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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
One of the most important things I learned from my EE prof was that pi is 3. The square root of 10 is also 3. If you need more exact calculations, you should do it algebraically and then plug in numbers to a calculator, but for quick feas
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Is there anything stopping you from using it as a WiFi only device for $10?
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Also all of this is assuming that any duplicated content is inherently stolen, when it could in fact be public domain, fair use, legitimately licensed, distributed under Creative Commons, etc.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Why would you want to reset the counter in the middle of the day?
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Sorry if I was not clear. I consider threats harassment which I tried to explain are a kind of punishment that should not be taken into our own hands.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
There's a difference between crowdsourcing identification/discovery/information processing and crowdsourcing punishment. The former has be done for a long time through things like wanted posters, and even the police in this
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Does the tablet's touchscreen work through the mirror, or is this read-only? It's still really cool either way.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
> One of the more subtle underlying issues with the rise of Uber is the company’s slow siphoning of the political will to fix existing—or build new—public transit infrastructure in major cities. I don't think this is really true,
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Society as a whole benefits, but there are high individual costs. We ought to figure out a way to smooth out those costs for the individuals.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
> Project Sunroof is currently helping people save with solar in the following cities: San Francisco Bay Area, Fresno CA and Greater Boston MA.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
I wish he would just run conventionally.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
That's what we normally do. The failure case we have encountered, however, is sometimes there isn't any rain.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
The metadata is provided by the labels. For their top-selling popular music that they earn songwriting and performance royalties on, the metadata is typically very thoroughly checked and accurate (although there are still mistakes). For cla
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
To be fair, it's not like YouTube comments were ever working well.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Which is fine, but presumably the majority of the New Yorker's audience is not in agriculture.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
> All told, it takes about 3460 kilowatts per acre-foot to pump water from Northern California to San Diego; Carlsbad will use about thirty per cent more energy, five thousand kilowatts per acre-foot, to desalinate ocean water and delive
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Does this make it a reasonable development device for iOS?
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
I wish taxis weren't allowed on Market either. As a pedestrian, they scare me the most.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Why not take rich people's money for taxis, and then donate how ever much of your salary to charities that are trying to fight malaria you think is appropriate? Is making $40K/yr doing something "meaningful" better than
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
I'd love to see stats broken down by age. Anecdotally, it seems older people tend to see it as less gender neutral, and younger people tend to see it as more gender neutral.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
I actually really like what they've done to make Daredevil more "realistic" in a lot of different ways: - Characters who speak other languages don't speak English for no reason, they just use subtitles. - The villain is
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
Interesting. I wonder what it would be like if Police Duty was mandatory service that everyone was required to perform, either like Jury Duty is supposed to work, or as a mandatory service for young people.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
I don't understand why they didn't/wouldn't brand the cattle.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
I always wish I could filter out vegetarians, and I'm sure they feel the same way about me. I'll go to a vegetarian restaurant, but only if non-vegetarians say it's good.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
I mean, if your question is Can I go 300 miles? 1/25 GPM * 300 Miles = 12 gallons Which is either larger or smaller than your gas tank, so I think fuel volume over distance traveled is still easy enough to use for the range calculation
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
When I see a car that seems to be putting out a visible and/or smellable amount of smoke/soot/smog, are these the worst polluters? I guess what I'm asking is if visible inspection is a reliable way of detecting these ve
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
This is known as the Best Alternative to a Negotiated Agreement, or BATNA, and it's a pretty helpful concept: the better your next best option is, the better position you will be in to negotiate.
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
By "anyone" here, they mean manufacturers. And even you could flash your phone if you wanted to, unless restrictions have been placed (which is done by the carriers, not by Google).
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by alwaysdoit 11y ago
One approach would be to bake it into the value/expertise proposition of your team--these aren't just your ordinary Rails developers, or even Rails experts, but Rails contributors.
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by alwaysdoit 12y ago
If you obfuscated the labels and stored those elsewhere how could Google make use of it, really?

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