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GCU-Empiricist

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    Comment #31048816

    I keep seeing this sentiment, and it seems like wishful thinking.. The paper is out there on how to defeat the poison pill: trigger the pill, let the stock tank, offer at a lower p…

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    Comment #29056970

    So the power supply used to change the speed of nuclear warships from bare steerageway to 30+kts rather quickly is not responsive to changes in demand? Friend you seem to have some…

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    Comment #28835781

    SO the US military is heavily reliant on GPS, and they know it, and so do professionals on the other side. There is a lot of good reason to think that if the US gets into a Large S…

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    Comment #17046709

    Remember "Don't be evil"? Security bug, won't fix block the demo to decrease awareness of security hole, that's evil.

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    Comment #17044214

    As my algorithms professor said on his programming project. A program is just a number, pick the right number. At least he made it funny.

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    Comment #17016946

    On the flip side between where you can get out in a survival suit, where rescue submarines can get to, and places where the people tank will go crunch before you hit the bottom, pr…

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    Comment #16994269

    >Social cohesion is far more important than both your obstinacy and your problems, and if you persist, we will burn your ass at the stake. It's ugly, it's sad, we wish we didn't ha…

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    Comment #16987890

    Umm. . . it probably wouldn't be cost effective for you: the NRC is pretty brutal in it's regulations. I'm very gun-ho on nuclear power, but that is one bureaucracy I don't mind ch…

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    Comment #16982692

    Because this requires brick and mortar industrial hardware to be logistically salable, lacking that it becomes vaporware. I think an unconscious bias may be that a bad but free con…

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    Comment #16944442

    Yes, though if I understood things correctly that one had the option to add capabilities using fmri vetted coders.

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    Comment #16926969

    So does Waze do something more aggressive than Gooogle's faster route option. This is the second article Ive seen blaming Waze, but I get similar recommendation's as a casual Googl…

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    Comment #16913192

    I don't have a personal list but I'd suggest scraping r/programminghumor for stack overflow links would generate a statistically significant test set.

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    Comment #16912467

    In my own experience ~7/10 times the duplicate question is something entirely different and I have to spend longer searching because of someone's ignorant pedantry.

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    Comment #16912032

    The hurdle of bringing "government data" back inside the government lifelines is one of the things large contractors can use to minimize the risk of the contractor being changed. I…

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    Comment #16904442

    So what would the trust criteria be? There is a lot of credible disagreement about trustworthy media sources today after all.

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    Comment #16885332

    Maybe doing due diligence, reading a few primary sources, before you choose to believe or act on something?

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    Comment #16877955

    IANAL but my TLDR is Swarm applied for US licencing to launch, got told no, because there devices are too small for some ground based tracking systems, but launched anyways because…

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    Comment #16875601

    That said wasn't the state of the art production previously measured in single digit square centimeters?

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    Comment #16867928

    Can you please post a blog guide on administering these paper-cuts.

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    Comment #16861408

    SCOTUS oral arguments are some of the best sardonic comedy you will ever find. It's nine well educated professional masters of their field basically who only have to care about eac…

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    Comment #16831253

    I'm going to have to snoop around and see if I can find any specs on this, and the lawfare of if it can be elected. How's your simming of this situation going?

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    Comment #16822849

    So this is lawfare between a company that makes something and a company purported to have stolen their design. I guess the question that really would make it interesting is what co…

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    Comment #16820872

    >Diet, exercise and personal responsibility still do matter. As an aging former military member it seems like personal responsibility is becoming more and more a foreign concept. I…

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    Comment #16810121

    Yes it's meant as a little bit of self depreciation on a name that's a personal reminder: "don't be the big butt plug"

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    Comment #16804535

    What percentage voted?