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by tropo 7y ago
Not everybody with access to the light switch should be able to take control. This is a security problem.
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by tropo 7y ago
It's smoke. Remember the diesel emissions scandal? It's nothing compared to purposely inhaling smoke. This is the problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbo...
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by tropo 7y ago
It could be a zone plate. They look similar, but focus based on diffraction instead of refraction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_plate The diagram could be either, but isn't a perfect match for either. Perhap
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by tropo 7y ago
It's not crazy to give you another PC or two. Corporate IT can admin the box for corporate training PowerPoint gunk. You get another box to run what you have written, and maybe another to run the development environment. Those don&#x27
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by tropo 7y ago
It's a neat finding that plasticizer is leaking out. It's also rather disturbing. Plasticizers are in nearly all soft plastics (maybe not silicone?) and they act on animals as powerful hormones. Lots of behavior changes and physic
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by tropo 7y ago
Are there any Chinese guest workers in Europe? How about agents and/or Europeans who could be bribed to misroute? What about the above, applied to a country that is between Europe and China? Such a country could passively listen while
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by tropo 7y ago
Oh. In that case, head over to rural Nevada and make a 100% legal cash transaction for physical activity. This satisfies you without improperly taking advantage of anybody who is looking for a family man.
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by tropo 7y ago
The first step of solving the problem of being "a depressed man-child, living on grant money and parental support" is to recognize the problem. You did that. Fixing the income source will help. Note that the women will be looking
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by tropo 7y ago
If starting a family is the goal, I don't think "urban, college-educated 25 year olds" are what you'd look for. That gets you fewer kids and a moderately high disease risk. Optimizing for the goal of a family, you'd
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by tropo 7y ago
Plato and many American states agree: A women of 16 is old enough to get married, have kids Plato would even add the "and do well at both". That is advice from a famous philosopher. He thought 16 was ideal for women, and 30 was id
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by tropo 7y ago
Feminism can't avoid taking some of the blame for the economics. If some households are multi-income, then they can pay more for housing. This bids up the cost of housing. More households decide to become multi-income in order to pay f
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by tropo 7y ago
They also had some really awful condoms (animal intestine) and spermicides (acidic juices, etc.).
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by tropo 7y ago
You can drive screws through a pipe or cable, but I don't suggest doing so. When there is a will, there is a way.
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by tropo 7y ago
I wouldn't say nonsense, but the problems are different and maybe worse. Below: Engines can strike the ground. There is more debris ingestion, ranging from sand and burst tires to people and baggage carts. Noise regulations are harder
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by tropo 7y ago
That just isn't reasonable. It damages the wall. Many people have basement heat, which means a 3-inch gap. Either you make a huge hole for a toggle bolt and then lose the hardware forever, or you have to find a stud. Lots of people are
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by tropo 7y ago
Here in the US we have the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety fighting to go the other way. For example the new requirements for roof strength add weight. It's for nothing too, since safety is impacted by the thicker roof pillars c
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by tropo 7y ago
We really do have two kinds of cyclists, and we're unjustly forcing them to follow the same rules. We chose to treat bicycles more like cars than like pedestrians, to the detriment of less-capable cyclists who care to follow the law. W
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by tropo 7y ago
Using made-up numbers, the problem goes roughly like this: Start with a million tons of rock. Process it. Now you have 999998 tons of very finely powdered rock, 1 ton of valuable product, and 1 ton of naturally occurring radioactive waste.
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by tropo 7y ago
I don't see why the labor force participation rate should be high, which is what I believe you mean by "rosy". If the jobs are good, then it only takes one income to support a family and people can retire early. Both single-i
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by tropo 7y ago
Well we had this article, severely flagged it seems, about a guy who raised 12 children. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20027423 His "wife has several degrees in math, accounting, business, statistics" accor
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by tropo 7y ago
It has to do with the trophic level. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic_level Plants are almost always level 1. Bison would be just a bit over 2. (a bit over because they may consume bugs, bones, etc.) Humans would
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by tropo 7y ago
It's the other way, if we consider "family" to be more than a couple. Actual family-oriented people would have a full-time homemaker.
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by tropo 7y ago
Somehow, that is a very real and serious problem. I suppose it is possible because of wobbly little stove burners or super-slippery pans. This happened to a friend's kid. He pulled down a pot of spaghetti, severely burning his penis. W
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by tropo 7y ago
I'd really like to suppress the sound. Doing that well is non-standard, and thus expensive. There are so many obvious fixes that introduce other problems. Textured surfaces like carpet and popcorn ceilings get filthy disgusting. Wooden
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by tropo 7y ago
They graduate to moving silverware (dishwasher to trash, table to electrical outlet), stabbing/squishing fresh produce, pouring everybody's water, mixing ingredients (rice in the milk jug), etc. Oh, that feeling of taking a drink
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by tropo 7y ago
The POSIX specification for vfork() is a poor match for reality. Linux and NetBSD, and all good OSes, provide a vfork() that is actually useful. There have been some bad OSes that mapped it to fork(), just like there are bad OSes that restr
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by tropo 7y ago
For those with money to burn on custom flooring, the Voronoi transform of the rhombic Penrose tiling is lovely. From the Penrose tiling, you get that neat non-repeating pattern. From the Voronoi transform, you get something less likely to h
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by tropo 7y ago
What is funny is that it wouldn't be fair to blame him for that inevitable crash, but it would be fair to blame him for the housing crash that happened much later. He changed the rules for mortgages. That took quite a long time to caus
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by tropo 7y ago
Consider how things work if nobody games the system. Each contractor is really being operated by the claimed owner/CEO/president. If the best contractors for a government agency's needs all happen to be run by white males but
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by tropo 7y ago
The availability of AP classes is part of the calculation. This will backfire for College Board. Now it becomes undesirable to offer any AP classes in the high school! Assuming that means AP classes that have been properly registered to use

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