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San Francisco’s Quality-of-Life Toll(city-journal.org)
1 points by jackfoxy 7y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I heard there was a Soviet-era joke along these lines: Q: Under true communism, will there be money? A: Yes and no. Some will have money, others won't.
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
I remember being astonished when I first saw images of the purported documents. I could not believe this got past anyone at CBS news, let alone Dan Rather. Did they have no memory of what manual typewriter type face looked like?
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
It will lead to unintended consequences, for certain. Disaster is a loaded term in this case, which contains no actionable or otherwise useful information. No doubt private concerns will happily continue to use or not use facial recogniti
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
It is still really unorganized in many ways. The worst thing, I think, is search results still frequently list obsolete MSDN pages higher...and, btw, the new branding is not MSDN, but docs.microsoft.com. They still have a long ways to go, w
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Pure speculation, it would not surprise me to wake up someday and see MS has bought Stackoverflow. Given their direction of integrating the entire developer experience, it would make sense. MS is upgrading technical docs across the board, o
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
The full announcement from Microsoft https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/introducing-windo...
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
How many of these satellites can they orbit with 1 Falcon launch?
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by jackfoxy 7y ago
Yes, but if you look at the chart, most of the loss occurred in the decade of the 70s, before any talk of trickle down economics. From the end of the 82 recession until the mid nineties the erosion continues, but at a much slower pace, clos
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
A little bit of (a), but mostly (b)
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I suspect this goes with the territory of the U.S. giving up control of the internet to international bodies . Disclaimer: I don't claim to have a deep understanding of any of these issues. But I will point out no other great power, t
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
My company does machine learning checked by physical models. Our single biggest problem (and management is finally waking up to it) is curating the incoming data. And this is in a mature industry (oil & gas).
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66M-year-old deathbed linked to dinosaur-killing meteor(news.berkeley.edu)
4 points by jackfoxy 8y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
You could say water from the depth of most petroleum reservoirs underground is naturally polluted. It can be more than just saline polluted. Pretty much anything that can be in the earth and can mix with water. There are cases of shallowe
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I recall I watched too much CNN in the mid-80s and my recollection is that news network was right out front in promoting crack as a special case drug problem that required special law enforcement.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Thank God. Hopefully everyone learns from this. Recycle where it makes economic sense, or bury in an approved manner. It will be interesting rock in less than 1M years.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I've cold-brewed using a French Press for only 12 hours and was very happy with the results.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
As a Microsoft Development Technologies MVP, I can tell you MS gets it and has made huge progress in usefulness and usability of the DotNet ecosystem. Keep in mind there are on the order of 1M C# developers worldwide. Most in enterprise env
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Same old ugly Bauhaus architecture. Showcasing a beautiful building would do a lot more to promote innovative construction methods.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Does this in any way address the issue of coin theft / key loss? For instance, can I keep these coins on deposit with JPM, grant them access to my keys, conduct all the transactions through JPM's more traditional security infrastr
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
In the 1st half of the 20th century flying was a lot less safe and much more expensive than it became in the 2nd half of the 20th century.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
The organizers have been doubling down on the radical inclusion principle in recent years. Burning Man is just not the place for (probably) most people. Even the low-end turn-key camps and Burner Busses (well-meaning to reduce road conges
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
The big thing that makes Burning Man what it is, is the attendees. The work involved in preparing, travelling, and surviving on the Playa is a big part of attendee self-selection. There is a tension between radical inclusion and radical
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Transparency advocate group releases trove of hacked Russian documents(thehill.com)
9 points by jackfoxy 8y ago|2 comments
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Construction of SLAC was a big deal on the peninsula at the time. At least I was fully aware of it. I remember touring SLAC in 1968 or 69 with my elementary school class. We had no idea what it was doing beyond it being an atom smasher .
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
I ran across a great quote that sums up the situation. ...functionality is an asset, but code is a liability. http://widgetsandshit.com/teddziuba/2010/10/taco-bell-progra... Don't know if the OP came u
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Bing gives me points I can cash in for Amazon gift cards. I rarely fall back to G, and when I do it seems like the sponsored search results are much more intrusive than even those on Bing. What I'd really like is a meta-search engine
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
How much are UVA and UVB blocked by the atmosphere in higher latitudes during winter months? UVB is blocked by the ozone layer, so I would expect in winter even less reaches the Earth's surface.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
This link gets me to the free download of the document manager. I'm not seeing the list on this page.
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by jackfoxy 8y ago
Kenmore appliances and Craftsman tools. Maybe the appliance quality suffered recently. I don't know because our 30 year old washer and dryer still work. Appliances were also built to be repaired, and there was a full catalog of parts y

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