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by a-priori 12y ago
I've heard speculation that this is a large reason why Google invests so heavily in Chrome. When developers make their sites work with Chrome, they end up making their sites work nicely for the Googlebot without even realizing it. If t
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Like many here, I have aspirations of starting a company one day. At one point about 5 years ago, I tried and failed to start a company with a colleague, then tried and failed to start consulting. I hope to try again on one or both of those
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by a-priori 12y ago
It's not terribly hard -- no harder than a platform like Raspberry Pi -- if you're fine with sticking to a standardized subset of PC hardware. That typically means using an older, slower standard for accessing the hardware. For ex
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It's also much easier for a person to become "Internet famous" overnight and without their consent if they, for example, post a video and it goes viral.
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by a-priori 12y ago
Colour vision is based on an opponent process [1]. There are three kinds of colour receptors called L, M and S (for Long, Medium and Short) and they are receptive to colours centred around the red, green, and blue parts of the visible light
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by a-priori 12y ago
My knowledge of safety critical software is not extensive and several years out of date, but my understanding is that the big two languages in safety critical software are still MISRA C (a subset of C designed to enforce safety via static a
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by a-priori 12y ago
It's not unheard-of. My high school (in Waterloo, Ontario) had an internship program like this too, and it's how I got my first programming job in about 2000-2001, at age 15. There were about ten students in my class that got tech
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by a-priori 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it boiled down to three things: 1) HIV is more easily transmitted man-to-man or woman-to-man than it is man-to-woman or woman-to-woman. Thus, all else being equal, men are more likely than women to get HIV, a
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by a-priori 13y ago
Some stats about the Canadian legislature, because I'm a nerd: Since January 17th, 1994 (35th Parliament, 1st Session) when the government started digitizing its records, there have been 4197 bills put before Parliament. Of those, 395
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by a-priori 13y ago
The IRS calculates that the cost per mile to operate a car in 2014 is, on average, $0.56 per mile. This factors in the fixed (amortized cost to buy a car) and variable (gas, maintenance) costs. Based on that, the cost to drive 2812.3 miles
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by a-priori 13y ago
A contract in Ethereum is a basically a software agent that runs on a Bitcoin-like blockchain. It's a computer program attached to a bank account that is triggered by, e.g., transferring money into the contract's account. The prog
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by a-priori 13y ago
"Fair" and "free-for-all" are rarely, in practice, the same thing. They are often opposites.
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by a-priori 13y ago
In Ethereum, you need to fund a contract in order for it to perform computations, and the amount that gets charged to a contract depends on the amount of work it does. So if someone were to write an infinite loop, for example, eventually th
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by a-priori 13y ago
It is possible to reconstruct an image by measuring the activation of V1 (primary visual cortex). The same technique works whether the image is currently on the visual field, the person simply recalls an image from memory.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Actually, we're already there. It's called a visual prosthesis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_prosthesis
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by a-priori 13y ago
I disagree, because Bitcoin's monetary policy can be changed at any time. In fact, Dogecoin, which uses a fork of the Bitcoin code, just changed theirs a short time ago, without much fuss, to a continuous inflation policy like you ment
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by a-priori 13y ago
I work for a startup. We're 15 people all told, and by all indications we're doing great. The entire team shows up by 9:30am every day, and the office is empty again by 5:30pm, almost like clockwork. I exaggerate a bit... every no
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by a-priori 13y ago
We're treading dangerously close to "no true Scotsman" territory here.
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Keep in mind that this doesn't measure corruption, but perceptions of corruption. If corruption exists, but is not obvious to the average person, then it won't be reflected in the Corruption Perceptions Index.
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Ah, thanks, good point. Sorry, for that part I just went by what the linked article said about Dogecoin. :(
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Dogecoin is interesting. On one hand, it's all an elaborate joke and everyone involved knows it. On the other hand, it's got a higher transaction volume than its 'serious' cousin Bitcoin, and people occasionally use it t
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by a-priori 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
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by a-priori 13y ago
This is the setup I have -- specifically the wider setup shown in the bottom row of pictures. Works great, been using it for about 8 months now full time. But if you're going to try standing, please save your body and use an anti-fatig
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by a-priori 13y ago
My alma mater, the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, gave the choice of three degrees: a BA (CS), a BSc (CS), and a Bachelor of Computing.
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As far as we know, it never works. There's no way to know how often this sort of thing has happened in the past. We only find out about the cases where a bank is not able to earn back it's loss and runs out of cash. At that po
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by a-priori 13y ago
The only reason Google is getting 'special treatment' is because they've shown that they're willing and able to spend the capital necessary to develop the residential telecom network in North America. The incumbent netwo
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Right, in ideal hardware. The problem is that in order to transmit an ideal square wave, you need infinite bandwidth. The problem being that any real circuit has a finite band it operates on. It will filter the components of the wave that
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by a-priori 13y ago
Yes, assuming there's strong harmonics (I'd be real surprised if there weren't), you should definitely put a bandpass filter between the Raspberry Pi and the antenna like these guys did. Thanks for the link! That's a c
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by a-priori 13y ago
As an amateur radio operator, I think this is fascinating, because they claim it can transmit on the 2m VHF band (144-148MHz) that's popular among hams. But I have some concerns about its signal characteristics, since you're essen
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by a-priori 13y ago
Speaking as a Canadian on #2, I have a couple problems there that prevent me even considering moving to the States: 1) My wife has a chronic health problem. What guarantee do I have that if she needed treatment, for that or something else,

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