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> Even more absorption can be had if you use pyramidal foam Hell, it would also make the pat-down a lot more interesting! Thanks for the detailed answer. Of course my original ques…

Serious question for the physicists: How feasible would it be to put a faraday cage in one's underpants that wouldn't trigger a metal detector but would mess up the body scanner?

Thunderstorms and lightning don't care who's driving the plane.

I think it's safe to say that Greenspun isn't working as a junior pilot for the money since not too many people making $18k/year have their own plane, helicopter and Acura NSX.

It's not all bad: The California proposition to legalize marijuana was defeated in yesterday's election, which should help maintain demand for BC Gold dope.

I can testify first-hand that the way the current H1B green card application process is structured actively discourages long-term investment in the US by H1B visa holders. Given th…

I've been in the US since mid-2006 on an H1B, and making $100k+ annually. However, I'm currently in the final stages of applying for residency Down Under and am planning on leaving…

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/20/live-from-apples-back-to-...

Consider the typical "corporate IT" environment where your boss is not qualified to evaluate your ability as a programmer. Unfortunately for you he stumbles across an article like …

> How much time are you planning on spending worrying about whether or not you'll be invaded by barbarians today? That seems to be a primary concern of the Arizona state legislatur…

Fun facts: Gene Simmons was born as Chaim Witz in Haifa, Israel, and at one point planned on being a rabbi.

Incidentally the US Federal Reserve is currently the world's second largest holder of treasuries after China ( http://www.zerohedge.com/article/deconstructing-pomo-fed-bec... ) and…

To my mind this is the key quote: "If you have a low skilled job there is a higher chance of your job being outsourced but if you are a software developer developing complex softwa…

Fair point. I didn't intend to diss C, and if one were to write Oracle from scratch today, C is (sadly?) still probably the best option given its performance and portability constr…

It probably doesn't matter much to Oracle to stay on good terms w/ the technical community since technical people aren't their customers. The people who have the budgetary authorit…

I work in finance and have an undergrad CS degree. It's common for folks in finance to have undergrad technical degrees (e.g., physics, math, CS) and graduate degrees in something …

Roughly 30 - 40% more than you could expect to get working as a programmer outside of finance. But considering that the hours are longer, it's not much more on an hourly basis on a…

I work in finance (for an investment management firm that's a household name in the CNBC world) and can confirm that the synopsis re: working for finance, "Lots of money but crappy…