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by moultano 12y ago
Google lists it as a 20 minute walk, which is consistent with the last time I did it. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/San+Francisco+Caltrain+Stati... I'd say adding 20 minutes each way to your commute is a pr
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by moultano 12y ago
I loved the movement in that game. I wish there was something modern like it.
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by moultano 12y ago
Even more importantly, there are many signals that sound identical to the human ear, yet are entirely different in waveform. (For instance, two sines shifted 90 degrees.) You can save space by representing all similar sounding waveforms as
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by moultano 12y ago
What would you want to see in this privacy policy? Any policy is going to be in legalese because that's how legal documents work, so if that's a deal breaker then I don't think western civilization as a whole will work very w
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by moultano 12y ago
What sort of harm are you worried about that this doesn't exclude?
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by moultano 12y ago
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/162743?hl=en I thought it worth noting that Google does strip personal identifiers after 18 months which is in line with one of his proposed fixes.
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by moultano 12y ago
The most likely situation is that the company who sent the letter hired a shady SEO. That SEO did spammy things that got them penalized. They brought in a new SEO to clean up the mess, and that SEO is trying to undo all the damage the previ
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by moultano 12y ago
CDNs increase the overall capacity of the network by caching content closer to its destination. This benefits everyone, even the traffic that is not cached by the CDN because it reduces congestion for everyone. The behavior we are worried a
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by moultano 12y ago
Naturally you only hear about the times companies could produce them, and not all of the times they couldn't.
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by moultano 13y ago
Also, if you can't turn your brain off and are having trouble sleeping initially, 0.5mg of melatonin is wonderful and effective.
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by moultano 13y ago
There are two primary argument for police to have them IMHO. 1. Police have extraordinary power over others. 2. Juries believe them by default. This gives them much higher requirements for accountability than most people. I do really like t
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by moultano 13y ago
I had a chance to talk to the undergraduate dean of SCS about #2. Essentially they found that "geekiness" (as he described it) had no correlation with performance in the program, but a huge correlation with gender.
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by moultano 13y ago
I suspect that the best objective function would be "maximize the time until I lose" which is closer to avoiding the worst case scenario than it is to performing best in the average case scenario.
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by moultano 13y ago
If I had to pick the single equation for relativity it would be the definition if interval. You can derive the rest from that, and it is IMHO the most beautiful expression of it.
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by moultano 13y ago
The free data is such a life saver when I go to India. It's so liberating to be able to tell my Mom I've landed ok, to coordinate transportation, and find my way around with maps from the moment I land.
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by moultano 13y ago
Google Play Books lets you upload epubs, PDFs, etc. and syncs them for you between your devices. I don't know if that meets your needs. I use it for all the papers I want to read on my tablet.
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by moultano 13y ago
Wouldn't we rather remove the ability to make those unfair decisions? I don't see the data as being enabling here, because for most of the cases you are describing, it's the inaccuracy of the data that is causing the harm,
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by moultano 13y ago
It's not a criticism, it's a signal.
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by moultano 13y ago
I remember people getting angry whenever anyone pointed out that they were trusting a whole lot of their money to the Magic The Gathering Online Exchange.
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by moultano 13y ago
You described rules being violated or systems performing poorly. You didn't describe people being harmed.
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by moultano 13y ago
How did you think Google Instant works? http://www.google.com/insidesearch/features/instant/about.ht...
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by moultano 13y ago
> despite a seemingly endless stream of failures resulting in serious adverse consequences for individuals whose privacy wasn't adequately protected. Such as? Typically it seems that things become a scandal based on hypothetical ha
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by moultano 13y ago
>so they can have a map of your room, too, in case they, or other parties, ever need it. You mean like the blueprints that were provided to your local municipality when whoever built it applied for a permit?
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by moultano 13y ago
A few points. There isn't any coercion going on with any of the things we're talking about. Every technology product has at least the choice to not use it. It's quite difficult to ask meaningful questions about what users are
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by moultano 13y ago
It's a cost-benefit tradeoff like anything else. Unfortunately, the costs are filtered through fear-mongering and the benefits are trade secrets, so the debate is particularly ineffectual. The thing I find most aggravating about it is
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by moultano 13y ago
This is a very myopic view that has already caused many deaths. Privacy concerns around medical records have prevented any central database of them from being built, and thus prevented us from saving all of the lives that could be saved by
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by moultano 13y ago
Of course they care. http://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/
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by moultano 13y ago
The fallacy is that global fish production is related to the quantity of fish in the ocean. That number won't drop until after its too late.
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by moultano 13y ago
This is the fallacy that led to the collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery. Regulators assumed that cod catches would start to drop long before the number of cod dropped to unsustainable numbers. This didn't happen. The number
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by moultano 13y ago
Missing my personal favorite: Waking Mars. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tigerstyle...

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