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by jfoutz 10y ago
Hard to find current statistics. This [1] seems pretty believable. Not sure if it's "good" or not, but there you go. It's interesting that, just eyeballing it, mass seems to be the dominating factor. The crown vic is dis
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by jfoutz 10y ago
I did a tiny bit of research this evening, because this sounded so crazy. My opinion: People on the edge of wilson county should petition to redraw the county line. Eroding the tax base might scare the legislature into being a tiny bit more
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by jfoutz 10y ago
I think a good heuristic is, is it your business? I'd try really hard to avoid implementing address verification. Unless i worked at UPS or FedEx. I'd try really hard to avoid implementing spellcheck. Unless i worked on Word. If i
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by jfoutz 10y ago
"Wilson decided not to appeal the court decision and voted to terminate the service agreement with the town of Pinetops, Wilson's city spokesperson, Rebecca Agner, told Ars today." The agreement looks like it was between the
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by jfoutz 10y ago
It still seems weird. I can think of many small municipalities around here that can't quite do things on their own. Sharing water, fire, police, electricity, sewer, gas, roads, busses, trains, schools, hospitals and garbage services wi
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Not that i believe brexit will happen, but if it does, i'd guess those pages can be relisted.
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by jfoutz 10y ago
I don't know if it matters that much, if there are direct results from the research itself. I mean, the World Wide Web worked out pretty well. I don't know if that would be a thing without CERN. There's lots of cool engineeri
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by jfoutz 10y ago
I agree wholeheartedly about TV or surfing the web. Me personally, it takes about half an hour around every run, getting dressed, getting water, stretching before and after, showering and changing clothes. longer runs leave me lethargic for
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by jfoutz 10y ago
> [Lee concludes his data] "don't support that more is worse. But more may not be better." [Williams concludes] 40 miles a week [...] were 26 percent less likely to develop coronary heart disease than those running just 13
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by jfoutz 10y ago
There are hotkeys. there's a big map you can scroll around, but you can bind a specific view of a map to f1-f4. you can get a lot of actions just rolling through those, looking for specific events. Is the attack coming from over here?
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by jfoutz 10y ago
> There's probably some sort of way to make a system that can learn from very few examples and at a very short time, like we do ourselves. Maybe. I wonder if we can pick up identifying platypus with only a couple of examples, becaus
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by jfoutz 10y ago
The epipen is a glib response. Biologics are pretty notorious for not being reproducible. Etanercept (Enbril) is the last one i looked at deeply. There winds up being some 'secret sauce' that doesn't quite make it into the pa
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by jfoutz 10y ago
There are many many reasons. IMHO medicare not being able to negotiate prices is silly and expensive but not the whole story. If i could wave a magic wand and change any one thing, I'd require drugs and perhaps devices for clinical tri
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by jfoutz 10y ago
it's humbling. With a small community, if you have an idea, you can create a pull request and change the shape of the ecosystem. It's not that hard to create the definitive library, with a few weeks or months of effort. In a med
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by jfoutz 10y ago
First, the notion of 'unsearchable' is asinine. Anything can be searched via linear scan. Anything. The current system is de facto illegal. We have a large searchable database of gun owners, servicing 5500 queries per day. Second,
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by jfoutz 10y ago
I've read a fair amount about the 2007 bubble, but i don't recall anything about this, > where government forced banks to ignore credit ratings I was under the impression that subprime was keenly aware of credit ratings, subpr
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by jfoutz 10y ago
There are also some echoes of the world wars. If your country can't feed itself, you can't support an industrial base to fight. Kinda like the highway system.
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Well, how much is a kid really worth? Sure, if it's your kid, a ton, but really it's like a decade or two before we even start evaluating potential. Losing 10-30% probably isn't that big of a deal. There are a few influential
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by jfoutz 10y ago
The three gates are implicit in success. Perhaps you can pass gate 2, perhaps not. The insight is recognizing and passing the gates.
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by jfoutz 10y ago
4. No blood to make a scab, so pain receptors keep transmitting the pain signal.
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Completely reasonable thing to do, for a little while. Ycombinator itself did this initially. The key is knowing you'll need to do something better soon.
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by jfoutz 10y ago
in and of itself, no. but it could alter a permission bit, for example, and then reading would be allowed.
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Well, the whole origin of rocketry was about moving fast and breaking things. Less glib, I'm not so sure. In shed development, you spend a lot to make perfect things. Aston Martin or Rolls Royce are great examples of this. In factory d
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Let's see how terraforming this one works out before we go off terraforming another.
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Truck drivers are also professional drivers. They don't want to get in a wreck any more than you do. I'd trust a random truck driver to be much wiser in their use of autopilot than a random driver. Furthermore, those trucks are ex
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Yes! But does it work like that? Certainly, some problems i've had insight into and had a very good answer very quickly. But if i'm stuck thinking about the problem in the shower, well i've probably been thinking about it for
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by jfoutz 10y ago
But that's not really how it works. Sure, for lever pulling, no problem. For solving a hard problem, I think about it constantly for weeks on end. The 9-5 is just trying to hook you. if you can demonstrate you only need to show up for
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by jfoutz 10y ago
Work is a spectrum between specific repetitive tasks and the need for deep creative solutions to problems. On one hand we have the need to pull this lever every 36 seconds. on the other, is The Problem. We've all faced The Problem, but
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by jfoutz 10y ago
> So I just need to split my simple CRUD app into 12 microservices, each with their own APIs which call each others’ APIs but handle failure resiliently, put them into Docker containers, launch a fleet of 8 machines which are Docker host
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by jfoutz 10y ago
I see. I'd thought an investment was a separate and distinct thing compared to an asset, with the intention of having a higher rate of return compared to ordinary stuff. Since an investment is simply a place to put money, there really

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