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by nxzero 10y ago
122 acres for $1M plus $5M a year does not sound like a deal, especially given the RF ban.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Reminds me of how one man accidentally killed the oldest tree ever: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-one-man-acciden... Then of course there's this article, "Vintage Photos of Lumberjacks and the
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by nxzero 10y ago
For how many square feet of non-shared personal space?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Formal name for the pattern is regression toward the mean: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_toward_the_mean
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by nxzero 10y ago
AirBNB, though it tries to do so, doesn't provide a community, culture, etc. - nor does it plan to my know plan to build villages, cities, etc. If you look into Campus, you'll see that this was the path they planned to take.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Most people don't care, which means that if you want to chat with most people, you'll need to use mainstream tools. If you don't want the features, then don't use them, but saying not to use the tool because you'll
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by nxzero 10y ago
Issue is he thought that because he was a reporter that he was not at risk, which was foolish. Anyone entering North Korea should realize that there is the very real chance that they may be held against their will, be killed, etc. Knowing t
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by nxzero 10y ago
No, I'm saying that you listen, but filter out the volume and noise in a way that doesn't attempt to make the situation more noisy, add volume, or hide the reality of it.
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by nxzero 10y ago
It's dead; for privacy reasons, I rarely give out identifiers. Core issue wasn't zoning, but managing the dynamics of residents, which I was able to do in person, but not at scale. Zoning wasn't an issue; meaning the police,
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by nxzero 10y ago
Having done a residential housing startup, violated zoning, and talked in person to current or form heads of zoning in a number of cities, there's got to be a better solution. Taking step back, might be worth understanding how this all
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by nxzero 10y ago
"My neighbor likes to yell, so I yell louder so I don't have to hear what they're saying. One day, there was a fire in my house, they were yelling for me to get out, but... I just yelled back and almost died." Answer is
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by nxzero 10y ago
If this was detached, why is it still viewable on the thread?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Related Wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Ameri... Might be worth noting that children that were in these camps are still alive today.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Being open source or closed source doesn't make code more secure. What make code more secure is making it more secure. Have you audited the code?
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by nxzero 10y ago
Is there anyway to detect what hardware to being used by the cloud service if you're using the cloud service? (yes, realize this question is a bit of a paradox, but figured I'd ask.)
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Actually for a lot of shots you could probably get by without the GPS location by recognizing some landmarks in the background" Yes, this is already being done. EDIT: Curious, why this is getting downvotes, any thought o
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by nxzero 10y ago
Easy to exploit this today too and not that uncommon either.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Maybe, maybe not, but agree that your version of the future is just, if not more, as possible. That said, more complex things get, the more likely that something will be missed, an error made, and/or unaccounted for due to its not havi
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by nxzero 10y ago
It will happened again, nothing has changed; if anything, things are getting worse, not better.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Always imagine everyone using tech like this, slowly using their own slang, then something goes wrong, devices die, and no one understands the slang languages each person now uses. __ Person : Babel. Person2: Babel? Person : Babel!!
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "Dogs can be made to learn things - doesn't mean we allow them do surgery." (Years from now) ..."humans can learn to be surgeons, but that doesn't mean they should be allowed to do surgery." For exampl
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by nxzero 10y ago
Unlikely, given that many states have an absentee voting option, polls are long enough in a day that if someone really wanted to vote they would, etc. Also heard it's the time of the year, but fact is that there's only so far that
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by nxzero 10y ago
100% voter turnout assumes that not voting is a not an meaningful expression of someone's right to vote. Unless there's option to express this within the voting system, there will always be voters that don't vote. Second, if
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by nxzero 10y ago
A return to science...
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by nxzero 10y ago
Not true, you'd be surprised what the mind is able to do on its own. Besides both groups should be exposed to "trippy" stimulus, which for the naive would be enough. Seen non-alcoholic experiments where the unknowning partici
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by nxzero 10y ago
Yahoo simply naming their name might make them more cool and reflect they've changed. Have a page forever saying Yahoo is now _______ would be lame and void the point of changing their name.
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by nxzero 10y ago
Says more about how poorly the brain is understood than anything else. Also, very possible that the measures that were take to keep people "safe" were a factor. Anyone know if there was a control group given the same treatment (do
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by nxzero 10y ago
Laws are not magic or inherent, but what people agree to. There's no reason to believe meta-data shouldn't or couldn't be owned by the entity it was created for.
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by nxzero 10y ago
We both know I'm legally allowed to have you watched in public in such a way that you would never know, and yes, I would legally be able to collect all that data; in fact, legally I'd be allowed to even listen to what you said. Qu
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by nxzero 10y ago
>> "No, [repeat idea]." Is not a meaningful response to the claims I presented. At the point that I'm able to swap two resource with another and only reason to believe that a given resource is in fact the resource I re

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