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by yborg 7y ago
Road mobile systems deploy onto a set of prebuilt roads connected to their bases, they don't cross-country the impassable taiga since it's ... impassable. These are ballistic missile launchers, they don't fit under bridges, e
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by yborg 7y ago
The CEO of Credit Suisse was accused of hiring an investigator to follow around a former executive who went to rival UBS. The "scandal" is that Swiss bankers are supposed to be too Swiss to do such things. The irony is that neithe
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by yborg 7y ago
It's driven by liability concerns. Somebody falls down the stairs because the lights were off and sues the University.
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by yborg 7y ago
Read Levine's explanation linked earlier in the thread.
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You didn't note your volumes and what percentage of the Japanese company's sales your demand represents. I wouldn't make a custom SKU for a customer either if it would not be recouped by sales volume. And you mention that you
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by yborg 7y ago
Nuclear designs are like quarterbacks, the best one is always the one "in development". The problems with all of these next-generation designs are not going to be with the physics, but the engineering. These reactors will be opera
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by yborg 7y ago
I don't follow why you distrust sites like Fakespot but trust something like Wirecutter which as you note is directly incented to shill review products that offer more affiliate revenue.
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by yborg 7y ago
I hope the author's technical thinking is a lot more organized than what was represented in this mass of meandering confusion, that this represents the mind of a startup CTO would cause me as a potential investor to run the hell away.
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by yborg 7y ago
>He graduated from the University of Missouri College of Agriculture in Columbia, Missouri with a degree in Agronomy.
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by yborg 7y ago
Fascinating. I always wondered what was used in the 1960s to project the huge screens in NASA Mission Control.
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Not sure if I should downvote or upvote parent now :p
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by yborg 7y ago
>why release on a schedule at all Exactly my thought - why 4 weeks? Why not just put everyone on Nightly and be done with it? Then everyone will enjoy the firehose of agility and features that is Mozilla! You're always shipping work
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by yborg 7y ago
The keynotes are relevant to those of us interested in updates to the Apple product line. They were created to hype Apple products, and they continue to be used for this purpose. That some people are not entertained is easily solved by thos
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by yborg 7y ago
https://ocr.space/copyfish This stuff is far superior for Chinese character recognition. Does amazingly well with text on background images as long as there is some contrast. Sometimes image cap doesn't work in Firefox
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I don't see how it's sophistry, the author goes into great detail on the fact that MIT has long operated less as a university in the traditional sense than as a contract R&D organization. The linkage made to Epstein is that th
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by yborg 7y ago
The release announcement itself directly states not to use TLS as a mitigation.
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Or the underlying companies that are traded. This "evil zombie index fund" trope seems to imply that index managers just continue to blindly buy the stocks in the index regardless of events, falsely inflating the value of companie
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The story of Cassandra is one of the most well-known of the Greek myths and the allusion a standard rhetorical device in at least the English language. The fact that anyone would have confused the reference with a database in this context
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by yborg 7y ago
Virtually nothing in this rant about German economic policy has anything to do with the article except for the expression of delight at the idea of individual Germans losing money. Germany has absorbed a large number of refugees at huge soc
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I don't use a wheelchair at all, but I see value in having laws that mandate accessibility. Public policy needs to be set on the basis of societal goals, not individual impulses.
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Story was updated. "Anne McClain acknowledges accessing the account from the ISS but denies any wrongdoing, the New York Times reports."
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It's much worse than this, this doesn't even discuss tracking by apps on mobile devices, which is an increasing percentage of overall Internet use.
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The other thing driving SMS 2FA is that this is a clean way for the site/org to get their hands on a real phone number for you with no extra effort. SMS 2FA has been repeatedly proven to be trivial to break with a simple phone call to
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by yborg 7y ago
Exactly this. I work for Anthem, and they are implementing a plan to move the majority of their IT development work to a captive subsidiary in India. This is increasingly the model.
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This was originally developed in the 1950's, and the successful development of SLBMs rendered it irrelevant, since as a cruise missile it would have been much easier to intercept than a ballistic warhead, as well as much slower to reac
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There is no combustion in a nuclear thermal ramjet, so those weren't scramjet engines.
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People are now programmed to require Buzzfeed clickbaiting, we now are suspicious of any source that apparently doesn't care enough to chum the waters and instead delivers a usable summary.
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>1990 study >student programmers >toy problem To me, this proves very little about how independent development teams would perform with experienced engineers working with present day design tools. It's possible that the result
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Musk is Tesla's worst enemy here - first in naming the thing "AutoPilot" and then in doubling down with his absurd claims about "Full Self Driving" within a year. What the general public thinks "Full Self Drivi
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>make it to France before the Russians could steamroll Germany. Wat. France left NATO in 1966, there would be no C5s landing in France with anything. The A10 was in fact intended to offset the Soviet Union's vast advantage in number

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