Thrymr

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601.
by Thrymr 13y ago
> the Milky Way, which is ~100 light years across. Make that ~100,000 light years.
602.
by Thrymr 13y ago
> 2 + 4 is 4 True I sure hope not.
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GeoPandas: Python tools for geographic data(github.com)
1 points by Thrymr 13y ago|0 comments
604.
by Thrymr 13y ago
> I hate it when terms start morphing into unrelated interpretations by means of public drift. That's how language has always worked. There are people who are still uptight by the current "misuse" of words like "aweso
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by Thrymr 13y ago
"Show me the man and I'll find you the crime" Who hasn't broken some minor law at some time? Selective enforcement and total information awareness on the part of the enforcers are a dangerous combination.
606.
by Thrymr 13y ago
It's a perfectly correct and generally understood use of the word "free": no cost to the end user. Ultimately, somebody paid for your free beer, too, but that doesn't mean it wasn't free to you.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Much easier to tax gasoline as a proxy for driving on roads, and that has the added benefit of further incentivizing efficiency. Of course, that was the original intent of gas taxes, but they are far too low. Good luck trying to raise them.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> This will never happen, for the simple reason that you have choice and as a result, competition. You can choose Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, or any of the smaller ones. You will not have choice with regards to exclusive content. If you
609.
by Thrymr 13y ago
Just that what drives people to live in cities is primarily jobs, not that they prefer living in cities. I am not arguing that is universal (plenty of people do prefer to live in a city) but the main factor.
610.
by Thrymr 13y ago
The main argument is that the qualitative difference was in communication at the speed of human transportation (by horse, rail and sea, not yet by air) versus at the speed of light. For the first time in human history, events around the wor
611.
by Thrymr 13y ago
I guarantee there a plenty of people living in cities who would be quite happy to live elsewhere if only there were jobs there. Many of those people live in the city to avoid a long commute, not because they enjoy living in a city.
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New York State open data handbook(nys-its.github.io)
1 points by Thrymr 13y ago|0 comments
613.
by Thrymr 13y ago
"Immigrant" does not mean "descended from someone who came here". Some people were actually born here. Yes, we are all descended from immigrants (some of us from those who walked from Asia), but that doesn't make us
614.
by Thrymr 13y ago
> I can delete my history if I'm logged in. At least you can mark it as deleted, and you can't access it anymore. Is it really "deleted"?
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by Thrymr 13y ago
He also says: "Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received... We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about o
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by Thrymr 13y ago
This is a big difference from established law enforcement practice in that regard. Normally a prosecutor needs to issue a subpoena to the phone company to get your individual records, regarding a specific investigation. In this case, the
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Now if only the format of the document synced to Google Drive was a usable one like Markdown instead of a link that is unusable locally.
618.
by Thrymr 13y ago
Except that they did not receive approval for development as required by the California Coastal Act. Presumably the guys on Top Gear aren't breaking any laws.
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Observations on the Seventeen-Year Cicada: A Citizen Scientist Reports from 1824(smallnotes.library.virginia.edu)
1 points by Thrymr 13y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Data (of whatever size) is never truth. It is a means of testing hypotheses.
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Elon Musk's Idea to Reinvent Long-Distance Travel(theatlanticcities.com)
1 points by Thrymr 13y ago|0 comments
622.
by Thrymr 13y ago
The mirror is there to increase your situational awareness while cycling. Glass has a strong potential to do the opposite. If its use is limited to HUD for information useful to you for cycling, fine, but if you're getting text messages or
623.
by Thrymr 13y ago
I just enabled this on my personal account, and my first impression is that the categorization is very useful. Sure, it would be nice to have more customization available, but it looks like you can train it to some degree to tailor it somew
624.
by Thrymr 13y ago
Unix time is monotonically increasing, as long as there are no negative leap seconds (and there never have been). It's just not uniformly increasing, since it tracks UTC.
625.
by Thrymr 13y ago
13,768 miles in 6050 trips by 5pm yesterday: https://citibikenyc.com/blog/2013/05/27/citi-bike-day-one-re...
626.
by Thrymr 13y ago
Citibike has a json API: http://citibikenyc.com/stations/json
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Over 13k miles traveled on first day of NYC bike share(citibikenyc.com)
1 points by Thrymr 13y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> the signals will probably be some manner of 3G (or even LTE). That contradicts the details that are in the article: "Google lobbyists are targeting regulators across developing countries to allow them to use airwaves currently reserve
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by Thrymr 13y ago
An orbital is not a spherical shell. Edit: These are probably higher energy states. e.g., the 6s orbital: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HydrogenOrbitalsN6L0M0.png edit 2: Previous comment was still not correct. More plots of electron
630.
by Thrymr 13y ago
It's not a shock wave, it's a shallow water wave (because the wavelength is much larger than the depth of the ocean). The speed depends on depth [v = sqrt(g*H)]; for typical deep Pacific (5000 m), that is ~220 m/s or 500 mph.

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