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by jpollock 6y ago
Aren't IP header fields granular enough for most tracking purposes? On mobile, you can do interesting things with Header Enrichment, which helps even more. IPv6 should "just work", but it seems there's fingerprinting ava
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by jpollock 6y ago
Indirect is there to protect code that uses an API, not the API. Since it's API's all the way down, this is needed to protect any application on top of the BIOS/OS/HAL. Otherwise, very little would be protected by copyri
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by jpollock 6y ago
It's an export market, and the vaccines they are using require 2 doses.
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by jpollock 6y ago
Nice to see progress being made in this. I've been wondering what the next step would be after seeing the lamb in the artificial womb. https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112
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by jpollock 6y ago
In New Zealand, the average dairy herd size on the South Island is 611 (414 nationally). In Wisconsin, it's 150. Looks like there's a lot of room for consolidation in Wisconsin. https://www.jsonline.com/in-depth&#x
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by jpollock 6y ago
Think of this as much about being a learning exercise as anything else. The project doesn't need to stand on it's own - the creator gets to learn something about both sides. It's like seeing that M.2 is PCI-E, and wondering i
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by jpollock 6y ago
When you want to have telemetry from somewhere without access to a wifi network. The last I looked, SMS was also cheaper and lower power than mobile data.
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by jpollock 6y ago
I thought that while there's data now, the sample is _extremely_ skewed to Chinese hashers: https://news.bitcoin.com/65-of-global-bitcoin-hashrate-conce...
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by jpollock 6y ago
It looks like the sensors/controls are built into the object, with the CPU, battery and radio (the more expensive part) being movable? So, it attaches to the jacket and exposes some controls, it attaches to the backpack and enables som
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by jpollock 6y ago
This looks pretty cool. I wonder how much sand it contains! We use plastics in non-structural building material replacements already. Fencing, railings and decking all have plastic variants, or plastic + wood. Mixing it with sand might turn
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by jpollock 6y ago
So, we've got "reality", as represented by data. We've got a model, implemented in code. Since it's code can be differentiated - not sure how that works with branches, I guess that's the math. :) This is genera
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by jpollock 6y ago
I'm seeing a lot of discussions around Automatic Differentiation, but I don't understand the purpose. Why would you take the derivative of a piece of code?
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by jpollock 6y ago
Then it makes sense that Bing would be happy to provide service if Google leaves.
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by jpollock 6y ago
Does this law impact all search engines or only google?
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by jpollock 6y ago
I don't understand the issue. There is nothing preventing any member from considering privacy issues as blocking. Since consensus is required, why require another round of review and approvals? Unless members don't all have people
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by jpollock 6y ago
Pirate Radio stations are illegal because when it was more of a free-for-all, people would transmit at megawatt power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_R._Brinkley
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by jpollock 6y ago
They don't care how they arrive. They typically have insect traps in areas of concern (around ports/airports/etc) to track arrivals with aerial spraying when stuff arrives. https://www.mpi.govt.nz/biosecurity&
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by jpollock 6y ago
Humans are famous for being able to learn by example. People should learn from this that Australian border control is _serious_ about those $100k+ fines they advertise on signs in the airport, and they are perfectly willing to kill cute ani
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by jpollock 6y ago
The same reason they kill off mosquitoes, snakes and spiders that come in on boats. Zero tolerance is only effective if it is _zero_ tolerance. Invasive species have huge economic impacts, to the point of causing the extinction of local spe
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by jpollock 6y ago
When you build on top of "linux", yes. However, many cloud services are built on top of S3 or App Engine or other proprietary services. This means that they can only be run on that provider. They can be faster to develop, at the r
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by jpollock 6y ago
I remember reading a long section talking about the applicability of Canadian law, which included a section about it applying to any spaceship where the Queen was aboard in her capacity as the Queen of Canada, but I can't find it now.
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by jpollock 6y ago
I expect Unilever has some data from their Facebook and Twitter ad boycott. They're restarting their advertising. https://www.campaignasia.com/article/unilever-to-end-faceboo...
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by jpollock 6y ago
Sounds like an average standard Senior Engineer salary level. If you don't sell your stock to live, wealth accelerates in a hurry.
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by jpollock 6y ago
With these growth rates (doubling every 10-15 days), _doubling_ the number of beds available in an area will only buy two weeks. Santa Clara's hospitalization growth rate is running at 2-3 weeks. This isn't something the health sy
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by jpollock 6y ago
Don't forget the fertilizer used on the grass, it's typically made from natural gas.
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by jpollock 6y ago
The value of the electricity can be measured by comparing it to the value of a petroleum product. transportable energy can be made using from CO2 in the air using Fischer-Tropsch. It's energy intensive, and uneconomic - which is why pe
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by jpollock 6y ago
Even though you're 15km from a primary source, the network is built to provide you electricity even if that source is down. That requires connections to generators much further away. It's the uptime that adds costs.
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by jpollock 6y ago
Don't we already put a price on freedom of speech? Isn't that what an non-disclosure agreement is?
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by jpollock 6y ago
New Zealand is an oil and gas exporter. They have their own gasoline refinery as well. This doesn’t maximize batteries, it impoverishes transport budgets (public transit and reading) and is a tax rebate primarily available to the wealthy,
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by jpollock 6y ago
In many countries, fuel taxes don't go into general revenues, they are ring-fenced and allocated for road maintenance. Even if they aren't, a reduction in revenue must be offset. The fact that they aren't charged taxes for us

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