matthewmcg

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by matthewmcg 3mo ago
They’ve said the company name comes from San Diego being so sunny.
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by matthewmcg 6mo ago
That’s fair but the amount of interest in this crewed mission vs. prior uncrewed and robotic moon missions shows that many people find manned missions more compelling.
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by matthewmcg 6mo ago
It’s interesting to compare to Apollo 8 (circumlunar Apollo mission). That mission culminated a year that saw escalation of the Vietnam War and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
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by matthewmcg 7mo ago
I’ve fantasized about carrying a bullhorn on my bike and just calling people out: “hey you in the Tesla, put your phone down!” Sadly the enforcement of the hands free law where I live is nonexistent. What’s surprising to me about this artic
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by matthewmcg 8mo ago
The terms of sale are so clear and concise. But I don’t see a warranty period. Would they still replace a part on a 1961 sink?
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by matthewmcg 1y ago
If you’re interested in more context for this, the book The Blue Machine by physical oceanographer Helen Czerski. There’s a great discussion of this and other ocean issues.
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
Very interesting perspective, thank you.
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
Zonian: my father was born to an American family but outside the Canal Zone (Panama City). I asked my Dad whether they considered themselves Americans or Panamanians growing up. He said his parents (my grandparents) considered themselves Pa
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
Right, but what is “executive power”? It is the power to put laws into effect—to execute them. And Congress writes those laws. Article 2 Section 1 does not confer power beyond what the laws provide. And “vested” does not mean exclusive. M
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
What about the constitutional directive that the President shall ensure that the laws are faithfully executed? Congress has prescribed how agencies may issue regulations and interpretations through statutes shouldn’t these statutes control
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
The pricing makes sense for the better brands as they have to basically make a nice wine, and then take additional steps to remove the alcohol. At least that’s what they do for the better alcohol-free Rieslings. See https://theze
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
This is wonderful. The loving dedication to getting the details right reminds me of the engineer hobbyist that built a functional scale model of a Ferrari 312PB race car as shown on this classic Top Gear episode: https://www.yout
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
The reality is created by policy. The AMA zealously protects MDs and (Medicare-funded) fellowships as a cartel exempt from antitrust laws. Any they fight PAs and NPs tooth and nail.
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
He says it a few paragraphs in: “To give a sense of how strange this is, here is the only “officially sanctioned” way to represent a multistage thermonuclear weapon, according to US Department of Energy guidance since the 1990s: Figure 13.
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
Author listing: Katy Blumer, Kate Donahue, Katie Fritz, Kate Ivanovich, Katherine Lee, Katie Luo, Cathy Meng, Katie Van Koevering For people unfamiliar with common English names, all of the authors have first names similar to or derived fro
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
I looked into this in 2013. At that point there was a "My Clippings.txt" file stored on the kindle that was accessible as a USB storage volume when plugged in. This file stored each annotation in plain text, along with the documen
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
Much of this history is also described in Michael Lewis’s book the New New Thing (2000) which profiles Clark and his various ventures. It’s really a snapshot of pre-.com crash Silicon Valley.
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by matthewmcg 2y ago
This strikes me as a darker version of the late 70s early 80s British educational videos aesthetic captured in the Look Around You series. Example: https://youtu.be/FBaVwwuErmU?feature=shared
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
The liquidation (or dividend) preference is the differentiating feature of preferred stock. In corporate finance, preferred stock is, for the reasons you give, treated as a hybrid of equity and debt.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
The headline had me thinking you had a DIY self-driving car for a moment there. Didn't initially register that this was just the common metaphor. Looks like a great app.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Here’s a much better article on the collaboration from 1990s Scientific American : https://www.physics.smu.edu/scalise/P3374fa17/EinsteinSzilar...
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Instant glue got you too?
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Great point on potentially overlapping board membership. More broadly, there's also a theory that growing common ownership by index funds and others with significant commercial real estate exposure is driving this pressure.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Right! Even taking "return" very literally, the lunar rock samples brought back are incredibly valuable to science. And the spinoff/technological stimulus value of the program is even harder to quantify--consider that during
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
My all time favorite from Ian Parker’s NYer profile of Johnny Ive: I asked Jeff Williams, the senior vice-president, if the Apple Watch seemed more purely Ive’s than previous company products. After a silence of twenty-five seconds, during
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
They can lock you out of the API, but they can't stop you from installing hardwired devices that simulate a press of the open/close button. I just chucked my MyQ device and replaced it with a Meross MSG100HK--it works perfectly an
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Finally, a power button! Talk about burying the lede. That's a big improvement for most casual users. Yes, you've been able to use a GPIO pin, a momentary switch, and a special daemon, but this works out of the box.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
My municipal water meter transmits readings in the clear on the 915 MHz band. There's a neat program to catch the readings: https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Right, but what are the chances that the "new material" doesn't include any elements of protected expression from the underlying work, e.g. characters? I understood the request to be about writing a sequel.
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by matthewmcg 3y ago
Under U.S. copyright law, yes. A sequel is a derivative work, i.e. a work based on or derived from an underlying work. Only the copyright holder of the original work may authorize derivative works. Example: https://news.bloomberg

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