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  1. offshoring is often like this on The Coming Tech Gig Economy (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The offshoring company changes workers assigned to the project every month or two. Any worker work his salt is job hopping to increase his salary.

  2. your numbers 20 year old or your are 20 years old? on The Coming Tech Gig Economy (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The highest deductable ACA HSA can cost $500 a month in many markets for over 40s.

  3. million toy drone sales this Xmas on Judge: Defendant 'Had a Right' To Shoot Down Drone (wdrb.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats an upper end projection I've read. While that is only 1:30 males age 12 to 40, thats is still a large number. We'll be reading about drone incidents for eyars.

  4. rockets easier to design than spaceplanes? on Two Radically Different Approaches to Private Access to Space (gizmag.com) · · Score: 1

    SpaceShipTwo is having a hard time becoming commercial. At least six years so far beyond their announced launch date. Perhaps too much new technology, too many parts ...

  5. self-coding computer is like commercial fusion on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    "Just around the corner" since the 1950s. COBOL and FORTRAN were touted in this vein when created. At least compared to Asembly, they were more productive. Graphical programming environments, UML, IDEs where all touted and practically automatically coding.

  6. programming taught in trade schools 60s 70s on Coding Academies -- Useful Or Nonsense? (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    It was more like 2 years rather than three months. They didnt have IDEs then, so it more tedious writing code.

    This trade school taint cause some reluctance for big name schools like MIT and Stanford to delay creating CS departments and offering programming classes. Sort felt like teaching typing, something they should not offer credit classes in. MIT didnt have a formal CS degree until 1980, several years after I went through. You could minor in CS in EE, business, or math.

  7. In and Out versus McDonalds on Is Too Much Choice Stressing Us Out? (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    In and Out has stayed with just a few menu items done well, while McDonalds explodes into several dozen. Franchise owners complained about all the choices, especially brought on by all day breakfasts. Recently it has increased McDonalds sales, but we'll see what the market says in the long run.

  8. many universities require timely free posting on How Scientists Are Circumventing Journal Paywalls (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    On some university website,e.g. MIT, Harvard Stanford. Timely means within one year of a journal publication, as compromise for journal companies and busy professors.

    The chief drawback of this system is that important papers are scattered all over the place. If you are looking something specific you can find it with a search engine. But if you are periodically browsing the literature to catch up on ideas you may not see these articles unless someone ahas constructed an index.

  9. I see plenty of low wage workers with smartphones on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Custodial, fast food, retail. The monthly smartphone bill is probably as much as gasoline. Digital items could be the second highest expense after housing.

  10. I love the outdoors and freedom of driving on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Relatively few outdoors places in Colorado and California are accessible by public transportation. I couldnt afford a car while in school. But I could it gave great freedom.

  11. peopel give up their kids before their car on Nearly One-third of Consumers Would Give Up Their Car Before Their Smartphone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Plenty of down-on-their-luck people living in their vehicles. Some have given up everything else they own, including their kids. A car represents the last hope for a chance for employment and futrure. California and other states have many such people.

  12. his Dad was a major Sudan politician on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    He took his family into exile in the US, probably got bored, and is taking them back to a more compatible Muslim country.

    I think the clock thing was initially an independent event. But Dad leveraged it to meet some Muslim leaders and get a new home.

  13. "just around the corner" like fusion on Terahertz Radiation To Enable Portable Particle Accelerators (www.desy.de) · · Score: 1

    I've been reading articles about short accelerators for the past several decades, e.g. lasers, computer-pulsed EMF. Yet to see one to scale up to challenge existing accelerators.

  14. thats all most 12-years have on Valve's "Room Scale VR Survey" Finds a Lot of People Play In Their Bedrooms (itworld.com) · · Score: 0

    Thats is the median age f gamers.

  15. concern: quakes occurrence is power law on New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    About six times more quakes happen for each smaller magnitude. So with the increasing number of 4s and 5s, it suggests a possible 6.
    The maximum size quake is bounded by the largest possible fault area, a number not well understood yet.

  16. backwards- lubricating fluids are relieving stress on New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Allowing quakes to happen easier with existing stress.

  17. 99% OK structures not designed for quakes on New Concerns Over Earthquakes In Oklahoma Near Vast Oil-Storage Facility (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    I dont know if they've strengthened laws recently. But before the recent seismicity increase, seismic safety was a minor factor.

  18. originally a volume of water on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    A liter is 10^3 cm. A liter of water at one bar and 4C weighs one killogram. A chunk of metal weighing the same was more convenient manage than water.

  19. the Australian metric system abolishes cm on Kilogram Conflict Resolved At Last (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    I am not sure this has another name. It calibrates everything in thousands or thousandths with three digits of precision. Use no decimal places or decimals. Just change to next 1000x prefix. This was found to significantly reduce error in the construction trades and medicine doses. Construction scrap was cut 80%-90% saving money.
    It does look a little weird at first to see blueprints entirely in millimeters.

    I heard this system at Nerd Nite.

  20. Hugh is still around, almost 90 on Playboy Drops Nudity As Internet Fills Demand · · Score: 1

    We dont read as much about his romances anymore. There was an interesting documentary a few years ago about how he regained control of the magazine after letting other people manage it for while and goign off directions he didnt like.

  21. mail-order houses popular early 1900s on "E-mailable" House Snaps Together Without Nails (clemson.edu) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think you could buy all materials, blueprints and instructions from Sears for like a thousand dollars, including shipping. Then add several hundred hours of sweat equity to construct it.

    A pretty high quality one still around is the Nixon birthhouse at his library in Yorba Linda. I think it has a Great Room, a couple of bedrooms and bathroom. I've seen others preserved in Western mining towns. Pre-manufactured homes eventually superceded these.

  22. how many politicians can code? on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    I mean someone who have made money shipping code. Not someone who took an afternoon Code Academy seminar and wrote Hello World in BASIC or javascript.

    I was born in the 1950s. Some of my college professors and bosses, though they were scientists, never could code. But I'd say everyone who went through grad school after me could write code, maybe not of production quality. Now there are politicians born in the 60s and 70s, I expect some of them could code. The one I know for sure who is Jared Polis, representative of Boulder County. He made his fortune from an early dotcom greeting card company. Can anyone in Obama's cabinet code?

  23. many turned away because they cant operate Office on Treat Computer Science As a Science: It's the Law · · Score: 1

    Thats low-level STEM. But many welfare-types cant get entry clerk jobs because they dont know how to run MicroSoft Office.

  24. FCC will go ballistic over this on Jamming Wi-Fi With a $15 Dongle · · Score: 1

    They wont even allow cell-jammers in prisons where contraband cellphones are everywhere.

  25. Million toy drones may be sold Xmas on Another Drone Crashes Near White House (roboticstrends.com) · · Score: 1

    So expect lots more drone stories. With 20M million age 8-20 and 40M age 20-40, amillion is not a whole lot.