VladRussian2

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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>First, the number of well-paid middle-skill jobs in manufacturing and clerical occupations has decreased substantially since the mid-1980s. in all these articles/analysis replace the middle-skill jobs in manufacturing with the prog
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
wrt. 422MJ->3MJ, xenon flash lamp pumping As it was already mentioned in the threads like this before, the NIF was built using the technology that was available in those years of the past when NIF was planned and started. Flash lamp pump
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
> It may in fact not be possible to do better-than-breakeven fusion on a small (relative to a star) scale. the H-bomb is better-than-breakeven and much smaller than star scale. What you say may be true for Tokamak like confinement scheme
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Companies spend millions in SuperBowl ads, and nobody can click on that, not that i dream about clicking it, i'm just surprised that they still hasn't implemented it yet as current TVs are really computers sold/packaged a
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>but realize how long it takes for humans to learn to speak/comprehend complete sentences.. heck to be potty trained even. interesting that a kitten or a puppy gets potty trained much faster than a human child.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Surely that doesn't mean it's correspondingly illegal to trade RUB for USD within russia, but i'm not sure what the salient difference is If i remember correctly the other party must be a bank.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
the risk isn't the same. Instead of capital gain a capital loss may happen - for example when you own stock, like, in particular, after exercise. Whereis in case of stock options there is no risk of loss before exercise. The stock opti
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
there are differences. For example, the profit from the grant date to the date of exercise is ordinary income - taxed at your bracket rate, while any profit coming from holding for longer than 1 year after exercise is at long-term capital g
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>I'm surprised the company (not the insurance) had to pay that much for the babies medical bills. my understanding that AOL self-insures for medical.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
the difference is that Eric Holder hasn't yet made a determination that Bitcoin is a currency and thus violates the law (like they did to Liberty Dollar, etc...)
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
" В соответствии со ст. 27 Федерального закона «О Центральном банке Российской Федерации» «официальной денежной единицей (валютой) Российской Федерации является рубль. Введение на территории России других денежных единиц и выпуск денеж
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
sounds like she was punished for a disruptive innovation - "backdating of stock options exercise". Backdating of grant is cheating at the expense of shareholders whereis backdating of exercise - at the expense of IRS :)
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
"In my reference checking, at least a dozen investors told me that they made far more money when the numbers disappointed than when the company outperformed, because they trusted Michelle when she said that things were not worse than t
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
know places where even poison taking follows strict process.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
> If, on the other hand, he were connected to your "corporate peon" role, you could switch him on and off at the... drop of a hat. In fact, he could give you that hat when you get hired, already connected to everyone else in yo
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
in the movie "Aviator" there is a scene where PanAm almost successfully gets monopoly on international flights. Watching it i could feel only "WTF?". The same way we'd be feeling couple decades later about monopolie
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>I'm not even sure domain knowledge is important for a CEO of a company that size: once you become a $50 billion plus company, you don't have time to get involved with the details of the business. Steve Jobs and CEOs in-between
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
30 years ago remember USSR used underground nukes at least once specifically for exploration of oil/gas in Siberia.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
when in US the ITAR still applies AFAIK - getting any access to or knowledge transfer from ITAR project to non-US person, etc... Looks like starting from 1K plegde - invitation to test fire the engine - may run afoul of it.
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
is it subject to ITAR?
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
Sounds like Khosla aren't going to invest in flying cars :)
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
several years ago spent a bunch of time going through the wheel, and in my view XV-5A and Bell X-22 were pretty good planes - there was nothing really wrong with them, and definitely not a "shame". Given the half-century improveme
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>Escape to where? You can't escape from the universe as a whole. The concept of "escape speed" has no meaning for the universe as a whole. take a 1B light years radius ball, populate it with density of our Milky Way - that
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>No, it wouldn't. A black hole is a stationary spacetime. The spacetime of the universe is not stationary. The spacetime model that describes the universe is very different from the spacetime model that describes a black hole exactl
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
the event horizon - Schwarzschild radius - is defined by the specific value of gravitational potential (escape speed equals speed of light) while, given the black hole mass large enough, the gravitational force at the Schwarzschild radius c
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
not sure what connection to Bitcoin here. The guy behaved like, for example, the mayor of San Diego (that mayor). Different age, different business ... Would it warrant "This is What it's Like to Be a Woman in a city administratio
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
>The event horizon is the "point of no return" beyond which gravity is inescapable. the event horizon is frequently treated as "uncrossable" from inside to outside which is really different from "inescapable&quot
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
looking back into history i'm wondering why F-35 VTOL didn't follow XV-5A, i.e. placing fans in the wings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XkJXSoTTb4 50 years ago plane looks more capable as VTOL than F-35. Modern
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
we can have serious hearing in Senate on BTC with outcome rules [almost] killing or seriously affecting it. Having a hearing and SEC/FBI enforcement on Doge? With Doge as a witness. Put you paw on the Bible and repeat after me ...
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by VladRussian2 13y ago
as far as i heard, Immigration, before issuing the marriage-based Green Card, may grill very seriously (various pretty intimate details, etc...) trying to determine whether the marriage is real. Don't think that IRS would do less when

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