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by iokevins 10y ago
To add to the comments by @justinlaing: "Under the terms of the partnership, the City will own the network, and Cruzio will act as the developer during engineering and construction and as the operator when the network is complete. Fina
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by iokevins 10y ago
It beats the camper park, I guess (?): "The camper park receives no direct Ethernet service. It does have CruzNet service via a wireless access point installed on a light pole. Residents can utilize USB wifi extenders to receive a sign
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by iokevins 10y ago
Several possible limiting factors: 1) Population - As of 2013 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Santa Cruz's population at 62,864 [1], versus ~860,000, for San Francisco alone, as of 2015.[2] 2) Water - "The SCWD currently has four
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by iokevins 10y ago
Indeed; we currently go to the University of California, Santa Cruz, when we need a speedy connection. : o ) In 2015, I was getting 96Mbps download from their freely accessible CruzNet campus wireless network.
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by iokevins 10y ago
We actually seriously considered using a WISP (wireless Internet service provider). Cruzio offers "Business Broadband"[1], with "50 Mbps typical download and upload speeds" and the sales representative suggested we use t
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by iokevins 10y ago
In line with your comment: in September 2015, regional publication "Santa Cruz Tech Beat" published a special report, by Steve Blum of Tellus Venture Associates, titled, "Santa Cruz Muni Fiber Threat Forces Comcast Upgrade&qu
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by iokevins 10y ago
As someone who lives just off Highway 1 on the Santa Cruz west side (closer to the University of California, Santa Cruz), at least our household has looked forward to this with excitement, for some time now. : o ) Currently using local ISP
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by iokevins 10y ago
Yes; in the sense of how he used technology to connect with the medical professionals who ultimately helped him. I think he used Google Alerts, or something similar.
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by iokevins 10y ago
Point taken : o ) I wrote with Western medicine in mind as "traditional", in the sense that it is standard practice, here in the United States. I can see how that's ambiguous.
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by iokevins 10y ago
A separate thought: Patients searching for and trying traditional and non-traditional solutions. From the article: "...a doctor pointed her to https://clinicaltrials.gov/ , the National Institute of Health's clear
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by iokevins 10y ago
The stem cells, in this case, were retrieved from the patients bone marrow. Dr. Weiss claims, "...60 percent of his 278 patients with macular degeneration, glaucoma and other diseases have regained some sight." "Dr. Alexis G.
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by iokevins 10y ago
Link to the published paper, "Cooperative Orthogonal Macromolecular Assemblies with Broad Spectrum Antiviral Activity, High Selectivity, and Resistance Mitigation", by Koji Ichiyama, et al.: http://pubs.acs.org/doi
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by iokevins 10y ago
From the article: "...since the start of the bull-market run in early 2009, a more traditional mix of stocks and bonds bested a broad hedge-fund index in 22 of 28 quarters, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis of data from resea
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by iokevins 10y ago
Fascinating: "The Attitude Control System (ACS) began using the Star Tracking (STT) system data to control the position of the satellite. The STT at this point should have updated another position monitoring system, the Inertial Refere
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by iokevins 10y ago
Appreciate the context; thank you RichardCA.
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by iokevins 10y ago
I'm in agreement with jschwartzi, nearly completely. Skeptical bells pealing, in my head, as I read Jesse's story. Sympathetic to the idea, and also willing to concede this determination/diagnosis helped Jesse, mentally and e
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by iokevins 10y ago
This BBC article references Ascension Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension_Island A bit disappointed--was expecting something more along the lines of physics abnormalities, I guess. After reading the article
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by iokevins 11y ago
The article title claims "advertising doesn't work"--a rather bold claim, in my opinion. However, the content seems to heavily qualify that claim. For example, ROI--it seems you'd really prefer to see more attention paid
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by iokevins 11y ago
Excellent article; at 3,860 words, it's a bit long, but recommended. Here's a much shorter response, with more pathos: "Oh. And if your reading this while sitting in some darkened studio or edit suite agonizing over whether h
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by iokevins 11y ago
From the article: "The drugs were lapatinib and trastuzumab, which is more widely known as Herceptin. They both target HER2 - a protein that fuels the growth of some women's breast cancers."
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by iokevins 11y ago
Wikipedia: "Defamiliarization or ostranenie (остранение) is the artistic technique of presenting to audiences common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar. A central concept in 20th-cen
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by iokevins 11y ago
Seems like the video indicates Nonchalance used a projector, to animate the fable, on the book pages...or was it something more exotic (?) Kind of hard to see. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAazLmTcmb0
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by iokevins 11y ago
For the curious: "The plugin in question was Custom Content Type Manager (CCTM), a popular WordPress plugin for creating custom post types that, in the three years since it was uploaded on the WordPress plugin repo, has amassed quite a
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by iokevins 11y ago
Touring revenue, in this article, references artists/bands performing live music. Probably obvious, to most, but my first thought was cycling-related, ala Le Tour de France.
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by iokevins 11y ago
From the article: "In a nutshell, zero-rating plans exempt particular data from counting against a user's data cap, or from accruing any excess usage charges. The most dangerous of these plans, such as the AT&T and Verizon off
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by iokevins 11y ago
Given current Bay Area rental rates...maybe go home (?) From the article: "We are talking about a trip from Madera taking 40 minutes to downtown San Jose...." Note: Madera, on the map: https://www.google.com/maps&#
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by iokevins 11y ago
As a primer, I highly recommend The Atlantic journalist James Fallows' deep dive, on California HSR: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/07/the-cali... Note: this article contains links
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by iokevins 11y ago
Seems a bit stale: "Conceived on 10 Apr 2014"...maybe note the year, in the title (?)
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by iokevins 11y ago
Note: Exempt the University of Pittsburg web site, in web browser extension "HTTPS Everywhere", to prevent redirection, from http://www.pitt.edu/~jdnorton/Goodies/Zurich_Notebook/ , to https:/&
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by iokevins 11y ago
In short, Sydney, Australia-based voyeur views the comings and goings of Airbnb tenants, losing sleep, apparently, due to fears over property damage. In my opinion, not worth the time/effort to read.

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