robbmorganf

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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Would you recommend any particular brand of said injection molding machines?
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Does anyone know the etymology of "black box"?
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Does anyone understand why a third dose of the same vaccine improves immunity to Omicron? I'm willing to believe the empirical evidence that boosters make a meaningful difference, but I can't figure out intuitively why the same mR
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
This article briefly mentions SARS-CoV-2, but at length it discusses Ebola and others quite a bit more. This article isn't about what happened with COVID-19, but about whether we should have BL4 labs at all. In my opinion, we absolutel
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I didn't realize how much metal was in these converters. I always thought it would be milligrams at most.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I think it currently stores energy in a spring, hence helping the user go up and recovering energy on the way down. I was just suggesting that if the energy can be stored in a battery or hydraulic accumulator, it's easier to change the
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I do understand having skin in the game, but at the same time it pushes away candidates, particularly during this labor shortage[1]. And it has disparate racial impact, because oppressed minorities are less likely to have the finances to in
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
1. I think you call an able bodied relative? 2. Looks like it. I think it's just a racheting system, so I think there are infinite "lock points"
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I love this idea, particularly empowering people to move without feeling like they need electrical assistance. If this is to become a widespread product, I think it needs to address two linked issues: (a) the product appears to be tuned to
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Legally, I think there's not a problem with even the strictest interpretation of "you need this, but we aren't paying for it". In many small business manufacturing settings, the typical arrangement is that operators buy
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Why do you feel bad about it? Sounds like you're reducing overall CO2 emissions. I understand that you are the "reader" in this article, but if you did start heating your own apartment then demonstrably everyone would be wors
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I think they often benefit one specific person in the company, who happens to be the decision maker, and don't hurt the overall company obviously enough that anyone stops them.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
> need[ing] to monitor people’s unrelated web browsing and links they click Does this require some kind of vulnerability exploit? I would hope that apps can't extract this kind of information from other unrelated apps.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Personally I think we are turning discoveries into products pretty fast, at the least faster than any time in history. My thought was that we need more fundamental discoveries (e.g. like understanding gravity or theories that predict and un
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
> overproduction of physics PhDs relative to academic positions available Why are positions researching physics so closely tied to academic positions? We probably don't need too many more physics professors but we sure could use m
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I think income-diversity is a valid and very appropriate criticism of MIT and other schools. I agree that not enough able but poor students are admitted. Without diminishing MIT's responsibility, I also think the rest of the education
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Clarification: when you say "reader", do you mean the reader of this linked article, or the reader of the chaplain's statement?
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
> Third, intellectual ability and achievement are the principal requirements for admission as a student or faculty member to any university. This is the crux of the issue as I see it. The author sees achievement as a proxy for ability, a
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
This is a much better idea than the one I had.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
For the Fed, this doesn't seem enough. Their policy has a predictable effect on the whole market, so I think they should not be trading in the couple of weeks leading up to a Fed announcement.
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Sometimes I wonder why we pay for insurance (to cover unpredictable accidents) when insurance policies specifically don't cover many unpredictable accidents...
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
> "Ultimately, Instagram is just a vicious messenger. But the cesspool of content fueling it? That comes from us." I don't particularly like that this article tries to absolve Facebook. OK, maybe Facebook doesn't have
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Yikes, I didn't know that. Seems like I need to make my fidelity password 6 times longer. Does this also mean they probably store passwords in clear text? Because there's no way to normalize the numeric passwords back to letters a
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
What does the median even mean in this context? The whole point of a median is taking the element that is greater than 50% of other elements in a strictly-ordered set, but since when have people or voters been strictly-ordered? Some people
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I'll give it to them that the solution is an elegant reduction in parts count. It's just a shame that they compare it to a straw man and exaggerate the benefits. "It solves this problem, and this one, and this one" but m
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
If you haven't already, I highly recommend reading some of the history of how traditional utilities (electricity, water) came to be regulated: https://www.nber.org/system/files/chapters/c9986/c9986.p
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I love CSV. Only change I want is some way to indicate a comment. Then I can write a human readable description of what the data means (more than just column names, but how it is calculated). It would be cool if the comment mechanism also c
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Alternatively, maybe the navy minister could beat the army minister if there are more sailors than soldiers. It would be interesting to simulate/play the dysfunction of bureaucratic militaries...
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
Just an observation: IF we take it as GIVEN that policymakers are going to find a way to earn some fixed amount X which is greater than their salary (this is a big assumption and probably not true, but just for a thought experiment) THEN ma
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by robbmorganf 5y ago
I never used this software, sadly. What made it different from Mathematica or from Maple?

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