Anechoic

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by Anechoic 16y ago
run amazing free services (search, Gmail, Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Finance, Google News, Google Voice, Google Reader, Feedburner, many many others). Also, they're internally investing in energy and robotics like the auto-driven ca
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Yes, I responded in that thread - the thing is, drilling through rock is much easier than tunneling through sand/mud. See my comment there for more detail.
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by Anechoic 16y ago
? That link is for system wide (there's also https://www.nycenet.edu/offices/d_chanc_oper/budget/exp01/y2... )
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by Anechoic 16y ago
How about some historical data on this ratio? Historical data may not be of much use given how much schools have changed in the last 20-30 years with mainlining, foreign-student integration, increases in poverty, ADA, etc. IT is supposed
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Do you think they have janitors on their payroll on full time basis? All of them? Probably not. Some of them? I'd be shocked if they didn't - our much smaller urban school system certainly does, and they are up to the eyeballs in clea
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Driving cross country last summer from San Diego to DC I ran through no less than 8 cone zones. Stimulus or no stimulus, cone zones are a part of ongoing maintenance, emergency repair, or infrastructure expansion. We could outlaw all cons
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Lotschberg Base Tunnel and Gotthard Base Tunnel Apples and oranges. Yes, they're all train tunnels, but the Lotschberg and Gotthard tunnels were/are being built using tunnel boring techniques in relative remote areas. ARC is going to req
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by Anechoic 16y ago
40% bureaucrats. That's Forty Percent! You seem to be assuming that there are only two types of employees in NYC schools - teachers and bureaucrats. There are in fact many types: teachers and bureaucrats sure, but also janitors & main
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Will WP7 phones sync out-of-the-box with Macs?
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by Anechoic 16y ago
You seem to think that $10 out of $10 in taxes goes directly towards roads, schools, or whatever. I never said anything about the direct allocation of tax dollars. $6 out of the $10 is a dead weight loss... completely consumed by govern
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by Anechoic 16y ago
We all know that's not all governments spend money on "Police, fire, roads, and schools" are the things that affect and impact every US citizen most everyday, so it's fair to consider them. But of course governments spend money on other
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by Anechoic 16y ago
What I don't like about Mankiw's logic is that he's only looking at part of the picture. He talks about being ble to save $1,000 without taxes vs $523 with taxes. Fine, let's look at the $1,000 - now how much of that $1,000 will he have to
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by Anechoic 16y ago
No one made that bed but Apple, and it is but another example of Apple putting Apple first. You say that as if it's a bad thing. The goal of a company is to make money - so long as Apple can make a lot of money selling a good product, I s
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by Anechoic 16y ago
There's United States v. Boucher but case had a couple of wrinkles, including the fact that Boucher had previously cooperated with law enforcement so it was thought that providing a password wasn't self-imcrimination since it wouldn't add
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Ugh. Some of those choices aren't bad, but you should really use music that you're very familiar with. In any event, avoid anything that's been mixed in the last ten years (unless its classical) to evaluate an audio system, it's all been co
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Around here (NYC metro area) more of the construction is done at night than not at night IME (having worked on several NYC-area construction noise assessments) that's not true, and when it is true, it's usually because the traffic disrupt
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by Anechoic 16y ago
I imagine construction would suddenly be done 24/7 and be finished in half the time. You would be trading one set of inconveniences for another - in the case of nighttime construction you're typically paying the construction workers more
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by Anechoic 16y ago
I played around with it a bit and couldn't find a tracking speed that I was comfortable with. I also remember that (supposedly) Apple removed the acceleration curve API but some sites (including http://osxdaily.com/2010/08/25/mouse-accele
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by Anechoic 16y ago
"most consumers Is there any research that this is actually the case? I'd be willing to guess that this is the case for many folks on HN, but I haven't heard many iPad owners (of which I am not one) complaining about this. Count me in wit
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Dammit! I tried magicprefs and the first thing it did was change the mouse acceleration curve to something more Windows-like. Into the trash it goes...
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by Anechoic 16y ago
You can take my Magic Mouse when you pry it from my cold dead hand. That said, regarding the geek fascination with multi-button mics - IMO Apple got it right with one-button (and pseudo-one button like the Magic Mouse & Might Mouse) mic
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by Anechoic 16y ago
That link just goes to a empty HN page
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by Anechoic 16y ago
The real flaw in this argument is that as soon as you mark yourself out as "that guy who's being a dick" you attract a lot of attention, and you're more likely to wind up in court on some other charge. But doing the right thing can also g
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by Anechoic 16y ago
One of my college professors was an outspoken opponent of missile defense systems (and the Patriot system specifically) that worked during the missile's reentry/descent phase. His objection is that it's too easy for an opponent to defeat th
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by Anechoic 16y ago
I've been using PayPal to collect payments for physical goods that I sell on my site for about two years now. I typically do about $2k in business per months. I've had a couple of months where I've offered discounted and sales rose to aroun
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Compare to Steve Jobs who knows how to make wonderful shiny devices that cost more than what many in the third world will make in a lifetime, but who has done very little when it comes to philanthropy. I really hate this comparison for on
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Reposting a comment from an earlier Hacker News thread on this issue: The good news is that purchases made with a credit or debit card will be exempt from this requirement. However this requirement is still likely to be a huge pain for me a
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by Anechoic 16y ago
Page 4: "Compensation cost levels in State and local government should not be directly compared with levels in private industry. Differences between these sectors stem from factors such as variation in work activities and occupational struc
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by Anechoic 16y ago
>One interesting thing about OnStar is that it actually has been used for exactly the sort of remote bugging that the EFF fears Apple's program will get used for. Not quite the same thing, you're talking about the government using the O
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by Anechoic 16y ago
This application, bogus or not, is targeted to the possibility that you steal your own phone. If Apple wanted to do this to prevent legitimate owners from jailbreaking their own phones, then why bother patenting (and therefore publicizing

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