cdibona

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by cdibona 7y ago
I think that's true, our last big donation to EFF was a while ago. I know some executives have donated over the years significantly, but not as 'google'.
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by cdibona 7y ago
The Google payment to Mozilla has been in the form of a ad revenue sharing deal since 2005 or so. Before that you could characterize it as a donation, or something.
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by cdibona 7y ago
NYC's FDR Drive is built on Blitz rubble that was shipped back as ballast in the liberty ships... https://jalopnik.com/how-the-ruins-of-europe-built-a-major-r...
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by cdibona 7y ago
NTSB Youtube report: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBjntrebxj8 The ntsb and us chemical safety board channels are amazing. https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB
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by cdibona 7y ago
Also, Ethan Zuckerman and his Center for Civic Media is going to exit the lab as he can't in good conscience remain: http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...
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by cdibona 8y ago
This is simply incorrect. As the person who (led? handled?) the shutdown/archiving, the vast majority of the 'developer' web had gone to github. The handful of active projects were given white glove treatment once we decided
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by cdibona 8y ago
Firecracker is a forked copy of Crosvm. Looks like they did so late last year?
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by cdibona 8y ago
Also we're talking about the one type of mosquito that carries malaria to people. The rest are tickety-boo and can continue to make your figs happen.
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by cdibona 8y ago
José Andrés makes these amazing little sandwiches at Bazaar in Los Angeles. They're transcendent.
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by cdibona 8y ago
Who are you to decide what is the norm being violated? What I mean by that was the entire point of open source and free software licensing is to codify the 'norms' that the authors found important. Companies like Google, MS, Amazo
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by cdibona 8y ago
So I'd imagine that the Escalade repairs are being charged back to the manufacturer under warranty, or to you, so I'd imagine the dealership is happy to fix those doors 5 , 6 , 10 times or whatever.
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by cdibona 8y ago
So wikidata but for crypto? That's pretty thin. Why didn't you try to 'update' wikidata?
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by cdibona 8y ago
It is closed, the non-commercial license means almost no one can use it.
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by cdibona 8y ago
When prepared well (I had the same burger from the same chef) the impossible burger is pretty burger like, though...more fibrous/long grained. When cooked anything above 'medium rare' they're no better or worse than any
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by cdibona 8y ago
Can the launch escape system work during fueling? Would the gantry/service tower be in the way? I suspect if the les were to fire off during fueling it'd be .... pretty dramatic.
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by cdibona 8y ago
NASA and the DOE did a study on this and they determined that it was too expensive to do it, though safe enough but that we might want the waste later. Vitrification and storage was deemed cheaper, safer and more 'reversible'.
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by cdibona 9y ago
GM/Toyota/NUUMI would produce four times vehicles in the same amount of time in that plant. (about 120 to 130k/quarter, depending on the nuumi production numbers you believe)
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by cdibona 9y ago
I commute on this part of the road every single day, and every day there are people whipping and and out of the two hov lanes as they approach the flyway fork. The model X was probably trying to make it into the flyway at the last minute or
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by cdibona 9y ago
The main HQ isn't actually on top of a superfund site, but an ex-dump. We derive a fair amount of methane from the decaying matter underneath shoreline...
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by cdibona 9y ago
So when Rio Tinto Kennecott (copper mine near slc utah) had to suspend operations a few years back following a slide, the pollution reduction and the power consumption of the whole area was impacted (positively, in my mind). TVA provides po
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by cdibona 9y ago
I'd guess Nevada Sunrise. Get to em before Tesla does...
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by cdibona 9y ago
They're a little off, but not much. The problem is that most people can't build a 5k sq ft place on a 7500 sq ft lot without going down as well as up. Basements in the Palo Alto flood zones are crazy expensive to build and permit
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by cdibona 9y ago
So you'll often build two or three test versions of the sat that you subject to serious, and sometimes destructive, testing to simuluate launch stresses, etc. So if a given satellite blows up on the pad, they can use these test article
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by cdibona 9y ago
This post has happened before, it'll happen again: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rose-hulman.edu
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by cdibona 9y ago
It's a better bet to say the 777 killed the passenger 747. The real question is if cargo operations will continue to drive 747 demand. It'll probably look like tanker/military demand for the 767. The a380 cargo option never
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by cdibona 9y ago
I was at the talk where CDS Peach discussed the cutting of cables. The gist of it was that the UK navy would want to start patrolling/monitoring incoming UK cables as it was a vulnerability point that he felt was ... a likely target of
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by cdibona 9y ago
To some degree, this is a Sisyphean task: Google doesn't have one solitary index or signal anymore, it's extremely personalized. So even if you are number one for you, it's extremely likely that you won't be for much of
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by cdibona 9y ago
Also, frankly, what is a reported these days? Anyone with an audience? A popular FB feed? This kind of thing is ignorant of how ...distributed "reporting" has become. This is pretty disappointing, but more than that, pointless to
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by cdibona 9y ago
Not really, this looks like a nuisance suit that hired a publicist. Googlers don't want to comment on lawsuits, it's time consuming and turns into deposition, which are time consuming. Also, most googlers are not anywhere near X,
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by cdibona 9y ago
The Bingham actually has a conveyor works lower in the pit that goes through the side of the mountain to the processing plant. At least it did when I was there, this was before the big collapse there a few years ago...

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