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by bhickey 10y ago
Up in Vermont you can get timberland for $1-$3k acre. After you account for the lumber the dirt looks like it has negative value.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Is he taking investments?
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by bhickey 10y ago
It looks like the lower bound for commercial whole genome sequencing is about 250 nanograms. To put this in perspective, you can get 4000 nanograms of DNA from a 2 microlitre blood draw. Your mental model of sequencing needs an update. :)
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by bhickey 10y ago
This is pretty much old hat. Duotrope[1] is one of the larger market listings. There was a big huff after they turned to a subscription model, which led to the creation or expansion of The Grinder[2]. At Aliterate[3] we've seen about 2
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by bhickey 11y ago
What you've said is true, but misses the point. Office buildings don't require schools in the same way houses do. Look at the development in Palo Alto over the last ten years. It's largely commercial and this isn't an ac
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by bhickey 11y ago
With Prop 13 in place, cities and towns can't adjust taxes to cover their budgets. It behooves a Bay Area municipality to seek out commercial investment and drive away residential.
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by bhickey 11y ago
Here's an implementation of 2d Worley noise using a hexagonal grid with one-point per cell: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/ltjXz1 This version may still have artifacts when the points fall too close to a cell boun
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by bhickey 11y ago
I'd like to see a copyright attorney weigh in on the NAA's claims. There seems to be an analogy between what Brave is doing and ClearPlay/CleanFlicks. ClearPlay offers filters based on tagging offensive frames in films. Congr
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by bhickey 11y ago
No. I'm saying that the United States is so stupidly resource rich that we could get a lot of things wrong and still be fabulously wealthy. I don't think you're wrong by any stretch--market economics are a great idea--but you
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by bhickey 11y ago
Higher for who and compared to what ? If a television is a requisite for a high standard of living, great, we're beating Ptolemy. It's disingenuous to pretend that you can do an apples-to-apples comparison across thousands of y
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by bhickey 11y ago
I wouldn't be so sure of this. ClearPlay, for example, works by marking video frames where unwanted content appears and then skipping over them during playback. The Family Home Movie Act 2005 carved out an exception for this in 17 USC
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by bhickey 11y ago
CleanFlicks was a Utah company that bowdlerized films. The Directors Guild successfully sued them for copyright infringement.
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by bhickey 11y ago
The income limit in Sunnyvale for a single person is just a hair under $60k. http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/Portals/0/Sunnyvale/CDD/Housing/BMR%...
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by bhickey 11y ago
And that'll be the day the butterfly is broken upon the wheel. I'm skeptical that NSL gag orders are constitutionally valid, but there's no way I'd breach one while on US soil.
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by bhickey 11y ago
Got any debugging tips? I had a lot of trouble with lead-free paste bridging on small pitch components.
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by bhickey 11y ago
How do you feel about using a toaster oven? I've had some success using a DIY reflow oven and pick-n-place by hand. Haven't tried 0201's, but 0402 resistors and 5mm QFN packages go pretty well. Just don't use lead free s
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by bhickey 11y ago
Well, the grandparent did say "There is no oversight or limitations." So, yeah. I believe it would please 'em more if there was a court order involved.
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by bhickey 11y ago
No worries. Leaving claims of hubris aside, I think some of the sibling threads are a tad mistaken. For example, population size is a determiner of the rate of neutral drift. I'm trying to work through what are the implications to havi
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by bhickey 11y ago
What this comment fails to understand is that I was explaining mathematical models for sexual reproduction to an audience who might otherwise be unfamiliar with it. Any inference that I was making claims about the relative efficacy of sex i
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by bhickey 11y ago
Two of the models that Pepe alluded to are Mueller's Ratchet and Kondrashov's Hatchet. We know that sex is powerful because it persists despite the high cost. Mueller's model assumes that fitness decreases as a linear functio
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by bhickey 11y ago
> Some companies do set wages as confidential info. This is unlawful in many jurisdictions, including California and the United Kingdom.
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by bhickey 11y ago
> will be considered an icon some day I wager she'll be remembered more in the way people look back upon Vanilla Ice or NKOTB.
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by bhickey 11y ago
It's generally called a 'land value tax'. Most of the value of land derives from the amenities provided around it. By taxing the land you encourage development and discourage speculation: excess land value will be extracted t
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by bhickey 11y ago
There's a lot of professional and personal acrimony toward Lander dating back at least to the Human Genome Project. I don't know if this is just a continuation of that, but throughout the late '00s it was surprising to hear t
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by bhickey 11y ago
What Harry said. At the end of the day money is going to land in someone's pocket. It'll be paid out as wages and dividends. A company will spend it on equipment, vendors and consumables. When money is retained, it'll get pri
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by bhickey 11y ago
> Why would you take risk into account for purposes of taxation? Should gambling income be taxed at a commensurately lower rate? There's actually some bizarreness in the English tax code around this. Most taxpayers are subject to a
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by bhickey 11y ago
1) It looks like I'm mixing up the California withholding rate with the tax rate. Thanks. 2A) Granted. If I had a magical tax wand, I'd obliterate corporate taxation. 2B) It's an argument I've heard, but I'm more
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by bhickey 11y ago
Sure the mortgage deduction exemption is horrendous, but I think income source discrimination is a bigger issue. We have different rates for wages, long-term capital gains, bonus income. Don't even get me started on carried interest. I
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by bhickey 11y ago
From /r/multicopter: https://www.reddit.com/r/Multicopter/comments/3xvrdh/drone_c... The folks over there think it looks like the drone inverted and crashed into the ground under power.
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by bhickey 11y ago
There isn't much new here. Skip ahead to the first audience question from Ray Kurzweil ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHKwIYsPXLg&t=38m51s ). Kurzweil, in summary, asks "You say that a machine manipulating sym

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