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by edge17 9y ago
here's another "only plane allowed to fly" story http://abcnews.go.com/US/September_11/saving-kareena-sept-11...
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by edge17 9y ago
It's getting a lot of press for sure, but most of their profit (by a large margin) still comes from gaming
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by edge17 10y ago
what does "refueling spy sat" mean? (I know nothing about satellite power sources)
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by edge17 10y ago
What's 1 laptop unit? From what I can gather 7PB/10000 = 700GB, so 1 laptop is 700GB?
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by edge17 10y ago
Sorry, I'm a bit lost. Am I missing something? According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG_LA MPEG LA, LLC is a firm based in Denver, Colorado that licenses patent pools covering essential patents required[1]
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by edge17 10y ago
You seem to be missing basic irrational aspects of human nature.
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by edge17 10y ago
Could you link to the probability lectures you're referring to?
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by edge17 10y ago
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but is there some place where one can read a description of the exploits? On the surface, Whatsapp, Signal, etc being compromised can mean either they are individually compromised or the pla
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by edge17 10y ago
It was really a fantastic hobby to have as a kid. I'm having trouble remembering what sorts of things I had, but in particular I remember the yeti stamps I had from Bhutan - https://www.google.com/search?q=bhutan+yeti+s
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by edge17 10y ago
I grew up collecting stamps. It was a great hobby to learn about the world in the pre-internet days. Also several countries that no longer exist.
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Protectionism also caused India to fall behind in most major sectors for the 60 years after independence. Protectionism generally juices an economy in the short term but leaves it behind in the long term when the trade barriers make it cost
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by edge17 10y ago
It's like anything, there's a whole ecosystem involved - which includes having a lot of money to pay the right lawyers that know how to navigate the system properly. I've seen companies hire the wrong lawyers and, after promi
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by edge17 10y ago
http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2017-H1B-Visa-Category.asp...
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by edge17 10y ago
So remind me again what tax dollars are for...?
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by edge17 10y ago
These types of probabilities are all over the place though. Even in chips with a billion transistors or more we have to design redundancy because manufacturing at that scale isn't perfect. Imagine there's a 1 in 10 million chance
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Also that the folks in the government doing the banning probably use WhatsApp themselves to conduct business and do their jobs.
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by edge17 10y ago
To add to this, no on will tell you they are for child labor, but if you're going to try to eliminate it you have to provide alternatives. In the US we have free public education available to all children by law; other countries can&
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by edge17 10y ago
I would highly recommend the BBC Radio 4 program "In our time" http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01gyd7j?page=2 Each episode tends to discuss historical, political, and economic conditions in addition to the p
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by edge17 10y ago
maybe a dumb question, but how do you get yourself tested? does a doctor have to order tests? is it a self-test?
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by edge17 10y ago
Slightly off topic, but does anyone else have trouble loading AMP pages on their iPhone Safari browser? Almost any AMP page I try to load is blank with a banner on top containing the address of the page, and then my only solution is to load
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by edge17 10y ago
Did this course as a student. Highly suggest reading the text book, quite literally has all the answers and explains everything very well.
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Ask HN: Who's making money during the election madness?
39 points by edge17 10y ago|51 comments
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Everyone seems to be addressing the finance part of it without the "growing intellectually" part of it. I've been fortunate to be surrounded by economists my whole life. Economists are also tremendous historians; reading a lo
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by edge17 10y ago
In case anyone else was confused, those corpses retrieved and studied in the above article were bodies buried from the same expedition, not bodies recovered from the sunken ship. Thanks for sharing the clipping though, very fascinating.
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by edge17 10y ago
compared to what?
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by edge17 10y ago
SpaceX has done quite a few missions to develop their rockets before getting contracts from NASA, etc. Some of those also included payloads.
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by edge17 10y ago
Scientifically speaking, a successful mission is one where you've gathered all the data for analysis and can work with it long after the mission is over. It's like, if SpaceX launches a rocket and it explodes - a real failure woul
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5 Predictions for the Future of Telematics(medium.com)
3 points by edge17 10y ago|0 comments
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Addiction comes in many forms, as does willpower. Not understanding it means you are probably fortunate to not be susceptible or predisposed to addictions. There have been studies in animal populations where certain members of the populatio
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