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by DrScump 8y ago
Yes, they have a fleet... that also fails in a number of ambiguous situations that average human drivers handle easily. I've observed failures in more than half my trips through Mountain View. Two use cases happen repeatedly: first, it
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by DrScump 8y ago
This concept was explored in a "Twilight Zone" episode: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734611/
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by DrScump 8y ago
Yet another collection of silent reroutes to Amazon affiliate links.
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by DrScump 8y ago
It's never frozen all the way down (on Earth); only the surface layer freezes.
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by DrScump 8y ago
This is just stupid misuse of terminology. The Earth has been covered by ice multiple times in prehistory, but it has never been covered by land (in fact, it's unlikely that even a majority of Earth's surface was above sea l
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by DrScump 8y ago
I could walk, bus, or ride my bike literally anywhere ... Compare that to the suburbs or rural areas I'm perplexed at why someone would think that urban biking is safer than suburban biking.
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by DrScump 8y ago
It's a shame that bikes weren't allowed in your burbs. When I was a kid in Cupertino and San Jose, I biked everywhere . I biked to school, to meet friends in other neighborhoods, shopping centers (even Milpitas to Eastridge), etc
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by DrScump 8y ago
I'm using Chrome on a GS7 right now and have never seen this. I keep Location Services off anyway. Version 73.0...
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by DrScump 8y ago
I'm confused. He refers to "the 2017 data" yet only claims to have scraped two days in March 2015.
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by DrScump 8y ago
ICE detaining families, splitting kids from their parents Both were widespread under Obama.
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by DrScump 8y ago
This article completely ignores the discovery of crucible steel use in Viking swords like the Ulfberht, whose isotopic analysis supposedly points to Persian origin, obtained through trade. There was a great PBS "Nova" episode on t
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by DrScump 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19463226 270+ points
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by DrScump 8y ago
This looks like a weak derivative of the Electrek article submitted twuce already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19466785
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by DrScump 8y ago
Recommended resource on the use of DNA to track migration patterns out of Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Journey_of_Man
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by DrScump 8y ago
the police detained the gentleman If they didn't come to you for a follow-up interview or had your testimony requested, my guess is that the assailant was released without charges.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Fewer arrests != Fewer crimes. When no arrest is made, the crime is not counted as committed by a juvenile.
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by DrScump 8y ago
Note that this is a different organization from the American Hockey League (AHL) Cleveland Barons[0], which was the top minor league affiliate of the San Jose Sharks from 2001-2006. That affiliate is now known as the San Jose Barracuda. [0]
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by DrScump 8y ago
And their app lies about the scope of devices it can control. For example, it won't even warn you if your target device outright lacks an IR port before you install it. Worse yet, check out the permissions it demands: Calendar (!), Con
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by DrScump 8y ago
Such stories in medicine always bring up two sets of memories. One is a nurse I dated years ago whom I met when we both worked graveyard shift and lived in the same apartment complex. She later died from epilepsy. The other memory is of a p
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by DrScump 8y ago
They're about to plop over 2000 people in that new development at Kifer abd Lawrence that is one city block square... which is already gridlocked during commute hours.
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by DrScump 8y ago
They would be motivated by giving a lower rate for long term capital gains than regular income and by having their Jarvis-Gann bases transferable to all other counties (like Orop 5 would have done).
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by DrScump 8y ago
they should just get rid of the 101 & 85 Moffett interchanges 85? Aside from the SB Moffett to SB 85 onramp, I don't know of an 85/Moffett "interchange".
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by DrScump 8y ago
those whose children died of vaccine-preventable illnesses But to this point in the article, both deaths mentioned were from flu . Unless death is from a specific strain included in that year's vaccine (generally, only 3 are),
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by DrScump 8y ago
Do they do domain name front-running like GoDaddy and others have been alleged to do?
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by DrScump 8y ago
That would be a bit crazy because the line for funding is about 15-20 years long. Exactly! Yet they hadn't even applied yet . Quoting: "an application to the Federal Transit Administration was due this spring for fed
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by DrScump 8y ago
They were going to hit up the Federal government for almost half the cost but not even apply for that in the first 20 years of planning?
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by DrScump 8y ago
"the NYT was actually one of the first to try and move past their print origins and try a new business model..." One of the first? Actually, the San Jose Mercury News had its Mercury Center up and running in 1992 [0]. For a time,
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by DrScump 8y ago
And bandwidth...
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by DrScump 8y ago
My late sister actually worked with Saint $ilicon (Jeffrey Armstrong) at Seagate in the 1980s. I have an autographed copy of the book. I got my second ever hard disk drive through her employee-purchase discount. Eighty megabytes!
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Hal Blaine, ‘Wrecking Crew’ Drummer Who Worked with Sinatra, Elvis, Dies at 90(chicagotribune.com)
2 points by DrScump 8y ago|0 comments

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