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by new299 9y ago
"A 2003 study in Canada found just one case nationwide of a stranger abducting a child, in the entire two years prior." Without knowing if, and how many children rode the bus alone, this information is not meaningful.
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by new299 9y ago
I'm sympathetic. But given the article is against "fact-free" parenting. I didn't find the data presented very compelling. Basically you'd need to know how common crime against children traveling unsupervised on bus
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by new299 9y ago
> Hmm. When you say "talks to the LCD directly", there's still a tiny low-level controller attached to the LCD, right? There's a chip on the FPCB bonded to the LCD matrix. > While highly nonstandard, but I want to
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by new299 9y ago
In 2012 USD a Australian dollar were basically 1 to 1 exchange rate. So it doesn't really matter does it? As to why I might expect it, well... USD is pretty much the international standard, so on an international website I often expect
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by new299 9y ago
The first ALPR systems were deployed in the late 1970s. Fixed camera systems were rolled out in Australia in 2005... So.. ALPR is not new. In 2012 there were multiple systems available. 86MUSD seems like a lot to adapt existing research or
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by new299 9y ago
The post starts with a false premise that: "[a medium post has been] doing the rounds the last few days, describing how an automated license plate recognition (ALPR) system being developed for the Australian Victoria Police could just
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by new299 9y ago
Older LCDs have a lower level interface. From memory, there's a pixel clock, line clock and frame clock. Then a parallel bus with the pixel value. The cirrus logic ARM SoC in the Psion 5mx interfaces with the LCD directly. You also nee
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by new299 9y ago
I spent a reasonably significant amount of time figuring out the Psion series 5 LCD and Keyboard interface. I built my own controller for the keyboard, and interfaced the display to a Gumstix. That was many years ago... I've also done
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by new299 9y ago
It's possible it's more likely on Android. However I don't think it's a given that it will be prompted by Google, or will continue to be the case. Google is an advertising company. Android, does not make money through li
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by new299 9y ago
I don't use AdNauseam. However, it doesn't seem that hard for me to understand. If you see advertising as a social ill, that seeks to manipulate people into making purchases that they neither need nor will make their lives better.
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by new299 9y ago
Chargeback deadline appears to be 120 days. For many kickstarters, this isn't enough time to get a product out. For me, I've never considered Kickstarter to be a pre-ordering platform. More of a platform for helping things get mad
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by new299 9y ago
That actually quite nice. When I benchmarked it, for my application without using any GPU stuff, it was a little more powerful than my current Macbook. Arguably the 2016 macbook is underpowered, but I still found the TX1 quite nice. I guess
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by new299 9y ago
Hmmm. I kind of expect them to be 1 or 2x slower. Maybe even a single order of magnitude... But Python seems often to be 100 or 1000x slower. For my applications this is kind of unfortunate.
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by new299 9y ago
I really really don't been to pile on Python... but every time I've had to interact with it I've been shocked at how slow it is compared with C or C++. I tend to write scientific code to process datasets in the range on 10Gb,
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by new299 9y ago
Are there any reports showing what happens when all the traffic lights in a city stop working? I would guess it would be similarly chaotic. The infrastructure would need to be designed such that large scale outages are unlikely I guess.
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by new299 9y ago
Right, and I think it's the obvious way to approach autonomous vehicles. With the correct infrastructure investment, self-driving vehicles would be vastly simpler and more reliable. The problem is who pays for it, and who authorizes it
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by new299 9y ago
Errrr... I think it's a bigger give away than that. I came to the three body knowing almost nothing of what it was about... the information in the article would have removed much of the surprise.
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by new299 9y ago
Personally I'd just filter their emails and leave it at that (and report spam if using gmail). If that doesn't satisfy, leave a bad review somewhere? I don't think a coordinated shame list, just for YC companies would do much
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by new299 9y ago
In general I've found it's pretty easy to get refunded. And for items like this, the seller is often super-quick to refund. They're just playing a numbers game, and know many/most people wont bother.
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by new299 9y ago
Do you have a citation that suggests a completely US style system is being proposed? This might be the case, but I feel like if this is the discussion being had, there should be an explicit reference, and justification that the US is the cl
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by new299 9y ago
Even if a sign is modified, a human will sanity check/ignore it. Currently many machine vision systems would be fooled. Basically in this scenario I think it's likely humans would fail safe.
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by new299 9y ago
Can you give a more explicit example of how the job Ad should look? I don't quite understand.
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by new299 9y ago
* Who will be liable when a self-driving car hits someone. * Will people, on mass, accept being driven around by a machines, on public roads. * How will they deal with "trolley problem" type ethical scenarios? How will these decis
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by new299 9y ago
"It's an inevitable future"? I'm assuming you mean it's something that will happen within the next 50 years? I just don't get how this isn't a super-hard social/political issue that we haven't ev
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by new299 9y ago
I can't see how the site you quote shows that the NHS is being defunded at an alarming rate... In fact: "Looking at the wider UK, the amount spent on health has been rising over the long-term. That’s true whether it’s expressed in
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by new299 9y ago
Do you have a better reference for per-capita numbers? Private healthcare spending in the UK is a fraction of public spending (because even if you have private insurance in the UK, most healthcare is still provided publicly (you still go to
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by new299 9y ago
ok, it's kind of shocking to me that VMWare is valued at 40B USD. That's a really useful datapoint though. Thanks!
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by new299 9y ago
I don't get it, looking at these per-capita numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea... The NHS spending levels look pretty reasonable, and have been rising. What's missing here?
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by new299 9y ago
"being underfunded at and amazing rate", a citation on this would be useful to me. From the charts I can find [1] NHS funding has increased by >2% every year since 1990. Another small point. It really doesn't make sense to
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by new299 9y ago
Becoming another Redhat wouldn't be enough to justify investment at this valuation though would it? They need an upside potential 5 to 10x higher than Redhat's current valuation.

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