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811.
by dmurray 2y ago
Some reasonable sources [0] put the number of telephone poles in the US (175m) a little above the number of households (125m). [0] https://www.srperspective.com/post/telephone-poles-a-high-wi...
812.
by dmurray 3y ago
No, the donators gave you the money to use as you see fit. You're not betraying their trust: you're betraying your government, by funding a movement with aims inimical to them. A relevant statute in the US is the USA PATRIOT Act
813.
by dmurray 3y ago
You could receive money legitimately (let's say, donations to your synagogue) and funnel it to politically disfavoured causes (for example, anti-war protesters in the Middle East). It doesn't fit the metaphor of money laundering,
814.
by dmurray 3y ago
Right, and Enron would probably have enjoyed it, and that's why they dreamt it up. But a market can't survive on traders. It needs real buyers and sellers who aren't looking to capture inefficiencies in the market but to smoo
815.
by dmurray 3y ago
The CCP stuff is well understood. The reason this market didn't work is not because Enron was financially shady - per TFA, respectable exchanges have tried something similar with the same lack of success. The reason that it doesn'
816.
by dmurray 3y ago
I don't think the author completely feels this way. He feels Typescript is the VHS to his Betamax: the approach that won out despite being technically inferior. > unfortunately, I see that nowadays, TypeScript won. The idea of stric
817.
by dmurray 3y ago
> the transmitter (which serves as a science experiment of its own) into the 2030s. One of the longest-running scientific experiments, too. It's already about as old as the Queensland pitch drop experiment was when Voyager I was lau
818.
by dmurray 3y ago
> However if your users are speaking aloud you might want a word list representation, “TIDE ITCH SLOW REIN RULE MOT”, like s/key rfc 1751. DO NOT invent your own word lists; there are an infinite number of dragons lying in wait for
819.
by dmurray 3y ago
Wherever you centre it, though, there's a boundary cut which is an entire great circle (compared to Mercator which has a boundary cut half as long).
820.
by dmurray 3y ago
I would say worse than "kinda dodgy" - it's completely intellectually dishonest, and their paper should not have got past peer review if it claims this has no boundary cut but the Mercator projection has a big one.
821.
by dmurray 3y ago
This is a nice generalised metric, and it's mentioned a few times that the authors' projection is good for a set of maps of the solar system. But a generalised metric misses some points: practical maps of the world emphasise conti
822.
by dmurray 3y ago
> Absolutely zero consideration for the possibility that the problem wasn't the staff, but the completely arbitrary 30 minute policy that couldn't possibly be consistently adhered to across thousands of franchisees without intr
823.
by dmurray 3y ago
Surely Dylan won the Nobel Prize for his work as a songwriter and in particular as a lyricist . That is, someone who works with words and language. It would be out of the question to give the award to someone known for being a great drum
824.
by dmurray 3y ago
NASA have set a precedent that they won't pay, even if ordered to by a government that has jurisdiction where the debris landed: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/34928/did-nasa-...
825.
by dmurray 3y ago
Maybe it should be the grocer's' apostrophe, since there are many offending grocer's.
826.
by dmurray 3y ago
You could tell it "you have a budget of X GB for disk space, choose the indexes that best optimize the queries given the budget cap." Not perfect, because some queries may be more time-critical than others. You could even annotat
827.
by dmurray 3y ago
> Heck, it was possible to completely rewrite a bad query on the fly and execute a re-written variant. Is there really such a thing as a bad query that can be rewritten to give the same results but faster? For me, that's already the
828.
by dmurray 3y ago
You might be more likely to pick up on some context clues that this is an NPR reporter trying to make conversation about the topic she's just been told you're interested in, rather than a fellow obsessive fan of early-2000s childr
829.
by dmurray 3y ago
Yes. Yes, they need cause, but not in the Fourth Amendment definition. The cause is you've requested to enter the US or you've been found hanging round the vicinity of an airport, land border or navigable waterway.
830.
by dmurray 3y ago
The name "Rabbit" almost got genericized - I heard DECT phones being referred to as "rabbit phones" just this year. DECT in general (the successor to CT-2 which Rabbit used) is still going strong, though in some bubbles
831.
by dmurray 3y ago
If the system worked as you propose, but regularly glitches, it would show someone's picture when it glitched. The check-in staff wouldn't see anything weird about this particular person's photo: he's not otherwise notew
832.
by dmurray 3y ago
> We'll try to make that more clear in the received (encrypted) emails This seems like the ideal. If the message could look like > This message from mom@protonmail.com was encrypted by PGP using the public key for foo@gmail.com r
833.
by dmurray 3y ago
Yes indeed. Science.org recently published an interesting interview [0] on exactly that, that even made the HN front page. [0] https://www.science.org/content/article/now-we-know-where-de...
834.
by dmurray 3y ago
But only one Scunthorpe.
835.
by dmurray 3y ago
I can't imagine this would violate zoning laws if the employer did it and declared it it as a temporary structure for construction staff. And the expense wouldn't have raised an eyebrow for the agency reviewing the construction co
836.
by dmurray 3y ago
I'm a Neuralink skeptic, at least in the short term, but this article is ridiculous. Apparently the first three things "Neuralink is missing" are the highly technical problems that are core to their business: how to implant a
837.
by dmurray 3y ago
Perhaps whichever HR department in the IDF covers publishing books has a checklist that says "serving members cannot publish books about intelligence operations under their own name", but no one who actually enforces an anonymizat
838.
by dmurray 3y ago
How would this work for "any identification period"? Any time I want to apply for a credit card or move house or enrol in a school, someone responsible needs to quiz me on all those things and verify them in a way that is secure,
839.
by dmurray 3y ago
> Are those two events/teams comparable so that one could expect the same type of odds? Yes IMO. It might be more rigorous to say: before 2016 there were always a handful of teams priced at 5000-1, after 2016 there were not. The lea
840.
by dmurray 3y ago
The odds did tighten up after Leicester won the Premier League though. You couldn't get 5000-1 on say Watford winning in 2016-17, the best odds IIRC were more like 500-1. It seemed like bookies really did adjust their expectations or t

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