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by ac29 10y ago
AT&T pulled fiber in San Jose and Sunnyvale about a month ago. Supposed to be lit up around the end of the year. Other cities are possible as well, those are just the two where I've actually seen the fiber.
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by ac29 10y ago
The USDA claims tomatoes cost from $0.92/lb (canned) to $3.29/lb (grape and cherry tomatoes) on average at retail [0]. No idea what retail produce margins are like, but even if we assume they purchase at 10% of retail cost, that&#
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by ac29 10y ago
The video states they have locked in an exclusive agreement with a national grocery chain to provide tomatoes for 10 years at a fixed price. My guess is its a win-win for the respective companies.
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by ac29 10y ago
>$160,000 tuition bill per child This is the approximate tuition for 4 years at Harvard (@ $40k/year), and not at all representative of the the real cost of university degrees in the US. Tuition at state schools, which are often qui
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by ac29 10y ago
Arch has been distributing git builds of xf86-video-intel for a while, since there haven't been any releases in almost 2 years. The bug was fixed over a month ago and the latest Arch build is only a few days old. Its even noted as bein
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by ac29 10y ago
>(XFCE, LXDE, ...) but they lacked little features like: * hibernate when closing lid * cpu/mem/network visualization in top/bottom bar * clean theme without much fiddling * mute/unmute via hardware button All of thos
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by ac29 10y ago
> Stuff is going to get even worse when IoT devices begin using IPv6. By design, devices are publically reachable Is that true? I just setup IPv6 at home yesterday and I don't see the difference from IPv4 in terms of reachability. T
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by ac29 10y ago
That percentage for checking accounts is extremely low, and suggests that half of homeowners don't have checking account, and only a third of car owners do. I cant reconcile how that large of a discrepancy is possible. Surely some peop
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by ac29 10y ago
433MHz isn't unlicensed spectrum in the US, its in an amateur radio band. Wouldn't be legal for commercial use like this.
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by ac29 10y ago
Bad title, even the article states that "Just to clarify then, Comcast blocks anonymized VPN traffic when you are connected to one of their public hotspots." Seems anecdotal. I've never had trouble with VPNs on my Comcast con
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by ac29 10y ago
If this is true, it must be region specific. My Comcast connection doesn't throttle anything, torrents included, and has never failed to get approximately 110% of the speed I pay for.
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by ac29 10y ago
Curious what your issue is with it -- it basically says "if you dont sue us, we wont sue you". Thats about as good as I can expect from a large tech company these days with regards to patents.
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by ac29 10y ago
I cant say much about SF, since I'm rarely there, but in the South Bay there has been a ton of construction going on. Near where I live in Sunnyvale, there has been a dramatic amount within the past few years. 1 and 2 story buildings h
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by ac29 10y ago
In the the linked article, it states they intend to attach signal probes to test points on the iPhone mainboard to read when certain interfaces are active.
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by ac29 10y ago
I didn't and I can confirm the feature isn't there in a 6->7 update.
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by ac29 10y ago
>the Nexus 5x is not an upgrade over the 5 in terms of performance Isnt it [0]? A 10-100% gain in performance is about what I'd expect from a 2-year smartphone cycle, and we'd be lucky to continue to get such gains. If you can
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by ac29 10y ago
Nope, Marshmallow [0]. 0-day 3rd-party Android ROMs aren't really a thing, since AOSP code isnt publicly updated until final release (unless that changed this cycle, but I haven't heard of it). [0] https://copperhead.co
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by ac29 10y ago
> it's called value investing. You buy stock in companies that you believe in for whatever reason No, value investing means you buy companies that you believe are underpriced for whatever reason [0]. Its an important distinction. [0
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by ac29 10y ago
>Each bidder is allowed only a single bid Its been a while since I bid in an eBay auction, but this is or was definitely not the case. If you were outbid, you could bid more.
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by ac29 10y ago
>expected the number of helicopters made per year to be a lot higher. Why? Think about the number of times you (or an average person) has been on a airplane vs a helicopter. For me, the difference is approximately 2 orders of magnitude.
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by ac29 10y ago
>if they didn't put 1,6-Dichloro-1,6-dideoxy-β-D-fructofuranosyl-4-chloro-4-deoxy-α-D-galactopyranoside in it. Some people prefer it over (2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[(2S,3S,4S,5R)-3,4-dihydroxy-2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxy-6-(hydro
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by ac29 10y ago
Wrong. See my other post. Google provides OTA patches for manual installation.
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by ac29 10y ago
OTA's are available here: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/ota
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by ac29 10y ago
August patch was pushed to my 5X a few hours later, and as expected one vulnerability was fixed, one isnt.
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by ac29 10y ago
>I notice they don't mention how far down the patches have gotten, or how many users are still vulnerable today. There were a handful of "Critical" Qualcomm specific bugs fixed in the July [0] and August [1] Android securi
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by ac29 10y ago
Did you look at the area that is trying to be restored? This is not just an "unmaintained plot of land", these are open-pit coal mines [0]. [0] https://i.imgur.com/AtjYk17.jpg (rehosted, but it is the first pictur
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by ac29 10y ago
Any advantages over Xubuntu on a standard laptop, aside from chromebooks being inexpensive?
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by ac29 10y ago
My only Linux computer that uses grub uses the Nvidia proprietary driver and boots grub in the monitor's native resolution. GRUB is using it's default config, I didn't hardcode any resolutions or anything. Whatever your issue
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by ac29 10y ago
Yep this is half my point, line quality is huge in DSL. Sonic (or any other DSL provider) couldn't reasonably give you a guarantee on speeds, even though they know how far you are from the CO (last time I checked they gave you this num
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by ac29 10y ago
Microwave, as a radio term, isn't very useful. It covers 300 MHz to 30 GHz [0], which is nearly the entire usable radio spectrum. In industry terminology, microwave generally refers to >GHz radios, which have real problems in terms

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