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by sparky_z 1y ago
Is it relevant? It's writing about a pool for storing spent fuel, which is not a part of the actual reactor system. This incident report says that the worker fell into a "reactor cavity" containing water and that there wa
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Yeah, that's one of them. Here's the other: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_Motor_Company It even says in your link "The former motorcycle division was established in 1955 as Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.,
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Completely separate companies, both called Yamaha. One was spun off from the other, but I don't think there was ever a time when the same company sold both. (Basically, the musical instrument company was redirected to making war materi
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by sparky_z 1y ago
It would be nice if you explained what you're talking about, rather than just assuming everybody knows. Whatever it is, you come off as someone "protesting too much" by taking a simple reference to WWII as being an attack on
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by sparky_z 1y ago
As I recall from coverage at the time, Starbuck's's board specifically wanted him, they rolled out the red carpet to lure him away from Chipotle, and he insisted on the jet arrangement as a condition of taking the job because he d
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by sparky_z 1y ago
I was just repeating what the video you linked to said. Re-watch it from 8:13 to 9:18.
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Interesting. Now I have a question about that video, and I think I'm more likely to get a good answer from someone here than in the comments there, so here goes: Tom says that because that's the only radon cave that can turn the f
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by sparky_z 1y ago
I can't figure out why it's flagging words like "left" or "right" as misspelled, but words like "segmental" and "atrial" are ok.
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by sparky_z 1y ago
No, named after the founder, Tim Leatherman.
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Nope. It's named after its inventor, Tim Leatherman.
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by sparky_z 1y ago
OK, look at it this way. Imagine that, after you generate the points randomly in the cube, and discard those outside the sphere, you then convert the remaining points into 3D polar coordinates (AKA spherical coordinates [0]). This doesn&#x2
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by sparky_z 1y ago
That was my first instinct as well, but I thought through it a little more and now it seems intuitively correct to me. -First of all, it's intuitive to me that the "candidate" points generated in the cube are randomly distrib
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by sparky_z 1y ago
For the record, As a carry-on lover and cheapskate, I viscerally dislike this idea. But your logistical objections don't ring true to me. > How would they charge for carryons though? Would they charge for say a bag of food you just
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Back when Netflix would let you give movies a star rating, I sometimes gave bad ratings to things I hadn't watched so that their recommendation engine would know not to recommend more things like that to me. Was I in the wrong for do
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Shouldn't the recommendation depend on when you go to sleep, rather than a blanket recommendation for a specific time?
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Can't forget to mention the new Pope as well. It's been a big month for math majors on the international stage.
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by sparky_z 1y ago
I would have assumed that this wouldn't require a tool. That you could just click on a user and get this information, just like you can for Hacker News, Reddit, and myriad other social media sites (not to mention old-school forums). Ap
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by sparky_z 1y ago
From the article... "William Peppé handed the gems, relics and reliquaries to the colonial Indian government: the bone relics went to the Buddhist King of Siam (Rama V). Five relic urns, a stone chest and most other relics were sent to
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by sparky_z 1y ago
In the sense that they don't go much much further than just the bare minimum required by government regulations from the various jusrisdictions they operate in, and they don't treat this overreach as their primary profit center, t
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by sparky_z 1y ago
I'd rather not put even more of the economy under even stricter control of the federal government just now, with so much chaos afoot. Giving state governments even less room to maneuver to weather whatever comes next doesn't seem
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by sparky_z 1y ago
That wouldn't distort the college market like ubiquitous student loans backed by the government do, so I don't see why that would be a problem.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
That's the best part - it doesn't ask you to sign up!
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by sparky_z 2y ago
I wouldn't describe 29 years as "a very short period of time".
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Literally the entire article is specifically about films that aren't remakes/reboots/franchise films, and how they aren't doing well at the box office. It would be impossible to read even a single sentence of the article
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by sparky_z 2y ago
No, that's a classic misconception. People claimed that windows "flowed" because really old ones were thicker at the bottom, but that was just how some old window glass was made.
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by sparky_z 2y ago
It was Hegseth, not Waltz, that suddenly started dropping classified operations details (without promoting) into a group chat that was just set up for the purpose of planning for a future meeting. He's the one who really fucked up here
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Does the system of electromagnets do anything to enforce legal vs illegal moves? Seems like another way for your untrustworthy friends to cheat. When your opponent's distracted, just put your queen anywhere you like. Also, is there a r
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by sparky_z 2y ago
I'm also a little skeptical with this approach, as it's not taking into account the curvature of light through the atmosphere. In reality, when the photo was taken, the sun was already fully below the horizon. It just looks like i
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Lottery wins are supposed to be uncorrelated events. So yes, three winners in the same household means some sort of funny business is likely going on that requires explanation. Something needs to explain the correlation. Here, there's
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by sparky_z 2y ago
Keep in mind, he was 95 and was forced into retirement by health issues over 20 years ago. If your base rate is based on two healthy people in their prime, that's a little different. It could be as simple as he found her dead or dying,

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