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>First, the number of well-paid middle-skill jobs in manufacturing and clerical occupations has decreased substantially since the mid-1980s. in all these articles/analysis replace …

wrt. 422MJ->3MJ, xenon flash lamp pumping As it was already mentioned in the threads like this before, the NIF was built using the technology that was available in those years of t…

> It may in fact not be possible to do better-than-breakeven fusion on a small (relative to a star) scale. the H-bomb is better-than-breakeven and much smaller than star scale. Wha…

>Companies spend millions in SuperBowl ads, and nobody can click on that, not that i dream about clicking it, i'm just surprised that they still hasn't implemented it yet as curren…

>but realize how long it takes for humans to learn to speak/comprehend complete sentences.. heck to be potty trained even. interesting that a kitten or a puppy gets potty trained m…

>Surely that doesn't mean it's correspondingly illegal to trade RUB for USD within russia, but i'm not sure what the salient difference is If i remember correctly the other party m…

the risk isn't the same. Instead of capital gain a capital loss may happen - for example when you own stock, like, in particular, after exercise. Whereis in case of stock options t…

there are differences. For example, the profit from the grant date to the date of exercise is ordinary income - taxed at your bracket rate, while any profit coming from holding for…

>I'm surprised the company (not the insurance) had to pay that much for the babies medical bills. my understanding that AOL self-insures for medical.

the difference is that Eric Holder hasn't yet made a determination that Bitcoin is a currency and thus violates the law (like they did to Liberty Dollar, etc...)

" В соответствии со ст. 27 Федерального закона «О Центральном банке Российской Федерации» «официальной денежной единицей (валютой) Российской Федерации является рубль. Введение на …

sounds like she was punished for a disruptive innovation - "backdating of stock options exercise". Backdating of grant is cheating at the expense of shareholders whereis backdating…

"In my reference checking, at least a dozen investors told me that they made far more money when the numbers disappointed than when the company outperformed, because they trusted M…

know places where even poison taking follows strict process.

> If, on the other hand, he were connected to your "corporate peon" role, you could switch him on and off at the... drop of a hat. In fact, he could give you that hat when you get …

in the movie "Aviator" there is a scene where PanAm almost successfully gets monopoly on international flights. Watching it i could feel only "WTF?". The same way we'd be feeling c…

>I'm not even sure domain knowledge is important for a CEO of a company that size: once you become a $50 billion plus company, you don't have time to get involved with the details …

30 years ago remember USSR used underground nukes at least once specifically for exploration of oil/gas in Siberia.

when in US the ITAR still applies AFAIK - getting any access to or knowledge transfer from ITAR project to non-US person, etc... Looks like starting from 1K plegde - invitation to …

is it subject to ITAR?

Sounds like Khosla aren't going to invest in flying cars :)

several years ago spent a bunch of time going through the wheel, and in my view XV-5A and Bell X-22 were pretty good planes - there was nothing really wrong with them, and definite…

>Escape to where? You can't escape from the universe as a whole. The concept of "escape speed" has no meaning for the universe as a whole. take a 1B light years radius ball, popula…

>No, it wouldn't. A black hole is a stationary spacetime. The spacetime of the universe is not stationary. The spacetime model that describes the universe is very different from th…

the event horizon - Schwarzschild radius - is defined by the specific value of gravitational potential (escape speed equals speed of light) while, given the black hole mass large e…