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by magila 9y ago
The really frustrating thing about Caltrain is that it shouldn't even be that dependent on subsidies. Caltrain riders are mostly affluent professionals commuting from the peninsula suburbs. These people (and I am one of them) are perfe
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by magila 9y ago
The HN mods routinely drop stories off the front page which they apparently deem overly political. I've seen many political stories instantly drop from the top 10 to page two.
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by magila 9y ago
Intel likely has very thorough data on the issue, but you'll never see it unless you are one of their tier 1 customers* and have an NDA with them. In my experience working for a large hardware manufacturer they are very skittish about
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by magila 9y ago
Or even: - Can't identify when the user is the actual copyright holder who the accuser licensed the content from. These automated systems are always going to have lots of false positives because they only know as much about the copyrig
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by magila 9y ago
Now you're back to harping on operational costs. It doesn't take a $900 million application to assign people areas of a city to canvas.
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by magila 9y ago
That sounds like it covers just about everything you would reasonably expect to be part of the preparations for the census. Which raises the question, what's the other $2 billion of the bureau's budget over the next two years bein
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by magila 9y ago
I think we all agree that's it's not trivial. What is far less convincing is your case for it costing $900 million. Dispatching people to addresses is not a novel problem, package carriers do it every day. There isn't some ma
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by magila 9y ago
The difficulties you mention are entirely related to the operational costs of carrying out the census. I see no justification for the data collection system itself to cost over $900 million.
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by magila 9y ago
That's during the census itself, which is still three years away. The funding in question is just to develop the infrastructure to record the data.
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by magila 9y ago
Your analogy doesn't quite fit. Copyright covers both the source code, which is more analogous to the schematics than the manual, and the binaries. If a physical machine is not under patent protection you can strait up copy it and star
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by magila 9y ago
It's the best codec in every dimension. It's royalty free, has low encoding delay, and has clearly superior compression efficiency.
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by magila 9y ago
Software is already covered by copyright. Granting it parent protection as well allows software companies to double dip in a way that no other industry can.
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by magila 9y ago
For new products there isn't really any room for debate anymore, Opus is the clear winner.
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by magila 9y ago
It's easy to make an impressive looking list of responsibilities for administrative offices. The thing is many of those bullet points include words like "help", "support", "promote", and "oversee&quot
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by magila 10y ago
Apple designs their own SoCs, but they do not manufacture the chips themselves. Fabrication is contracted out to Samsung and TSMC.
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by magila 10y ago
Pascal was indeed a big jump in efficiency, but that by itself doesn't really reflect the longer term trend. Prior to Pascal efficiency had stalled for a couple of years as GPUs were stuck on a 28nm process for much longer than previou
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by magila 10y ago
Judging by the explosive growth of IdenTrust, which cross-signs Let's Encrypt's certs, I'd guess that Let's Encrypt certs are being counted under IdenTrust.
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by magila 10y ago
The advantage with vouchers is that there is a direct incentive, the parent's desire to see their children succeed, driving the allocation of resources. By comparison, public schools have much weaker incentives. Public school administr
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by magila 10y ago
This is the main reason why, for example, the i7-7700K comes with a "base clock" of 4.2 GHz even though for most workloads the CPU will operate at 4.4 or 4.5 GHz. That 4.2 GHz represents the maximum speed the CPU can maintain when
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by magila 10y ago
Is there a similar status page somewhere for DTS/DCA? I think that's the last of the first generation multichannel audio codecs which is still both widely used and patent encumbered.
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by magila 10y ago
The fact that you had to concoct such an absurd scenario to get 1Gbps of throughput kind of hammers home just how far we are from having a real use for such speed.
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by magila 10y ago
It's much like PNG vs JPEG. Like JPEG, the most common video codecs all use compression based on the discrete cosine transform (DCT). This makes them well suited for most video content which has a lot of continuous tones. APNG is bette
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by magila 10y ago
I commute daily between SF and San Mateo, which covers about a third of Caltrain's line. I get delayed due to mechanical failures (usually on other trains) once a month or so on average.
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by magila 10y ago
The BART extension is being built along an existing rail right-of-way for most of its distance so I'm not sure how much existing development can be blamed for the high cost.
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by magila 10y ago
From a strictly economic standpoint, the ADA as a whole is a net negative to society. It is a case where the government has decided to make society slightly worse off to provide a large benefit to a small portion of the population that woul
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by magila 10y ago
Indeed, most of Silicon Valley is effectively* under a Comcast monopoly. As a result, it gets the same crappy, overpriced service as most of the country. * There are technically other service providers, but they are not competitive if you w
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by magila 10y ago
You chose indirectly when you voted for the city counselors who granted franchise agreements to your ISP and power company.
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by magila 10y ago
The TDP numbers from the specs does not necessarily reflect the power draw you will see in practice. Test results here https://www.pcper.com/reviews/Processors/AMD-Ryzen-7-1800X-R... show the Ryzen 1800X (95W TDP)
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by magila 10y ago
What you really care about for tree hashes is the block size to output ratio. SHA-512/256 has a 1024 bit block size so it is less optimal than SHA-256, which has a 512 bit block size, for tree hashes. This is assuming you don't ne
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by magila 10y ago
The $27 price is for a dual core chip, not a 16 core one. If Avoton prices are anything to go by then expect higher core count chips to be considerably more expensive. Intel is always careful to make sure Atom products don't cannibaliz

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