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by wycx 11y ago
I find the attitude of doctors to chronic pain for which they cannot provide a solution to be very frustrating. Why is it that opiate addiction is seen as far far worse than debilitating chronic pain? Why can't the patient make that ch
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by wycx 11y ago
What is the total time of your commute i.e. house to starting work at your desk? I found that when I had a 30 min cycle commute, the total time was more like 50 mins when I included shower time.
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There are some areas for which a PhD is a pre-requisite. I currently work at a synchrotron. Accelerator operators, engineers etc. do not all have PhDs, but when you get to the science side I think every single member of the science team has
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by wycx 11y ago
I think there is another aspect that makes determining scientific value difficult. In the hard sciences there are a lot of esoteric sub-disciplines that do rigorous work that seems to be of little consequence. I would suggest that one of th
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by wycx 11y ago
Simon Prebble has narrated a lot of the books I have in my Audible library, notably The System of the World (all the Daniel Waterhouse bits) and Endurance. I also liked William Dufris who narrated Cryptonomicon and parts of Anathem. I find
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by wycx 11y ago
I suspect also the end of Bretton-Woods, and western counties moving from dominantly Keynesian economic policy to dominantly Monetarism/Neoliberalism (which is responisble for your last two points). I suggest the following article [1]
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by wycx 11y ago
What's he like? Did you know his name when you got him? My sister has a pre=owned galah. Like all parrots he is endearing, but at the same time, crotchety and set-in-his-ways.
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by wycx 11y ago
Named after the ship Nimrod, that was Shackelton's ship for his 1908 South Pole attempt. The Hawker Siddley Nimrods replaced the older Avro Shackeltons that were ultimately derivatives of the Lancaster.
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There are even some MIPS ones like the Yun which use Atheros SoCs.
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by wycx 11y ago
Memories of internet in Australia in the mid-90s. We had a Maestro 33.6k modem, made just down the road in Bungendore. I remember my brother driving out there in the late 90s to upgrade the chipset to 56k. Later he set up IP masquerading on
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In Taiwan, Survivor Mentality Stymies Tech Innovation(nytimes.com)
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by wycx 11y ago
My Wang 725 keyboard goes all the way to f16. Conveniently f14 is alt-f4.
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How do banks create money?(sciencedirect.com)
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by wycx 11y ago
Does anyone know if datasets generated by the search e.g. bathymetry are being made public?
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Nanotech Could Raise Incandescents from the Dead(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by wycx 11y ago
If 3% is not gouging, then why can European payment networks operate charging an order of magnitude less? I do not think they are running their networks as charity.
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by wycx 11y ago
Specs: SoC: RK3066 Memory: DDR3 1GB NAND Flash: 1GB microHDMI female microUSB x 1 (OTG) USB x 1 microUSB x 1 (UART debug) GPIO > 1 (Configurable) I2C 2 UART 2 SPI 2 Audio analog stereo IN x 1 / OUT x 1 PWM 1 Analog IN x 1
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by wycx 11y ago
Don't your lawn mowers have catchers for the clippings?
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An example of an attempt to replace a unionised workforce with an non-unionised workforce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Australian_waterfront_dis... In the end, the union workforce remained, but there were signif
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However, they tend to be finicky to work with--difficult to calibrate and to eliminate sources of error. After all, we know from Einstein that there is no measurable difference between gravitational acceleration and inertial acceleration (
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Will we see the same thing from Elsevier?
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by wycx 11y ago
I am not so sure. Do well as an undergrad, and then go and get a PhD at (1) a place with a respected name, (should have good quality staff and resources by default) or (2) someone at a lesser school, but is well respected in the discipline.
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by wycx 11y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of: "This cordless drill would be so much more robust and durable if the manufacturer had not ruthlessly wrung every last cent out of the BOM." See also: the shitty power supplies in almost all
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by wycx 11y ago
Robert Hughes produced some interesting and insightful work during his life. I have recently been watching a documentary series he made on Modern Art in 1980, The Shock of the New . It has aged very well. https://en.wikipedia.or
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I have heard the following regarding you are describing re. manufacturing: "So much engineering effort has gone in to making this product just functional".
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I wonder if the fact the the US is largely a sports-isolationist is part of the problem. Growing up in Australia, the summer was defined by international cricket. Everyone grows up supporting the national team, everyone can watch the game o
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You really need only 2 people to play backyard cricket and it scales well with increasing numbers from there. You only need a bat-shaped object, a ball and something to use as the wicket. Objects from the local environment make excellent st
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Neoliberalism
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Perhaps not so pleasant for cutting tools.
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Switzerland to vote on banning (private) banks from creating money(telegraph.co.uk)
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