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by guyzero 10y ago
Pretty amazing that they did all this before the current generation of MEMS sensors.
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by guyzero 10y ago
One hour travel time and three hour delay while the CPB agent grills you on the wikipedia definition of a red-black tree. ( https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792 )
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by guyzero 10y ago
Here's a 2001 article about the interaction of private and public billing in Canada: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC80881/ My personal medical advice to get get some ice on that burn.
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by guyzero 10y ago
Ah, I replied to the wrong comment. "Canada is that it's basically the only country in the world wherein it's illegal to pay a doctor to help you" - this is factually untrue. There are private medical clinics in Canada.
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by guyzero 10y ago
This is not true. Doctors cannot bill both provincial systems and the patient at the same time. But there are some private doctors in Canada.
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by guyzero 10y ago
Most of Canada's reserves are tar sands which are about as pleasant as the name describes - tar mixed with sand. There's a lot of it but it's expensive to extract. So for one thing these reserves are somewhat hypothetical bas
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by guyzero 10y ago
You could use an opto-coupled triac but honestly for a hobby project a relay is a lot simpler. http://www.electronics-tutorials.ws/blog/optocoupler.html
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by guyzero 10y ago
It's a reference to the Prince song "1999" and the fact that it's using MPEG 1 video encoding that was available in 1999.
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by guyzero 10y ago
How big is the company you're at? There are decent big companies out there and they tend to be more attractive for older people for a bunch of reasons. Why not look for a position at a FB/GOOG/AMZN/MSFT or some other lar
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by guyzero 10y ago
I wouldn't want a million-dollar home in Sunnyvale either. It would be in a terrible part of town or incredibly small. A decent place in Birdland or Ortega Park or Cherry Chase is more like $2M. And while Sunnyvale is mostly an also-ra
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by guyzero 10y ago
Unless you already work at the company you can't get a L1. And H1B1s are for Singaporean and Chileans only. Hardly a meaningful impact on the US immigration system. TN for Canadians & Mexicans are not visa and don't allow immi
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by guyzero 10y ago
There's virtually no other path to get a skilled worker into the US.
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by guyzero 10y ago
The US has the highest healthcare costs in the world. There's simply no escape in the US unless the government steps in a regulates medical fees like the rest of the western world.
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by guyzero 10y ago
An android phone with Alexa was announced at CES. http://bgr.com/2017/01/05/huawei-mate-9-release-date-alexa-p...
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Debunking the myth of higher pay in Silicon Valley(medium.com)
20 points by guyzero 10y ago|3 comments
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by guyzero 10y ago
"What's possible, though, is accumulating Python objects in memory and keeping strong references to them12. For instance, this happens when we build a cache (for example, a dict) that we never clear. The cache will hold references
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by guyzero 10y ago
Nope, on 16-bit platforms a 16-bit left shift has a very different result from a 16-bit left shift on a 32 bit platform. It's basically a question about knowing when you'll get burned by the size of int varying.
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by guyzero 10y ago
I think you mean antagonists? And yes, but the few ones I've read are pretty heavy-handed and it's pretty terribly done.
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Stealth Cell Tower Disguised as Printer(julianoliver.com)
518 points by guyzero 10y ago|174 comments
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by guyzero 10y ago
Never learning to touch type has finally paid off!
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by guyzero 10y ago
Kinda late, but the reason is building height restrictions. It lets you squeeze in an additional level in urban areas like central Toronto. Plus some people like the modern look I guess.
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by guyzero 10y ago
Water penetrates the surface causing the surface of the concrete to flake off and eventually rusts the encased rebar which expands as it rusts which eventually cracks the concrete from within. The Gardiner Expressway in Toronto is a good ex
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by guyzero 10y ago
"Food poisoning is usually your own fault" - absolutely not. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/03/the-most-c... It comes from poor hygiene in the food supply chain. Salmonella and
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by guyzero 10y ago
And they pay taxes, buy things from local businesses, pay rent to local landlords, etc. Quite unlike foreign call centers. Great news all around.
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by guyzero 10y ago
The plus side of service economies is that they're a lot harder to outsource - you can't open a Manilla call-center to handle a nursing home.
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by guyzero 10y ago
Disk drive? How is the PSU still working? Some C64 PSUs has pretty low lifespans.
447.
by guyzero 10y ago
In the one urban area that has the worst taxi service in the US, Uber is winning. Great!
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by guyzero 10y ago
Original Echo was insanely overpriced relative to BOM costs. Plus now that they have a big volume they've probably negotiated better deals for their cost-down design components.
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by guyzero 10y ago
By far the best response but in case my statement wasn't clear (for anyone that actually cares) the issue is that an online billing system costs roughly the same amount whether you're a tiny local bank or Citibank so even though i
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by guyzero 10y ago
It's all about scale.

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