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Internet Censorship Bill Would Spell Disaster for Speech and Innovation(eff.org)
1 points by estreeper 9y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 9y ago
I'm not understanding the point you're trying to make. The article you posted states clearly that fossil fuels are the largest net contributor (4-5 gigatons/year) to atmospheric carbon: "Before the industrial revolution,
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by estreeper 9y ago
> Still working hard on a searchable database This would be very valuable for us, because as far as I know there is essentially no systematic way to locate these. We have a product which is meant to be of use to many niche audiences, mak
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by estreeper 10y ago
Actually no, in contrast to Spotify, they generally secure licenses for content for a flat fee and a 1-3 year time frame. It doesn't matter how much content is actually viewed, other than Netflix deciding whether it's worth trying
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by estreeper 10y ago
> I think you overestimate how willing someone is to sit in a small car with 3 other strangers Why not just keep your partition up between you and the other passengers? Because no human driver needs visibility out all of the windows, you
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Hackathon team solves Facebook fake news problem in 36 hours(devpost.com)
2 points by estreeper 10y ago|0 comments
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by estreeper 10y ago
Half a dozen commands will get you 90% of the way there. After you've run tmux: ctrl+b followed by... % - split pane vertically " - split pane horizontally arrow keys - change pane you're typing in :new-window 2
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by estreeper 10y ago
> What if I don't love writing web apps in RoR and just want a friggin job? I shouldn't send you a resume at all? Probably not. If someone is doing something they don't like, they tend to stop doing it so well as time goes
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by estreeper 10y ago
I can definitely see this happening today, but I wouldn't consider that anything malicious, just very different culturally. I'm from the US, and wouldn't even be considered blond, but at some of the monuments it was like bein
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by estreeper 10y ago
> It could be classism and segregation, or there could be a higher incidence of theft and you got lucky I can only speak from my personal experience, but I would attribute it more to the former. The advice I generally heard was that you
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by estreeper 10y ago
We visited India last summer. We had been warned by other travelers, blogs, and even the Indian Railways employees, that we should stay with the higher class cars. When getting tickets from Agra (where the Taj Mahal is) to go north, they we
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by estreeper 10y ago
447KB transferred.
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by estreeper 10y ago
Confusingly, compulsory licensing (which is specific to the US) actually only refers to a new recording of a song, i.e., a cover version. If you want to use an original version, you still have to negotiate a license with the owner of the
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by estreeper 10y ago
To reduce this class of errors, perhaps RFID tags could be used? If the medication is prepared in a low-distraction area and tagged there, then the person administering the medicine would scan the tag to make sure it's correct before g
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by estreeper 10y ago
I grew up in northern New Mexico, in an area where piñon and juniper trees grew together, dotting the landscape as far as you could see. About 15 years ago, after years of drought causing tree weakness, we had a bark beetle epidemic. It aff
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by estreeper 10y ago
I was curious how much more efficient, and it seems that a good measure is "well-to-wheels" efficiency, which encompasses the full cycle of fuel production through consumption. It turns out it depends a lot on how dirty energy pro
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by estreeper 10y ago
I've really enjoyed looking at the GraphQL JavaScript reference implementation source [1]. It is well-commented, consistently formatted and structured, and makes frequent references to the spec. The spec itself [2] is very well written
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by estreeper 10y ago
In finance theory, as long as a company is able to grow at a rate higher than the rate at which you could reinvest your dividends, you prefer not to receive a dividend. More simply, the idea is that the money staying in the company will gro
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by estreeper 10y ago
As a practical matter, voting rights are, by and large, pretty worthless. Even famous activist investors with very deep pockets (Carl Icahn, for instance) are usually limited to causing just enough trouble to get management to make some &qu
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by estreeper 11y ago
> Is there any reason to think that this market is a winner take all? I personally doubt it. Exceedingly few markets are winner-take-all. Plus, monthly subscribers are "sticky", so they're not going to leave overnight if o
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by estreeper 11y ago
This doesn't seem that surprising. 2014 Revenue: $1.3 billion (up 45% from 2013) 2014 Net Loss: $197 million (up from $68 million loss in 2013) That's a lot of money to be bleeding and losses are increasing even as revenu
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by estreeper 11y ago
Perhaps one strategy would be to give them a baseline salary (higher than your current salary, of course). You could tell them that in general based on the kind of work you are doing, responsibilities, etc. you would expect more, but under
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by estreeper 11y ago
> Big companies buy 'disrupters' when they fear their market share is at risk. Yep. I can see why they don't wait for them to crumble though. What if they don't? That's a big risk to take. When a potentially disr
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by estreeper 11y ago
As someone who is about to embark on a similar route, that's interesting and exciting to hear. Was it both Android and iOS? If so, how much of the codebase/time was spent on shared code versus needing to write platform-specific po
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by estreeper 11y ago
I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss its applicability. I imagine a large part of what SOF do is solve unforeseeable problems in the context of trying to accomplish some goal, and to be able to adapt quickly if the goal changes. This is p
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by estreeper 11y ago
That's a good point! I guess more broadly, I was thinking about a scenario in which the lock device dies, and making the point that conventional devices aren't foolproof either. In this case, the fool being me, and the proof being
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by estreeper 11y ago
I can see value in internet access. The lock having internet access means I can be on vacation in Thailand and grant a friend access to my house to drop off the rent check I left on the counter. And later, I can make sure my friend didn&#x2
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by estreeper 13y ago
I was just listening to one of Douglas Crockford's talks which discussed the contributions Engelbart made to computer science. What really stuck with me was the sheer number of new concepts he showed in his demo, which, though made in
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by estreeper 14y ago
Doesn't it seem like this analysis is done completely incorrectly? You can't directly compare two indices together that are based on different magnitudes (cost of living vs. salary). If average cost of living in absolute dollars is $30,000