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by akamaka 5y ago
The last time I bought a Google-branded phone, they cut support after only 18 months. I’ll never buy a Google hardware product ever again.
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by akamaka 5y ago
That is unmistakably the former Bell Labs research building! What a fantastic choice of location to film in. I’ll have to watch this for that alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs_Holmdel_Complex
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by akamaka 5y ago
Cryptocurrency startups! Many of the company founders in this sector are skeptical of the current system of financial regulation. Tell them about your conviction up front. I’d bet many of them would be fascinated to hear your story.
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by akamaka 5y ago
It’s funny to me that you’re getting a totally different interpretation from the same facts. When I hear that nuclear needs with the same massive investment, subsidies and decades-long R&D that were required to get renewables to the po
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by akamaka 5y ago
That’s interesting. Sounds like you’re a solid developer, but that your company doesn’t put much effort into making its employees feel secure. This suggestion might be a bit out of left field, but reading The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan
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by akamaka 5y ago
I have the same problem as you right now. Long break from work during the pandemic, joined a new company, and have only managed to merge one tiny PR in my first month. It feels terrible. What I’ve figured out is that I need to have a new
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by akamaka 5y ago
Not sure why you are nitpicking. The point is that it’s no secret that this data is out there any available to anyone. Here’s an article about Toronto Public Health using cellphone data, also from a year ago. https://thelogic.c
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by akamaka 5y ago
There have been several waves of covid, and each time new restrictions were put into place, they were adjusted based on the studies which showed what worked in the previous wave. Again, I can’t speak for your provincial government, but in m
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by akamaka 5y ago
It is in fact a Toronto company that invented the technique of tracking pandemics with cellphone data, after the 2003 SARS outbreak, and it is being used in a number of cities: https://thelogic.co/news/ai-firm-bluedot-h
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by akamaka 5y ago
This hasn’t been hidden at all. Here’s an announcement from a year ago about researchers in Canada using cellphone data: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/research-articles/mobility-an...
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by akamaka 5y ago
I can’t speak for your specific province, but throughout this pandemic Canadian researchers have been studying how well each restriction works to feed back into more precise decisions during the next wave. It’s easy to find it if you look:
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by akamaka 5y ago
It’s very disingenuous for privacy advocates to imply that the Canadian government created new surveillance powers during the pandemic. These mobile network tracking datasets have been commercially available long beforehand. The public hea
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by akamaka 5y ago
South Africa’s excess deaths amount to 1 out of every 200 people. The most vulnerable have already been removed from the sample set. I’m going to wait for severity data from where I live, because that’s what matters.
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by akamaka 5y ago
I think a good approach for you to take here is Paul Graham’s “do things that don’t scale”. Buy your own land, build a multi-unit building, and then rent it out to people at a fair price. You’ll come away with a much greater practical under
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by akamaka 5y ago
It refers to Shopify’s “arming the rebels” slogan.
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by akamaka 5y ago
That chart shows revenue, so I don’t think it takes into account the higher profit margins that come with not needing to manufacture and distribute physical media.
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by akamaka 5y ago
The article should have mentioned some of the mega-projects that are already underway, which will improve rail links between European countries. The Stuttgart 21 project will reconfigure the Stuttgart central station to create a direct line
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by akamaka 5y ago
* It’s much more urgent to address how private companies use the data, since we at least have some visibility into what the government is doing with it.
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by akamaka 5y ago
Have a look at what new capacity was installed last year: https://ihsmarkit.com/research-analysis/over-80-of-2020-glob...
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Gyrocompass(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by akamaka 5y ago|0 comments
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by akamaka 5y ago
I flagged this because this site uses scammy ads that try to add calendar notifications.
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by akamaka 5y ago
Fukushima’s design was not a success, and exposed new failure modes which hadn’t been fully understood. In response, nuclear operators around the world have spent billions to upgrade their safety systems. For example: https://ww
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by akamaka 5y ago
The article should have given more context and mentioned that it wasn’t unusual for lands across the Atlantic to appear on pre-Colombian maps. Here are two examples: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Antillia https:/&#
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by akamaka 5y ago
How realistic is it to go out all day with just the watch, and no phone?
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by akamaka 5y ago
Here’s a better article that is less ideological: https://www.news18.com/news/explainers/explained-why-sri-lan... In summary, Sri Lanka has been facing an economic crisis and is struggling to pay for imports with
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by akamaka 5y ago
Final report was just issued this week.
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Incident: Airbus A330 at Taipei, primary computers failed on touchdown (2020)(avherald.com)
300 points by akamaka 5y ago|135 comments
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by akamaka 5y ago
Is there a way to read the entire thread without logging in, or has Twitter completely blocked public access now?
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by akamaka 5y ago
The second order effect is that without real estate investors, the market for rental accommodations will eventually disappear. Having no rental market would by default accomplish the goal of having everyone own their own home, but it would
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by akamaka 5y ago
I used to only blame consumers, until I learned how inefficient oil production is and how much CO2 is emitted at the oilfield. Yes, some oil companies are burning huge amounts of oil and methane before the product even reaches the end user

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