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>Everyone comes to Hacker News comment threads like this to expound that nuclear is the way, while solar and wind continue their march towards domination. Except it's not really true. You get solar and wind power when you get it, n
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10% of Americans over 12 has to be, what, 20-30 million?
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Why do you assume women aren't associated with criminal activity? It's not uncommon for women to get busted running drugs.
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>Classify cancers by the tissue origin is only of partial help in treating. A cancer may arise in the liver, but be totally refractory to one treatment, but respond to another. Well, sure. That's my point, though. Cancers that ari
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I'm skeptical it's as bad as that. We classify cancers by the type of cell that went bad, i.e. lung cancer if it occurs in the lung, liver cancer if it occurs in the liver, brain cancer if it occurs in the brain, etc. But you ca
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3. Cancer cells can be hard to get to with drug therapy. Even if we have a drug that kills the cell in question we can't always get therapeutic concentrations into the core of solid tumors, and we can't get many drugs past the bl
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That's not the quote. Is the text online somewhere? I no longer have the book.
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>Most of my colleagues in my English program went on to law school, which dovetails nicely with that analytical type of mind but as you say, endless dissection robs the work of what attracted me to it in the first place. My favorite intr
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The Tesla styling doesn't interfere with the function of the car, and if it did the car wouldn't sell. I'm not saying the form has no importance at all. It's just that you don't sacrifice function for form.
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>Have you studied this? There's nothing to study. What could you even mean by that? I'm sure there's an entire caste of useless "designers" who do all sorts of "research" to make themselves feel impor
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Not in a device. Function is the most important. Form should not interfere with function.
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You know the satellite laser thing can't be true. Even in the absence of atmospheric distortion a good satellite resolution is measured in centimeters. And that's for still pictures.
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From Jerry Pournelle' Blog: "Although I pay dues, I don’t interact much with the planetary society. My last experiences with them was Carl Sagan arguing for more robotic exploration and abandoning manned space exploration. Making
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Voters. Ultimately the money for all this is coming from taxpayers, so PR is a good investment.
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Bankruptcy doesn't erase a court judgement, though it might make it easier if you stiff your other creditors. The state doesn't front the money, and the court will garnish your wages and any assets you may acquire until your dyin
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I worked with the US navy for years, and while I suspect this was taped so they could prove the Soviet sailors were treated with respect, I have no doubt they would have treated the dead honorably in any case. That's the way sailors
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>Grant writing is a very painful form of writing and I have relatives that have made good money by being good at it[1]. I do believe it would be tough to do research and put the time in to be an acceptable grant writer. Something has got
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That wasn't my experience at all. Where I grew up the teachers union controlled the school board. There really wasn't any counterbalance - the union was willing to finance candidates and nobody else was, so at most you would hav
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>The whole discussion about it even led to some states abolishing the old system and introducing "Gesamtschulen mit gymnasialer Oberstufe", essentially, the US middle/high-school system. What a mistake. The German system
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In the US it's the result of racial politics. Employers are asking to get sued if they use any kind of generic IQ-type testing to rank applicants, so they rely on credentials.
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You'd think if anybody knew how to wring the absolute maximum revenue from customers it would be Amazon. If the publishers end up getting squashed by the book version of Popcorn Time they'll have only themselves to blame.
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The difference with private schools is the parents have a lot more clout, since they're paying the bills.
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No... you missed the whole point of the article.
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The fact that you don't have a lot of insurance doesn't mean you're not liable for damages. If you hit someone with $30k insurance in CA and the court awards them $1M, you still owe $970,000.
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Top of the line Apple phones are veblen goods. But the mid-market stuff may not do as well.
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It may not be obvious if you surround yourself with engineers and programmers, but there are a whole lot of adults out there who can't do that kind of math in their head.
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As phone subsidies go away there's going to be a lot more price pressure on mobile hardware vendors.
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>They should have killed the primitive/object distinction, turning the primitives into stack-allocated objects and rewritten the collections libraries. That would have been a mistake, because it would have made Java unreasonably ine
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>We're (Canada, to be clear) one of the richest countries in the world. One of the most educated. One of the most cosmopolitan. >So why is it that we're limited to being a petro-state? Did you ever consider the possibility y
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Must of been OS dependent. When I was doing bootp stuff in the mid '90s the whole point of chroot was the jail.

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