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by elihu 12y ago
The weird thing about license plate scanning is that basically anyone could do it, and there's no obvious way to stop it. Any group of ordinary citizens (including private businesses) could create a distributed network of license plat
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by elihu 12y ago
I don't think this would work very well on Reddit unless you applied some sort of correction factor to account for the size of the subreddits that the user posts to. For instance, someone who posts regularly to /r/luthier wo
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by elihu 12y ago
I think the most effective countermeasure is just good tracking ability. Drones are pretty conspicuous -- having one land in your backyard is like a giant billboard saying "DRUG DEAL IN PROGRESS, RIGHT HERE!" The counter-counterm
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by elihu 12y ago
I think there's an interesting opportunity here to replace logos rather than simply blur them. For example, you could replace the logo with: - the name of the brand in plain text - the parent company of the brand - the parent company&
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by elihu 12y ago
> So far, it has been defined by the German standard that limits the heating and cooling load to 4,755 British thermal units per square foot (or 15 kilowatt hours per square meter)—about one-tenth that of homes built to current U.S. code
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by elihu 12y ago
I think that guaranteed income shouldn't replace minimum wage. The reason is that when workers are willing to work for $1 an hour "for the experience", you're basically just subsidizing companies that don't pay a l
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by elihu 12y ago
Slashdot's metamoderation system is a pretty good approach to preventing users from mis-using their upvotes and downvotes. (Unfortunately, Slashdot's comment moderation system is flawed in other ways, so the benefits of metamod a
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by elihu 12y ago
Is it all that important to return the instance in the DifferentialGeometry? It seems more straightforward to just apply the appropriate inverse transform on hit point and normal vector on the way back out. In my ray-tracer (Glome), I trea
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by elihu 12y ago
What is the price of a residential battery? Let's say you need 10 kilowatt hours to last from sunset to dawn (you might need more some nights, but if you're still on the grid, 10 kwh might be enough most of the time, which is wha
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by elihu 12y ago
Many of them do. Sometimes you can select from a menu of pre-defined temperaments, sometimes you can individually tune each pitch class (e.g. you can tune all the G's 4 cents sharp if you want), and sometimes you can tune all 88 (or s
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by elihu 12y ago
Galois has a pretty flat structure, and employees can choose what they work on among the currently funded projects (they do mostly grant-funded research). https://galois.com/
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by elihu 13y ago
If he had remained anonymous, the naysayers would have called him a coward. By revealing himself, he's labelled a narcissist.
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by elihu 13y ago
Credit scores are pretty far removed from the world of online communities -- it's just not practical to credit-check people who just want to use a forum or play an online game or so forth, but yeah, they are relevant from the point of view
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by elihu 13y ago
I'm the author of the linked article. Feel free to ask me questions.
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Anonymity and Trust - thoughts on reputation system design(metamocracy.com)
10 points by elihu 13y ago|3 comments
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by elihu 16y ago
The poll seems to be based on the premise that whatever time we spend not earning money is time wasted. I recommend reading "Momo" by Michael Ende for a different perspective. Time we spend learning new things is valuable. Time we spend