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by ridgeguy 9y ago
No opinion on the product, market, etc. But two business lessons: Never sign a 'no-shop' agreement unless the other party covers your burn rate during the no-shop period. Burn gets paid weekly, one week in advance. A missed burn p
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
It seems that full metal jacket (ball) ammunition was adopted for technical reasons. The 1899 Hague Convention prohibited ammunition that flattened or expanded on impact, but did not require jacketing. [1] [1] https://en.wikiped
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
From a 1969 paper titled" The Meteorite Flux at the Surface of Mars". [1] The abstract says that Martian meteorites having a mass greater than 1 metric ton hit the surface with essentially their space velocity, undecelerated. Thos
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Really enjoyed this. I got my doctorate in neurophys at a time when the 10 glia/1 neuron in the human brain was accepted dogma, but with little experimental support. The numerous glia were viewed as little more than passive electrical
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Non-oceanic internet distribution might mitigate concerns raised in the article. [1] [1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/space...
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Yes, and it doesn't have to be an alloy. Structure is the basis for 'invisibility cloaks', materials with small-scale structures which confer optical properties not found in the same unstructured bulk materials. [1] Another e
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
This effect may not be helpful to us. Humans can suffer very high death rates due to diseases for which we aren't a host. See the Black Death [1]. The host was fleas, riding rodent vectors. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Yes, I would think. While the college job fair demographic is statistically biased to the young, there are people over 40 who go to college. As long as the recruiting opportunity is made known to the over-40s as well as those younger, it wo
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Depends on laws and customs. Primogeniture concentrates inherited wealth in firstborn (usually male) offspring. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primogeniture
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
There may be reasons unrelated to investment risk. For example, the risk of losing an earned income stream because my (assumed honest) employer (fires me, goes bankrupt, etc.) seems much higher than the risk of losing an unearned income str
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
"Different than" and "different from" both appear to be accepted in American English, with "different from" having an edge for more formal writing. [1] [2] [1] http://www.dictionary.com/e/
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
I'm a little foggy this morning, but here goes: If 100km^2 is read as an area (not a square 100 km on a side), that's 1e8 m^2. Assuming an average of 500W/m^2 daytime insolation over 8 hours and an average conversion efficien
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
>If you promise everyone money for life, many people won't bother to create wealth. >A lot of people will do absolutely nothing if they have money for life. Really? Citation needed. These seem no more than unsupported assumptions
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Not an expert, and my apologies if you already know the following. On costs: have you investigated going to an emergency room to be seen for blood in stool? Under Federal law, you have the right to screening, emergency care, and transfer to
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
To answer your questions: 1. Yes. Suffering isn't necessarily limited to some brief interval of time. For example, disfiguring injuries can impose suffering (employment discrimination, loss of consortium, etc.) throughout a person&#x27
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
If Apple wanted to prioritize benefits to its home country (America) by avoiding use of ex-U.S. tax minimization schemes, it need only ask its owners (shareholders) for permission to do that. I think Apple has enough market power to put sha
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Kudos to Aerojet Rocketdyne on their thrusters lighting up after 37 years. That's genuinely impressive engineering. Certain Volkswagen models apparently have an even more amazing MTBF. It's a real sleeper. [1] [1] https:/&#x
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Thanks, appreciate your reply. Maybe Apple should spin up a group of 7 - 14 year-olds to add to their test suite input. They might be better at coming up with crazy shit X that might break things.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Yeah, but... It seems to me (somebody who has no chops in this domain) that this is such a basic bug. Like something a child would have found just messing around. And it came from a corporation that has around $200B of cash and cash equiv
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
This situation seems more like a lock manufacturer selling millions of locks that can be opened with a toothpick. I'd lay responsibility at the lockmaker's door, not the guy who told everybody they were at the mercy of anyone with
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
I think only economic consequences would cause Apple to up its QA game. Like decreased sales or lawsuits with good prospects of winning serious money. Unfortunately, I don't believe those will happen.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
I think it's an interesting idea. I wouldn't summarily dismiss it. Your questions about it are interesting, unanswered, and not fatal to the idea. After all, don't Foxconn, et al., have a stranglehold on the manufacture of Ap
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
There is a problem with some third-party SSDs on certain Macs during High Sierra installation, apparently during conversion to APFS. [1] Maybe that's one concern? [1] https://blog.macsales.com/42466-a-note-on-high-sier
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Really sorry to see this resource go away. I was one of the early members at the Menlo Park shop. I built devices there that I couldn't have done otherwise, and it was inspiring to see many others doing the same 24/7. I learned a
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Disclaimer: I have no expertise in AI. That said, I agree that learning how the brain works seems unimportant and unnecessary. Evolution doesn't know how a brain works, but it's given us Einstein, Michelangelo, and conversations o
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Big Flaming Rocket.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
It may be that hearing impairment is only one, and/or the first noticeable, effect of whatever is happening in Cuba. In analogy to the way damage due to CTE can manifest long after the injury, I'd be concerned about problems that
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
I don't see her music degree as an indicator of her (in)competence to do the job. Anecdata example: my PhD is in neurobiology. Some of my engineering has been orbiting Mars since 1976. No neurons involved, just aerospace engineering.
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
Of course they would. Would an individual considering whether to buy/use a drug actually evaluate the involvement of a cartel in their decision? I doubt it. I suspect demand for drugs is largely independent of their legal status. Legal
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by ridgeguy 9y ago
A resource I recommend is the book, Chasing the Scream, by Johann Hari. It lays out the complex and remarkably individual history of the war on drugs and its consequences to great effect. If you read it and agree, buy a few copies to pass o

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