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by dmckeon 9y ago
1) Consider an assembly line where all tasks and material movements are done by humans. Over years, line operations are tuned to improve faster & better production. Even the vehicle designs are influenced by the capabilities of the line
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Esvelt's work also shows up in a proposal to modify mice on Nantucket Island to reduce the incidence of Lyme disease, which affects 40% of the human islanders. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/science&#
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by dmckeon 9y ago
In the US, fire departments have far fewer fires to respond to, and many more medical calls, varying with the local situation - dual or single response by FD and EMS, transport by EMS xor FD, FD has paramedics (many hundreds of hours of tr
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by dmckeon 9y ago
FTA (actually about 15% of the <300 word article): > The company expects its first product, a two-seat, fixed-wing “roadable aircraft” called Transition, to enter the market in 2019. > Its next generation concept is the TF–2, a ver
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by dmckeon 9y ago
> Iteris Velocity system is already being used by Santa Clara County https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/civicax/filebank/documents/64... > uses unique MAC identifiers, and maintains anonymous user data to
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Palo Alto to measure street traffic by tracking cellphones(padailypost.com)
1 points by dmckeon 9y ago|1 comments
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> domesticated animals that are useful in agriculture for tilling fields One key trait that Diamond mentions is whether a species is susceptible to dominance - horses evolved with a herd dominance order, zebra did not; thus horses can
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by dmckeon 9y ago
One of the triggering events for the independence of Brazil was a 13 year period during the Napoleonic wars when the Portuguese Crown and their court of ~15k people moved to Brazil just before Lisbon was invaded. https://en.m.wik
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Sounds a bit like: "Send this jerk the bedbug letter!" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-bedbug-letter/
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by dmckeon 9y ago
A small idea: reframe suggestions to be positive, future-looking, and pro-active, such as replacing: did you forget to ‘#include <limits.h>’? with: do you want to ‘#include <limits.h>’? or, perhaps better: you may wa
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by dmckeon 9y ago
UUCP links over 1200 baud modems, connecting only at night for cheap rates, but stymied by busy signals, down hosts, deep queues of other data, stalled daemons, out-of-date routing tables. Trans-oceanic links had high costs and limited ava
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Stockpile foods you like to eat anyway, and rotate as you resupply. You like Campbell's soup? Keep 10 cans in stock, not 2. Same for any simple food with a long shelf life. That way you don't end up with 100 pounds of 10-year-ol
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Here is an "under sink" re-circulation device, instead of the "whole house" approach. Basically, put a thermocouple, solenoid-driven valve, small pump, and a coupling between the hot and cold water supplies in an under
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by dmckeon 9y ago
There is a marketing story of a company that created a cake mix with everything in the box: "just add water and bake". Sales were poor, and market research and perhaps focus groups determined that people felt slightly guilty that
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Is "network analysis" a better term for what this article describes? Seriously, if taking a deep, hard look at connections among alleged drug dealers and gang members is bad, what would be better?
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by dmckeon 9y ago
The nice thing about scanning either by the voter or while the voter is present is that spoiled ballots - by stray, faint, or partial marks, or overvoting for too many multiple candidates - are reduced to near zero, and are replaced by fres
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by dmckeon 9y ago
An alternative: Mark ballot, feed to scanner, which either successfully scans a ballot, or returns it to the voter to be re-marked (modulo write-in votes, see link). The scan is the fast & easy result, and the paper ballot can be the
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by dmckeon 9y ago
“It’s as if you had a fire hose moving back and forth and the people who have the water falling on them hear the noise, and if you’re outside that stream, you don’t hear the noise,” This suggests overlapping interference patterns from mul
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by dmckeon 9y ago
The writing assumes that a lot of context is familiar to the reader, which is not too surprising given the source: the Texas State Historical Association, so likely written by Texas historians for a generally Texan audience. The Wikipedia e
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Clearly, people have been reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Control_of_Nature which also covers the causes of the recent debris flows near Montecito, California.
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by dmckeon 9y ago
The unintended consequences of what seemed, at many times in the last 300 years, to be completely reasonable city planning and engineering decisions - to literally "drain the swamp" and pump out groundwater - that led to soil comp
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How Humans Sank New Orleans(theatlantic.com)
4 points by dmckeon 9y ago|3 comments
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When I first heard of the attempt to close Martin's Beach to the public, I was amazed, but it turns out there was a somewhat similar situation in 1891, about 20 miles south, at what is now Bean Hollow State Park: http://www.
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Pneumonia vaccine might have prevented such a death - depends on the individual, of course. This option appears to be less well-known than the flu vaccine (and is only reccomended for some of the population). https://www.cdc.go
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by dmckeon 9y ago
This has a lot more detail than most of the recurring discussions on SF/SV/CA housing and its costs. Worth reading for anyone with a serious interest in the topic. Title length reduced for HN.
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A Builder’s 25 Fixes for the California Housing Crisis(urbanize.la)
2 points by dmckeon 9y ago|2 comments
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by dmckeon 9y ago
Discussion at: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16014047
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Rain, Green, Brown, and Fire, in much of California.
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by dmckeon 9y ago
It would be a great shame if the home owner's suit for an equitable resolution were derailed by this sort of escalation - an escalation that would tend to benefit the city by helping their defense make its case.
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by dmckeon 9y ago
After 19 hours trying to extract and arrest a fleeing suspect who had attempted to hide in the house, "the house was condemned by the local municipality immediately after the raid" and the city "refused to pay fair market val

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