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I would rather be market-corrected out of a job for a few weeks or months than have this inflate into an economy-wrecking bubble that derails my career and life for years. I'm worr…

It's just a good knot. The only downside is that it is very slightly more complex than a regular shoelace knot (you pass-through both loops instead of just one). But otherwise, it'…

This is basically correct in the sense that we cannot simply just force everyone in, say, Minnesota to install electric baseboard heating, rooftop solar, and a battery pack, and th…

The West is getting very cavalier about murdering the government officials of other countries.

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It's probably not a necessity - I'm sure I could adapt to just using my smartphone if I put the time into learning some of the math apps. I still use my ti-89 for everyday calculat…

I'm much younger than you, but I had the experience of having a difficult-to-find-info-on-the-internet subject for a high school paper, and the opporunity to researching the subjec…

Is Chinese high speed rail infrastructure really substandard or lacking maintenance as you claim?

I've had multiples of my students get into legal trouble over the years from using these. Just understand that almost all of these professional level software packages phone home e…

The current collector also takes up relatively more volume, on top of the packaging (the wall thickness would be the same, and it's not a trivial part of the volume of small cell b…

I've been a Mechanical Engineer for a similar length of time, using Solidworks and Creo, and I concur. I've released many thousands of parts over the course of my career, and I don…

I've always wondered that too. In very quiet rooms I hear quite intense ringing. I have distinct memories as a young child of wanting a fan turned on in my bedroom at night because…

Here's an anecdote: I haven't been the victim of any type of crime for the last 15 years, whereas I had multiple break-ins and near violent encounters in the 00s and 90s. My neighb…

...what is this? The page has no About section or any explanation of what WinUAE is.

It's a class 1, so it will assist up to 20mph. I typically cruise at around 15mph on my own (I'm in a similar weight class as a rider). For getting around my town, trips are not mu…

What keeps me trapped using Windows on my main home workstation is simply that a lot of the professional software I use is Windows-only, and always will be. Fortunately, the advanc…

Humans have been putting a lot conscious effort into modifying our world for our own benefit. We've converted a huge amount of our land area into farmland and cities for our own us…

I'm guessing that what's happening here is that Boeing could be making more money doing something other than building trash cans, and so is sending an absurdly exorbitant quote to …

I just tried the rom out on my flashcart, and it boots and plays on a real gameboy.

This is the killer aspect of the RPi, that there are tons of well supported drop-in software solutions for it. Other boards can be made to work, but the RPi will just work .

I was surprised to see so much equipment right next to the launch vehicle in the video. Would all that have gotten damaged during the launch?

This is going to be incredibly damaging to forums, in the same way that Photobucket's deletions were. Old forum posts are becoming a ghost town of broken image links.

One way to do it is through hobby groups which meet IRL. You can make friends in the hobby-space there, and then gradually start inviting them to things that are not related to the…

I am begging you people to read Karl Marx's Capital Vol 1, Ch 15: Machinery and Modern Industry Do you fear washing machines because they eliminated the requirement for doing the l…

>Dude. We're not talking about losing secret ancient knowledge. We're talking about losing pictures of cats. But we're literally talking about book lending, and preserving the old …