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by fancyketchup 13y ago
This isn't to suggest that using the WDT in interval mode is the wrong approach, and I know there's a certain amount of elegance to doing everything with one chip, but you could still use the level interrupt by adding a 7486 (stan
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
(I can't watch the video) It certainly seems plausible that it could work. Imagine a copter with reversible motors that can respond quickly-enough (weasel words!) to inputs from the control system. Now, the copter has angular moment
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Ok, so if dealerships provide a valuable service, then why are they so worried about allowing manufacturers to sell directly? If those things you identified are truly important, then manufacturers will end up paying for them one way or the
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Wait, so in one post, you challenge HN's readership to prove that Comcast is a monopoly, and then two posts later you assert that cable is a natural monopoly. I'm confused what point you're trying to make.
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Can you expand on which things you think might become economically interesting? I can't see the cost of delivering and supporting humans in space dropping below the cost of, say, delivering and supporting humans underwater in SCUBA gea
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
> Housing prices don't fall uniformly in an area as more units become available, so existing residents may still be displaced. This is true, but you need to consider the supply and demand for housing in aggregate. You also need to
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
There have recently been rumblings that Google and FB are 'bad' because they hire people who move to SF. These employees increase demand for housing in SF, which tends to price out people who have been living there longer. Some
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Yes, and autopilots are absolutely terrible at dealing with unexpected events. See: UA232, BA38, US1549, AC143. In each of those accidents, passengers survived who would have died in the hands of an autopilot. 1) In the BA case, the autop
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
The "stresses" come from trying to maintain a middle-class lifestyle on a lower-class income. As someone who once spent a considerable amount of time (just over a decade) supporting myself on a just-above poverty line income, I no
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
From that GP's quora link: We have an internal metric for measuring performance, defined as follows: "Of all those able to legally work in the United States who graduate our class with an intention of seeking software engineering
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Sure, but Californians also have absurdly-low property tax rates and sales taxes as low as Texas. Prop 13 made it essentially impossible to structure taxes the way other states do, so Californians pay lots of income tax and little property
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Why does a server need a GPU?
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Come on, HN, you're better than this. The policy change is specifically limited to CASH withdrawals. Notice that nowhere does the BBC story even hint that HSBC limited withdrawals via wire transfer, personal check, or cashier&#x
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Except that really don't need these chargers if you're charging overnight. The Model S can fully recharge 240+ miles in about 9 hours using just an electric clothes dryer outlet or a "J1772" plug. Those are dirt cheap
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Who's going to offer bitcoin? Nobody living in Argentina has any to offer. American and European tourists? Why wouldn't they keep their (appreciating) bitcoins at home and just offer to pay in Dollars or Euros?
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Gah. Can we please stop with this bullshit already? Fahrenheit has nothing to do with body temperature. The human body temperature is ~100F by coincidence, not by design. The Fahrenheit scale has 180 divisions (nice round number, evenly d
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
And they don't have to worry whether the two cameras are pointed in the same direction. And they don't have to worry about the pointing shifting over time.
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
I'm currently preparing for a course based around The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind, which (so far) seems like exactly what you're looking for. The beginning has a very quick recap of state spaces, vectors, calculus, et
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
The statute doesn't seem to limit the selling of derivatives, though... it seems to me that it would be quite straightforward for the artist to simply sell the copyright as well as a call option on the same copyright 35 years in the fu
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
> The reason is, that in many cases, the fuel taxes collected are far, far in excess of the money actually spent in maintaining the road and building new roads. Actually, you have this backwards[1]. The cost of maintaining roads exceeds
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
If you had $150 million in rubles, you'd almost certainly have an account with the private banking side of whichever bank you use. Private accounts generally come with perks like free wire transfers. Source: Someone I trust who works
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Huh. A SoC on a board targeted at hobbyists without any capture/compare timer resources. What an... interesting choice.
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
The problem is that it isn't clear that the F-22's biggest advantage will actually work in the real world. Radar cross-section is highly frequency dependent, (guess how they shot down an F-117 in Bosnia, a plane, which made even
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
My guess is that the fine is either a slap on the wrist (so the house owner just chalks it up to business expense) or so sever that the house owner stops doing short-term rentals entirely. I've not used AirBNB, but I assume that the h
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
That (CANBUS and RS485) works ok as long as everything agrees on what "ground" is. Using differential signaling (as both those standards do) does give you some noise immunity and does help with the ground issue somewhat. The pro
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Li more abundant in the Earth's crust than Cu, Zn, or Ni. I don't think we're going to run out any time soon.
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
>That's what inflating in value means. You're using "inflation" to mean exactly the opposite of what economists usually use the term "inflation" to mean. Bitcoin is experiencing deflation because the va
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
I don't have a PV system, but I know people who do, so take this with a grain of salt: The default assumptions in that calculator are probably a little wrong. First I think most people are paying closer to $5 per Watt, and I know someo
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
Plenty of people were buying music from iTMS before they stopped using DRM. "Fighting the music industry for your right to DRM-free music" is just an example of the Jobs' Reality Distortion Field at work. Apple has an effect
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by fancyketchup 13y ago
> If you ever interview for a PhD program, you may notice that the people at the recruiting party are all first or second year students. When I read this, it struck me that I had a very different experience. In my department, the SOP wa

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