jlmorton

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by jlmorton 7y ago
Indeed, which I alluded to in my comment. There are longer rail lines, mostly in China, and mostly built over the past decade. However, the commenter I replied to claimed that California High Speed Rail would be a short line, when in rea
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> a single line, over a relatively short distance, through terrain that isn't too challenging, going at moderate speeds, None of this is true, or remarkable. Almost all high-speed rail lines are a single line. This line would have b
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by jlmorton 7y ago
I'm not sure how well-known it was. Bayer and Mansanto agreed to merge in 2016. The first large jury award in a case claiming RoundUp caused cancer was in August 2018. It's worth noting that RoundUp has been sold and marketed fo
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by jlmorton 8y ago
Capex spending in the current quarter won't show up in the income statement, but past capital spending will be depreciated in future income statements. Tesla depreciated about $467 million in the current quarter.
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by jlmorton 8y ago
While we don't have perfect information for either Lyft, or Uber, a while ago it was reported that Uber at least was profitable within the San Francisco market, along with some other major urban areas. A large part of their losses are
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by jlmorton 8y ago
The point is that it doesn't matter whether Facebook was involved in the creation of the ads, whether they support the ads, or anything else. They have a duty not to allow their platform to be used in this way, and until recently, the
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by jlmorton 8y ago
I also doubt that the aviation authorities would ground the 737-8 without more evidence of a design flaw, but it's worth noting the FAA and other national authorities did ground the 787 for three months between January and April 2013 a
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> Newsom said the state will complete a 110-mile (177 km) high-speed rail link between Merced and Bakersfield. > ... > “Abandoning high-speed rail entirely means we will have wasted billions of dollars with nothing but broken promi
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by jlmorton 8y ago
That's not true at all. > Blackmail is the crime of threatening to reveal embarrassing, disgraceful or damaging information about a person to the public, family, spouse or associates unless money is paid to purchase silence. It is a
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by jlmorton 8y ago
Screen call is such a good feature. For those that don't know, Pixel devices allow you to press a "Screen Call" button when you receive a call. For the caller, they'll hear a Google Assistant voice that says, "Hi,
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by jlmorton 8y ago
The service is tremendous, the support is terrible. My experience signing up definitely gave me pause about the service, but I have no complaints since. When I signed up for Fi on Black Friday, taking advantage of a great deal with $200 of
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by jlmorton 8y ago
I'm shocked Apple doesn't fill this market. Many of my friends prefer SE-sized phones. I have friends who aren't upgrading from the SE specifically because they can't get a comparably-sized phone. I bought my wife the
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by jlmorton 8y ago
It's a government requirement in many jurisdictions, including much of Asia and the EU. Note that in the EU, at least, the data is not sent to the government authorities, but it must be available to them.
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> On Android your phone simply shuts off on high load on old batteries Except, no, it doesn't.
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by jlmorton 8y ago
I smell financial regulation. The secondary market is generally only available to accredited investors. If you're investing in a fund, that's one thing, but if a product is unwinding all of that to allow unsophisticated investor
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> Perhaps one of the existing structures could have been removed to make room for the TMT, to lessen conflict. TMT project will in fact remove three old telescopes.
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by jlmorton 8y ago
While I'm not sure what each implementation does, this popular Java implementation of Google Authenticator indeed generates a key with 10 bytes: https://github.com/wstrange/GoogleAuth/blob/d5074b494201327
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by jlmorton 8y ago
Link (PDF) to the City's economic analysis of Proposition C: https://sfcontroller.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Econo... .
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by jlmorton 8y ago
If Facebook could go back in time and choose between: a) Paying out a $1m USD bug bounty, or b) Accepting the reputational hit from a successful exploit I wonder which they would choose with perfect hindsight? Facebook runs a great bug boun
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by jlmorton 8y ago
First of all, the premise is wrong. Major corrections usually receive more prominent placement and greater exposure. Minor corrections are printed in the corrections section, with stories updated online and correction notices appended. Se
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by jlmorton 8y ago
As it happens, the relevant case law is New York Times Co vs. Sullivan. According to that case, libel liability still applies when the information published is both untrue, and was published "with reckless disregard of whether it was
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by jlmorton 8y ago
If there are "tons that are factually wrong" and have not been corrected, perhaps you link to a few of those examples?
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> Sometimes we see a lot of news articles and news regarding X, Y, Z topic from anonymous sources, being passed as legit news and reliable, but when you examine the news in more details, nothing that backs up such claims can be found. Yo
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> I would argue the analogy is more "the best way to clean dog poop off of your carpet is to train your dog not to shit on your carpet." Well, I would argue this analogy is also rather inapt. Much better would be training your
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by jlmorton 8y ago
You seem to have missed OPs point. Many of us in the West find hunting wild whales, or dolphins to be repugnant. Meanwhile, we're perfectly happy to eat factory farmed pigs. And, yes, we do morally owe it to nature not to eat animals
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by jlmorton 8y ago
I'm really surprised B2 doesn't seem to charge for upload API requests. I have a project which uploads several billion small objects to Amazon S3. The vast, vast majority are written, stored with a 15 month TTL, and never touche
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> Ariane 5 is also extremely reliable It certainly is reliable, but it's not extremely reliable. It's had 2 total failures and 3 partial failures out of 99 launch attempts, including a partial failure this year on SES-14 that
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> Great, things on average are getting better, but try telling that to the people in Flint drinking poisionous water or the children in cages etc. This is actually a great example. We continue to reduce the lead in our water and environ
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by jlmorton 8y ago
You can get a Samsung Chromebook for $75. The FCC operates the Lifeline program, which provides subsidized Internet access to low-income Americans, but the program was gutted about three months ago, dropping about 70% of enrollees.
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by jlmorton 8y ago
> It was in 2005, my freshman year of college, that I took my first Ambien. > These were the frontier days of the internet I'm not sure 2005 qualifies as the frontier days of the Internet.

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