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by otoburb 9y ago
I'm not sure why you're suddenly restricting your "two cars per family" point to the city downtown cores alone. But sure - if we change frames then both city downtown cores are either easily walkable or extremely accessi
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by otoburb 9y ago
From the transportation perspective, Toronto is probably marginally better than Vancouver for families. You're more likely to require two cars in Vancouver than in Toronto as the combination of the Greater Toronto Area public transport
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> The capital city of Sofia is brimming with ISPs -- last time I checked, at least 15 companies with good coverage, fiber, and very affordable ($7 to $20 for 100Mbps ingress and egress) connection services. Sounds like a domestic se
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Singularity University - Exponential Finance (Live Stream)(singularityhub.com)
2 points by otoburb 9y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 9y ago
The parent's answer will probably depend heavily on the results of the snap general UK election. Polls close today at 10PM GMT.
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US Congress to Announce Study on Virtual Currency Link to Terrorism(coindesk.com)
1 points by otoburb 9y ago|0 comments
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> I wish we had something akin to a mathematics monastery. I'm not talking about academia - that avenue clearly leads to financial enslavement at this point. I'm talking about a place with lots of chalk boards and pretty ba
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> [...] if you decide for yourself during the interview that this is not the company for you [...] ... then perhaps it's best to let them know and save everybody some time (including your own).
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by otoburb 9y ago
>>[...] it might never be completed. * "Complete" is certainly in the eyes of the beholder, but Viper's author seems to think the language is "complete enough" to have started writing Ethereum's new Proo
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by otoburb 9y ago
I wonder how Venmo is going to react after the WWDC announcement of native iOS person-to-person payments via Apple Pay. Native functionality is tough to beat unless Venmo and other p2p payment apps have large enough networks to fight the mo
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by otoburb 9y ago
One of the main Ethereum co-founders is working on a new experimental contract language targeting the Ethereum Virtual Machine called Viper which still seems to be under relatively active development[1]. Why pick Solidity if Viper and other
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by otoburb 9y ago
>>Then [Netflix] went ahead and worked with T-Mobile on Binge-On where they would throttle speeds and cap the resolution to 480p on their network which was also a troubling sign. A year ago almost to the day, Netflix admitted[1] tha
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by otoburb 9y ago
You may have been looking at an earlier (private?) draft revision of the guidebook that had those sections omitted. The draft book that is linked shows RL discussed in Sections 2.6 (pp. 75-79) and 3.3.2 (pp. 122-125), while Neural Networks
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by otoburb 9y ago
For those that find the Google livestream jittery, I found the direct YouTube link[1] much smoother. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-HL5nppBnM
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by otoburb 9y ago
I understand why you are making the leap assuming zero-rated services would somehow be exempt from throttling, but that is outside the scope of zero-rating. In cases of throttling (cap thresholds, adverse network conditions, etc), all con
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by otoburb 9y ago
Zero rating is about billing (i.e. giving away for free certain content), not bandwidth throttling. It used to be called 1-800-Data in the early days because carriers likened the concept to toll free phone lines. Conceptually, consumers are
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by otoburb 9y ago
As Western wages collapse further, wouldn't this then become the kick in the pants developed countries need to motivate the rebuilding and reseeding of their decrepit and aging industrial bases?
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by otoburb 9y ago
It's the "if at all possible" part that is not easy for most job applicants. This is probably only marginally easier even for HN users with a higher chance of being in white hot job markets.
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by otoburb 9y ago
The GP didn't specify U of T St. George campus specifically, but if we're assuming they were, students have a wide variety of residence options available to them at great rates[1] provided by the university. In cases where student
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by otoburb 9y ago
>> also, this optimistic note [...] "Folks, would you like the rock, or the hard place?"
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by otoburb 10y ago
This is great to see! Amman came out with their own font back in 2010[1]. I personally prefer Amman's Arabic script over Dubai's starker strokes. [1] http://syntaxdesign.com/blog/syntax-al-balad-theater-presen
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by otoburb 10y ago
>> [...] but PuTTY is still dominant on Windows, from what I have seen. I think that's because the Bitvise SSH client wasn't freely available until last year[1], whereas PuTTY has been freely available since the dot-com day
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by otoburb 10y ago
Looks like the lifetime prime digital subscription[1] is back for $99. Just signed up. Hope this will help bridge the funding gap and help them pay their backlogged freelancer invoices. [1] http://shop.nautil.us/lifetime-pri
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by otoburb 10y ago
The recent article edit helped: "Edited: Way too many people haven’t noticed this is satire. I’ve seen an article on Facebook claiming $100k isn’t enough to live in the valley, and then another one claiming $130k isn’t enough. Then th
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by otoburb 10y ago
It's been talked about numerous times in the Korean parliament, with the most recent concrete steps taken a few years ago to move some government agencies to Sejong[1], 100 miles further south. As with most forced urban planning effort
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>One of the things that really killed Yahoo, that no one talks about, is that they had these security people called Paranoids. Did this group of Paranoids hold product-blocking sway after or before the highly publicized Yahoo! hack
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by otoburb 10y ago
Keith Ferrazzi's "Never Eat Alone" compares networks to gardens that must be actively maintained along with attendant and relevant gardening analogies (care/attention, pruning, growing, etc). I read Never Eat Alone about
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by otoburb 10y ago
>>Having fun on your daily commute? Prolonged periods of bumper-to-bumper traffic inching along during daily commutes will take the fun out of stick pretty quickly. Hopefully this doesn't happen to many people, but for those that
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by otoburb 10y ago
The issue here is that even if you could do it, the question when working in a large bureaucracy is whether you're given the latitude to do so when teams are silo'd and responsibilities are split along very sharp fault lines. So
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by otoburb 10y ago
The grandparent comment touches upon the reality of working in most large organizations. There tend to be silo'd teams, which in more concrete terms translates into the "application/website" team and the "networking

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