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by cmsmith 13y ago
I think you're probably right. But if you asked me to guess a year ago, I would have said that the engineering challenge of making a flexible touch screen display would be a lot greater than that of making a flexible circuit board (ass
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I've never seen it here, and based on a limited search [1] it appears that the story hasn't made it to the front page (i.e. gotten a non-zero amount of comments) in three years. [1] https://www.hnsearch.com/search#
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> what do we do to help these people get work and stop relying on entrepreneurial trash collection as a living? If picking up trash/recycling and depositing it at a centralized location is work when a garbageperson does it then it i
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by cmsmith 13y ago
I don't accept your premise that the people paying for this program would reject higher taxes. But it's worth noting that Oakland has some of the highest property and sales tax rates in what is already a highly taxed state. And a
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If you make the assumption that each piece of 'content' takes the same amount of effort/money to produce, that's not really a problem. Site X has presumably spent 3 times as much on content creation, so it's fine fo
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by cmsmith 13y ago
We shouldn't be too surprised given the context, but that is an impressively unbalanced wikipedia page. >He is currently facing federal criminal charges for allegedly publicizing internal files of the private spying agency Stratfor
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by cmsmith 13y ago
I can't help but feel that what the author calls a 'drug dealer's delivery guy' is what I would just call a 'drug dealer'.
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And why we need double retina screen resolutions to tell the difference between vector and bitmap graphics on a 4 inch screen.
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So low earth orbit and the moon are both 'closer' to Jupiter than Mars is, in terms of energy requirements.
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Check the bottom of the post. The tweets themselves are actual sentences from a book, not gibberish.
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Oh I'm sorry, we haven't actually made any revenue on that patent because it's owned by our subsidiary 'PatentCom' which charges us a license fee of $1/yr to use it.
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The sun moves 0.25 arcminutes in the sky every second, and has an apparent diameter of 30 arcminutes. Meaning that even after 50 years, if you (or your solar panels) look straight up at noon you'll still be pointed at the sun. So syst
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Alternatively, just use the method in the article (scale the uniform random distribution) and if your point is more than 1u away from the origin then throw it out and try again. You would throw out 36% of the points, but you might get that
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by cmsmith 13y ago
>Third party must have access to raw data Is there a reason that fingerprints can't be stored as hashes instead of the raw data? It would presumably involve re-enrolling if the fingerprint comparison algorithm gets changed, but how
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The calculus for what plants make sense in space is entirely different than what plants make sense on earth. Cereals provide the bulk of earth calories because they optimize things like warm days, long term storage, transportation, water co
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It appears to be specific to law schools http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_school_rankings_in_the_Unit...
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Anything sounds trivial if you start the sentence with '(S)he just ...'. And you say that as though a few dozen bright students didn't fail to accomplish the same task.
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>Microsoft has 8329956402 shares outstanding. Do you honestly believe that MSFT stock price can rise to value in the trillions, making the MSFT market cap ten sextillion dollars? He said the market cap would be trillions, not the share p
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by cmsmith 13y ago
OK. As long as we're giving anecdotes, I live in high-density housing in the US, and pay $50 for 200 Mbps symmetric service. Service which is only available in buildings above a certain size.
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Of course they do. The cost to run fiber to a building is largely independent of the number of units in the building. So it makes perfect sense that higher housing density leads to lower costs and higher speeds.
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>That work is immensely complicated by the certainty that it would be highly unadvisable for Greenwald (or any other journalist) to regard any electronic means of communication as safe. Can anyone comment on how accurate that statement i
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by cmsmith 13y ago
Aside from the general tone of this, that's not how taxes work. You can only pay VAT on the 50% of your income that you keep (and that is presuming you spend all of it). So you have 50% * 75% = 37.5% of your income left to give to char
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Aside from the wishy-washy fairness argument, I can see a couple of actual critiques: 1) The busses displace the attention and money of a lot of motivated and well-off tech workers who might otherwise demand improved public transit systems.
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Traditional trains have wheels and engines, which are quite heavy. And with a traditional train you're trying to minimize losses due to air resistance, which is not an issue in a low pressure tunnel.
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By definition, if there are numbers which are chosen more often than those randomly generated, then there must also be numbers which are chosen less often. I'm not saying that those numbers are 1,2,3,4,5,6 - just that they exist. So we
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Of course no one is saying that it's easy to get the winning numbers, the question is whether it is worth it to play. If the prize is big enough, then the expected value of a lottery ticket is more than $1, and it makes financial sense
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(in 2011) looks like one of his latest appeals was denied recently.
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New headline: My car loan is more than the net external debt of Norway (which is negative).
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Cities pay for their own police. The goal of cities is to avoid the appearance that the city is dangerous, to encourage investment and more taxable income. https://www.google.com/search?q=downgrade+crime I'm not saying
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They hit 2580 and 1111 as well before the video cuts out.

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