But not always, and quite possibly not even usually, depending on what is meant by "achievement". Failing to encourage achievement can also be harmful. The problem here is that one-word summaries of detailed
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by rfugger 8y ago
The real question here is if the author went to college and got a degree, why are they working in sandwich shops? I'm not saying there's not a reasonable explanation for their situation, but any discussion of their particular prob
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by rfugger 8y ago
I grew up on an orchard that used Roundup for weed control. The chemical was applied directly to the ground beneath the trees, and to the trunks. The concentration was calculated to kill weeds, but not the trees, which were much more robust
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by rfugger 8y ago
The current gold standard test for chronic fatigue syndrome is repeated cardio-pulmonary exercise test (CPET). http://www.shoutoutaboutme.com/testing/the-2-day-cpet-a-gold... Unfortunately, research into this disease i
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by rfugger 8y ago
I got a bad flu (or similar) in 2001 and never recovered fully. It was like half my energy capacity went permanently missing. I had been quite active and athletic, but that all ended. I did as much as I could, and, despite needing to drop o
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by rfugger 8y ago
If wages are stagnant with respect to the consumer price index, they are not capturing productivity gains, because the CPI accounts for lower prices on goods.
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by rfugger 8y ago
How do you search across all those instances?
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by rfugger 8y ago
Voting for Trump might be an anti-social way of punishing those do-gooder liberals.
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by rfugger 8y ago
Facebook: "This user isn't clicking any ads, and will probably never click any ads. That's fine; their presence and contribution to the platform helps us attract and retain other users, some of whom will click ads, and so is
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by rfugger 8y ago
Regardless of sales, this game demonstrates all sorts of wonderful qualities that successful studios are looking for in an employee, and its development was undoubtedly much more educational than any computer science program. It is never wa
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by rfugger 8y ago
What do RCS and NOTAM stand for? Also, is there a link where you can, as you say, "pull" this data, or is that from a non-public system? Thanks.
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by rfugger 8y ago
> Now research Impatience and Hubris! Do it fast, but we already know the answer.
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by rfugger 8y ago
Like links in a chain, they are all required for the chain to hold.
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by rfugger 8y ago
Police are supposed to follow the law, and if the law bans computer aids to beat the slot machines, then the police are acting correctly in investigating. The more interesting question is how gambling interests have gotten such favourable l
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by rfugger 8y ago
That podcast only has positive things to say about meditation. I found his dissertation mentioned a few places, but couldn't find the actual document...

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