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by dmckeon 14y ago
FTA: "In the end the machine produced 2250 Watts at 10 m/s winds ..." Cool tech - it would be interesting to see a cost/benefit analysis mapping months to break-even from local $/kWh costs and local wind speeds. We'll know that alternative
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by dmckeon 14y ago
A reference to Moore's law in the lead paragraphs of an article in popular media is a useful diagnostic. If the law is mentioned at all, usually in ~200 words, I expect the writer to handwave with low signal/noise about some supposedly lat
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by dmckeon 14y ago
tl;dr - we use Square & like it a lot. Using Square is faster and more convenient than cell-based (Nurit, Verifone) processing: enter total, swipe, sign screen with a stylus or finger, and, only for customers who have never paid with Sq
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by dmckeon 14y ago
http://trafficwaves.org/ A similar effect is in play with 'metering light' systems - total throughput may be increased (counter-intuitively) by reducing localized traffic densities and smoothing irregularities in flow. But people tend to
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by dmckeon 14y ago
I wonder if hotels, and other businesses that want to attract taxi drivers awaiting fares, will push to convert nearby pay phones to WiFi, thinking drivers might prefer to wait near a WiFi hotspot.
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Probably at: http://www.submarinenetworks.com/stations/north-america/usa-...
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by dmckeon 14y ago
> ads on every night telling people to talk to their doctor One wonders how many doctor-hours per year are spent by the consumers/patients initiating such conversations.
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by dmckeon 14y ago
The question is not "is this opportunity capable of making a profit at cost X?" but "if BigCorp could spend X on this opportunity, or spend X on a different opportunity, which one (or neither) should they choose?" Consider the chances of g
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by dmckeon 14y ago
In theory, they can serve most of the state: http://www.sonic.net/sales/maps/ but in practice, DSL distance limits apply. I would expect most densely populated areas of the northern SF bay counties, most especially the Santa Rosa area to
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Similar issue: dialog boxes which ask a question using words like cancel, continue, yes, no, or okay, when the question is followed by buttons using similar or identical words, but whose meanings are the opposite of the question. Example fr
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by dmckeon 14y ago
Old media discovers internet feedback, becomes introspective, publishes introspection. Perhaps the self-referential pieces begin to reach past introspection? Here are some others: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2010/s
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by dmckeon 15y ago
Takeaway: "... the tallest 2 percent of the towers accounted for 71 percent of the mortalities."
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by dmckeon 15y ago
It seems that investors trading on an exchange operating at discrete time intervals would be at a arbitrage disadvantage if other exchanges offered continuous trading in the same shares. So a demand for markets that are liquid and efficient
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by dmckeon 15y ago
The NYT article is at: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/us/31meat.html?_r=1&p... and is mentioned in: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/the-pink-men...