bicknergseng

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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I know the ISS is moving at ~27,600 km/h and is ~10 times further away than this jump, but is there a significant engineering reason to not say... double this jumps height? 5x? ...10x?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
THIS IS MY NIGHTMARE
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Borrow someone else's phone to make a call. Carry some amount of cash on you. Credit cards don't displace the need for cash anyway. Curl up in a ball and hope someone pities your total helplessness? >you can't pay for a
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
This isn't really going anywhere, so I'll make my last set of points. Relevant http://xkcd.com/386/ . > losing one's phone could mean losing keys, ID, wallet, etc. Yes. It also means replacing them a
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
The way it is now, you lose your keys and you're effectively homeless. This is why people have spare keys under mats. This is why backups are a good idea. Have everything on your phone, but still keep a spare key if you lock yoursel
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
For you, butterfingers. I've never accidentally destroyed a phone. I have left credit cards and wallets and IDs and keys at bars and hotels. I have had CC numbers used by scammers online, requiring I call my credit card company, figu
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
"A credit card built for the 21st century" is an oxymoron. It's like saying a car phone built for the 21st century. For the love of all that is holy and sacred, please eliminate the need to carry cards at all. Just let me p
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
That first (and, to the extent that the author relates the two, second) point feels pretty dubious. I imagine most adherents of the "directory by feature" camp come from the Django-like world, while "directory by type"
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Pretty much. I hate it whenever someone calls the lottery an idiot tax, citing the odds of winning and ranting about how someone doesn't understand math. Yes, the odds are fantastically low, but so is the opportunity cost, and a lot
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I feel like Peter Thiel is taking the Foundation series a little too literally.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
d) manipulating financial markets.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
"per core"
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Sigh. $7 Million fine to Verizon for knowingly selling customers private data, $19 Million to Google because people can't keep their kids from playing with their phones.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I'm no legal expert, but I'm pretty sure this is the same legal system that dolled out $1,920,000 to a non-wealthy individual for sharing some Gloria Estefan songs. Justice?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Oh boy... 32 minutes of revenue. That'll teach em.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Not to mention the total absence of anonymous user monetization strategies.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I think the problem is that you compare population densities without comparing population distributions. The comparison with the Scandinavian countries is less unfair than you claim: "almost everyone lives on the coasts, unlike in the
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
I'll just leave this here: http://mashable.com/2014/08/12/uber-lyft-dirty-tactics/ Uber might be slimy, but Lyft is no better.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
To be honest, I don't think laziness is a problem, either (or at least, THE problem). The problem is the utterly impossible goal of 100% security from all possible threats with a nearly unlimited mandate to do so. The goal is improba
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Kinda unrelated to the article's subject, but twice in this article does the author have "a person familiar with the matter said." Who is this person, how are they familiar with it, and why should anyone take that seriously?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Knowledge: $0. Accreditation: $60k.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
"If the Doomsday argument is correct, what precisely does it show?" That philosophers are not statisticians?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
No kidding. Pretty weird to see a post on the front page with non-zero upvotes and no comments.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Are we able to put a timeline on future US water use? Something in the vein of Saudi Arabia greatly cutting wheat production because of their drained aquifers [1]? [1] http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/04/26/
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Tangental: did anyone else see that video of the woman talking about a nuclear Jesuit semen bomb (not making this up)? Is she frighteningly schizophrenic or just pulling yarn?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Depends on what city you live in. Drinking craft beer for all hydration needs is perfectly acceptable in Portland, OR.
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
To be fair, the Tesla Roadster is a pretty odd example. I'm not sure $5,000/year depreciation with $3,500/year for maintenance seems reasonable for almost anything. Am I wrong in thinking that most cars depreciating at that
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
So it seems to me like there isn't enough raw data about the auto industry available to consumers. What are the odds of having a lemon Model S like Edmunds' vs the odds of having a GM that drives itself into a tree, for example?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
>Good straw man, but most economists are left-wing academics who chose a low-paying career track despite having the most marketable degree in the world. Wait. Is that a serious sentence?
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by bicknergseng 12y ago
Hm... I do know tech companies are much better than the consultancies, but your source doesn't compare H1 salaries with W2 salaries. I seem to recall another set of data with Cisco in particular paying H1s much, much less than W2s, th

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