mNovak

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   by mNovak 7y ago

   I used to sell stuff on amazon--they do specifically tell you to remove or cover any other barcodes on the box when doing fulfillment by Amazon. Sadly that leaves me to believe the sellers will have to eat the cost in these cases, which lea
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   I always refer back to http://rexegg.com/ Not a tool as such, but a good reference if you know how it works and just need to refresh on syntax.
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   For anyone wondering how these price multiples translate to a fraction of median annual income paid on mortgage.. Briefly poking around a mortgage payment estimator (assuming 20% down, 3.75% 30 year fixed rate), annual mortgage payments com
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   I think for the vast majority of people (no complex investment strategy, pay bills and go on with life) home ownership is incredibly valuable, both for stability and security, as well as for a decent investment to leverage later in life.
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   I'm not sure if this argument makes a lot of sense.. If you're renting, property owners are definitely still acquiring the fruits of your productivity. Moreover you lose out on all aspects of housing security and can readily be di
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   Setting aside the issue of counterfeits on Amazon, this is really nice. Clear, simple, functional and allows you to explore the space not just comparison shop for a specific item. I've long thought Amazon has terrible search and sort o
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   Qwerty keyboard layout yields 0.7% uniqueness? Do other browsers just not declare this?
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   A handful of websites claim to offer pups from this specific colony as pets, which sounds wonderful. Though it's hard to validate they weren't just taken from a fur farm (thus not actually tame).
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   by mNovak 7y ago

   How long would that take to deorbit? Don't want junk slowly drifting through every other orbital path on the way down, either.
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    Trying to think if the DoD has any good reasons to encourage conspiracy theorists? Besides the obvious US has mystic weapons angle.
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    >> It's the responsibility of the writer to ensure that when a reader jumps into a chapter, there's enough context and substance to figure out if it's worth reading. On the one hand I see your point, I could open a rand
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    ITU really got it bad here, having designated "Very High Frequency" at what we now consider pretty low frequency (<300MHz). Subsequently stacking on Ultra- Super- and Extremely-High Frequency bands before giving up at Terahertz
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    > Google will be the Microsoft of 1990-2000: scary, dominant, and increasingly hated (by nerds at least). That one strikes a certain chord..
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone has good coverage of geopolitics, defense acquisitions, and occasionally military history
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    100% this. When I startup-ed, I looked hard for a free alternative for RF simulation. There's some FDTD solvers, but as mentioned, they require you to spec the mesh, which is laborious and black magic which Ansys HFSS simply does for y
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    Very cool. For my clarity: Any pictures demonstrating the flexibilty? What happens after a year, when the battery dies? Do I have to peel this off all my tools? Proximity to employee I understand, but how do you get absolute position? Emplo
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    Interestingly, the report indicates that only ~50% of their dataset has negative returns, and the mean IRR of the success cohort is 35%. This is both much higher rate of success and somewhat lower return than I would have expected. I guess
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    I thought FE was mostly memory bandwidth bound?
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    I suppose some amount of this line of reasoning (R&D is hidden under acquisitions) would be observable if changes in R&D spending were compensated by changes in total acquisitions (of smaller firms)
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    So in theoretical use, is everyone expected to validate authenticity of each note exchanged? That seems painful for small transactions, but without it you lose absolutely all the security benefits of crypto, right? (e.g. vulnerable to good
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    Above a couple GHz, VNAs are still $$$. With mm-wave being the hot topic now, you're still looking close to $100k
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    In the RF / wireless world, in the coming 5-10 years we may finally see commercial use of large phased arrays. This was supposed to come with mm-wave 5G, but probably will get pushed to 5G++ or 6G. Starlink actually looks on track to b
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    For those nostalgic over classic 90's websites, the RF community has you covered: [1] rfcafe.com [2] antenna-theory.com
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    Roughly.. If I recall, a quarter-wave monopole will be 37 ohms
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    If they're donating to businesses that pay taxes, those businesses probably care.
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    Since it came up.. I've always wondered how mobile deposit (cell phone photo of a check) is remotely secure?
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    I like being able to google for coupon codes. Trial and error doesn't go over so well on the phone.
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    Possibly more feasible if you periodically capture and store a few ms raw IQ, then transfer a quick burst when the handler comes near, to do the nav solution offline.
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    The Lives of Rich Millenial Cheapskates(nypost.com)

    1 points by mNovak 7y ago|0 comments
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    by mNovak 7y ago

    I thought XMR had high transaction fees?