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by davidf18 10y ago
> No-one wants to live next to a AirBnB. End of discussion. Exactly. AirBnB shows total disrespect. I am sympathetic to those who want clean, low-cost places to stay when visiting NYC. According to Priceline there are $60 hotels/mo
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by davidf18 10y ago
It is one CEO with one 800 bed hotel and 3 < 200 bed hotels speaking this way. As a NYC resident, we don't want transients living in our buildings. There are safety issues for children, the elderly, an women, as well as potential th
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by davidf18 10y ago
The IBM PC was available when Hilary was 35, hardly an old person to learn how to use a computer, especially since she is a lawyer who would presumably use computers (as lawyers do) for typing legal documents, performing searches through W
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by davidf18 10y ago
> 75% of people probably don't understand domain names/servers; in his position, I would have assumed it was a secure, govt server I think we should credit a Harvard Law grad and undergrad Columbia Univ. that has security staff
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by davidf18 10y ago
The newest Wikileaks demonstrates that Obama lied when he said he learned of Clinton's use of her private email server when the American public did. He received emails from her private email address according to the hacked emails. So,
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‘We Need to Clean This Up’: Clinton Aide’s Newly Public Email Shows Concern(nytimes.com)
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by davidf18 10y ago
People with these skills do exist. Perhaps it has something to do with your location. For instance, your name is EpicEng, which might mean that you work for Epic, the large medical record company in Wisconsin. Epic is not located in
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by davidf18 10y ago
I suspect that the car industry's troubles with hiring software engineers as mentioned in the article has more to do with leadership in the auto companies. If they have leadership that understand software and software engineering, the
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by davidf18 10y ago
It would depend on how critical the element is to the system. I would expect at least one backup system. That is there should be a least one major backup DNS provider for example. Some systems on airliners have two backups.
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by davidf18 10y ago
As someone who was a VLSI design engineer for 4 years, as well has extensive software experience, much of the disruption happened because of poor engineering. There should always be redundancies in critical systems. The groups such as Twi
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by davidf18 10y ago
Correct use of the word: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/transient noun (1st def): a person or thing that is transient, especially a temporary guest, boarder, laborer, or the like. They are transients and one of the r
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by davidf18 10y ago
Well, I was responding to your comment about not being able to find a $60 hotel room: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768260 As someone in NYC then, you know that Union City, NJ is very close to Times Square by trans
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by davidf18 10y ago
From my statement: > I think AirBnB could care less about the safety of children, elderly, women, and others. Well, I'm very happy to hear that you, living in NYC, do not feel threatened by transients. I wasn't referring to my
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by davidf18 10y ago
We all value our safety. Many, many buildings have doormen to keep people out to help protect safety. There is a lot of crime in big cities. I don't know anyone that wants transients in their building. The people AirBnB is referring
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by davidf18 10y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/technology/new-york-passes... > '“In typical fashion, Albany back-room dealing rewarded a special interest — the price-gouging hotel industry — and ignored the v
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by davidf18 10y ago
The failing here as in many cases such as a number of security breaches was a lack of investment. As someone with an engineering degree that worked as a VLSI design engineer, good engineering requires * backup systems *. This costs mo
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by davidf18 10y ago
I live in Manhattan and while there is some density in parts of Manhattan, overall, the buildings are not very tall. Harvard Economist Edward Glaeser wrote about this in his Op-Ed, Build Big Bill: http://www.nydailynews.com&#x2
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by davidf18 10y ago
CellularInsights was a source. My undergrad is EE/CS and I studied digital comms as well as meet Qualcomm people mobile health summit and other health computer conferences. Sources included iFixit which discussed the chips involved (b
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by davidf18 10y ago
People don't want transients living in their apartment buildings for safety and other reasons. Unlike hotels in NYC, we lack the necessary security and also lacking is stringent check-in procedures that hotels have. We have doormen b
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by davidf18 10y ago
It is true that NYC is a popular place to live, but the higher apartment costs are caused by zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status. These are "economic rents" -- a market failure that creates ineffic
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by davidf18 10y ago
You are correct that zoning density restrictions and overuse of historic landmark status create political scarcity of housing that benefits landlords such as Donald Trump to the detriment of renters. The landlords and allied special intere
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by davidf18 10y ago
The housing in NYC is mostly apartments. People don't want transients in their apartment buildings. We value our safety. It is really that simple. People absolutely do not have the right to make an unsafe environment for others in
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by davidf18 10y ago
New Yorkers don't want AirBnB. We don't want transients in our buildings. There are elderly, there are children, there are women. Vulnerable populations. We have doormen. We pay a lot for our apartments.
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by davidf18 10y ago
I live in NYC and I can tell you that New Yorkers do not want AirBnB. We do not want transients in our apartment buildings. We want our safety. Many of us have doormen that keep people out. There are children, there are elderly. The exe
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by davidf18 10y ago
Verizon is adding 4x4 MIMO and I expect all of the US providers will be doing so because spectrum is a scarce and very expensive resource and at least in the case of Verizon, use is increasing substantially. While the 4x4 MIMO requires the
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by davidf18 10y ago
Well, I'm specifically referring to VoLTE. The towers have more powerful transmitters than the handsets, so a user might hear voice just fine, but the person on the other end can hear breaking up voice which is precisely what happened
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by davidf18 10y ago
Yes, the Samsung is better. Important is not only the baseband modem, the Qualcomm MDM 9645M, but also the RF Front End, the number of antennas, and the antenna design. Both units have the Qualcomm X12 MDM9645M baseband modem and two transc
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by davidf18 10y ago
More troublesome than the slower SSD speeds is the lower quality Intel Modem compared with the Qualcomm Modem -- at least in large cities where there are large buildings that block signal. Meanwhile, the Samsung S7 has the Qualcomm Modem (
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by davidf18 10y ago
The Test Mode is supposed to have an '*' before the number and after the number.
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by davidf18 10y ago
Since I demonstrated 100 Bit/sec DL, I assume you friend exceeds that on T-mobile? Have you tested signal quality in large buildings in Manhattan? I can say I get signals in these buildings when iPhone owners using say, AT&T get no

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