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by FTA 9y ago
I've noticed many times a similar very faint street gridding around Rio Rancho and always thought it was just foresight by the city. Turns out it was yet another one of these communities. Thanks for the info!
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by FTA 9y ago
This sounds a lot like stereotype threat ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat ). I'd say though, rather than "it's acceptable to be bad at these things," people instead avoid it _because_
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by FTA 9y ago
This reminds me of another similar type of failed settlement around the same time: Rio Grande Estates in central New Mexico. New York Times story about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/06/realestate/hig
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by FTA 9y ago
Yeah I suppose my argument is a bit moot given Amazon probably makes plenty of money in the private sector without having to worry about academia. But if they could get the cost down to be on the level of buying and running your own hardwar
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by FTA 9y ago
I can think of a few off the cuff. You're likely not running a model just for yourself. You have collaborators at other institutions that need data to compare or combine with something else. Your grant may require you distribute the ou
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by FTA 9y ago
> I personally don't see the outrage. AmaGoogSoft overcharges for data transfers because they know they can get away with it and that lowering it won't attract more customers. I know a handful of scientists, myself included, wh
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by FTA 9y ago
There's a similar phenomenon going on in World of Warcraft. Activision/Blizzard allows you to buy with real currency a token equal to a month of subscription playing time that you can then sell on that virtual auction house. Someo
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by FTA 9y ago
I see the issue of peoples' time being taken advantage of in the public sector, too, which I would argue is not necessarily capitalism. A good example is a teacher, or professor, or researcher--someone who is either salaried or paid fo
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by FTA 9y ago
So after VW's issue and now this, it makes me wonder--is diesel actually as attractive as some of these manufacturers had made it out to be? Or was that all inherent in this big con?
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by FTA 9y ago
Though the charts don't break it down by each journal specifically, here's a decent survey of the prices from a few years ago: http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-scie...
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by FTA 9y ago
Some people don't even realize that researchers themselves pay money to publish a scientific manuscript, whether closed or open, and not the other way around. So the publishing house (likely) recoups their costs of editing and publicat
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by FTA 9y ago
That's already being attempted with http://openaerialmap.org/ .
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by FTA 9y ago
It's not something I have thought about before, but I wonder how prevalent the bystander effect [0] is in online media streams. Say, if there are 1000 people watching a live stream on Facebook of a horrendous crime, will no one report
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by FTA 9y ago
Financially, the big problem with new cars is you lose a decent fraction of car worth the second you drive off the lot. So you're paying a premium to get one that has never been owned before. Further, insurance is likely going to be mo
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by FTA 9y ago
Firefox on at least Mac has been doing this for a while as well. In fact, it displays the warning very prominently right below the password field.
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by FTA 9y ago
This should be retitled to "EPA shifts priority and retains only an archive of climate change information" (linked on that page to https://19january2017snapshot.epa.gov/climatechange_.html ). Yes, President Trump d
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by FTA 9y ago
A visit to many internet forums will yield people fearing that "big brother" will expose their emails or internet history--though not life-threatening, the damage of embarrassment or job loss is still a real fear in their eyes. Al
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by FTA 9y ago
Here is also a recent (2015) sequence of dashcam photos through Pyongyang: https://www.mapillary.com/app/?lat=39.02463076010619&lng=125... .
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by FTA 9y ago
People are always terrified of the Big Brother from government, but any time I have to verify my identity with questions like "What street of the listed have you lived on?" or "Which of these banks do you have a loan with?&qu
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by FTA 10y ago
I've been on Amtrak long distance routes a few times over the past five years. Every single time, I have met someone at one of my meals who has said they choose train travel specifically to avoid all the security hassle. And then are a
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by FTA 10y ago
I've read a few different books that say we make decisions from our gut or emotions--logic is only used to try and justify it to ourselves.
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by FTA 10y ago
> who knew the great battle over privacy would be lost before it even started, because people want their toaster to go online? I think the issue is there are no good alternatives for the typical consumer. There needs to be a push back on
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by FTA 10y ago
You can use movie15 to embed video files that will play natively in the pdf, but it can be difficult to get it working--and you must store the video file separately.