GCU-Empiricist

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Comment · 4 years ago
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 price per share but at the same market value plus what was put into the company to acquire the new stock by the diluters. Full market price is full market price. Look at Musk's investment in automation at Tesla he knows how to play the long game. ttps://scholarship.law.nd.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1102&context=law_faculty_scholarship
Comment · 5 years ago
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 conceptual errors.

There is a lot of things you need to do if you take a plant out of operation, and there is a significant amount of decay heat from fission products that does require external power (basically what caused fukashima's fires) to cool over days if you turn a plant off, but you are oversimplifying solved engineering challenges to present them as intractable challenges.

Comment · 5 years ago
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 State action, which is relatively unlikely but. . . , then the opposition will employ GPS jamming to negate some of the more smart and collateral damage avoiding systems. I've been out for almost a decade, so I don't know if secondary powers have reliable and ubiquitous GPS jamming capabilities, but I'd bet dollars to donuts IRAN has spent significant funding to acquire GPS jamming. All of this gives a a context for why the military both uses training aids (marker blackout over GPS, manually disabled data links, and whatever more high tech the have devised) and real operate in jamming training, possibly as final training, certification training/exams, if my experience in sibling forces is any guide.
Comment · 8 years ago
Remember "Don't be evil"? Security bug, won't fix block the demo to decrease awareness of security hole, that's evil.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.

Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years ago
>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 have to do it, but it reflects the reality of society.

Wow, How do I make sure I never interact with your "society"? To me this attitude is strait out of Orwell and Huxley?

Comment · 8 years ago
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 charging ~$4-500/hr for people to review submitted designs for approval and then painfully inspecting operating plants.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 connection that can negatively impact the perception of web solutions from casual users, which in the end is the revenue base for everyone here involved in B2C business models.

Comment · 8 years ago
Yes, though if I understood things correctly that one had the option to add capabilities using fmri vetted coders.
Comment · 8 years ago
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 Google Maps user who checks which of three routes is fastest in each morning.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.
Comment · 8 years ago
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.

It's a non-trivial challenge as the government agencies seldom staffs up to the level of tech personnel required, and can't really afford to attract sufficient talent to automate without outsourcing the support contract.

Source: I've been adjacent to these efforts in the DOD/Mil sector with a military region BOSS (Base operations Support services) contractor in question.

Comment · 8 years ago
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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