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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> You can commit nearly anonymous transactions over long distances with it. It's value over international currencies is in proportion to the size of the black market transacted via BtC. Eh, I think in the long run that will be more
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
I sort of gave up on Reason.com after their article on the LA Expo Line: http://reason.com/archives/2012/05/05/new-light-rail-ridersh... The short version is that they surveyed ridership on the new line
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
As others have mentioned, there is no universal definition of FP. But if you're willing to stretch your personal definition of FP to include LabVIEW, then there are a considerable number of real FP applications used every day in resear
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> don't go to grad school unless you get a stipend and tuition waiver That actually sounds like some of the least controversial advice I've every heard about grad school, at least on the science-y side (maybe things are diffe
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
But also vastly reduced pollution. Popular Mechanics had a few articles about the extent of the problem in Los Angeles (which you can read for free): http://books.google.com/books?id=SNkDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA178&dq=sm...
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
The power source is immaterial. Industrial-scale smelting produces CO2 at the point of production. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall-H%C3%A9roult_process
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
I think... you might want to read up on aluminum smelting, which converts alumina (Al2O3) into aluminum (Al). The process involves passing a large current between two graphite (carbon) electrodes via the alumina. Al2O3 + carbon => Al +
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
So I started college as a CS major (and then switched to physics because it was harder :-), but my recollection is that my code was graded not just by whether it produced the correct outputs. It was also graded on structure, use of good va
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
That's sort of a straw man, though, isn't it? The Google guy said he'd take a B-level CS major over an A-level humanities major. So you're not comparing top-25% CS to top-25% humanities. You're comparing second
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Actually, as a car-free resident of LA for close to a decade (grad school then work), I'd say LA's public transit system is pretty good, and the major obstacles to making it better are rampant NIMBYism and the Bus Riders' Uni
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Sure, but there are sensors to tell the ship where it is. Give me a GPS jammer and a loop of wire, and I'll drive the ship to my secret treasure island. Of course, there are countermeasures for that, but I think the lack of steering
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Probably because we aren't willing to pay airplane prices and do maintenance on airplane schedules. I suspect that a container ship usually takes longer to travel between two ports of call than an airplane is legally allowed to go bet
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Airline unions appear to be, but the way the seniority incentives work give us the current outcome. If you assume that total pilot pay for the airline is fixed and pay goes linearly with seniority (just to keep it simple and concrete), then
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
It's not. But from what I've heard, it's much less than that per seat . I'm saying that the PIs of most university labs would gladly pay several times the retail price of XP just to be able to continue having support
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> at what point does supporting an older operating system like XP cost you more money then it would to spend the money upgrading to a later version of Windows? Well... when expensive capital equipment runs XP, that point is essentially &
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> I don't know the system, but I'm sure it's already synchronous in that there are numerous receiver channels and their acquisition values are correlated with the illumination angle. This is not "synchronous detection
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
ABS allows you to take maximum advantage of the traction you do have, but it doesn't magically improve your traction. The problem the GP is referencing is that the driver (be it human or computer) operates the vehicle using some sor
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> It's not clear that it works for multiple independent vehicles, either. We may only have self-driving car, singular. I'm no LIDAR expert, but I do design and build synchronous detectors (think: boxcar/lock-in amplifier&#
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
The trucks are driving between relatively fixed points, so it's a simple matter to build CNG stations there. Plus, the cost of a battery scales linearly with the capacity of the battery, while the cost of the CNG tank scales the squar
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
> Charging quickly does release more heat, which can reduce the lifecycle of the battery, but there are workarounds to minimize this. I suspect that's why the GP was warned not to quick-charge his/her Leaf too often: The Leaf b
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
I suspect the energy cost is a little higher than that because a commercial electricity customer (like Tesla) will often be subject to 'demand charges,' which are assessed based on the highest power used in a billing period. Sinc
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by fancyketchup 12y ago
Have these models actually been verified experimentally? My perception is that people sitting in the back of the airplane often place their carry on in the first available overhead bin space. This creates a traffic jam as people sitting n
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
It may be the case that the two pieces of plastic are "yellow back and border" and "grey front cover, " but having any other color on the back invalidates the infringement claim. If they had done a yellow border with gr
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
And I quote: "[...] chances are you will get a zero-profit or even below-cost deal on your new car" Let's say I'm a car dealer and I need to sell one more car to get my bonus. Let's say that car cost me $20,000. L
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Yea, neither am I: Grandpa had a Ford dealership until about 5 years ago, his son ran the service department. My uncle on the other side currently sells cars for Honda. I'm well-versed in the car business. I'm not sure how your
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
The great thing about comments like this one are that they help me identify whose opinion not to take seriously in the future. Not being able to distinguish the difference between copying multiple distinctive elements of trade dress (yellow
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
See, but this just shows that even those who think they are educated car shoppers actually aren't. Dealers never sell cars at zero or negative profit, unless you ignore things like holdback (a rebate on the wholesale price of the car
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
I'm not a Fluke junkie either, but I don't buy the "functional colors" argument. Nobody made a multimeter that looked like that until Fluke started doing it. Fluke also makes a range of "intrinsically safe" m
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
I think you made an arithmetic mistake. Look at it another way: 10 minutes per person per day * 8kbps = 600 kB per person per day. 600 kB / person / day * 365 days /year = 214 MB / year. That's nothing . Consumer
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Wait, so you're equating the risk of allowing someone to be trained to fly an aircraft with the risk of allowing anyone to fly an aircraft without any training?

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