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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Excellent, thank you. There's a parallel between Sergei Korolev and Elon Musk, I believe.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
A perspective on how it was to be a Mormon wife (specifically, one of Brigham Young's wives) is available in a book "Wife no. 19" by Ann Eliza Young, self-described as "Brigham Young's apostate wife". Published
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
+1 Second your recommendation of Johann Hari's book. Maybe the best I've read on the drug war.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Check out this new item in the toy box. [1] [1] https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/01/funky-mirror-turns-e...
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Thanks for this.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Spot on. I'm old enough to recall my patents' relief when I got a polio vaccination. There were multiple children on iron lungs among their age-peer friends. I grew up in the age of antibiotic supremacy. It's still counterint
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
It's hard to beat a NASA job title, "Planetary Protection Officer". [1] [1] https://sma.nasa.gov/sma-disciplines/planetary-protection
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
> if I wanted to learn homotopy type theory, would this have been easier five years ago, or will it be easier five years from now? My experience (I'm late 60s) suggests you may find it harder later, but you'll have a higher ret
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
> concepts like "fairness" or "caring" simply doesn't exist outside of human brains. We can test for a sense of fairness in animals. One test is the "inequity aversion task". Non-humans showing a sense
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
>your argument essentially hinges on the assumption that pulling hard back on the stick is a sufficient solution for all the problems that may happen with a plane with the exception of a fault with MCAS (the new system). I don't rea
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I'll be slightly pedantic: the coating is almost certainly diamond-like carbon (DLC), not diamond. DLC is a complicated class of materials, generally composed of amorphous carbon (no long-range order - kind of like glass) with the same
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
There's some movement towards modification of Prop 13 [1]. As I understand it, the proposal would lift Prop 13 on commercial properties only. Residential properties would continue as now. It's claimed this would bring in an additi
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Because some subscribe to criteria of "fair use" that differ from yours.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
>But the question is, why do a country with such ability still want to spy United States? That ability should be more advanced than the current US technology for decades ... Mainly because it's cheaper to let somebody else do the re
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
For the same reason you buy fire insurance even though your home has never burned down.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I'll speculate that NRO and similar agencies have such software. Doubt it's OSS, tho'.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
My mother-in-law died of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's disease). When she passed, my wife, her sister and her husband, and my mother-in-law's ex-husband were with her. I was stroking her hair because I wanted the las
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I think your facility in creating/using new interfaces won't be much of a protective factor. I think your being, say, less than 35 years old at the moment would be much more important. By the time you're 65+, there's a r
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I'm on the fence about the patience issue. Complexity is still fun for me, but my patience for gratuitous complexity has greatly diminished. When it takes three clicks to get to a menu item that used to take just one, that's gratu
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
It was very cool. I remember sometime in 2001 when iTunes was released, I was able to listen to other peoples' music libraries without restriction. That got shut down pretty fast, but I still remember it fondly as a thing from before t
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
>It's worth noting that the U.S. market does pay for the lion's share of patented drugs... And even in doing so, we're getting contaminated meds. See the article at Ars,[1] which is based on a recent study from Kaiser.[2]
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
>and get volumes up again by making sure that they have attractive premium products that people can afford. Another thing would be to offer entry-level products that get people into the ecosystem. Like the iPhone SE - smaller and less ca
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
>Then globalization and income inequality happened. Yeah, I think this is the new driver for SST. There's now a class of customers who can easily afford whatever the ticket price will be, so a market is assured. Unfortunate for thos
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
How could they not have named it Farpoint? Q is not impressed.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
iPhone uses VCSEL lasers operating in the infrared [1]. [1] http://spie.org/newsroom/faces-light-up-over-vcsel-prospects...
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
It could be a combination of something you have (your face) and something you know (for example, that your right eyebrow has to be raised for face unlock to work).
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
These may not work well for low frequency sources. The satellites are above the ionosphere, which reflects/absorbs low freq RF. Comm signals at, for example, 3.5MHz wouldn't get through the ionosphere.
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Can't read the article (in the air, data constrained). But if you have what you think is a patentable invention, file a provisional application before you interview. The USPTO gives you a filing receipt, which might help here. Let your
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
Given our overall expenditures on BART, would it cost so very much to ramp up security presence to a level that would prevent at least 90% of these offenses? BART is a critical resource in the Bay Area. It has to be safe and reliable to be
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by ridgeguy 8y ago
I telconf weekly with a client in Singapore. The topic is litigation that's critically important to an industry none of you thinks about more than every year or so, if that. Every call (2 years now) has been subject to intrusion by sni

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