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by dacohenii 7y ago
You better believe it! EAS is no joke, and FCC is right to take a hard line. Not very many people know that tone contains data. (It's pretty interesting, really; see wiki link below.) Broadcasters have an EAS box that listens for alert
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by dacohenii 7y ago
Excellent and concise explanation. Thank you.
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by dacohenii 7y ago
This is only tangentially related, but Veritasium has a fantastic video that discusses the genetics behind the random color patterns of calico cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BD6h-wDj7bw
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by dacohenii 7y ago
There's a good Planet Money episode about this, in case you like podcasts: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/03/22/521132960/epis...
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by dacohenii 8y ago
Those are really cool!
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by dacohenii 8y ago
1. Shopping. Especially big ticket items like cars and places to live. Urgency favors the buyer because you don't do diligence well and you don't shop around for better deals when you're in a rush. I assume you mean urgency f
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by dacohenii 8y ago
Not really a similar dynamic to HN, but I highly recommend http://bogleheads.org/ - especially recommend their wiki.
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by dacohenii 9y ago
This reminds me of a recent Radiolab episode [0] in which they discuss a new technology that would allow you not only to remove words from audio, but also to add new ones in the speaker's voice -- and likeness, in the case of video. Th
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by dacohenii 9y ago
> We'll be deciding that for future generations. I think this is only true for genetic modifications to germ cells or embryos, which is why the recent embryonic gene editing story [1] is so controversial. As far as I know, gene edit
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by dacohenii 9y ago
They tried and failed three times (episodes 16, 46, and 157). Here's an interesting write-up about the team of MIT students that worked with them on the second try: http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments&#x2
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by dacohenii 9y ago
Here's an interesting talk about optimization and JIT compilation in V8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-iiEDtpy6I
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by dacohenii 9y ago
HN thread with more discussion (linked to the github repo this project): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314045
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by dacohenii 10y ago
I used STUFF all the time until I found and implementation [ https://groupconcat.codeplex.com/ ] of MySQL's GROUP_CONCAT as a SQLCLR function (well, actually they had to create multiple variants to allow sorting and cust
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by dacohenii 10y ago
Richard Feynman. Here's a video about who he is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIJw3OLB9sI And the wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman There are lots of videos of his lec
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by dacohenii 10y ago
Exactly. From a geocentric perspective, it's not wrong as long as you're explaining past events (which, as you noted, can be done by adding epicycles). The reason the model is not so useful (to paraphrase my college physics profes
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by dacohenii 10y ago
That happened to me after using one of those automatic coffee makers for several months. Then again, maybe there's more to it than Pavlov might suggest.
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by dacohenii 10y ago
maybe this version could be called "JSX Gon' Give It To Ya"
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by dacohenii 10y ago
Not the case (in the US) for all frequencies; 88.1 MHz - 90.9 MHz is reserved for noncommercial educational radio stations. (This is where you'll find NPR, college radio, etc.) See here for more details: https://www.fcc.gov&
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by dacohenii 10y ago
Here's a page with radios that work for sure: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/ By the way, these are receivers. If you want to transmit using SDR, the hardware is going to be a bit more expensive.
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by dacohenii 10y ago
I was surprised to hear this -- my understanding was that encryption was illegal in all cases (at least in the US). A quick googling found this, which sheds a good bit of light on the matter: http://www.amateurradio.com/encr
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by dacohenii 10y ago
Agreed. It's infeasible to (legally) connect this type of system to the internet, at least in the US. FCC Part 97 also prohibits commercial transmissions, which would conceivably include advertisements, so you couldn't use this pa
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by dacohenii 10y ago
I knew I went to the comments first for a reason.
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by dacohenii 10y ago
I listen to a lot of the popular ones that have already been mentioned (Serial, Radiolab, This American Life, etc), but here are some others I listen to: - Freakonomics Radio (WNYC). Favorite episode so far: "The Economics of Sleep&quo
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by dacohenii 11y ago
I live in an area of the US where the cost of living is low (think $1.60/gallon and $725/month to rent a 2-bedroom apartment). If I'm interviewing for a potential employer in an area with a higher cost-of-living, I'd (in
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by dacohenii 11y ago
Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in his book Outliers , which may be a better explanation for you. Here is an excerpt from that section: http://gladwell.com/outliers/rice-paddies-and-math-tests/
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by dacohenii 11y ago
Radiolab has a new episode about this called "Rhino Hunter" about this type of thing: (show and description here: http://www.radiolab.org/story/rhino-hunter/ ) It talks about how hunting is used as a fund
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by dacohenii 11y ago
I once heard of an instance where the link redirected to a legit website for requests coming from Facebook's IP, and to a scam-type website from all other IPs.
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by dacohenii 11y ago
That's a good way to publicize both the upgrades and the downtime without pissing off customers. Lots of companies don't quite do that. Kudos, Last.FM.