gknoy

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by gknoy 14y ago
Agreed. I hate using Facebook, as I nearly never feel like posting anything, but it's nice to be able to say, "I wonder what ___ is doing", and then see their feed, or see some vacation photos, and not have to actually bother them and inter
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by gknoy 14y ago
With a memory foam mattress, they tend to be vacuum packed in a plastic sleeve and box that is nigh-impossible to ever fit it back in again. I suppose if you had a specialized team that could come to your home, repackage it, and take it aw
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by gknoy 14y ago
Often it's not so much that people get used to it, as that the yellow lights are often set too short to react to in time (and safely) to avoid running the light. If people have to stand on their brakes to avoid running a yellow-turning-red,
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by gknoy 14y ago
I would imagine that it uses a wired data connection. Otherwise, imagine the mayhem that could result if some enterprising hacker were to inject fake data into the stream... such as copies of the mayor or chief of police's cars.
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by gknoy 14y ago
That's probably a big reason why the first two pictures portray ethnically diverse members of the force.
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by gknoy 14y ago
While it's intended as a news site, it wouldn't hurt to have a more prominent link (if there is one?) to the actual police website.
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by gknoy 14y ago
Re: 1, the "plant genetic resources", I believe that's in respect to Monsanto's tendency to patent particular strains of seeds ("Round-up Ready" means that the pesticides won't kill the plants), and then leverage the legal system (or money)
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by gknoy 14y ago
I don't think that's true: if it's a small simple method, and you replace it with inlined code, you have a real mess when you later discover a subtle bug and need to replace its guts.
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by gknoy 14y ago
It's even more apropos when we consider how many people in the future may be wearing Google Glass-like augmented reality devices. In Minority Report, you might see someone else's advertisements, but if they are projected directly on your vi
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by gknoy 14y ago
The skill in measurement is an entirely different skill from that of doing the sewing, however. If you had a machine that could sew as well as a human, we could have an army of measurement experts sending them to the machines, which would c
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by gknoy 14y ago
If the car is autonomous, I imagine it could be configured (or default) to avoid school zones when possible, and maintain speeds that would allow for safely stopping easily in case of kids.
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by gknoy 14y ago
While it doesn't fully convey the depth of his emotion, or likely even allow us to fully imagine it, I think that looking at the article as a whole, we can see that he basically now can experience music in ways very similar to (and likely t
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by gknoy 14y ago
The monowidth version of the font is still in development. I look forward to hearing about that in the ("near") future.