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by elements 11y ago
Yeah, based on pilot interviews I've watched where they discuss the ejection decision process, this situation was a pretty clear-cut case of "definitely eject immediately". What really impressed me was how quickly he was abl
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by elements 11y ago
I recently watched what appeared to be a USAF ejection seat training video. One of the most interesting things was that most ejection fatalities were attributable to pilots taking too long to make the decision to pull the handles. Essenti
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by elements 12y ago
The shuttle SRBs floated vertically after splashdown, so I don't know why someone would be dumb for thinking the Falcon 9 booster might do the same.
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by elements 12y ago
I was hanging out with a buddy while he experimented with this. The quoted fare dropped from over $30 at around 2am (when all bars are legally required to close in my state) to around $20 about 30-40 minutes later.
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by elements 12y ago
If a driver does 15 shifts per month (which would be a pretty lazy schedule for most full-time cabbies I've talked to), you're looking at roughly $1500 per month just to use the car. A quick google search indicates that the MSRPs
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by elements 13y ago
Slightly OT, but spending a bit of time on Gallup's website recently has shown me much I've misjudged the popularity of a lot of attitudes.
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by elements 13y ago
>The risk of shifting from the 9-to-5 mindset to "getting things done" is that people will end up (and some already are) working 70/80 hours a week and die young of heart attack. This is the scenario that worries me- a mas
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by elements 13y ago
I like this advice. I worked with someone who built an aerospace company around an ultra-reliable actuator design he developed with a friend. They had put hardware on dozens of missions, including some inter-planetary missions, before the
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by elements 13y ago
This happens to me often. It's also the reason I love the fact that StackOverflow automatically searches for the text in the question title box as you type it in. There have been a few times where I will start to write out a good, de
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by elements 13y ago
Since people have been hopeful about finding water there for a while, are there any good estimates for how much exploration mission costs would be reduced by if water were found?
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by elements 13y ago
Thanks for the detailed reply! I'm going to experiment with some of the things you mentioned.
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by elements 13y ago
Which conversion step do you think it would be easiest to improve upon? I'm curious, because increasing the rate of free trial signups by 30%, from 2% to 2.6% (which seems like a modest increase), would result in the same number of
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by elements 13y ago
(apart from the numbers adding up to 130%...) One issue is that the area of the figure should correspond to the number it represents. For example, the area for 3% should be 75% of the size of the area for 4%, but it clearly isn't in t
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by elements 13y ago
Thanks for posting that. I had got about 80% of the way towards a similar model myself, but to see one laid out and formalized like that was very helpful.
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by elements 13y ago
Assuming one has created something that they are attempting to bootstrap, how does one go about finding these communities? Can they be found just by searching, or is it more difficult than that?
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by elements 13y ago
Same here. I was really excited when I first found out about it, but then it didn't come out for another few years. I'm sure I'll be ordering a copy soon, though.
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by elements 13y ago
I really enjoyed that book as well. Around that time, I came a across a documentary about both his run as well as the old Cannonball and US Express races. It was still being made at the time, but it's been released since. http:&#x2F
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by elements 13y ago
This relates to something I noticed recently. Out of the blue, I started receiving "join my network" requests from people whose names sounded vaguely familiar. I couldn't remember ever meeting them, and their profiles didn't give me any c
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by elements 13y ago
That might be true for certain classes or certain programs, but it didn't matter a bit for 90% of what I did. Life experience doesn't help you project free cash flow, consider the complexities of pricing strategy, understand accounting rule
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by elements 13y ago
I would agree with this completely. I was in an MBA program from the ages of 23-25. A year later, the company I was working for started to run out of money. I had a lot of time on my hands throughout the day, so I started going through p
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by elements 13y ago
Clothing choices is one of the least consequential places for there to be a lack of individualism, and I hardly think it's a good proxy for judging how a group values freedom and individualism in areas that matter. I know a lot of people (
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by elements 14y ago
This is what impresses me so much about this photo. I think of nuclear bomb fissile materials as being one of the most precise things ever humans have ever made, yet the the fireball is so incredibly irregular. It reminds me of when I firs
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by elements 14y ago
This is great; I've been looking forward to this book for a while. I'd recommend the author's blog, Quant Pythonista ( http://blog.wesmckinney.com/ ), where he posts details of his various quantitative Python projects. It's great for a be
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by elements 14y ago
I would be concerned about the differences in canning materials used then vs. now (for beverages, specifically), since I don't believe aluminum cans were common at the time of the study.