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by swimfar 8y ago
He's probably referring to tests that don't significantly affect the probability of a successful mission. I don't know anything about how Boeing does this. But I can imagine a contractor going another route where they offer
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by swimfar 8y ago
But if you do two years at a community college and then two years at one of your top-25 schools you get the same benefits. It's also generally easier to transfer into a university than it is to get accepted right out of high school.
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by swimfar 8y ago
I've been playing the Baldur's Gate rpg recently which has multiple difficulty levels. One of them is "Story Mode" where, as I understand it, you can't die. Baldur's Gate is famous for its story and this lets
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by swimfar 8y ago
I don't know about the UK, but my net annual savings in the US is about equal to what my gross income would be in France or Germany. If I worked in the tech industry I'm sure the difference would be even greater. Also, healthcar
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by swimfar 8y ago
And I'm sure some of that is because the children of Harvard graduates tend to be more qualified (in terms of other application criteria) than the general population or applicant pool. If an additional 1000 2.0 students applied to Harv
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by swimfar 8y ago
Kitchen cabinets and all the light fixtures too.
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Self-Forming Structures: An Exploration into 3D Printing on Pre-Stretched Fabric(n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com)
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by swimfar 8y ago
He didn't neglect that, he said, "...and you're not interacting with people in a way that leads to making friends in your 8-hour evenings,..."
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by swimfar 8y ago
I've never heard of this happening before. I'm not saying it's not common, just that you shouldn't assume it's a cultural thing. Did it happen more than once? Kids can be weird. Maybe he was just playing with so
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by swimfar 8y ago
You're correct, but this goes against the idea that it's greedy house owners that are causing all the problems. Maybe they're selfish (I would argue most people are), but it's in their best financial interest for the Ba
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by swimfar 8y ago
Of course there is an alternative. Fund 1/10 as many people for 10x as long. I feel you'd get a much better idea of what people would do despite the smaller sample size. The mentality of someone who is set for life vs one who h
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by swimfar 8y ago
I've thought about this before too, especially with forums. Here, for example, there are lots of non-native speakers who make little mistakes that I would like to correct. But some people see that as rude or as being overly picky. Bu
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by swimfar 9y ago
I just read a good article about the passenger pigeon [1]. It was originally published in Audubon, but I read it in a book called "The Best American Science and Nature Writing - 2015". [1] http://www.audubon.org/
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by swimfar 9y ago
I don't have any experience with Toyota. But it definitely happens at the German manufacturing plants I've been to. There is an established process for pulling a vehicle off the line and reworking it. Sometimes there are specif
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by swimfar 9y ago
This is a sincere question. What American laws are enforced outside the US?
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by swimfar 9y ago
I agree regarding music without lyrics. But I never thought of including incomprehensible lyrics in that group. Below is a selection of playlists that I listen to often while working. There are occasional lyrics or talking, but not too o
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by swimfar 9y ago
There are tall bridges designed to allow large ships to pass underneath. I'm not sure how that affects the cost, though. There's one in Saint-Nazaire, France (which has a large ship building industry) which crosses the Loire rive
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by swimfar 9y ago
Just some interesting trivia. Two days after the Chicago fire which killed ~300 people, there was a much bigger fire in Wisconsin that killed 1200-2500 people. Over 300 people just from the town of Peshtigo died. It was a town with only
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by swimfar 9y ago
People don't go to prison for smoking a joint. They go to prison for distribution or possession of large quantities. And even those people represent less than 10% of the prison population. There are certainly lots of improvements to
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by swimfar 9y ago
In the end, stop signs end up being treated like yield signs. This definitely varies based on where in the US you are. In California almost no one comes to a complete stop. (That's probably why rolling through a stop sign is called
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by swimfar 9y ago
I'm pretty sure they don't lend the equipment out for free. Does it work differently in other countries?
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by swimfar 9y ago
I've worked with a number of engineers in Europe who couldn't type without looking at the keyboard. I assumed that it's not part of every school curriculum there. Or maybe they learned and then went back to hunt-and-peck af
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by swimfar 9y ago
That's how it's often done with Arduinos: https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Debounce
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by swimfar 9y ago
Which places? This is an honest question because most articles I've read about these kinds of bikes all over the world describe the same problem.
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by swimfar 9y ago
I know the question was specifically about Western countries, but this comment (unintentionally) makes it sound like it's only been a western problem. This was a big problem in China and is still an issue today [1] (although the numbe
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by swimfar 9y ago
Western, maybe. But not uniquely American. I've seen references/jokes about it in Europe as well.
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by swimfar 9y ago
We had this in the US as well in elementary school. They had it every year, and I think all kids could participate (grades 1-6). It was a combination of safety instruction and some skills tests (riding in a figure 8, using turn signals pr
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by swimfar 9y ago
Have you actually ever lived in Alabama? Or are your views based on anecdotes and stereotypes of the South? I lived there for a short while and it's not Deliverance. In my experience it's a lot more integrated than the Bay Area.
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by swimfar 9y ago
OP mentioned that they use the number of customers using Shazam as a metric. Maybe once they decide to use a song in their playlist they (somehow) make sure that it's in the database.
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by swimfar 9y ago
Depending on where you live, they may already be doing that every 2-3 years anyways.

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