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by beisner 9y ago
Not really answering your question, but in the interest of protecting a critical ecosystem I think some theoretical privacy loss is an acceptable trade off. Privacy is not the be-all-end-all.
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by beisner 9y ago
A low-pass filter would filter everything out assuming the threshold is below the two frequency. The beat frequency of the two tones would indeed by 7kHz, but if you think of the resulting waveform, the contingent parts are smaller, faster
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by beisner 9y ago
I’m not sure the servers could handle that little traffic.
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by beisner 9y ago
From a public health perspective that’s still a net gain, even if it’s not an environmental one.
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by beisner 9y ago
The real threat of quantum computers is not the testing of prime numbers, but the factoring of semiprime numbers (numbers that have two distinct prime factors). The difficulty of taking a semiprime number and extracting it’s prime factors i
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by beisner 9y ago
You can pretty easily compare compiled binaries.
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by beisner 9y ago
Accuracy. If you could somehow prove that every vote could accurately be tied to a human pulling a lever, confidence in election results would be higher. Also instantaneous results and no issues of a recount (like in the 2000 election, wher
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by beisner 9y ago
I see it more as an investment in society, not in an individual. K-12 education is (in theory) a good example of this: free, high-quality (again, in theory) public education creates a populace with a certain set of skills and abilities. The
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by beisner 9y ago
As a white man hired at L3 last year, I can confirm this.
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by beisner 9y ago
I suspect that since this policy has been deliberately relaxed (now a 2-child policy) the government likely has some model for a changing demographic
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by beisner 9y ago
This is a great story, made even greater by the nostalgia I felt about my own hours toiling away at Runescape. Simpler times.
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by beisner 9y ago
In most countries, private companies’ (particularly Google) mapping data is far better than government data.
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by beisner 9y ago
It was posted yesterday with hundreds of comments.
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by beisner 9y ago
Yeah I suppose I might have just experienced a particularly good section of it. I've lived in Kirkland and Bellevue, and took either the 540->372 (change at Westlake) or 255->522 (change in U District) to get to Lake City nearly
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by beisner 9y ago
You're right, of course. I don't really know how the city coordinates with the state, but I'd assume that there's certainly collaboration w.r.t. main conduits of traffic into the city, as well as with the greater Seattle
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by beisner 9y ago
To add to the points raised in the article, Seattle’s public transit system and transit policy are just plain good . Buses are clean/new, frequent, and on-time; trains (while they don’t yet extend as far as they need to) are reliable
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by beisner 9y ago
Anecdotally, I am completely unable to work at home. I need an office, or a cafe, or some space away from my personal private spaces. Keeps me accountable, and removes a large class of distractions that (from experience) I would be unable t
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by beisner 9y ago
Parent is talking about Amazon, which started as an online bookstore.
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by beisner 9y ago
I use Jekyll, super easy and aesthetic
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by beisner 9y ago
Anecdotally, nobody I know ever tipped an Uber driver before tipping was introduced in the app, so there being a negligible tipping component would not surprise me at all.
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by beisner 9y ago
All things considered, while this is certainly might feel satisfying, it's a rather irresponsible move on the developer's part. Not only would this sort of behavior turn off future clients (shows that the developer is vindictive a
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by beisner 9y ago
I wish people would stop blaming companies for doing exactly what they are designed/incentivized to do. That is the capitalist system. We should be blaming the system that allows for the circumstances that many people being displaced b
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by beisner 9y ago
Tool is a band.
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by beisner 9y ago
More like one place to manage subscriptions without having to create 20 different accounts and enter credit card details over and over
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by beisner 9y ago
My question is, why is the system designed such that she would be admitted to the ER in the first place? Why aren't hospitals redirecting patients to urgent care facilities, or better yet, why don't hospitals have urgent care faci
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by beisner 9y ago
Well, I guess I’m an elephant then.
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by beisner 9y ago
In your example, The Rest would still be the vast majority of the company.
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by beisner 9y ago
My apologies on the commute, can't be pleasant to go through all that traffic. I don't think the the GWB tolls are congestion-based though, they're more for maintenance of the infrastructure that hundreds of thousands of peop
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by beisner 9y ago
I'd actually wager that the vast majority of people commuting in from Jersey work in Manhattan, rather than the other boroughs. I grew up in central Jersey, and everyone I knew who commuted in on NJ Transit (along the Northeast Corrido
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by beisner 9y ago
Because cars in Manhattan are a blight on livability and safety. There are only a handful of reasons to legitimately have a car in Manhattan; off the top of my head: moving large items, transporting those with mobility issues, getting from

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