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by jaxbot 8y ago
Basically already done in Manhattan. If you want working internet in an apartment building, it has to be 5ghz at this point. Everyone's WiFi transmitters are cranked up to max to try to punch through the noise floor, plus all the city
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by jaxbot 8y ago
Ah, damn. I'd heard from other sources when Bluetooth 5 was first coming out that increased bandwidth was part of the spec, so I was hoping that would resolve my congestion woes. 2.4ghz is unusable at some points in the city. It's
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by jaxbot 8y ago
It's all 2.4ghz. The 7 train uses 2.4ghz (literally WiFi I've heard) for CBTC. The other lines don't have train communication, but the bluetooth beacons on them and Transit Wireless (station WiFi) are on the same spectrum of
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by jaxbot 8y ago
My main interest is in Bluetooth 5. Walking around NYC, in even semi-congested areas of Manhattan, my audio cuts out with my phone in my front pants pocket. I literally have to hold it in my hand or coat pocket in order to cut through the i
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by jaxbot 8y ago
At Google I made around that my first year as a new grad (total comp, not salary) and far more than that in following years (again, total comp).
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by jaxbot 8y ago
My Chinese friends do. Not sure if regional. I think it's just the logical shortening when the other option is 'canto', but it doesn't really make sense.
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by jaxbot 8y ago
I think this is a lot of what it comes down to. Even taking a sabbatical and working overseas would be appealing depending on how the career winds blow. I'm curious about the money opportunities, but there's also a major value pac
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by jaxbot 8y ago
Honestly that's comparable to SF, percentage-wise. But the 50% that's left will be higher.
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by jaxbot 8y ago
That's a great point about access to Shenzhen from HK. How's the language barrier been? Have you had to learn both Canto and Mando and read both simplified and traditional? Is there a distinct advantage to living on one side of th
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by jaxbot 8y ago
Thanks for the insights, much appreciated! To be clear, are you a westerner who made this move, or a Chinese native? If the former, how did the startup culture compare to the US startup culture? >of Chinese descent and speak the language
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by jaxbot 8y ago
Google has offices in Shenzhen, too. And one could debate whether Taiwan is a country or part of China. But that aside, the pull seems to be China's incentives and access to local hardware manufacturing. Not just the idea of living in
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Ask HN: Those who moved careers from the West to China, what's your experience?
191 points by jaxbot 8y ago|163 comments
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by jaxbot 8y ago
I've really always considered copyright timelines of more than a decade to be way too long, honestly. Same deal with patents. Once the initial impact of the work is concluded, I don't see any reason not to open it to public domain
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by jaxbot 8y ago
The Power Broker. I picked it up out of urban interests, but it gets into so much more of how our political system has been shaped over the last 100 years, and it's scary (or reassuring?) how little it has changed. But also all the ins
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by jaxbot 8y ago
CC-Non commercial is a disappointing license to find. The project is very cool otherwise.
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by jaxbot 8y ago
No. It's possible that this information has been available, but the connection to the end operator depends on local, non-standard setups. I once called 911 to report a passed out individual in Central Park. I tried relaying landmarks,
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by jaxbot 8y ago
To be fair, this article is from January. Still a controversial/dumb time to brag about working with ICE, but it wasn't published during this press cycle.
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by jaxbot 8y ago
I'm pretty sure this has been known for a long time. This was the method used to jailbreak some Windows Phones back in the day -- extract an archive that overwrites carrier OMA files. Iirc you could just rename a folder in 7-zip to &qu
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by jaxbot 9y ago
>Every circuit considering the issue has concluded that no reasonable expectation of privacy exists once trash has been placed in a public area for collection There are particularly scary implications to this, such as cases where police
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by jaxbot 9y ago
In addition, some cars such as the Nissan Leaf have a feature that locks the brakes at full power when there is a sudden control shift from accelerator to brakes, meaning that if you stomp on the brakes and then reduce pressure, the car wil
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by jaxbot 9y ago
In NYC the urbanists have a trend of saying "crash" instead of "accident" when referring to traffic collisions. They feel that "accident" gives the driver too much credit in situations where they were completel
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by jaxbot 9y ago
It would explain the "outside a crosswalk" remark better if the person were riding the bike. This is one of those cases where video evidence should be subpoenaed, though. It's far too common for the police to accept the state
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by jaxbot 9y ago
But on the other hand, Tesla already has a few notable sensor failures, the biggest one being the fatal crash when the sensors failed to see a semi truck at 90 degrees to path of travel (or cancelled it out as noise, etc.) Obviously things
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by jaxbot 9y ago
The problem with stopping to take a picture is that thousands of people are walking on the sidewalks of these avenues, and people want to take a photo across the sidewalk (camera person by the street, subject by whatever shop/thing the
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by jaxbot 9y ago
I bike in NYC and occasionally deal with people stepping into the street while looking at their phones and not checking for cross traffic because they can't hear me. It's annoying, but doesn't take much to just brake and dodg
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by jaxbot 9y ago
It drives me insane the same way that tourists stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to look at a map does, or when people walk 4-people wide, stand on the left of an escalator, queue up for a bus by blocking the sidewalk, or holding every
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by jaxbot 9y ago
The new Right Of Way law has theoretically helped this in New York, but it's rarely invoked and the consequences are usually a few thousand dollars and cancellation of your driver's license. I don't think anyone has ever seen
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by jaxbot 9y ago
Is the driver supposed to try and figure out if they get to be more aggressive? I don't think that's the point at all.
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by jaxbot 9y ago
I'm waiting for GCP to support preemptible GPU instances. Would love to be able to spend ~50% less on GPU instances when running a batch job that can be stopped and reloaded.
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by jaxbot 9y ago
You are literally just quoting the most recent John Oliver episode. There's an interesting rebuttal to his episode here that is worth reading: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2017/08/24/

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