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by vitaminj 3y ago
Completely agree - I love the Economist as a magazine, but will never be a subscriber again after how much time it took to cancel.
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Why do some developing countries have more women in science than Australia(abc.net.au)
3 points by vitaminj 5y ago|1 comments
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by vitaminj 7y ago
For what it is worth, Australia has 5 minute generator dispatch, but 30 minute settlement. The market operator is presently implementing a project to bring settlement to 5 minute as well.
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Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days(nature.com)
3 points by vitaminj 8y ago|0 comments
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Too much sleep linked to ill health(theguardian.com)
3 points by vitaminj 8y ago|0 comments
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I've decided to reclaim my life – by using an old Nokia phone(theguardian.com)
6 points by vitaminj 8y ago|1 comments
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Can the U.S. Grid Work with 100% Renewables? There's a Scientific Fight Brewing(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by vitaminj 9y ago|0 comments
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Canada calling: tech industry lures workers north in wake of Trump(theguardian.com)
1 points by vitaminj 9y ago|0 comments
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Hacker mythologies and management(modelviewculture.com)
1 points by vitaminj 12y ago|0 comments
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by vitaminj 12y ago
A few comments are saying that the author is too harsh on Samsung, but I get the impression that he actually admires Samsung's unscrupulous, unethical though ultimately canny business practices - in a similar way that one would admire
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The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage(theatlantic.com)
108 points by vitaminj 12y ago|122 comments
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by vitaminj 13y ago
There is a third way, one in which research is not a full-time endeavour, but is still a part of your life. It's certainly not for everyone, and is not "pure" in the sense that you still need to make a living doing something
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by vitaminj 13y ago
A few years ago, I volunteered in SE Asia for 18 months using my electrical engineering skills to help rural villages get access to electricity. At the time, I'd been working professionally for around 7 years and was just becoming comp
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Organic mega flow battery promises breakthrough for renewable energy(seas.harvard.edu)
1 points by vitaminj 13y ago|0 comments
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by vitaminj 13y ago
This guy built a classic run-of-the-river scheme, i.e. the main stream is not dammed. He built an intake channel off the main stream that flows into a forebay, where the penstock and piping system is installed. He also talks about putting a
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The rise and rise of the digital robber barons(smh.com.au)
4 points by vitaminj 13y ago|1 comments
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Moneyball at Work(businessinsider.com)
1 points by vitaminj 13y ago|0 comments
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Why parents should leave their kids alone(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by vitaminj 13y ago|0 comments
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by vitaminj 13y ago
As a grid engineer, I find the Danish case to be somewhat unique because of their strong AC and DC interconnections to Germany and Sweden. Basically, they can free-ride on the large european grid (UCTE), which stretches from Portgual to Rus
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Telecommuting and Yahoo's Desperate Need for Innovation(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by vitaminj 14y ago|0 comments
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by vitaminj 14y ago
If you look at the major blackouts around the world over the last 10 years, a large chunk of them were caused by a variation on a similar theme: - The network is heavily loaded pre-blackout (most large networks are these days) - A major int
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How the Internet became a closed shop(theage.com.au)
2 points by vitaminj 14y ago|0 comments
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You Learn From People Who Mostly Agree With You(casnocha.com)
3 points by vitaminj 14y ago|0 comments
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Why has Facebook's stock market flotation been such a disaster?(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by vitaminj 14y ago|0 comments
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Simon Schocken: The self organizing computer course(ted.com)
2 points by vitaminj 14y ago|0 comments
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Italy's Lost Generation(spiegel.de)
2 points by vitaminj 14y ago|0 comments
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by vitaminj 14y ago
I'm one of the many guest workers in Germany. I'm not an EU citizen and I didn't speak a lick of german when I got here. I'd say over half the other engineers in my company are non-german, and most of them couldn't string a single german se
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by vitaminj 14y ago
By virtue of their tight bundling, all composite multi-core cables have high capacitances. However, onshore AC transmission is typically run on overhead lines, with large line spacings and thus capacitance isn't as much of a problem.
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by vitaminj 15y ago
"I was trying to memorize equations, and engineering’s all about the application, which they really didn’t teach too well" - Matthew Moniz from the article He's absolutely right, and no first year design project is going to fix this if the
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by vitaminj 15y ago
Okay I'm not defending the IEEE, but I'd like to inject some data into this discussion. From their latest annual report, in 2010 their revenues and expenses from periodicals was $134.65m and $120.63m respectively. Lord only knows how they s

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