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by cjensen 11y ago
The article says the port charges $300 to unload a container, and can unload 30 per hour from a ship. That's $9000/hour. The cost of labor in the operation is trivial . The author's calculations of efficiency (units transfer
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by cjensen 11y ago
Bridge traffic is also useful[1]. I wish they would break out the Dumbarton Traffic since that is an amplified value due to the fact that once the Valley is fully occupied, additional employees must come from somewhere else . [1] http:&#x
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by cjensen 11y ago
Gatekeeper makes that a lot safer than you might think. The only downside is that it's not obvious how to check who signed it. If you could easily verify it's signed by Apple, that would be 100% safe.
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by cjensen 11y ago
If you run an app that gatekeeper forbids, when you go into settings to fix that there is a button to approve that single app. There's no need to let everything through.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Am I understanding this correctly: the devs who downloaded Xcode from an unknown source disabled gatekeeper to get it to run? That's unbelievably stupid dev behavior, if true.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Yes, being nearly frozen is an exception to the rule, but since there was no mention of a glacier or extensive snow in the report, I thought it reasonable to ignore that possibility.
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by cjensen 11y ago
"Resting State" is a description of a normal, non-active person who is awake. The resting mind is still pretty active. Calming yourself down further is entirely possible, so it is not particularly noteworthy that you achieved 99%
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by cjensen 11y ago
It's well-understood that if your heart stops for a few minutes, your brain dies. Since his brain didn't die, we can conclude that his heart never stopped. A human cannot live without water for the length of time claimed. Therefor
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by cjensen 11y ago
Per Occam's Razor, the Yogi disconnected his EKG, got hypothermia, and lied when he claimed he didn't drink water. Is there a culture that doesn't fall for mystical cons?
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by cjensen 11y ago
Lots of people here trying to infer motives. Why not just believe what he says? He's a guy who has enough money, wants to do what he loves, and doesn't enjoy controversy. He's hacker enough to want to muck about with how to m
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by cjensen 11y ago
Sure: California recently increased it's sales tax by 1%. Sales Taxes are 30% of the California budget, so that equates to a 3% change in revenue. That's more than 10X the revenue generation of Marijuana Taxes.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Colorado's budget is a $27 Billion per year. Marijuana taxes fund 0.26% percent of the budget. "Big new revenue source" is plainly not an argument for legalization.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Nope. Congress gave NASA more for their 2015 budget than the Administration requested [1]. In other words, the Republican-controlled Congress is more supportive of NASA than the Obama administration. Assuming it's partisan is ill-advis
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by cjensen 11y ago
Indeed the model I used was simplistic. I doubt Ocean area would change much with sea level rise on a percentage basis. A more realistic model would have to try to make a better guess at the amount of permanent ice. The South Polar ice cap
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by cjensen 11y ago
That's flatly incorrect. Both parties are pretty much equally disinterested in NASA. The current Democratic administration, for example, is no friend to NASA. Worse is the politically-driven directives given to NASA. Human space flight
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by cjensen 11y ago
Use 1Password's "Secure Notes" instead of stickies so that your 2FA stuff is encrypted.
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by cjensen 11y ago
The math: (1) the linked article says there is 24e6 km3 of water in ice caps, glaciers, and permanent snow. (2) Area of Oceans from Wikipedia is 360e6 km2. (3) The statue of liberty is about 93m, (Base is 46m, Statue is 47m) Division gives
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by cjensen 11y ago
The linked article suggests Netflix' encryption was hacked, but the torrent's own comments (and later text in the article) suggest it was HDMI's encryption which was hacked. That means that all content which can be shown on a
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by cjensen 11y ago
An ad-homenium attack on me? Wow. Are you seriously going to claim that Wikipedia is "patriotic BS"? "Although the directing powers, and the government as well, are convinced that our war strength still can deliver considerab
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by cjensen 11y ago
> Japanese civilians incinerated...AFTER they made overtures to quit That's nonsense. The fascist Japanese government hoped for a cessation of hostilities because it was their only chance to stay in power and perhaps to fight again.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Yep. It's a good idea in principle. The FAA really should manage the db and have an API.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Intersting that the page you linked is just plain wrong in the first graphic. It shows a 1.5 mile restriction around the airport instead of the correct 5 miles [1]. [1] http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/for-recreational-users&#x2F
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by cjensen 11y ago
Cool. That map treats airports as points rather than areas, so the location in question is marked as clear on that map, but is no-fly in real life. Strangely, it only marks major airports. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the no-fly rules
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by cjensen 11y ago
At the Hayward shoreline a few weeks back, a guy was using a drone. I ignored him until he buzzed the area where Snowy Plovers (an Endangered Species) hang out. Then I went over to talk to him. He was very contrite. Apparently his model has
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by cjensen 11y ago
Yep. They confirmed they understood and fixed it.
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by cjensen 11y ago
My recollection: around 20GB... however , they clearly were willing to try to get some of it back if that was helpful. It was just a redundant offsite backup for me, so there was no need.
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by cjensen 11y ago
Glacier is also 99.999999999%. But those nines are only true if Amazon's software is bug-free. I've lost data on Glacier on my home account. They personally called me to apologize.
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by cjensen 11y ago
They say "all wrong" but they appear to mean "not perfectly accurate." Given that calorie counting is one of the most successful methods for gaining control of weight, that's not just semantics; that's unethica
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by cjensen 11y ago
Yes, it's mathematically superfluous. Real human communication is an evolved trait which often is logically or mathematically weird. Ask a person how many brownies to bake for a party and they might say "at least 10 to 20." T
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by cjensen 11y ago
Bayview has a reputation of having extreme amounts of crime. At least, that's my perception as someone who lives in the Bay Area.

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