fixedd

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by fixedd 7y ago
> Simply put, what is the cost involved and relative productivity gained/lost from each layout design. What about experimental designs? Without this type of information, it is difficult to convince a decision maker to improve these
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by fixedd 12y ago
Is he multi-engine rotorcraft rated? ;)
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by fixedd 12y ago
The FAA never has anything out "soon". They're currently in violation of a direct order from Congress because they're so slow.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Recently, I've been wondering why we use exhaust fans in bathrooms and not dehumidifiers. I might be way off base here, but it seems like taking conditioned air that's a little moist and dumping it outside and replacing it with dr
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by fixedd 12y ago
I only take cabs 5-10 times a year anymore, and never in Boston, but I've never been in a cab that pestered me with advertisements. If I found myself in one, it'd be the last ride I took with that company. On the last flight I too
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by fixedd 12y ago
Tried this, didn't work... no Linux support.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Other than friends-and-family, are there really people that invest without a hope of return?
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by fixedd 12y ago
The asteroid belt, which is positively TEEMING with possible collisions... billions of objects... yeah, we don't even bother. Ninety-nine (point nine nine nine...) times out of a hundred you won't hit anything. Space is big.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Agreed, but I could drop a couple K on SpaceX and it wouldn't hurt me if it disappears.... but I'm not allowed to.
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by fixedd 12y ago
Can you give some examples of places where it might be currently being unethically used?
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by fixedd 12y ago
>...I think it would be kind of embarassing for a town if they couldn't get a robust all terrain vehicle to some location within a reasonable timeframe. When I went to high school in this general area (15+ years ago) they used run-o
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by fixedd 12y ago
*shoplifting
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by fixedd 12y ago
> But New London police interviewed only candidates who scored 20 to 27, on the theory that those who scored too high could get bored with police work and leave soon after undergoing costly training. Yeah... you solve that with employmen
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by fixedd 12y ago
There's 2.5k people in my town and it's news here (literally) when someone is arrested shopping at the local Wal-Mart. The police have two miltary-issue Humvees, for some reason.
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by fixedd 12y ago
I didn't RTFA, so it may have been mentioned, but I recently listened to a year-old episode of RadioLab where they were talking about an apple-growing region in central China where in the 90s the bees just disappeared (probably due to
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by fixedd 12y ago
I don't really buy that a world where all the work is done by robots will be an issue at all, unless it's only going to benefit the rich. I imagine it will allow people to work on what they want to work on, instead of what they ha
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by fixedd 12y ago
No kidding. I'm reasonably certain I played it on a 33MHz 386 with a couple megabytes of ram.
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by fixedd 12y ago
How about this: just by a system with all Intel chipsets and you'll probably be fine.
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by fixedd 12y ago
I had (well, still have, but don't use) a w510. It worked just as well as the t61 before it (which was to say, they both did great under Linux), but it didn't have hybrid graphics... it was Nvidia all the time. The only reason I&#
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by fixedd 12y ago
Same for Ubuntu Gnome. There's a few addons (or plugins, or whatever they call them) that I install to suite my preferences, but I can do a clean install + additional packages + tweak to my needs in under an hour. If you don't kno
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by fixedd 12y ago
You can't just slap any old device into an aircraft and call it done. There's huge amounts of money + time that must be invested to get it certified, and it has to be done for each aircraft type. I haven't looked it up, but I
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by fixedd 12y ago
kiba said "in a liberal society" not "about a liberal society".
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by fixedd 12y ago
I've written about this elsewhere, but I'll chime in here too. The largest radio telescope we have (the 305 meter diameter Arecibo) would need to have it's sensitivity increased by around two orders of magnitude JUST to pick
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by fixedd 12y ago
Declining birth rates only lead to shrinking populations when the birth rate was stable to begin with. -- Date 1: Every two people produce four offspring. Date 2: Every two people produce three offspring. Between Date 1 and Date 2 the birth
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by fixedd 12y ago
Life, or intelligent life? We can infer life based on atmospheric compositions NOW, but only if that planet fits an extremely narrow margin... meaning, Earth. Earth three and a half billion years ago had life on it, but you'd be hard-p
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by fixedd 12y ago
I guess it depends on where you draw the line on fundamentalism. I live in the Bible Belt and I'd argue that, at least, the Southern Baptists should be seen as a Fundamentalist organization. That locks down the majority of the people
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by fixedd 12y ago
Please cite an "even more horrible thing done in the name of atheistic philosophies" (I'm actually curious about this, even though I'm going to argue with you in a sec...). -- The premise that religiosity in any way infl
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by fixedd 12y ago
> Pinker uses the phrase as a metaphor for four human motivations that, he writes, can "orient us away from violence and towards cooperation and altruism,"[2] namely: empathy, self-control, the "moral sense," and reas
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by fixedd 12y ago
Anecdote: My second grader's teacher sent home school work last week where she "corrected" his correct answer on a spelling test to something that wasn't even a word. She also accidentally a word in her little "good
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by fixedd 12y ago
It's impossible to judge what one might find valuable. Preserving life as "a thing" might be just as important to future-wealthyperson as fighting Malaria is to a current one.

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