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by cbr 9y ago
This post is specifically about allowing people to use public routing when previously they were private-only.
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by cbr 9y ago
Building codes aren't the problem, it's zoning. If a developer had an empty acre in SF or Palo Alto, or permission to replace low rise housing with skyscrapers, they'd build. The cost of building probably does have an effect
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by cbr 9y ago
One way to handle this would be with a reverse mortgage. Effectively, the $30k/y of taxes are counted against the value of the home when it's sold. Since the home has gotten enormously more valuable (which is why the taxes would
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by cbr 9y ago
He wanted to be a pioneer, a leader of some sort. This was more important to him than "saving the planet." His goal of going off grid was to position himself as a hero, a frontrunner. Instead of being h
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by cbr 9y ago
I don't know what it is for Boston to Providence $29, one way, 33min. Northeast Regional is $12 for 40min, MBTA is $11.50 for 63min.
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by cbr 9y ago
Given "men typically giving themselves credit for work done in teams while women typically talk about the teams they were part of", then if you see a female CV it's more likely to be understated than if you see a male one. W
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by cbr 9y ago
ALL the people interviewed are qualified, they can ALL do the job I've interviewed ~100 people at a top tech company, and I really don't think this is the case: the best candidates are much better than the worst ones, ev
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by cbr 9y ago
I was also curious about this. A male contraceptive that is incompatible with drinking would be a good fit for many people who don't ever drink, including me. There would definitely be people it was a poor fit for, but it still seems
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by cbr 9y ago
You can withdraw to a paper wallet without opening an account. You generate a new keypair, initiate a withdrawal from coinbase to your public key, and then can get both XBT and BCC from the private key later.
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by cbr 9y ago
Before the fork they wrote: Q: Do I need to withdraw my BTC from Coinbase? ... If you wish to access your coins on the UAHF chain ... you should withdraw your BTC from Coinbase to an external wallet address under your con
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by cbr 9y ago
start tracking audio and visual cues as well Do you mean microphone and camera, or something else? (If you do mean mic/camera, sites can't access those without prompting the browser to show a permissions dialog and you c
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by cbr 9y ago
Browser shows https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com to me, Chrome on Android. What browser are you using that shows non-ascii with .com?
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by cbr 9y ago
I regularly click back from search results in under 2s if they're not what I was looking for; if I clicked on ads I would expect to do the same.
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by cbr 9y ago
Q: Will Coinbase keep UAHF coins for itself? A: No. Coinbase does not intend to support or interact with the UAHF chain. If this were to change, Coinbase would make those coins available for customers to withdra
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by cbr 9y ago
Is there any situation that you would consider a "shortage"?
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by cbr 9y ago
I remember dithered fills being in Paintbrush itself, using Windows 3.1. My memory is you had 16 colors to work with, and to get more than that it supported dithered colors. You could have, say, a red/yellow checkerboard. The UI let
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by cbr 9y ago
To me, "blockchain" implies the individual nodes don't trust each other, while "distributed database" does.
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by cbr 9y ago
$765B is their estimate for all waste, not just wasted pills: ProPublica has been researching why the U.S. health care system is the most expensive in the world. One answer, broadly, is waste — some of it buried in practices t
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by cbr 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort has a single scuba dive as having the same risk of death as ~1700 miles in a car. And cave diving is even more dangerous.
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by cbr 9y ago
> doing dumb things quickly AlphaGo's policy (what moves should I look into) and value (how good is this board position) networks aren't dumb-but-fast. The rollouts are though. Recent image successes (classifying images) aren&
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by cbr 9y ago
They're using "entitlement" as in "things people are entitled to".
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by cbr 9y ago
Google should be forced to allow you to set your preferences through your browser, i.e. not forcing you to login ... I see how this is at least possible in Chrome, but how would this work in browsers Google doesn't c
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by cbr 9y ago
I used to work on mod_pagespeed / ngx_pagespeed, and I'm very proud of our image optimization: https://modpagespeed.com/doc/filter-image-optimize It compresses and optimizes png, gif, and jpeg, creates webp f
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by cbr 9y ago
Pictures of the carnival stand at different times: http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Infant-In... http://www.neonatology.org/pinups/ConeyIslandBooklet1.jpg https:&
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by cbr 9y ago
In order to maintain backwards compatibility with existing documents, the first 256 characters of Unicode are identical to ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1). This isn't true in a useful sense. It does look like it's true in U
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by cbr 9y ago
This is completely unnecessary for subtitles because the emphasis can be inferred from the dialogue. Seems useful for deaf people
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by cbr 9y ago
it is usually women who prefer to "marry up" Regardless of preferences, what I'd expect to happen is that this would end up pretty balanced. Are a substantial fraction of high status women deciding not to get marrie
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by cbr 9y ago
reassuring wealthy liberal people that, yes, they actually are living in the best of all possible worlds http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/03/15/answer-to-job/
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by cbr 9y ago
This story is missing something, since reverse engineering is legal and done properly [1] gets you around copyrights and trade secrets. We're patents involved? [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
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by cbr 9y ago
Why Red Hat voted no: https://developer.jboss.org/blogs/scott.stark/2017/04/14/cri...

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