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by lev99 8y ago
> In Seattle Seattle is a really bad example if you want to talk about poor public transportation. Seattle is one of the few places where bus ridership is increasing. Living anywhere with 5 miles of downtown (beside some areas divided by
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by lev99 8y ago
I'd focus heavily on hotdog detection, lewd language detection, and other ways of terminating calls (and banning users) that break a code of conduct in the calls.
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by lev99 8y ago
It's called speed dating, but it's actually much slower per decision than popular places like Tinder and Bumble. I imagine ML can be built to decide who should talk to each other. (push a button, wait in a queue, ML decides who to
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by lev99 8y ago
A lot of people pay for online dating services. It's about a $600M/yr market in the US[0]. Answering why is also important, but it's incorrect to assume online dating isn't a thriving market. https://www.stati
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by lev99 8y ago
> People using multiple IP addresses isn't always the case. Multiple people using the same IP address is not always the case. I think sharing ip addresses, and using multiple ones, is probably the most common case in The United Sta
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by lev99 8y ago
Is there a reason I don't want to expose my public IP address? Every server I connect to knows my IP address. Connecting to bittorrent would give you the following information: * Key (IP) to connect to other data sources (but joins wi
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by lev99 8y ago
I will always gladly trade a reasonable amount of upload bandwidth to avoid advertisements.
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by lev99 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse
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by lev99 8y ago
> Even if Google just pays a fraction like $0.1 per TB, they still have to earn $100 somewhere else to break even. 1. The bad press generated is easily worth more than $100. 2. Youtube exercises the option recommend other videos. Blende
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by lev99 8y ago
> In any case, can you tell me how the people will remove Xi if they ever become unhappy with him? Xi answers to the communist party. The communist party is more invested in staying in power than keeping Xi in office. Every five years t
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by lev99 8y ago
Over half of the clothes I own are the same 8 items on subscribe. Black T Shirt (5 every 4 months), Raw Denim Jeans (1 every 9 months), gray tank top (4 every 4 months), athletic shorts (1 every 6 months), everyday underwear (3 every 4 mont
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by lev99 8y ago
The shoe stores where the shoes are on the wall instead of in isles with boxes underneath have very knowledgeable staff that are great. The price of shoes are usually the same as the stores that have shoes in isles with boxes underneath, w
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by lev99 8y ago
I don't think it's true even in the general case, or if it is true that countries with more open elections have more peaceful transfers of power then I think that the peaceful transfer of power can be more accurately predicted by
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by lev99 8y ago
Democracy doesn't guarantee peaceful transfer of power. The absence of democracy does not guarantee violent transfer of power.
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by lev99 8y ago
> we don't know what the quality of life in China is, because ... you cannot talk about things which are critical of the government. If you want to know what the quality of life is like in China you can visit China and meet people l
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by lev99 8y ago
Why does cable TV cost money? Wouldn't the advertising cover the distribution/production costs?
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by lev99 8y ago
There is a lot of published raw science on Electromagnetic Linear Motors, with several feasibility studies on Earth to Orbit and Earth to Moon systems. There are several challenges with building on that large, such as building large capacit
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by lev99 8y ago
https://github.com/Dunedan/mbp-2016-linux New macbooks are not universally supported by Linux.
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by lev99 8y ago
It would consume significantly more battery than a touchpad, unless it is OLED which would be significantly more expensive than a touchpad.
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by lev99 8y ago
While I like badge notification, they can be distracting. I sometimes find myself opening apps just to remove the badge icon.
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by lev99 8y ago
> pagerduty rings iOS has the option to whitelist DnD phone calls. I have Pager Duty on it, my boss, as well as a few trusted colleagues that know to only call if something _needs_ my immediate attention. In addition my family knows tha
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by lev99 8y ago
There isn't a single point for "surveillance state".
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There have been plenty of smart people that were criminals throughout history.
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Location services and iCloud backup would cover most of it.
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A smart criminal would disable cloud backup of a phone used in criminal activity.
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by lev99 8y ago
> “They are blatantly protecting criminal activity, and only under the guise of privacy for their clients,”[Hillar Moore, Baton Rouge District Attorney] said. I understand a Law Enforcement point of view of having access to private data
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by lev99 8y ago
> encoding done in a consumer-grade camera / phone. Just brainstorming here, but encoding local photos/videos might be an acceptable task for a cellphone to do when it is fully charged and plugged in.
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by lev99 8y ago
A few issues I have with UMF. It's missing a mission statement, or use case. The intro says it's used to avoid inconsistent formatting, but there exists other message formats. The body field is application specific, which introduc
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by lev99 8y ago
Google doesn't have any significant control over the web. Google wins big in two categories. Search and Ad Revenue. Google Search processes 2/3-3/4 of all searches, with declining market share. Search is held hostage by use
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by lev99 8y ago
It's nutritional profile is significantly less than an average vegetable. I advice switching iceberg lettuce for darker leafy greens. Assuming you eat the lettuce in salads this can be done without much discomfort by slowing introduci

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