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by smeyer 12y ago
It depends on the company, and this could be anything from a bad sign to an okay sign. I think the real point here is that you shouldn't get all of your hopes around one company, but be applying to lots of companies so that you're
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by smeyer 12y ago
I'm well aware, but I was just talking about the easiest case (deep intergalactic space with the CMB and minimal other exposure to radiation). There's a lot more complication than that, as you indicated, but I still don't thi
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by smeyer 12y ago
If you're interested in the goals of the site creators/administrators (as in the Guidelines and FAQ) also have a look at pg's comments on the subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171 .
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by smeyer 12y ago
I don't think it's really fair to say there's no way to define a temperature in a vacuum. With radiation, it seems fair to call the temperature that to which a black body would be heated if placed in the vacuum.
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by smeyer 12y ago
If they mean clients, they already posted the same thing two days ago.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I knew a Harvard CS grad with starting salary at AmaGooFaceSoft of (base+bonus+RSUs) of between $200k and $250k, so I'd take the under on 2020 if we're willing to take the upper end of reasonably achievable rather than the standar
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by smeyer 12y ago
>Generally in newspapers you don't read part of an article, move to another one, and then to another one... I actually do this more when reading a physical newspaper than reading newspapers online. With several articles laid out on
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by smeyer 12y ago
>And I'm not being smug here with the above. That's what threw me off, so sorry with the confusion. I can also state that it doesn't fit my personal experiences even in a figurative sense, but that's a comparison that
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by smeyer 12y ago
Have you actually seen someone in your workplace reported to a manager or HR representative for holding open a door outside of a larger pattern of behavior? I've never in my life seen anyone get more than a dismissive look for holding
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by smeyer 12y ago
>where a sarcastic slippery slope argument about the Patriot Act made in 2004 I think many people were non-sarcastically making these slippery slope arguments, at least in part because they feared these exact sorts of scenarios.
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by smeyer 12y ago
Assuming you only care about your own life. If the two alternatives are (1) be kidnapped, do some work, then murdered vs (2) fight to the death and have your family killed in retaliation, I could see how your suggested personal rule might b
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by smeyer 12y ago
I guess I just don't have the same experience with food removal. I'm the sort of lazy guy who loads in dishes with days-old food residue caked on, and my dishwasher has no trouble getting it all of and such, even in the pretty egr
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by smeyer 12y ago
I misunderstood you; thanks for the correction. I still think the useful data here is the fraction of the endowment income that goes towards expenditures, rather than the raw size of the endowments, but I definitely see where you're co
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by smeyer 12y ago
I think you're getting a bit mixed up here. For example, I went to Harvard, which has a large endowment which has grown substantially. But the endowment definitely didn't grow by moving tuition money into the endowment (it goes th
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by smeyer 12y ago
I know that most schools don't have sizable endowments, but I also don't think most of them are diverting tuition towards their endowments.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I think you could fix many of these problems with a better dish washer. A big enough dishwasher should fit whatever you like, and while I grew up rinsing dishes before washing them, my current dishwasher has no problem washing away caked-on
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by smeyer 12y ago
Thanks for the useful information, but do you have a source for the university endowments claim? Are their schools where tuition funds go towards expanding the endowment? At my alma mater it was the other way around (endowment made billions
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by smeyer 12y ago
You're incorrect. I had no trouble creating a password Testd\ \ ks1! with the word in question. I think it's because you tried to use a space? Or else didn't meet their password requirements.
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by smeyer 12y ago
That is not the point of the comment to which you're replying. They didn't claim that the purchase price provides a good estimate of the energy cost, but that it provides a strict upper bound. If the manufacturer is not selling at
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by smeyer 12y ago
>I guess someone must have found a closet with a bunch more of them somewhere. I lived in such a closet one summer a couple of years ago. If I'm getting this terminology right, they had an entire 16-bit block to themselves (65k addr
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by smeyer 12y ago
Really? Plenty of software devs in the US making six figures, which is a lot better than $2k a month for 20 hours a week, especially considering that it comes with a lot of other benefits.
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by smeyer 12y ago
It's definitely far better to look earlier, but I know students and companies that have found good matches late into April.
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by smeyer 12y ago
>you can't legislate against inconsiderate behavior Sure you can. In my own experience I've had good luck calling the police with noise complaints, although I recognize the response is probably worse in many other places. I&#x2
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by smeyer 12y ago
So, I definitely didn't study GRBs in any depth, but based on my increasingly vague memories from my degree in astrophysics, quasars don't have much to do with it. All of the major proposed mechanisms I recall for GRBs are on the
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by smeyer 12y ago
It depends in part on what you mean by "witness" a supernova. We discover supernovae all the time (hundreds a year), but pretty much all of those are too faint to be seen with the naked eye. There's a decent chance of seeing
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by smeyer 12y ago
Not all supernovae have a GRB and not all GRBs have a supernova, but most long burst GRBs are thought to be from a supernova, no? I've been out of supernova research for a few years now, but that's what I recall.
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by smeyer 12y ago
I think they focused on hitters because in general a lot more attention is already paid to fatigue with pitchers (carefully monitoring innings pitched, pitch counts, rest days, and so on). It's possible (although not guaranteed) that t
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by smeyer 12y ago
Hasn't patio11 mentioned SLAs in the context of enterprise customers somewhat frequently? I'm not trying to be rude or anything I just thought that was pretty standard stuff. Edit to add: even just googling patio11 SLA will give y
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by smeyer 12y ago
>they started printing out their photos again You lost me here. I'm firmly a "millennial", and I can't recall ever seeing a friend with printed photos from the last four years other than the occasional art student. I&
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by smeyer 12y ago
It looks like Amazon's video service has Black Books. Do they only have some of the episodes? Did you just not find them or not want to pay for them?

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