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by BorgHunter 11y ago
There's more volume in conventional-looking cars. Look at the responses to the Nissan Leaf and BMW i3, two electric cars that are legitimately funky-looking; something that looks weird will turn more people off than will be turned on.
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
I have a commute of about the same length which I do by bike. You do have to change clothes, yes, but provided you wear deodorant, odor isn't likely to be an issue.
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
Low barrier to entry. I've signed up for MOOCs in the past that sounded really cool, because why not?, only later to find that I didn't have the time, or maybe the MOOC wasn't as cool as I thought it was. In cases where there
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
This was my reaction too. School provides myriad things other than simply vocational training—that's a very significant sacrifice. It could well be that this was known, discussed, and the verdict came in that the sacrifice was worthwhi
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
It's folly to assume that "terrorism" is some really concrete class of crime that can be easily prevented using known methods, and I'd further argue that the efficacy of surveillance to this end is unknown, but I'd
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
The way this article uses the word "humanist" had me quite confused for a few paragraphs. It doesn't match the use of the word that I'm familiar with.[0] I think it's using the word as in "academics involved in
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
There's no evidence that Lincoln actually said this, although it remains good advice. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/14/life-years-count/
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
E911 in the U.S. does include lat/lon when it comes from a cell phone, accurate to within 50-300 meters. It's part of the FCC guidelines, phase II, which went into effect at the end of 2005. https://www.fcc.gov/gui
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
> This is what people think "literally" means. But it is not what "literally" actually means. The common perception is false. Whence did the "correct" definition of "literally" arise, and how does
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
The legal system in the United States (and most first world nations) is built around the idea that it is far better to let an illegal act go unpunished than it is to take away the rights of an innocent person. Is it really worth throwing aw
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
Not as complicated as you might think. You essentially add time as an extra dimension to your graph, true, but because you're dealing with discrete vehicles instead of a continuously varying function, you can take shortcuts that make t
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
This shouldn't matter here, if you regularly rotate passwords and KeePass itself is regularly updated to fix security vulnerabilities.
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
Unit tests are only partly to prove your code works when you initially write it, though. They also have significant value in allowing others—or Future You—the confidence to touch nearby code without feeling scared of breaking things. This i
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by BorgHunter 12y ago
I've solved this in past Java/Spring projects by having two public constructors, one default and one that takes all the "organs". The default constructor just delegates to the "provide me with organs" construct
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Works for me. Firefox 28.0.1, Android 4.3.1.
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
In most graphical *nix environments that I'm familiar with, if you hold Control and Shift¹ and type U, you can type any Unicode character by its (hex) code point. For instance, if you want an em dash, which is U+2014, hold Control and
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
> Netflix works just fine on Linux, right? Or am I mistaken? There are some hacks to make it work, but Netflix won't support you if you go that route. Basically, you need a specially patched version of Wine which runs Firefox for Wi
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Absolutely nothing, except maybe panicking some passengers. Planes are pressurized, and the exits all open inward. It's not possible for a human being to overcome that force. http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers&#
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Spirit Airlines has one particular fee which is entirely absurd. In addition to the requisite checked bags fee and carry-on bag fee, you're charged a fee for booking a flight over the phone...or online . Yes, the booking option which
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Minor note: People need 2000 kcal a day, not 2 kcal. 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories.
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
The logical next step in MOOCs is going to start in January, too, when the Georgia Tech OMSCS program starts its pilot program, in collaboration with Udacity. An actual, credentialed degree from a well-known university, entirely using the M
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Udacity's model is to provide self-paced classes with absolutely no deadlines or time windows, as opposed to Coursera and edX's more traditional approach. I can see the argument that some people would prefer having more structure;
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
That's not the only mobile use case, though. My favorite times to watch MOOC lectures is when I'm on exercising on my stationary bike, for instance; it's either that or finding something on Netflix or YouTube to watch, but wi
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
There's plenty of meat analogues in the market, from highly processed (think Boca and Morningstar Farms) to relatively minimally processed (homemade bean burgers and the like). They sell reasonably well, but nowhere near as well as act
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Why not both fully unique and based on information of the car? I could easily imagine a system where [one-way algorithm X] is used to transform the car's VIN into a good cryptographic key, and the dealers then just use some piece of so
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
The New York Times wrote an article about the Lyme disease vaccine in 1999. It gives a bit of a different perspective. The long and short of it is, it seemed too new and too much of a pain, and a lot of people didn't see a benefit due
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IS.VEH.NVEH.P3 Sorry I can't link directly to the info for the United States, but if you look at the data the peak was in 2007. People who analyze this data are predicting the t
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
> Is it the case that everywhere people are yearning for more taxi service, or to own their own vehicles? Everywhere? You can't make generalizations like that, because there isn't a global trend. In developing countries, demand
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
It seems like calorie counting would be a good first-line treatment for difficulty controlling one's appetite. This requires a fair amount of discipline, but it's also free of side effects and tools already exist to help you. Do y
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by BorgHunter 13y ago
Joel Spolsky has an essay on fast vs. slow. It's thirteen years old at this point, but still worth a read, I'd say. The takeaway of it is: Fast vs. slow isn't an absolute thing. It's about what your market is, and what kind of culture you w

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