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by knz 11y ago
Until the kids come along and you live in a country where the cost of childcare/healthcare is rapidly rising, and many have no form of paid parental leave, paid sick leave, paid vacation, and/or work for companies that demand a ri
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by knz 11y ago
The missing piece is "learning about the problems and working to make the country better". It's hard not to feel that a significant number of elected officials often have the opposite approach - ignore the facts/research
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by knz 11y ago
I posted something similar in an IoT thread here recently, but the main reasons I have them are for security (able to turn on/flash lights in parts of the house if my alarm goes off during the night. Also able to turn lights on/of
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by knz 11y ago
To use lights as an example - there are uses cases for some people. I have my downstairs and external lights set to turn on and/or flash if my home alarm goes off at night time. When my kids were infants I had lights set to turn on&#x2
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by knz 11y ago
It likely varies depending upon the fleet at your local airport, but ADS-B implementation in the US has a long way to go before the 2020 deadline. Last time I checked (early 2015) only about 30% of carrier jets near MSP (a major Delta hub)
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by knz 11y ago
I think "won" means that when you are making an argument to introduce a piece of software into your workplace there is a technology that is more widely used. It doesn't necessarily mean that one is better, but there is usuall
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by knz 11y ago
Isn't a major limitation of "Car as a Service" the fact that millions of people commute at approximately the same time? Services like this seem like they would be fantastic if you live somewhere with good public transport&#x2
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by knz 11y ago
Disable the autoaway settings and you have a conventional thermostat with the advantage of being able to remotely adjust the temperature.
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by knz 11y ago
They aren't necessary but they are convenient. Being able to adjust the temperature in the middle of the night is great but being able to to adjust the temperature when on vacation is awesome. It's also flexible (will automaticall
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by knz 11y ago
It's easy to dismiss the contents of their personal email and social media as irrelevant but surely they represent possible attack vectors for extortion or worse.
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by knz 11y ago
Does that problem require better mapping or better reporting and data distribution by the relevant authorities that infrastructure has been installed/modified/removed?
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by knz 11y ago
Once cars have better connectivity it may be easier. Assuming busy traffic you could follow the average track of the last n cars etc.
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by knz 11y ago
> mostly within less than insane flight times (explains the lack of New Zealand on the list) New Zealand isn't that far away. LAX to AKL is about 11 hours travel time. The west coast to many Asian cities is at least 14 hours, if not
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by knz 11y ago
And yet 98% of the world decided that the benefits were worth the expense. Standardization is so prevalent in many aspects of our world for good reason - suggesting that the metric system is somehow immune to these benefits is ridiculous.
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by knz 11y ago
It's even easier if you use UTC-0. Joking aside, after enough usage you don't even need to do the +12 maths. Personally, I'd take using metric over converting people to 24 hour time. My day job involves working with UTM spati
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by knz 11y ago
DuPont is "employee first"? https://theintercept.com/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-decepti... may be of interest...
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by knz 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r... would suggest that Vietnam is more dangerous.
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by knz 11y ago
It's been 8 years since I was in Vietnam, but just crossing the street on foot was an adventure. I can only imagine some of the near misses you would have on a bike.
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by knz 11y ago
I did the interviews 8 years ago (as part of a K-1 visa and then for permanent residency). It really wasn't a big deal. The guy barely looked through our supporting evidence and seemed more interesting in asking general questions about
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by knz 11y ago
I went through it 8 years ago (via a K-1 and then as part of the permanent resident process) and didn't find it that onerous. There was a lot of repetition and some hassle with having to travel to another city for an interview and wait
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by knz 11y ago
Another challenge has been that GIS data is historically expensive to acquire. As consumer grade spatial applications have become more popular there has been a noticeable shift to release data for the common good rather than trying to recov
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by knz 11y ago
Minnesota has one near the airport ( http://www.dot.state.mn.us/funding/projects/bloomington.html ) that also has a light rail line running through it. It seems to work well but is definitely a little alarming the f
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by knz 11y ago
I have to disagree in regards to the Nest. Most houses still have their original thermostat. I don't see the Nest ever causing a house to sell for less. Even if Next/Google stopped supporting the product it would be trivial to rep
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by knz 11y ago
Does it lower the value? Or do newer appliances increase the value? I sold a house last year that included a Nest thermostat and some z-wave outlets (that could also be controlled manually) - the buyer (in her 20's) said that these add
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by knz 11y ago
Obviously it will vary, but my experience in the suburbs of Minneapolis/St Paul (and driving in Europe and Australasia) has been the total opposite. Instead of stop sign hell every block causing gridlock during busy times traffic actua
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Mark Dayton (D) has been the Governor of Minnesota since 2010.
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by knz 11y ago
The OP makes the mistake of assuming that waste only occurs in Government agencies. As you mentioned - larger organisations tend to create more waste.
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by knz 11y ago
Yes you can do that. The app and hardware let you set it to either heat, cool, heat/cool, or off. There are probably cheaper ways to do this (IoT hub + zwave controller?).
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by knz 11y ago
At my work we use HAProxy, gunicorn/Flask (web apps and APIs) and a PostgreSQL container for development - we aren't planning to migrate the production databases to Docker anytime soon). We are using CoreOS for the host servers, d
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by knz 11y ago
This is only an issue if you buy proprietary devices for the platform. As long as the individual components (lights, sensors etc) use standard formats (z-wave etc) you should be able to run them on any IoS platform.

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