mattficke

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by mattficke 2y ago
It’s an irregularly shaped body so there’s not one single radius. Mean radius is always going to be an approximation (even for Earth); the mean radius of the Moon is 1,737.4 km.
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by mattficke 2y ago
It’s a little misleadingly worded. Looking at the original press release[1] and an earlier announcement[2] I think they mean that they have prototype versions of this panel with 29.5% efficiency, the first production version they’re talking
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by mattficke 2y ago
If the existing procedures aren’t ensuring a safe workplace, the procedures aren’t adequate. Job site safety can add time, and it’s the company’s responsibility to ensure that there is no incentive for a worker to be able to speed up the jo
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by mattficke 2y ago
They’re starting to roll out trash containers in the city, should have been done years ago. There’s a bunch of interconnected factors: all residential buildings in NYC get municipal trash pickup (most other cities require private trash serv
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by mattficke 2y ago
> “The existing two-day period to settle trades exposes investors and the industry to unnecessary risk and is ripe for change,” Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev said in a February 2021 release. “There is no reason why the greatest financial syst
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by mattficke 2y ago
I think you’re correct, this recent press release from the cited source (Carers Trust) says it’s 1 million total caregivers under 18, of whom 50,000 spend 50 hours/week caring for others. https://carers.org/news-and-med
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Teens come up with trigonometry proof for Pythagorean Theorem(cbsnews.com)
18 points by mattficke 2y ago|3 comments
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by mattficke 2y ago
As a data point, if I’m out for any non-trivial amount of time I’ll see someone run a red light at least daily in DC.
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by mattficke 2y ago
My understanding that this is to enable things like a lunar GPS system, which requires the satellites themselves to have precise clocks that are synchronized with each other. > They also mention the dependence of the SI units on the unit
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by mattficke 2y ago
Like if the raw stone is elongated you probably don’t want to cut it into a square finished gem, something like an oval cut would have less waste. And instead of trying to decide on an exact size in advance (like, exactly 1 ct), the final g
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by mattficke 2y ago
Automated cutting is used for less valuable stones, or when you need to have multiple stones of the exact same size and shape. Hand cutting is used when you want to maximize the yield, so you use the raw stone to guide the final size and sh
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by mattficke 3y ago
I have a broom made by the student workshop at Berea and it’s a delightful tool, never thought I would enjoy sweeping.
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by mattficke 3y ago
That’s basically what STIR/SHAKEN is designed to do, what you’re talking about is going to be handled by the certificate authorities. Carriers are ramping up the way they flag or restrict unverified calls as the system is more widely i
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by mattficke 3y ago
I wouldn’t exactly say STIR/SHAKEN isn’t real security. The protocol works fine (like HTTPS), the issue right now is that the Certificate Authority network is still being built out and attestation isn’t enforced by carriers yet. Things
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by mattficke 3y ago
NYC used to have a lot of Single Room Occupancy (SRO) residential hotels that functioned more like cheap apartments. Rent stabilization applies to buildings built before 1974 and kicks in for residents once they’ve been in a place for 6 mon
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by mattficke 3y ago
I suppose it makes sense if you consider that the purpose of these programs is to acquire customers that will potentially scale dramatically in size (and usage of the platform) in upcoming years. Bootstrapped businesses may not look to them
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by mattficke 3y ago
“Innocent until proven guilty” is an incredibly high burden of proof that we reserve for criminal trials. In other contexts, this is not the appropriate standard —- civil suits, for example, use a “preponderance of evidence” standard. Non-s
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by mattficke 3y ago
They’re progressive jackpots, the prize pool increases until someone wins, at which point it resets. So a ticket for an individual drawing can be +EV if no one has won in a while, with the excess money coming from players in previous games
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by mattficke 3y ago
Kate Wagner, the author, is also an excellent sports journalist who covers cycling. A recent piece on Tadej Pogačar and Slovenian cycling: https://escapecollective.com/the-tadej-pogacar-office-park-c...
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by mattficke 3y ago
In certain contexts this is called “doing a geographic”. Notorious trap for people who look solely for external causes of their discontent and ignore internal.
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17th- and 18th- Century Quaker Names(twitter.com)
2 points by mattficke 3y ago|0 comments
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by mattficke 4y ago
The airlines aren’t doing this out of kindness, the Department of Transportation is basically telling them they have to. Officially they’re “encouraging” the airlines to seat families together at no charge, but that’s regulator speak for “d
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by mattficke 4y ago
There was an interesting article on United’s new family seating policy, allows families traveling with children under 12 to sit together automatically with no added fees by default. Sounded like a decent way of identifying when sitting toge
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by mattficke 4y ago
Airlines are an interesting an example because the FAA required them to advertise all-inclusive pricing a decade ago. The extras they charge for now (checked bags, bigger seats, nonstop flights) really are optional —- I routinely pack light
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United’s New Family Seating Policy(viewfromthewing.com)
1 points by mattficke 4y ago|2 comments
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by mattficke 4y ago
Primarily a software story: > The biggest impediment has been technology investment, to make assignable seats available when young children are on a reservation with adults or to program automatic seat assignments to populate together in
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by mattficke 4y ago
If you want to go down the rabbit whole a little further, the classical music writer/blogger Charles Downey has been doing annual “best of” lists of classical recordings since 2004. I like these lists in particular because for the mos
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by mattficke 4y ago
Decent starting place: Osmo Vanska. Recently retired conductor of the Minnesota Symphony, they recorded all of the Beethoven symphonies and most of Mahler’s, they’re excellent and easily found on streaming platforms. Some good contemporary
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by mattficke 4y ago
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Jerry Saltz is one of the best museum tour guides I’ve ever encountered. Some years ago I accidentally stumbled into a tour he was giving of the Warhol exhibit at the Whitney (Chanel had apparently hired him to give
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by mattficke 4y ago
This is a complex issue, but one factor not addressed in the piece is the Affordable Care Act, which went into effect shortly before the rise in depression diagnosis rates. Before the ACA the uninsured rate among young people was dramatical

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