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by cbr 10y ago
> adult males of military height (i.e. not even shorter men) Adult males of roman military height, so probably about 5'7" (170cm): http://history.stackexchange.com/questions/17072/average-hei...
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by cbr 10y ago
> Isn't that because it's 2x4 before planing. cut lumber would be actually 2x4. It used to be, but now we're more efficient in our rough cutting and a 2x4 you buy was never actually a full 2x4.
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by cbr 10y ago
typo for especially?
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by cbr 10y ago
http://www.health.gov.on.ca/en/pro/programs/dental/docs/hso_...
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by cbr 10y ago
If you make the page static, and have it AJAX back to load the comments, then you get the best of both worlds. (This is what I wrote for my blog.)
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by cbr 10y ago
I think your system is ignoring the color profile attached to the image. They wrote: Remember the red square with the faint WebKit logo? That was generated by creating an image in the Display P3 color space, filling it with 1
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by cbr 10y ago
A new city would be much denser than the suburban and exurban sprawl that currently fills our demand for new housing, and so would end up in taking much less farmland than continuing along the current path. (And the amount of farmland we&
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by cbr 10y ago
there's almost no room left on the planet for building "new" cities of any significant scale (meaning of course not just the meticulously designed city core; but the whole meta-city that will grow around it
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by cbr 10y ago
When building a city from scratch you can cut-and-cover everything, and you can choose somewhere with good soil conditions for what you want to build.
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by cbr 10y ago
There are many more broke lawyers than broke developers. (But do think you're right that they're not the bargain they already to be.)
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by cbr 10y ago
Somerville is in the process of updating its zoning code: http://www.somervillema.gov/zoning/resources/2015-01-22-ordi... My impression is that one of the goals of updating it is to make much more of the city be z
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by cbr 10y ago
> I get all of my electricity from a nuclear power plant If you use more power, that doesn't come from running the nuke plant more (we run them at 100% all the time) or building more nuke plants (politically impossible). Instead it
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by cbr 10y ago
Sound just has an amplitude at every sample, but this is too low level to be very useful. Instead you would probably make a net process the same kind of features a human has, which is a list of frequencies at each sample, each with an ampl
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by cbr 10y ago
It doesn't look to me like that's why Nest failed?
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by cbr 10y ago
The 1st generation Moto X had a special minimal chip used just to detect you saying "Ok Google Now" (or a custom phrase) to turn the phone on when it was sleeping. But I think phones that only detect a start word when the screen
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by cbr 10y ago
Reasons to think it's client side: * Sending all microphone input to a remote server would be really bad for battery life and data usage. * It still works even in airplane mode. * On ChromeOS (which isn't Android, but may share th
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by cbr 10y ago
After all, it's the city you can live without owning cars in the United States. I know a lot of other people in Boston that don't own cars.
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by cbr 10y ago
Properties included in the model have total development potential, measured by FAR and residential units, of 20% or less of the maximum allowed under local zoning law. All properties above this level are considered &quot
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by cbr 10y ago
> worked for black money and collect the social benefit at the same time This one doesn't apply to BI, since you get the same amount of BI money whether you work or not and regardless of how much you earn.
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by cbr 10y ago
Reading this makes me so glad I live in a part of the country where there are no HOAs and where multi-unit houses (2 and 3 unit freestanding) are typical. It's a great neighborhood, and the high density means I can live within walkind
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by cbr 10y ago
Sorry, you're right, thanks for the correction. (I don't know how I got to my initial reading!)
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by cbr 10y ago
Ok, but then the supportive housing and eviction prevention money divides to ~$22k/person.
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by cbr 10y ago
better at parsing the Penn Treebank than the best natural language parser for English on the Wall Street Journal I'm pretty sure "the 20 year old Penn Treebank" and "the Wall Street Journal" are re
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by cbr 10y ago
Just don't try to use two digit format for years: ~ $ cal 5 16 May 16 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3
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by cbr 10y ago
You get better transcriptions and better search results if you give your search backend a probability-weighted list of possible transcriptions and let it combine that with what it thinks you might be trying to search for given the context i
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by cbr 10y ago
The combination of the title and phrases like "simulations using a mid-latitude climate couldn’t get the job done because the rocks didn’t weather fast enough" did make me think initially that they were proposing using this as geo
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by cbr 10y ago
15- 18% AC annual avg. capacity factor, orders of magnitude better than East Coast installs Huh? It looks to me like the east coast is only ~30% worse than SF? http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/Solar-1.png
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by cbr 10y ago
If you figure out how to hash 1000x more efficiently than other people and put that into practice without sharing your knowledge then you can cheaply get and maintain a hashpower supermajority. (I'm not saying this is likely, just more
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by cbr 10y ago
The cheap way to scan books is destructive scanning, though.
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by cbr 10y ago
we'll never find an asteroid that's miraculously made almost entirely out of Bitcoin I think we're more likely to find a very fast way to compute sha256 hashes than a 10T+ gold asteroid.

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