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by tbihl 10y ago
Both of those are true, but it's worth noting that actual training manuals are also DoE. Naval Reactors occupies a unique space, due to a couple things: 1. the Navy is the only service that didn't get their nuclear 'toys&#x27
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It's really not quite right to think of the Navy's program as a nuclear engineering one. With their schools to prepare sailors for the boats, they want to make sure everyone knows why and how all protection systems and procedures
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In (3), are you describing what I've sometimes heard called tetrachromat? Is that now confidently considered extant? Last I'd heard, it was an exciting, but only slightly substantiated, theory, but I'd love to see more about
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by tbihl 10y ago
If you're comparing a lifespan to someone in developing areas, meal tempo is probably no more than a footnote compared to inaccessibility of medical care, safe birth, safe food and water, occupational hazards, destabilization and viole
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I recommend just trying it out. Pick a day when your performance doesn't need to be perfectly top notch (though it probably won't suffer anyway.) And then just commit. For me, that was not bringing lunch to work: just my water bot
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Pigment pens seem to also survive the scratchy, bleed-y world of budget office paper, if you want a crisp line at the cost of higher writing friction.
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Hopefully you're still interested in your question, because I'm afraid you really haven't gotten much of an answer. Assuming you're in the US or Western Europe, you need to recognize that societal collapse wouldn't
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On the pencil front, I recommend checking out kuru toga pencils. They rotate the lead slightly with every cycle of applied pressure and release, so you don't get the lead worn down until you're writing at a shallow angle with a mu
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by tbihl 10y ago
Last time I heard tell of similar things, it was probably mild starvation-induced ketoacidosis. Of course, it makes as much sense to say we shouldn't exercise because it releases "toxins"that make our muscles hurt. But, I&#x2
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More exciting than the free great is the idea of a reliable, high speed connection. But I live in a South facing apartment in South Carolina, so I just bake something if my house is cold for a few hours.
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I drink two cups of black tea in the morning, and sometimes also a soda if I really need to be productive. My sleep schedule is pretty abysmal: 5.5-6 hours on weekdays, 9 ish on weekends. Nonetheless, I seem to be able to focus for at least
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Cool. The end of the article reminds me of a somewhat recent cheating scandal that the US Navy had at one of its huge schools. The Navy adjusts its tests to be harder if pass rates get too high, which was the case at a base where instructor
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I'm not sure I really follow where you're going, but NSA is a very different organization from the FBI. Not only is this not good press for them, but probably there isn't any press that is good for them. They work best when t
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Yeah, making her ideas systematic are definitely a sticking point. In so much as she suggests anything, the more prominent idea to me was the influential neighborhood association. That wasn't so much a policy as a recommendation to hav
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Death and Life of Great American Cities is a book that everyone should relocate to the top of their reading lists, of they've not already tackled it. It's still perfectly applicable to every US town or city I've ever visited
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It's long form writing, in this case taking the form of a narrative. It gives texture and context, which some people certainly appreciate. Having said that, it's also nice to have a summary version like the one you've offered
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I'm going to try to keep this brief in the hope that it will come off as a few things worth responding to, rather than just signaling: 1. If you haven't read Jane Jacob's "Death and Life of Great American Cities", i
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Are you taking about mental approximation or writing programs for approximation? Or did you switch between the two? I'll say that knowing mental approximations for sines is a wonderful thing. And, come to think of it, writing something
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0.5 is pushing it, but for normal size writing 0.38 is a sweet spot of fine for most people. I use a 0.3, and I immediately notice bad paper because it becomes somewhat scratchy. This is in gel pens. Looking at jet pens, yours seems to be a
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With Mexico, you mean? But in all seriousness, you're correct, though I temper my enthusiasm with the thought that having the walls tends to make people complacent and underestimate risks. For example, spying on other countries is as o
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The bond market. We're all doing some crazy things with our government spending, at local and national levels, and it has to fall apart at some point.
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Minor point, but you meant 'cost of living', I believe.
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I would have said geometric buckling above.
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Interesting. My only objection is to the bit about the current president. You said that she uses a pinyin spelling, but "TS" isn't a pinyin consonant.
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So, I'm calculating a material buckling for S6G that's only one-fourth that of the described SMR, and I know S6G is highly enriched. Why is the SMR so close to parity for power density, especially if it's using natural circul
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So, at the risk of sounding foolish: what's the advantage of a fast reactor? If I'm remembering correctly, U-235 has a much better thermal than fast fission cross section. As to the rest, I'm sure there are risks to pressuriz
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Thanks for writing that. I can't remember exactly the process we went through, but I remember your post being a significant part of the information pushing my wife from med school to PA school, a decision we're quite happy about.
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FYI, taking the cilantro leaves off the stem and then freezing in a small plastic container seems to work indefinitely. Not quite fresh, but a whole lot better than giving up on cilantro because of the waste.
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Mine is an odd job in that that assertion isn't much of a stretch at all. There are a couple different paths that could steer me to different ends of that range, but not too many ways I'd be outside it.
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I guess my goal is a version of this: all my textbooks are sitting on a shelf outside my bedroom, and I want to get back into them until I feel I've mastered them. I wasted university with that idiotic determination of "look how l

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