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by st26 8y ago
"Free" is really handy for keeping the service fast & on time though. Not required to be sure, but each rider digging for change takes time. My local bus rapid transit is nominally not-free, but tickets are not checked. It&#x2
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by st26 8y ago
There's a presumption, I think, in this scheme that if loans for art majors are less available or attractive, the cost of an art degree will decrease. In which case you'd reach some equilibrium where the loans are not very good, b
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by st26 8y ago
Purely anecdotal, but I have a friend who went to veterinary school. The school had a literal class teaching all vet students to use IBR forgiveness to get their debt discharged. It's not quite as abusive as what could have happened
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by st26 8y ago
Yes, this is my preferred approach. Although, care must be taken, as many nominally warm LED's still have a huge amount of blue emissions. For example every Philips colored LED bulb, including red and orange, have a big spike of blue.
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by st26 8y ago
What exactly did the study say? Exposure to blue light suppresses melatonin levels. Melatonin is previously understood to regulate sleep. Ergo, while causation between blue light exposure and sleep quality is not proven, we at least have
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by st26 8y ago
Where's your numbers for that? My local muni operates about 10,000 street lights. If HPS averages 400W apiece, that's 4 megawatts, run for maybe 10 hours a day, at $0.10/kWh that's $4,000 a night... Now if by "years
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by st26 8y ago
Somewhere along the line more light became (in the minds of the public) linearly associated with greater wealth, security, and prosperity. It's cheap now but the perception remains.
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by st26 8y ago
Given we already know it disrupts melatonin (as well as noctural wildlife), this feels like one of those cases where the burden of proof is on the proponents, before we roll out millions or billions of dollars of LED streetlights around the
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by st26 8y ago
The Elon Musk style private founder is not really a new thing. Plenty of companies have been started & run privately, and in Elon's case there is a strong argument for that- it gives the founder more control of the company which ca
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by st26 8y ago
I think the point is if early-stage growth was still part of the stock market, index funds & the like would all perform better for it. The argument is by removing early-stage growth from the market & conducting it privately, the ent
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by st26 8y ago
Your parent mentioned these were planes for a commuter airline. So they were probably pressurized.
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by st26 8y ago
Although with genetic diseases and child support, genealogy/paternity still matters.
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by st26 8y ago
A good example of their application is low end oscilloscopes. The heart of the machine is an FPGA running the sampling, DSP, and all the channels. It's very parallel, does a good amount of compute, and also provides lots of arbitrary I
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by st26 8y ago
the development environment UIs look like a toddler was given access to VB6 But does anyone really use the GUI? I was always under the impression nobody, including Xilinx, really cared about the GUI because most commercial projects prob
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by st26 8y ago
I think the main issue is that using FPGAs is actually doing hardware design, and most people don't want to do hardware design Half the time FPGA's come up, people ask "which FPGA can I get that has an integrated ARM core&q
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by st26 8y ago
Putting it in terms of cost & productivity is very clinical, very inhuman, but it's also virtually unassailable. Nobody will argue "We should continue to treat people badly and make less money". So to me it seems like t
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by st26 8y ago
It's hard to imagine your local city bus is so unpleasant to be called a dystopian hellscape.
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by st26 8y ago
Presumably you are betting your sextant skills are better than the other guy's.
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by st26 8y ago
Those folks are certainly out there. If The Lorax doesn't fit in your worldview (e.g. "drill baby drill") you concoct some way to write it off.
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by st26 8y ago
Is that really the problem? Everybody endlessly talks about how Netflix has failed to crack the recommendation nut for something like ten years now. Maybe a smaller, more curated selection will make a comeback, as the pendulum swings away
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by st26 8y ago
You lose between 1-2L/hr of moderate exercise. To stay fully hydrated and performing well, you would thus probably want to drink 5-10L ish on those hikes, leaning towards the high side if it's hot and arid. You certainly can get b
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by st26 8y ago
That's a really interesting perspective, thank you. There definitely are some truly unrealistic standards out there, but the unhealthy or impossible are probably a small subset of the images we see these days.
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by st26 8y ago
Sounds like a real limiter on job & class mobility though. I mean, sure, go ahead and charge the true cost. But I think artificially limiting mobility has a lot of downsides.
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by st26 8y ago
My example is pretty simple. An antenna does not radiate only 900MHz. It radiates a distribution , centered around 900MHz. The fall-off is rapid, but there is non-zero power at higher frequencies, and there can also be harmonics. It&#x27
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by st26 8y ago
A business is also impacted when it doesn't have its very own stoplight to help people turn into the lot. Thus some cities wind up putting in stoplights every few hundred feet, in some areas. Congratulations, you've just created a
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by st26 8y ago
Folks on this board might be familiar with Valco, a mall which has been dying for thirty years. Smack in the middle of Cupertino, which no-one would describe as less-affluent or more-rural.
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by st26 8y ago
Do we know unequivocally that cell phone radiation never has the same effect as ionizing radiation, or that none whatsoever is produced? What if, just for example, while the average particle/wave is in the radio frequencies, there was
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by st26 8y ago
Well, they had to jack it up because the experiment (and the rats) would not go on for seventy years. And if the mechanism of action is anything like other types of radiation, risk is proportional to total lifetime exposure, not peak exposu
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by st26 8y ago
Is ProGuard or similar widely used these days? Is it good enough? There was a parallel trend of some really awesome apps clocking less than 4MB, which I attribute to good tooling. I wonder if Gmail, Facebook, et al have stripping & such
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by st26 8y ago
Yes, I don't claim the test is useless. But it was an unexpected moral quandary, as my spouse and I are not strict believers in either pro-choice or pro-life.

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