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by bdamm 7y ago
Hopefully soon! A signal-like group video package that "just worked" with some processes for key verification would be outstanding.
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by bdamm 7y ago
As a bonus, the country has a high ratio of people desperate for services who also have enough money to successfully swindle. Many elderly Americans really believe that a stranger on the phone might be their ticket to improved conditions.
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by bdamm 7y ago
> What's weird about mounting propellers at the end of the wing is that you lose half the lift of the propeller wash over the wing, over a normal placement. They're generating lift at low speeds by using the array of small moto
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by bdamm 7y ago
True, but to provide reliable commuting you pretty much have to fly IFR, especially in a place like SF Bay or LA. This is because often marine layer clouds don't clear until 10am and people want to be at work long before then. It may b
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by bdamm 7y ago
This is highly dubious. Logging roads might be considered "roads" but some are passable only by heavy equipment. If you have to stop and repair the road every few hundred meters then I don't think it counts as a road.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Standing on a mountaintop in Yosemite, I could easily hear the airplanes above, one approximately every few minutes.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Walking around my neighborhood and the silence is absolutely sublime. Airplanes, cars, highway noise, all diminished. The birds and chirps and friendly "Hellos" are amplified. It's bee n marvelous.
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by bdamm 7y ago
No: Athletes can't effectively train right now, and the coaches/refs/athletes would all spread the virus among themselves. Japan may or may not be able to deal with that, but who wants to go traveling abroad in the aftermath
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by bdamm 7y ago
Is it SARS-CoV-2 or is it 2019-nCoV? Seems to depend on the context.
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by bdamm 7y ago
The point is that it's a different flow of resources, e.g. retail distribution vs commercial property management supply.
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by bdamm 7y ago
"Expired" might mean that the mask material has disintegrated and could itself be sucked into the lungs. Or perhaps it means that fungal infections could have grown in the masks. Or maybe the government really made a decision base
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by bdamm 7y ago
It actually makes a lot of sense. Technical people sometimes think that the higher up you go the bigger the decisions, but normally decision making peters off around the Director level. Above that and it's really about how to keep the
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by bdamm 7y ago
Well Musk did recently state that Tesla is soon to release time-based object "3d labeling", where indeed the movement of objects through space is part of their labeling. [1] [1]: https://electrek.co/2020/03&#x
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by bdamm 7y ago
Mainstream media tends to target their audience. Their audience is Americans who by popular vote are left of the government on average, and a higher percentage of them that live in cities, which adds to the left bias yet again. So no big su
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by bdamm 7y ago
And of course in the US there are not as many testing kits as in other countries, so the numbers are basically 3 months behind.
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by bdamm 7y ago
I'm betting this becomes a paint job option. While it looks appealing I also can't help but suspect real world will just fill those crevices up with bug guts pretty quick.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Agriculture is an enormous business in the USA, with 1% of the overall GDP. That may seem small, but consider that all USA industry combined is only 18% of the GDP. Many states in the country depend on agriculture as their #1 product. The U
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by bdamm 7y ago
If that's true, then the study should be easy to conduct. Plenty of young PhDs looking to make a name, surely one can be found to run such a study. Then just a short flight to Stockholm for the Nobel. So?
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by bdamm 7y ago
Natives in California can still be harvesting in November and can see the ground all year round except in the mountains. Natives at the far north might be done with harvesting by late September or early October and might not see the ground
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by bdamm 7y ago
The car ahead might be an EV. If it isn't, then it's gassing you.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Does this include the right to not be exposed to car exhaust?
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by bdamm 7y ago
Your guidance is true. However our industry is unfortunately also littered with well intended refactorings that resulted in any more bugs, feature changes, and customer impacts than the original developer intended, or even conceptualized as
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by bdamm 7y ago
True, the implementation quality does matter.
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yes, while I found this annoying about San Francisco when I first moved there, I soon came to appreciate the value of the consistency.
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by bdamm 7y ago
The "collision imminent" scenario would occur whether or not the car is in self-driving. If the car manages to avoid a collision that is the amazing part to me. And there's plenty of evidence that the Teslas do, in fact, avoi
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by bdamm 7y ago
Who will pay for that?
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by bdamm 7y ago
Yeah this is interesting. My Tesla M3 does similar behavior, and so I often am ready to punch the accelerator. In the Tesla, this is how you solve that problem. The driver's push on the accelerator contraindicates the AI's decisio
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by bdamm 7y ago
Exactly. It's a form of bullying. Taking a swipe at cars that are under AI control is a form of intimidation just like "rolling coal", popping the finger, throwing coins at other cars, ICE pickups parking in EV charging spots
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by bdamm 7y ago
I had that opinion too, until someone decided to get out of their car and escalate a situation that really shouldn't have been such a big deal. But they were macho in a car oozing with hormones so yeah, it happened. Even so, I'm p
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by bdamm 7y ago
I also do this. A trick I've learned is to grab a PDF or Word or any editable copy of a document, then highlight sections with various pastel shades to indicated "don't care", "maybe care" or "get deep&quo

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