MiguelVieira

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by MiguelVieira 9y ago
Not at all. In Pennsylvania, hunters harvest over 300,000 deer per year. That's still not enough to control the population: http://www.pgc.pa.gov/hunttrap/hunting/harvestdataandmaps/pa...
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by MiguelVieira 9y ago
The NOAA HRRR smoke model is the best visualization I've found: https://hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov/smoke/index.html Enable Near Surface Smoke. And the Z-time at the bottom is 7 hours ahead of Pacific Daylight Time.
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by MiguelVieira 9y ago
Reminds me of John McPhee's "A Fleet of One" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/02/17/a-fleet-of-one
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
Summary: > We estimate that free-ranging domestic cats kill 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. Un-owned cats, as opposed to owned pets, cause the majority of this mortality. Our findings suggest that free-rangin
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
PSA: If, like me, you sign up on www.transunion.com to view your account, be aware that the sign-up process uses dark patterns to stealthily sign you up for a $19.95 / month subscription. The 'Cancel Membership' page is hard
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Fifty > Nifty Fifty refers to the 50 popular large-cap stocks on the New York Stock Exchange in the 1960s and 1970s that were widely regarded as solid buy and hold growth stocks.
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
Cannot recommend this approach. There are many people making $100k, $200k, $300k, etc, living paycheck to paycheck because they think 'accounting for personal finances is a waste of time'.
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
> This is why conservation is important, even as a selfish act. Take away bear habitat and you have safety problem to deal with. This is not usually the case. Take New Jersey, the most densely populated US state. There are bear problems
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
> hike quite a lot in and around the park I've hiked there a bit myself! https://www.flickr.com/photos/miguelvieira/6142136271/ Most of my data came from Eastern Old-Growth Forests by Mary Bird Davis.
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
> It's also cheesy that the wiki list gives the size of the park reserve rather than the size of the actual old growth stand. Probably an overzealous editor. I haven't checked the edit logs for that page in years. Feel free to
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by MiguelVieira 10y ago
Ancient forests like this are not too rare in the United States. You can find a list of them here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_old-growth_forests#Uni... Disclosure: I compiled most of the list.
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by MiguelVieira 11y ago
Honest question: why would you want to download a video from YouTube? The main use case I can think of is you want to watch videos offline on a mobile device but don't want to pay for a YouTube Red subscription.
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by MiguelVieira 11y ago
I spent years working on algorithms for processing 3D scanner data, and the claim that you could get a scan of that resolution and quality - surreptitiously, through a glass enclosure, and with a Kinect - is absurd. Most likely it's a
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by MiguelVieira 11y ago
Having worked for a short time in the movie industry (at DreamWorks Animation), I thought this was obvious. And it was certainly true for DreamWorks' movies. Even people working directly on the movies were terrible at predicting how th
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by MiguelVieira 11y ago
The author makes several good points, but never mentions fault. From a 1998 study on car-truck collisions: > the car driver's behavior was more than three times as likely to contribute to the fatal crash than was the truck driver&#
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by MiguelVieira 11y ago
If you'd bought $10,000 of AAPL stock when this article was published (June 1997), it would be worth about $523,000 today, excluding dividends.
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
This was covered in "A Pattern Language" decades ago, under Ceiling Height Variety: > the mere fact that the ceiling heights vary, allows people to move from high rooms to low rooms, and vice versa, according to the degree of i
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
Is a db meter on an iPhone really inaccurate? This recent article from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health suggests otherwise: > for A-weighted sound level measurements three apps had mean differences within ± 2dBA
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
Here it is http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Vinod-Khosla-blames-co... "Khosla said he kept the beach open after the sale despite the $500,000 to $600,000 a year in costs for maintenance, liability insura
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
But branding does have an impact on the effectiveness of some over-the-counter medicines (because of the placebo effect): >The effect of branding--that is, the labelling and marketing--of a well-known proprietary analgesic used to treat
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
And if you go to the southern hemisphere, you can see two other galaxies: the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magellanic_Clouds
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
The S&P 500 is up 36% since the article was written.
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
These numbers can be roughly predicted by Smeed's law, which states that a country's per capita road deaths are directly related to its number of registered vehicles and population. "Smeed had a fatalistic view of traffic flo
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by MiguelVieira 12y ago
Probably just takes tweets, canonicalizes them, and then hashes them based on a 26-length vector of character counts. For every new tweet, it looks for old tweets with the same character count.