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by fr0sty 11y ago
All that means is you get to queue-jump when you get to security rather than wait in the longer general queue. The actual security screening is the same.
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by fr0sty 11y ago
Does anyone know of a source for more of the "Watch Mr. Wizard" episodes (the black and white ones)? A few are on YouTube, a selection was made available on DVD (since out of print and quite expensive) but I have found no others.
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Moto Hint (now $79)(motorola.com)
3 points by fr0sty 11y ago|0 comments
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by fr0sty 11y ago
Turning off the ignition may deactivate your airbags* which could make a bad situation worse.You would be much better off attempting to shift your car into Neutral first. * This was what made the GM Ingnition switch problem so deadly. The e
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by fr0sty 11y ago
Brian May of Queen built his guitar with his father while he was a teenager and used it for most of his career: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special
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by fr0sty 11y ago
By my reading of the article the attacker gains access to user's Starbucks account, adds another card and transfers money to it. It doesn't appear to involve the mobile app at all. The real problem seems to be with the lack of rat
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by fr0sty 11y ago
Tesla car batteries are between 60kwh and 85kwh. These packs are 7kwh or 10kwh. Not going to get you that much farther with only a 10-15% increase in capacity...
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by fr0sty 11y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. Too many people in this thread forget that not everyone lives in a temperate coastal area.
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by fr0sty 12y ago
I'm pretty sure there is at least one stopping place between 35 residents (one of the 'villages' from the article' and the 16,000 of Cabrini-Green.
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by fr0sty 12y ago
Simpson's paradox paradox comes into play here a little bit. Your risk of dying of prostate cancer is in the ballpark of 1 in 40 but your risk of dying of heart disease is 1 in 4. If trading a higher risk of prostate cancer for a lower
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by fr0sty 12y ago
>A 10 year old Mercedes in great shape is probably worth about 15-20K. Not even close. The three Kompressor models in '03 were the C230, C32 AMG and SLK32 AMG. KBB trade-in values for those cars are about $3k, $5k, and $10k respecti
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by fr0sty 12y ago
> So record every police encounter, always. Unless you are in a jurisdiction where such actions are illegal...
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by fr0sty 12y ago
Previous discussions: 310 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972411 89 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8139669
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Supreme Court won't hear dispute over Sherlock Holmes(bostonherald.com)
2 points by fr0sty 12y ago|2 comments
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by fr0sty 12y ago
Your camera is not the typical kit used by most professional photographers, though. Uncompressed RAW files from a Nikon 810, for instance, are 72MB so your 16G card could hold just over 200 shots a piece. Of course, whether having an entire
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by fr0sty 12y ago
They are not "riding on" but rather being "pushed by" the sheets of ice.
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by fr0sty 12y ago
>city bus should be able to operate at or near optimum stoichiometric conditions at all times Diesel motors operate quite differently than gasoline engines in this regard, actually. A diesel motor is only operating at the correct stoichi
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by fr0sty 12y ago
The issue with that, is there's no good way for the doctor to get paid for doing it. Prior to 2009 there was no billing code for phone calls or email and currently the rules around what is a "billable" consultation are comple
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by fr0sty 12y ago
Not for free, liquidity providers are paying to trade in IEX (and paying the same rate as the takers).
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by fr0sty 12y ago
Publishing date of that post was April 1st, for what it's worth...
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by fr0sty 12y ago
The binaural recordings are more than a little spooky. Even knowing before hand that they were going to play the sound of someone knocking on doors I had to fight the temptation to turn and look at sho was knocking on the desk next to me.
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by fr0sty 12y ago
Aside from the broader war strategy questions, this appears to be a good example of the second-system effect.
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by fr0sty 12y ago
An unknown number of attempt end with the stowaway falling out of the wheel well after takeoff and before touchdown.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
What is your definition of HFT? Why exactly does it worry you?
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by fr0sty 13y ago
any exchange member may submit a hide-not-slide order. there is nothing secret about them.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
spread has an interconnect between Chicago and New York but that is not generally useful for HFT stock trading since nearly every execution venue is in New Jersey.
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by fr0sty 13y ago
>The HFTs get to see the list of orders as they come in. No, they don't. Third parties cannot see orders "as they come in". Only orders displayed in the exchange's book and executions already completed are sent out to
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by fr0sty 13y ago
> The feed the HFT gets is faster than the NYSE to NASDAQ feed. Assuming for the moment that someone can see an execution from NYSE and route an order to NASDAQ in response in less time than NYSE can send their own order to that Exchang
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by fr0sty 13y ago
Please explain how My. HFT "intercepts" the trade in this case? How does he know your limit price? How does he know your parent quantity? Imagine an alternate scenario: You send an order "buy 100,000 shares $10.00 limit"
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by fr0sty 13y ago
In your example both NY and Chi would be "crossing" the market (bid above offer) which is not generally allowed. The displayed quote on both exchanges is "protected" and another exchange can't lock or cross the mar

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