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I'm not seeing any other posts of yours on this comment thread. Maybe you forgot to hit the "reply" button (or accidently outed an alt?) My only point was that majormajor saying th…

Is the argument that electrical and mechanical engineers are not smarter than the average person? How about figure 8 (PDF page 86) of: https://web.archive.org/web/20120905095856/ht…

>Writing code doesn't have a notably higher (if at all higher, vs lower!) IQ requirement compared to some of the basic components of EE Average IQ of Electrical Engineers: 121 http…

Holy smokes, that comes across as "We just want all people to be impoverished equally".

Seems like most of it is covered by: Entropy increases.

ahem U.S. Customary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_customary_units

Apparently Wired is now pay-walled. Here is another article about things: https://www.space.com/space-exploration/satellites/this-comp... ...I wonder what the cost per minute is to…

I know we can be all righteous and intellectual on HN. But the article pretty much glosses over the large number of people who are afraid of the dark. Not afraid of crime in the da…

The Fukushima where there has been one death attributed to radiation exposure (lung cancer that happened years later)? And 20,000 people died as a result of the earthquake and tsun…

>FedNow There is no recourse if something goes wrong with FedNow, right? Like you get scammed, and the scammer just keeps the money. Seems like a pretty big difference (in theory a…

Electrons in an antenna aren't transitioning between quantum states and are still radiating.

If the spatial extent of the proton is not infinite, this would imply that the charged quarks making up the proton are accelerating. Why aren't these quarks then emitting electroma…

$15/month * 12 months = $180 $12/month * 12 months = $144 $120 / 12 months = $10/month

>$12/month subscription if I have to pay $120 in a lump sum up front. Sounds like they are giving you two months free if you pay with a lump sum in advance.

I guess it doesn't matter if the Iranian people want regime change in their country. Lots of people want lots of different things (plus a pony). It only matters what they do. And i…

Don't overlook the "the people of this foreign land are yearning to be free of their current rulers, and just need a little help from their neighborly U.S. armed forces" trope. I t…

Water is wet. How could that have been predicted?

Even with the hugely expansive U.S. government and executive branch, an executive order is much more restricted in scope than a law passed by congress.

>a concentration camp Most people at these facilities can leave at any time, right? Just so long as it isn't back into the United States? They can return to their country of origin…

>Some of the people given 30 weren't even at the protest. That by itself isn't a convincing argument. You can't plan a bank heist and be waiting at your safe house and say, "I'm no…

>When a US president is using an executive order to pass a law An executive order isn't a law. It is an instruction for an executive branch agency or committee. https://www.federal…

Presumably you can get a refund on your deposit? Seems like that would make it not fraud?

For those who haven't been following this closely, who is the missing addressee?

>I get a little sad when I read it. Not a US citizen so I'm not sure I'll ever get to use a state of the art model again. ...or tomorrow: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48740…

Isn't the volume of orbits pretty large? Maybe someone can check my math. According the the article the mega-constellation would be at an altitude between 500 km and 2000 km. Radiu…