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by Gratsby 10y ago
I've heard "this is the silicon valley of..." a thousand times when referring to areas with strong tech communities. NY's tech community is probably very impressive compared with most of them. There's nothing actua
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Sometimes it's completely apparent that the things I don't know could fill the internet.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
When you're going beyond hobby basics, doesn't it make sense to shift over to atmel or any other long established vendors? I appreciate what arduino has done, but at some point it's too much.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I'm getting attacked here at home. Tell me one of you has a mosquito destroying IOT startup going on. Something that maybe counts the kills and pushes stats to the cloud?
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by Gratsby 10y ago
Until you talk to a teenager. "Facebook is for old people..."
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by Gratsby 10y ago
The amount of overprotective entrenched businesses in the medical industry is insane. But that's also one of the reasons the industry is attractive to new ventures and businesses -- it's just plain lucrative. Opportunity abounds
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by Gratsby 10y ago
The forethought that this technology needed was FOIA requests and their impact on average people. It would be so much better if they farmed this kind of a thing out to private industry and bought only the information they needed.
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by Gratsby 10y ago
This is very interesting. My son like most kids in his age range is a minecraft junkie. He blew through a series of Minecraft diaries - very short pages, very simple reading, but it entertained him. He read more than 20 of them in a week
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by Gratsby 10y ago
The only reason this is an issue during this election is that nobody would pay Sanders anything significant to speak. A former POTUS and the woman who has come closest to the office in history? That's a draw. It's worth paying f
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by Gratsby 10y ago
It's not the site, it's the people that pay too much attention to it that are a problem. Say what you want to say when you want to say it. Don't worry about points. It's a fun distraction every once in a while (oh hey,
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by Gratsby 10y ago
I think they've done a good job of simplifying things to the point where the viewer feels not only that ML is useful, but it's achievable. There are a lot of people who have been forward thinking enough to see the value and incorp
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by Gratsby 11y ago
It's funny to think of all the money and effort spent compared against the savings (in money, energy, and time) you can put in place by simply telling delivery drivers to not make left turns and putting a reasonably intelligent dispatc
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by Gratsby 11y ago
Here's an example from this thread: http://status.aws.amazon.com/s3-20080720.html
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by Gratsby 11y ago
Thank you, I missed that on my first reading - I saw the status update was posted at 19:45, not the content within it stating the issue was resolved at 19:27. I updated my parent comment.
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by Gratsby 11y ago
Expecting that problems won't happen with a cloud provider that happen everywhere else is a pipe dream. They might be better at it because of scale, but no cloud provider can always be up. It happened at Amazon, now it's happene
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by Gratsby 11y ago
LOL. Someone sold USPS a solution to the traveling salesman problem.
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by Gratsby 11y ago
How bad is it really? They started investigating at 18:51, confirmed a problem in asia-east1 at 19:00, the problem went global at 19:21, and was resolved at 19:26. They posted that they will share results of their internal investigation. T
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by Gratsby 11y ago
Does operating a Tor node preclude someone from being investigated? I should hope not. Just because they do operate a node doesn't mean that a given household is free from criminal activity.
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by Gratsby 11y ago
The general populace.
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by Gratsby 11y ago
While there is a segment of autodidacts, it's not like people can become expert software developers overnight. Software developers work longer hours. I've never been in an environment where developers hang their coats up at 5:00
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by Gratsby 11y ago
This is a tough market. The money is there, but in my experience Law offices are like Real Estate offices in that they are willing to spend big money on one or two solutions, but are skeptical to spend on anything without existing signific
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by Gratsby 11y ago
I'd love to have a debate with you offline about this. I think I've already gotten a little more political than appropriate for this community, and if not my response to this most certainly would be. I will only say that if you ar
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by Gratsby 11y ago
None but anecdotal. I only used them as an example because they are frequently used as one, it was not any form of indictment.
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by Gratsby 11y ago
Two responses: If there was a flat tax of some sort, you might be able to say "pay their legally required tax bill" in this conversation, but considering that tax dues are the result of a formula derived from a set of laws that sp
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by Gratsby 11y ago
Protecting tax revenue is not an answer. Accountants can move faster than lawmakers, and lawmakers may or may not prioritize this kind of a thing at any point in time. The solution is to encourage and foster economic growth. The outliers
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by Gratsby 11y ago
Why not look into changing the hash keys such that they are not bound to listening port or alternatively put a new lookup and hash in place for this specific purpose? While bind to star works, it feels like you answered an operational conce
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by Gratsby 11y ago
> A smart thermostat isn't exactly trivial, and doing it wrong can be bad. That's sarcasm, right? I automated my HVAC in the '90s and even then there were a ton of roadmaps to follow by people who had done it before. It
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by Gratsby 11y ago
That's kind of awesome.
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by Gratsby 11y ago
I do. The CDC came out to the High School because the suicide rate was so high. As a parent, I have decided to completely pull back academic pressure. In fact, I regularly talk to my kids about the fact that it's OK to not be academi
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by Gratsby 11y ago
You quoted just a piece of it. > This is the most thriving technical community in the entire world. We live different lifestyles as a result. It's not better or worse, just different. I've been all over, including New York. I

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