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by danielvf 8y ago
In the past, Facebook's moderation (outside of user flagging) has involved some automated Facebook processes flagging the photo for review and then a human looking at the photo and decided to issue a account ban. My friend lives in the
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I know that Facebook uses human content filters - A friend of a friend is one - but something has changed with Facebook moderation in the last few months, and I have a strong suspicion that Facebook has started rolling out algorithmic moder
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by danielvf 8y ago
I had a friend pick up a presumably automated ban from Facebook this month for posting a picture of a soldier from a WWII re-enactment he went to. No gore, no nudity, just a half body shot of a German soldier in uniform standing in the camp
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by danielvf 8y ago
The first day I saw more US flags than Confederate flags in my small southern town was the day after 9/11. As you said, the fervently believed myth was that the confederacy was about states rights - growing up I only met one person in
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by danielvf 8y ago
There is a long-term capital gains tax break for holding a certain number of years. However with real estate you can sell one property and use the money to buy another within a certain amount of time and not have a taxable event. (See http
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by danielvf 8y ago
My guess is that they thought she had an insider giving her tips / interviews, and they were trying to catch this person. Though the the surveillance and offers of transportation/"help" throughout the article appear to b
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by danielvf 8y ago
Here’s a large section of the Bible in Garifuna: https://www.scriptureearth.org/data/cab/PDF/00-WNTcab-web.pd... [pdf, large file]
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The sub was found by Ocean Infinity (oceaninfinity.com) using a swarm of undersea drones.
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Post here because this company just found the lost Argentinean submarine - a real world success for this tech.
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Ocean Infinity – Commercial Undersea Drone Swarms(oceaninfinity.com)
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Yes, same aircraft.
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A 737 and a 737 MAX has big wheels in the cockpit that move as the stabilizer trim changes. This lets the pilots see what the autopilot is doing with the stabilizer, and/or override stabilizer changes by grabbing and holding the wheel
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by danielvf 8y ago
I agree with your general point. Though we are talking many, many orders of magnitude less damage from tornadoes in the Southeast when compared with California forrest fires. My state gets an average of 20 per year, and almost all of these
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Now there’s plenty of room to argue that the stores are asking for too much now, but fundamentally the towns have been breaking the law, which is why the stores are winning the court cases. “As of 2017, the city had valued that store at $11
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The man who pled guilty was calling in a swatting or a bomb threat every two to three days for the three months before he was caught. It took someone dying to actually get a serious investigation. - Initial charges (including twitter logs,
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..while "the rest of the city was up 3.8 percent over the same period." Taking inflation into account, downtown receipts are lower than they were before.
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GM was selling cars mostly in the US, while more than 60% of Apple's sales happen outside the US. There's still quite difference, but a little smaller than the raw numbers.
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It makes it more difficult to reseal in a non-noticeable way after someone has opened the the envelope and read it.
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by danielvf 8y ago
Write down a problem, take a nap, wake up with the answer.
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Just because other aircraft can to this today does not mean "a modern airliner can". No modern airliner currently has the capability to make remote controlled flights.
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by danielvf 8y ago
So in the middle of the mortgage crisis, Bank of America bought American’s biggest mortgage company, Countrywide, (one on in five home loans in the US). It seemed like a deal to the BOA CEO, since Countrywide’s stock price had fallen to 16%
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by danielvf 8y ago
Yeah, starlink is planning on putting 8,000 satellites in low LEO, and 4000 in high LEO. The low ones don’t matter but the high ones are certainly worth thinking about.
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The space shuttle had 135 flights, of which 2 were TPK’s. So a 1 in 68 chance of failure. And that’s on a man-rated launch system. The Russians have been having 1 in 10 to 1 in 20 non-human rated rockets failing. So even compared to our non
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by danielvf 8y ago
If a satellite is in a very low orbit then any debris fall to earth quickly. Almost all cubesats have a orbital life of six to five years. The space station, in a normal low earth orbit, would hit the earth in around three years without reb
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by danielvf 8y ago
I've written my own zip and unzipping code. Basically the "top level" zip file section lives at the end of the zip file and contains pointers back into the file for the actual data. This is so that you can keep adding to a zi
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by danielvf 8y ago
Most competitive handgun shooters in the US load their own ammunition. Besides being cheaper and higher quality, it allows them to customize exactly the amount of gunpowder and weight of the bullet. In general, lighter loads are preferred b
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The news here is just how prolific this guy was. He was calling in a bomb threat or swatting every two or three days for months!
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Summing RGB sensors doesn't really work the way you would think because each sensor is actually sensitive to a very broad range of wavelengths, some of which affect it more, and some of which affect it less. Unless you know what your r
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by danielvf 8y ago
(Sorry, I meant to say that I hate cheap LED lights that blink slowly to control their brightness .) Blinking the LED on/off to control its brightness with a PWM is definitely not the only way to control output. And if you are control
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by danielvf 8y ago
You can get a plastic DSLR camera body cap for less than 50 cents each (ebay from China). This cap goes where the lens would attach the camera when you don't have a lens on. Sometimes I cut a hole in the center of a cap and make really

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