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by magduf 7y ago
Well if the people are actually navigating, in GMaps they normally have to select which mode they're using: car, bicycle, public trans, walking, etc.
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by magduf 7y ago
As a cyclist, this sounds like a feature, not a bug. Fewer cars on the road is always a good thing for cyclists if they have to share the road.
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by magduf 7y ago
They should get some nice recordings here in DC for the Metro system. They usually just have the drivers making announcements, and half the time I can't understand a word they said.
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by magduf 7y ago
Sounds funny, but your theory is false. I use GMaps every day to drive to and from work, with a very simple route that's almost all on an interstate highway. Almost every day, it gives me the exact same route (which is so simple I re
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by magduf 7y ago
The problem is that it would be mostly useless, because it'd be buried in a menu somewhere where you can't easily change it while driving. The avoiding tolls thing is absolutely terrible that way. Thankfully, they finally put
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by magduf 7y ago
>Germany is able to generate power using renewable and lower its emissions doing so only because they still have a huge base of coal power (about a third) to modulate down when wind blows or sun shines. I totally agree that renewables ar
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by magduf 7y ago
I see. I agree about the part-time thing too; considering how much of a skills shortage the industry is constantly crying about, and how well-paid developers are (which means that, if they live frugally and don't have kids, they don&#x
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by magduf 7y ago
>There is a reason that the nationally-famous burgers at Au Cheval in Chicago, Hog & Hominy in Memphis, Holeman & Fitch in Atlanta, Shake Shack in NYC, Husk in Charleston, and probably a bunch of other destination burgers all use
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by magduf 7y ago
>These small solar arrays are connected to the grid and can't work without it. Huh? Everything is connected to the grid, whether it's producing or consuming electricity. What kind of argument is this? >Furthermore, they ac
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by magduf 7y ago
Maybe you should look into some other kind of programming hobby? Any why can't you do ML on your own anyway? Does it require too many computational resources? (serious question, I know almost nothing about the field) Personally, I c
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by magduf 7y ago
I think what some people are missing here is that, for people like Buffet, the stuff they do for work IS their "hobby". Try this thought exercise: if you suddenly became a billionaire, and didn't need to work for a paycheck a
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by magduf 7y ago
No, I get it. I know you didn't mean using heat from nuclear waste, but from the reactor itself: nuclear reactors do produce an enormous amount of heat. But the same is true of fossil-fuel plants; nuclear plants simply substitute bur
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by magduf 7y ago
It's stuff like this that makes me glad I canceled my IEEE membership many, many years ago.
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by magduf 7y ago
It's better than pumping your waste into the atmosphere for everyone to breathe.
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by magduf 7y ago
You can put solar panels on rooftops. If you go to Europe, you'll see them on rooftops everywhere, even on barns.
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by magduf 7y ago
You can't use nuclear waste heat for heating. No one wants to live next door to a nuclear power plant, so you can't feasibly transport the heat to someplace where it can be used. Nuclear plants are always located remotely for a
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by magduf 7y ago
1. We don't need to replace all fossil fuels to just do better than we're doing now. It'd be a big help to just replace all fossil-fuel power plants, which is what the OP was talking about. 2. Cars and trucks can be powere
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by magduf 7y ago
In that case it seems that the webmasters complaining about scraping need to make sure their APIs actually provide access to all the same data, if they want people to use the APIs instead of scraping.
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by magduf 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the US has the same thing, basically. You can't copyright facts, but you can copyright presentation. So someone can't copy your map directly and sell it, because there's an artistic component to it. Bu
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by magduf 7y ago
You should try some German or Swiss chocolate. Ritter Sport (German) is very good and not costly (and not high-cacao either).
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by magduf 7y ago
>it's difficult to make a truly good cheeseburger without American cheese because of its melting properties, for instance Huh? On non-fast-food cheeseburgers, cheddar is typically the standard cheese, and swiss is also popular. On
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by magduf 7y ago
I really don't understand why anyone would bother writing and using a web scraper when an API exists. Does the API not provide all the same data/functions as the website? Scrapers are a big PITA compared to just using an API: th
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by magduf 7y ago
It doesn't really matter that much, and it really doesn't matter at all if it's different wings of the same building. But separating these things for future construction might make some sense: for instance, you could put the
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by magduf 7y ago
Considering that salmonella is far, far worse in the US than in the EU, your claim that American chicken is "likely just as good" is obviously false.
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by magduf 7y ago
>I'm not sure we can trust US resident's opinions on taste as long as Hershey's chocolate still exists. As an American, I agree with you 100%. Our opinions on taste are utterly worthless. It's not just Hershey's
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by magduf 7y ago
It sounds to me like universities should just stop wasting space in the library on study areas, and downsize the library a lot so it only has rooms for books and nothing else. Then, they should separately have buildings (or separate spaces
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by magduf 7y ago
>I wonder what can you do to stop a big company from devouring... Two things: 1) As the other poster said, make your product so compelling that the behemoth company simply acquires you. 2) Try hard to make sure you're not competing
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by magduf 7y ago
Results of any election are never representative of the entire population. That's the nature of democracy. If you have 99.999% of the population voting for the same person (like in Saddam's Iraq), then it's obvious the elec
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by magduf 7y ago
>And laptops have been the norm. It's a little different when you were accustomed to go back to your dorm room where you had your desktop setup to get anything done. This isn't quite right: before having your desktop computer i
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by magduf 7y ago
>I find the constant movement to be the biggest distraction over noise. I find movement to be distracting as well (esp. if I'm sitting next to a high-traffic aisle as I was in one short-lived position). However, what's even wo

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