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by etendue 10y ago
> The radar was added to all Tesla vehicles in October 2014 as part of the Autopilot hardware suite, but was only meant to be a supplementary sensor to the primary camera and image processing system. I guess I'm surprised that what
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by etendue 10y ago
If you're eligible for USAA, they also have such policies.
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St. Jude Medical Brings Legal Action Against Muddy Waters and MedSec(media.sjm.com)
3 points by etendue 10y ago|0 comments
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by etendue 10y ago
This feels like an opportune moment to share the cortical homunculus , "a neurological 'map' of the anatomical divisions of the body": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical_homunculus
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by etendue 10y ago
> What seems to be missing is a more sophisticated understanding of risk and a legal framework that substitutes the risk assessment of individual patients (or parents) for a one-size-fits-all decision by a bureaucracy. I guess I disagree
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by etendue 10y ago
I'm not clear as to why you say that alternative injectors were "arbitrarily denied approval": Auvi-Q was voluntarily recalled because it didn't reliably dispense an accurate dose, Teva's was rightfully rejected AB
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Cloud Computing Brings Sprawling Centers, but Few Jobs, to Small Towns(nytimes.com)
1 points by etendue 10y ago|0 comments
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by etendue 10y ago
You can publish in Research Disclosure ( http://www.researchdisclosure.com ) which exists expressly for this purpose.
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by etendue 10y ago
Very interesting question. What if, by chance, you tested that blood and found it positive for HIV? What are your ethical obligations viz. notification as one example? (Mosquitos can't transmit HIV, but they can capture the virus w
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by etendue 10y ago
I'd like to speak with you, but I only see a medium link.
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by etendue 10y ago
I'll add to the other responses that downforce is also something to be considered and air density is a factor there as well. The person I was responding to said "absolutely no impact", which is absolutely incorrect. I don&#x
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Controversial CEO in the hot seat over EpiPen price hikes(statnews.com)
2 points by etendue 10y ago|0 comments
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by etendue 10y ago
Air density and temperature should both have an influence on the performance of electric vehicles, and both change with elevation.
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by etendue 10y ago
Ditto. Interestingly, Gruber thinks that it was underpriced : https://twitter.com/gruber/status/767918392342818816
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by etendue 10y ago
I was thinking of in the sense of model-based systems engineering ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model-based_systems_engineerin... )
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by etendue 10y ago
Being memory safe (and here we implicitly assume the compiler ecosystem is behaving as intended) does not guarantee the code is generally safe.
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by etendue 10y ago
> The rust compiler basically taught me how to write safe systems code, that's an amazing thing. It did no such thing: as one example, if there's an error in your model, would the compiler catch it? Maybe, maybe not. Safe syste
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by etendue 10y ago
Interesting, my first thought jumped to gold and the 5d->6s transition that is well-known for needing relativistic consideration to correctly predict the yellow color. I don't think the answer given is a great one, but I like that t
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by etendue 10y ago
Assuming that you have only filed for a provisoional, the problem is that you have nothing that is of value. The most valuable IP is a patent which has been successfully defended. Less valuable is an issued patent that has been licensed. Le
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Mosquito guns and heavy fines: how Cuba kept Zika at bay for so long(nature.com)
1 points by etendue 10y ago|0 comments
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by etendue 10y ago
If you use an iPad, an app called LiquidText ( http://liquidtext.net ) is great for textbooks or journal articles. It lets you pull excerpts, highlight, annotate, and also compress sections for side-by-side viewing. It's no
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by etendue 10y ago
I'd bet on the legacy manufacturers. Musk has a reputation for firing senior managers that give him answers he doesn't like, or that fail to meet his unreasonable demands. That level of management meddling doesn't bode well f
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by etendue 10y ago
My theory is that slow news, like slow food, is better for you. I think the quality of weekly news magazines (like New Yorker) is superior to daily newspapers, which are themselves superior to web sites. By my theory, social media is the wo
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by etendue 10y ago
> But, still, I sometimes wonder why there is such a hard push for more gun-control laws every year given this decreasing level of domestic violence. Another thing to ponder is why the focus on semiautomatic rifles, when 1, violent crime
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by etendue 10y ago
> Apple hasn’t said why it would be making this change, but this summer, along with Microsoft, the company lobbied Unicode, the nonprofit consortium that decides which emojis should exist, against adding a separate rifle. The rifle emoji
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by etendue 10y ago
Federighi's response is nonsensical: LCDs don't use phosphors in the color filter plane.
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U.S. Said to Uncover Evidence of Criminal Acts in VW Probe(wsj.com)
1 points by etendue 10y ago|0 comments
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by etendue 10y ago
Modelica ( https://www.modelica.org ) is another useful option for MBSE that has more commercial front-ends than one can shake a stick at (e.g., CATIA and Wolfram SystemModeler), as well as free options. There's also a System
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by etendue 10y ago
> The NASA definition the original one, I would think. How are people using "systems engineering" as a term elsewhere, that is incongruent with the NASA definition? The term has been co-opted by people in IT doing (I think) ope
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by etendue 10y ago
In the US, an academic postdoc is a training position with a shamefully low salary and without provision for advancement, somewhat analogous to a medical internship. It's a job, but not a career. Depending on location, there may be mec

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