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slackdog
4y ago
> Seems unlikely that each step is actually updated by the workers themselves. I’d put money on an algorithm. Orders are automatically added to the "prep" stage, and again to the post-oven "quality check" stage. Bu
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slackdog
4y ago
> In 1950, Manhattan Project doctors I believe this date is inaccurate; the injections of Plutonium happened in 1945 through 1947. The Manhattan Project was disbanded in 1947. Those experiments might have continued, but they wouldn&#
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slackdog
4y ago
> Thing with FOOF is you'd notice your bones dissolving almost immediately. I'm not sure about FOOF, but that's definitely not the case with hydrofluoric acid. With hydrofluoric acid, depending on the concentration, bur
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slackdog
4y ago
If you want to get particular, those 'radon deaths' are actually caused by the various radioactive decay products of radon, rather than radon itself. Particularly, radioactive isotopes of polonium, lead, etc. https://
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slackdog
4y ago
> It might be since it's so bad at penetrating anything solid This isn't the case! Plutonium 239 is relatively safe, merely an alpha emitter which is what you're talking about. But that isn't where the danger comes
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slackdog
4y ago
> Some crane operators in NYC apparently make up to $500,000!! Not totally crazy when you remember how much weight they're dangling above people's heads. If they fuck up they could cause dozens of deaths and many millions of
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4y ago
Employers in France need valid grounds, which may be personal or economic. Personal grounds includes poor performance. Easier said than done though, it requires a lot of documentation proving that the employer provided sufficient trainin
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It seems like the cat is out of the bag; LIDAR/SAR is proliferating. If you don't look/dig for stuff, another team of researchers will.
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I got some data off ~35 year old 5.25" floppies recently. I didn't have high hopes since these floppies are floppy, but they held up well and didn't give me trouble.