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by avn2109 13y ago
After reading the MS article, I clicked through to an explanation of yesterday's NYC Mayoral election results. Oddly enough, it's a pretty sober look at Bill de Blasio's candidacy and victory. It's pleasantly surprising
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by avn2109 13y ago
Saw you on here last month and popped resumes in for the Technical Consultant and Tech Writer roles; radio silence ever since. Possible that something went wrong?
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by avn2109 13y ago
The Californians in the room are laughing at these numbers because they're used to spending $3.5 million bucks _per calendar day_ on transit projects. Makes Seattle look OK. [1] http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may
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by avn2109 13y ago
It seems to me that explanations of technical topics in natural, everyday language are very valuable. People who would be turned off by a formalized explanation and dense symbolic manipulation can still get a lot out of this. Bravo.
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by avn2109 13y ago
This is something I've been wondering about for a while: To what extent are our economy and stock market merely ponzi schemes that require continued population expansion? If growth slows down/reverses/stops, is the era of ea
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by avn2109 13y ago
Pex pipe [1] might be a better choice than PVC because of its high pressure tolerance and the fact that it isn't brittle/prone to cracking. It does require nonstandard tools to work with though (ie. burly pipe cutters, special fit
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by avn2109 13y ago
But then our pranksters will merely hack together a parabolic dish and Raspberry Pi to emit faux stop-sign signals, then set up shop on the nearest mountaintop and snipe Benz's for fun. So now this is a signing/crypto and signal r
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by avn2109 13y ago
"But for all its expertise in developing search technology and software, Google has zero experience building cars..." The article is fundamentally missing the point of autonomous vehicles---namely, that this is a _software_ proble
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by avn2109 13y ago
This is exactly why we need legalization, transparency, regulation, and probably unionization. All those things tend to suppress the exploitative side.
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by avn2109 13y ago
Seriously. Mission control was a major productivity drop down from spaces.
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by avn2109 13y ago
"Only a fool would trade stocks without inside information."
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by avn2109 13y ago
This is a bit of history which they never mentioned in Econ class. Politically inconvenient for some actors and very interesting.
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by avn2109 13y ago
Sweet product. But am I the only one who has noticed that the "locking" feature is an absolute joke? Esp. in NYC, where the most burly bike locks money can buy keep you a mere step ahead of only the least-committed thieves. Also,
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by avn2109 13y ago
Can anyone shed some light on why all this government intervention exists? In other words, why so much propaganda/pressure from the man to buy houses?
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by avn2109 13y ago
This is a very good point, since Montana is the "Saudi Arabia of Coal."[1] It could work in North Dakota, too, where they're sitting atop the Bakken Oil Formation.[2] And as a Montanan, I would __love__ to see a Montana Perma
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by avn2109 13y ago
Because of the structural arrangement and pay-to-play financial details of the American legal system, "mostly fair" is an extraordinarily generous characterization of how you will be treated.
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by avn2109 13y ago
I'd actually be interested in hearing from Tptacek on this topic, but he's absent for once. Weird.
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by avn2109 13y ago
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/243/
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by avn2109 13y ago
Good point. Also, applying the letter of the law here would require Google and other search engines to be prosecuted, because they certainly "...provide links to copyrighted material that is illegally distributed via other websites.&qu
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by avn2109 13y ago
To split hairs, not infinite---instead, minimum size = 1 pixel
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by avn2109 13y ago
If the discussion is in an unintelligible (to me) language, then it becomes ambient noise and is far less distracting.
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by avn2109 13y ago
What on earth makes you think prospective starlets have stopped getting literally screwed?
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by avn2109 13y ago
From the article: "...half of the city’s patrol officers were randomly assigned to wear body cameras each week, and instructed to turn them on whenever they made contact with a civilian." This means that before Rodney King 2.0, th
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by avn2109 13y ago
But... ski racks! So important for some people, and there's nowhere for them to go except on top.
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by avn2109 13y ago
For a sufficiently large salary/light workweek I will dig ditches and like it.
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by avn2109 13y ago
Though speed limits on most roads were set long ago, improvements in automotive suspension, steering, and brake technology in the intervening decades have raised the effective safe design speed of many highways. Eg. a 1970 highway with cuts
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by avn2109 13y ago
This is exactly, literally the device imagined by Orwell in 1984, which he called a telescreen.
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by avn2109 13y ago
How is Snowden pulling this off? Can anyone elaborate on the balance of power that has allowed him to stay free and travel? This seems to be quite a feat, but I can't read between the lines enough to sort out why these foreign powers a
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by avn2109 13y ago
Could you list some of the other sources of government funding? The only one I can think of is the alleged CIA drug trafficking scandals from decades past.
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by avn2109 13y ago
Is there any hard evidence that ES is actually in Hong Kong? It seems to be widely accepted that he is, though I'm not familiar with the evidence in favor of this claim.

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