Norman Yarvin

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

@CalumDouglas1 I've stopped believing in "war made them good" sorts of ideas. People who are competent during war were competent before the war too, and also are competent after the war (if they survive).

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@arguablywrong @tracewoodgrains The upside to having Forrest run the Ku Klux Klan was:
1. He ordered them to disband and cease all operations.
2. They obeyed him.

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

@CalumDouglas1 @TheCinesthetic That one wasn't meant to happen. It was a genuine accident, which for obvious reasons they put into the final film.

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@CalumDouglas1 @PhilipProudfoot @ZackPolanski Tax wealth is what they want to do.

Non productive sector is something they see every time they look in a mirror.

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@PalmerLuckey @welkerlaw @guimarin I was hearing way before then that California made noncompete agreements unenforceable. Looking it up, I see that there were a few narrow exceptions for people such as yourself.

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@johnsmith3433 @CalumDouglas1 @Gaurab Campbell IS an expert. He's the author of, among other things, the Complete Casting Handbook. (1242 pages).

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

@johnsmith3433 @CalumDouglas1 @Gaurab Not necessarily: it could just be that multicrystalline is good enough if it's multicrystalline pure metal. At any rate, it's just a hypothesis of Campbell's: even he is not trying to "convince" anyone of it.

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

@johnsmith3433 @CalumDouglas1 @Gaurab John Campbell (thanks Calum for the pointer to his work) had an interesting comment: maybe all they really need is to exclude oxide bifilms from the turbine blades, and single crystal is overdoing it.

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I'd earlier read an article of his on the potential for genetically engineered bioweapons, and found it unusually clear and quite interesting:
https://t.co/SUrCCsENIw

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

This article purports to be a hit piece on Ralph Baric, but actually exonerates him:
https://t.co/1GNT9o7s97
About the worst they find is him shying away from the spotlight. People around him were being sleazy, but not him personally.

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For instance it engages in heavy breathing about how he contributed edits to a lab-leak-denial article but didn't want to be credited, but if you click on the link and look at the actual edits, they are things like correcting "DNA" to "RNA" for Covid's genome.

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@Aviation_Intel @AlexHollings52 Catamite.

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@schuyler_t @cellis212 @ATabarrok Because we tried half-assed Torrens title about a century ago, and that didn't work.

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@_brianpotter @RuxandraTeslo Yes, they totally are. Despite Tesla not believing in Maxwell's Equations. Or perhaps because of it.

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@xiphmont Please say more. (What level of holding force? How does it mount, or is that what the "second fixed line" is for?)

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

Explanations:

1. "Favoritism is the secret of efficiency" -- Admiral Jackie Fisher
2. When someone is good, his replies are worth reading too.
3. I actually have two lists, one checked daily and one weekly.
4. The middle-click gets used further to explore threads.

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

How I use this site:

1. Find really good people (the hard part).
2. Bookmark their "with replies" pages.
3. Go down the list of bookmarks middle-clicking to open each in a new tab.
4. Read each tab, closing it (^W) when I get to old posts I've already read.

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@CalumDouglas1 @ATaylorFPGA @blind_via Not to worry, the reentry is where the real nailbiters are:
https://t.co/1V7nmINPg6
"...the heat shield on Orion blows chunks. Not in some figurative, pejorative sense..."

[Norman Yarvin @NYarvin]

@zo_sephine Recommended listening:
https://t.co/NYZExVo8WO

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@_brianpotter "...the loading coil, an invention of electrical engineer Michael Pupin."

Er, actually an invention of Oliver Heaviside... but since he refused to patent it, AT&T had one of their own engineers "invent" it and patent it.