irixusr

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by irixusr 11y ago
I think what may happen is a big operator will invest a lot of money to make service there incredibly cheap and fast, killing the service. As a lesson to all you out there who'd dare challenge a communication company.
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Once they pay off their loan, they could end up with the cheapest and faster internet services in the area. The irony.
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I don't like returning, generally, unless the product really didn't meat expectations. However, I've never had a problem returning opened hard merchandise.
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by irixusr 11y ago
I owe a great debt of gratitude to Rothbard. The excerpts from his book on American history are gut wrenching as they are eye openers.
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by irixusr 11y ago
I've never actually returned software. Would a big retailer (Best buy, say) accept the return of software whose seal has been broken. A few years ago (>|decade?) music sales and video games were final at my local BB because they ass
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by irixusr 11y ago
Agreed, as anyone who codes and therefore understand how much understanding five pages of logic can be. But bills often have more pages than days in an elected congress (two years is just over 700 days) so you have to divide out
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by irixusr 11y ago
I'm a coward, not a saint. Nor am I very "progressive" (yuck) so I'm not trying to be apologetic to minorities. But I've done things that get black folks killed that white folks get warnings for. And that's the
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by irixusr 11y ago
I don't really fear police (white 30 year old with no accent) because I know it's fairly rare that some thing bad will happen to me with them. I also don't fear terrorists who are even less likely to harm me, or the monsters
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by irixusr 11y ago
We also need a bill length vs. review time rule. If a law is too long for a representative to have read it (Patriot act, ACA) then Congress should not vote on it until they've had enough time to read it. I propose 10 days + (number of
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by irixusr 11y ago
Interesting, but the last line sent it out of the ballpark: "The same is not true for others [...] the people the U.S. government secretly injected with plutonium."
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by irixusr 11y ago
If you mean lossy, why not? Netflix could use this by reducing the information they send out to their users who recreate a lot of what was lost. I don't think for loss-less though, because they are inferring what a pixel should to be,
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by irixusr 11y ago
I think the idea is that an image has a certain amount of self similarity. I.e. skin looks like skin. So the algorithm learns how skin is supposed to look like by looking at all the skin. So every wrinkle is improved by looking at every oth
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by irixusr 11y ago
LA literally steals water from Mexico (see Colorado river and the fact that it doesn't flow into Mexico anymore). So this author's holier-than-thou attitude strikes me as a bit rich: Angelinos are water abusers[1] in general and
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by irixusr 11y ago
Then change the law so that authorities within rule of the Law address the issue. Outing people, be they gun owners in NY state or water abusers in LA is harassment. This is not that different from J. Edgar Hoover threatening to "out&q
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by irixusr 11y ago
See my post bellow estimating how large their lot should be assuming golf-course irrigation. I came with ~5 acres This individual is a jerk, no doubt, but 5 acres is small, so their overall usage compared to the total for LA county isn&#x27
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by irixusr 11y ago
Can this be true (1300 gal/hour is 5m^3/hour 24/7.)? At first I thought it was impossible. They I crunched some numbers... I don't think this is within the domicile. It must be for irrigation. So let's estimate ho
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by irixusr 11y ago
Agreed, which is hardly his/her fault, but rather California/LA politics' fault. Raise prices, or put a multi-tier pricing, or whatever; but harassment for social engineering's sake is creepy.
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by irixusr 11y ago
I'm not astrophysicist, but I would think they're all as real they just give different information about the underlying structure and events of the universe. Perhaps a the question should be, "which wavelength is more useful?
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by irixusr 11y ago
I've just become a father and my kid has very slight jaundice, not enough to have to do anything about it. But it did get me thinking, "how was jaundice dealt with before"? Considering 10% (??) of kids have bad jaundice that&
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by irixusr 11y ago
Well the masterminds are still in the red, compared to the deaths from obesity (and drastic cut in quality of life).
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by irixusr 11y ago
Sure, and the same things can be said about contraception. On the other hand an insurance company could argue that since you didn't avoid getting sick/pregnant by going to the check up they're not going to cover it. Which i
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by irixusr 11y ago
Lol. I was going to call it Obamacare, but I thought it would be needlessly divisive.
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by irixusr 11y ago
I hate to agree because what the insurance company did is nasty. But you're right. Which is why I'm skeptical of the AMA requirements to cover certain recurrent health services (annual checkups, contraception). If they're una
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by irixusr 11y ago
I would think Insurance companies understand their business better than most industries < you loose a lot of money fast if you do risk wrong. They don't expect profit from all their accounts, not a priori. However they choose to d
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UK and Saudi Arabia 'in secret deal' over human rights council place(theguardian.com)
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Well that's the theory. What ends up happening is always up in the air. I did read somewhere that the average "commute" has stayed constant throughout history - about 45 min - be it walking, omnibus, trolley or car. So you&#x
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by irixusr 11y ago
I agree that a narrower tunnel costs less (displaced rock is quadratic with tunnel diameter), but is it cheap enough to offset capital costs for all but a few extra worthy projects? I'd love to have underground streets.... But $$$....
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by irixusr 11y ago
Because they could be better drivers. For example a "perfect" driver communicating with one in front of him could, eventually, tailgate with an inch at much higher speeds. If we approximate (for arguments sake) traffic as a fluid,
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by irixusr 11y ago
Theoretically. I know if I burn 500 calories of fat I'll loose 1 lb in a week. And this is a 500 cal deficiency. But since I don't know how much of the burger I've digested or how much intensely my body is working to, say, re
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by irixusr 11y ago
Hormones act in blood concentrations of 1E-12 [1]. This is by design, they act as triggers. When you consider hormones affect everything , from how and where you put weight, to sexuality, to behavior it's incredible how little thought

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