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by s_q_b 11y ago
Sounds like a familiar analysis... Oh that's right, I posted it the last time this came up, and a certain prominent legal mind here shouted it down as ignorant and insulted my intelligence. No hard feelings. Cheers, sir.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
IUDs have an excellent success rate and safety profile. They can cause problems, but from a societal perspective, it may be worth it. Really we need non-invasive male birth control, as soon as possible.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
This has been around forever. I wrote a research paper on using microblogging services to predict political events about a half decade ago. Three years ago my friend wrote his senior thesis on using it to predict stock market pricing. Brill
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Anecdotally the reason I've heard a lot of execs switching their 7/5-series Bimmers over to Teslas, is that they can use the HOV lanes at any time. Around here that can save up to an hour of commute. While the subsidies aren'
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by s_q_b 11y ago
It's a mixed bag thus far. China has successfully flown three pre-serial production prototypes that met spec. It's been spotted with ELINT and weapons hard points. Full production is slated for 2018. However, they've been hav
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by s_q_b 11y ago
My point was primarily that there isn't a huge gulf between an applicant's #1 school and #5 school. What I can find at Harvard/Yale/Princeton can mostly be found at UCLA or even major state schools. This pressuring your
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The J-20 seems to being coming along nicely, however.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Hmm... That probably does have a lot to do with it. At my company, you're permitting to choose a public title of either your job description (e.g. Lead Data Scientist), your "engineering rank" (e.g. Lead Scientist/Techno
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Couldn't like this enough. People extoll the virtues of a solid university COS degree, not because it explicitly teaches skills for industry, but because it creates a background to help new and novel problems. Certainly your previous w
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by s_q_b 11y ago
I agree we need an alternative to resume-based hiring, and the hiring process in general. For example, I don't do well in whiteboard interviews, which is odd because I normally don't have a public speaking issue. It feels like the
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Don't overlook the East Coast firms. CSC, SAIC, Unisys, Booz | Allen | Hamilton, Mitre, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, and smaller companies are developing very sophisticated software, especially in data science (my field), and not
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by s_q_b 11y ago
As far as I'm concerned, it's not borderline. All five members of my immediate family attended various so-called tier 1 schools. Never once was I made to feel that an Ivy League admission was a required or expected achievement. As
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by s_q_b 11y ago
That's all correct, and there can be considerable complexity over primary vs. secondary rights, etc.
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Of course I read the article. It is suggesting making local decentralized use of naturally occurring rainwater rather than relying on California's water system. My suggestion is that it is a poor solution because: 1. It has limited fea
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by s_q_b 11y ago
That's the state standard for new sewer systems in many locations in the United States as well. It's also actively subsidized through a complicated system of grants by the Federal government. The motive, however, usually isn'
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by s_q_b 11y ago
One cannot address California's drought problem without first addressing agriculture. Agriculture consumes the vast majority of the state's water. Distribution of water is governed by a system of "riparian rights" that (
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by s_q_b 11y ago
"The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards... and even then I have my doubts." - Prof. Gene "Spaf" Spafford
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by s_q_b 11y ago
If you do visit, it's an interesting post-apocalyptic world. Explore a little bit to the southeast of the old town and you'll find a locked shed, untouched, with a very old car inside and a sign boarding up the back window that sa
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by s_q_b 11y ago
In response to the sibling, that's an absurdist characterization and a pathetic strawman. There were free trade agreements before this ridiculous process. I believe deeply in free trade. I also believe in democracy. Thus I believe all
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Ugh, I hate this facile argument. No agreement need be negotiated in secret, with the possible exception of a constitution. And once negotiated, especially with fast track authority, it becomes almost impossible for our elected legislature
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Speak, and speak freely. Let the judiciary prevent the executive from abusing you. It will be hard but it can be done. They are attempting to pass laws in secret. Nothing is more anti-democratic and un-American.
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The elderly have organized pickups to drive them to the polls, absentee ballots, relatives, etc. The scariest thing I've seen was a Facebook conversation in which no less than a dozen of my classmates, all finance sector employees, wer
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by s_q_b 11y ago
The blackboard in a particular episode also contains the correct mass of the Higgs boson. There were several maths PhDs on the writing staff, so there's a lot of intelligent humor that flies over the average viewer's head (and oft
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by s_q_b 11y ago
While there's technically nothing racist about a small variation in intelligence. But this comment leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as we know that. 1. Individual variation in intelligence dwarfs any population level measure with regard
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Well done. It is very impressive to see the shift.
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If we dedicated ourselves to wiping out the biosphere, I'm sure we could. But the current nuclear arsenal wouldn't cut it. At best we could destroy civilization, but probably not even humanity.
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One of the earliest inventions, the spear-thrower, enhanced that ability even more, giving us the ability to kill big game from a distance with near impunity. (It works by increasing the lever arm. Think of a lacrosse stick.) http:/&#
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by s_q_b 11y ago
My professor once told us that we were thinking of Australopithecines, a recent hominid, all wrong. While we thought of early human ancestors as less intelligent versions of ourselves, the correct analogy was to a modern Velociraptor: fast
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by s_q_b 11y ago
Nordic cultures have quite the history of the passage to manhood being warfare...
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All day I can watch the V-22 Osprey tiltrotors come in in VTOL mode and land at the Pentagon. They seem even more common than transport helicopters. Now that the early crash-kinks are worked out, they're a truly amazing aircraft. http

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