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by peeters 9y ago
Yes sorry I edited right after just to soften the tone. Yeah I think if anybody thinks that Occam's Razor is anything other than a way to give weight to two competing theories, they're misunderstanding it entirely. However if we w
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by peeters 9y ago
What does Occam's Razor have to do with making life decisions?
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by peeters 9y ago
Oh no doubt he was waiting for info to be relayed to him, I just felt the combination of his sigh, his language (we'll address the situation), and the fact that there was such a long silence indicated that he didn't anticipate it
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by peeters 9y ago
Media were the ones saying it was SpaceX's failure: > WSJ: U.S. Spy Satellite Believed Lost After SpaceX Mission Fails The SpaceX mission didn't fail if it checked all the boxes it was responsible for.
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by peeters 9y ago
This was an interesting launch. Launch was delayed a couple times IIRC, at least once due to them wanting to review data from fairing tests. Classified payload, so no video of fairing separation. On the webcast, the host went silent for o
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by peeters 9y ago
You don't have to convict someone to do irreparable damage to their life. See Nigel Lang, the man referred to in the article.
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by peeters 9y ago
I don't think he can credibly argue it's better for society, he's probably just a realist. The hunger for detached houses and independent cars has had a long opportunity to subside, but hasn't. So might as well make gr
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by peeters 9y ago
I wonder what would happen if everyone advocating against these individual things put all of those fights on hold and spent every bit of lobbying effort into campaign finance reform.
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by peeters 9y ago
Good point, and that's kind of where I'm coming from--when I said "people are trained" I meant implicitly, for regular people who would only encounter this rarely. So is this similarly just a question of user training t
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by peeters 9y ago
It is kind of a UX curiosity. When people don't speak the same language, they are trained to have a third party "translator" to defer to. You speak, I watch you. Then I watch the translator. Then I speak, and so on. That
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by peeters 9y ago
Except that they're charging you for some of them? There is no structural difference between zero rating certain traffic and adding surcharges for certain traffic.
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by peeters 9y ago
I fail to see what's incorrect about the title. The fine was for publishing a technical report about red-light cameras while not being a licensed engineer. You're making it seem like they are unrelated events.
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by peeters 9y ago
OK I'll ask: what's the deal with Denmark?
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by peeters 9y ago
> My guess is that a browser based micropayment solution/ecosystem will emerge I think so too, I think it's just a question of outlets realizing that the lost profits from cannibalizing their subscription sales does not compare
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by peeters 9y ago
For some publications I might agree. But many of them have comedy, sports and pop culture sections that I think blur their focus. I don't feel the need to spend a single dollar on supporting that content, I'll find better elsew
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by peeters 9y ago
I think that most media outlets make a wrong assumption about online content. They think that everybody wants content that's free above all else, so they swamp their content with ads. But I think it's more that people want divers
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by peeters 9y ago
I wonder if you would see a more clear pattern if you could aggregate to sector or skill set. My mother is a physiotherapist, her father was a physician and her mother a nurse. I (son) am a software engineer, my father was a civil engineer
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by peeters 9y ago
I'm not sure why they didn't get the Yangtze juxtaposition to line up, but you can put this in the Chrome debugger to get a lined-up juxtaposition: $('.jx-left > img').style = 'margin-left: 5px'
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by peeters 9y ago
Not sure why US requirements are relevant to Newfoundland. Here are the Canadian requirements: http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-2005-134/... Automatic Identification Systems (AISs) 65 (2) E
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by peeters 9y ago
The point wasn't that it was extrajudicial, she was just demonstrating that a tool instituted "for consumer protection" can, once implemented, easily be used for democratic suppression or censorship.
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by peeters 9y ago
Personally I don't use macro/micro to describe the bytecode footprint, but rather the API/conceptual footprint. If Jetty is secure and performant, and Javalin keeps it encapsulated, I think micro is a fair descriptor still.
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by peeters 9y ago
If we're in a dystopian era, that must be in comparison to something. What era was, on the balance of factors, better than today?
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by peeters 9y ago
> In another 60 seconds I've learned that it's a way to program in a syntax-agnostic way with your mouse. Oh wow I got like 5 minutes into the tour and didn't realize that until I read your comment. I gave up because it f
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by peeters 9y ago
Netflix has pretty good compression but yeah this is why I canceled my 4k subscription when they announced they were raising prices. I think 4k is currently $4/mo more and I have a gigabit connection. If they are going to charge 30%
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by peeters 9y ago
They fired the U.S. employees, they didn't fail to give them raises. Obviously they thought the minimum they could get away with was to not have the employees at all. Not sure labor laws would fix that.
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How the flawed Motherisk hair test helped fracture families across Canada(cbc.ca)
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by peeters 9y ago
IIRC Netflix's absolute highest bitrate is 15.6 Mbps (for 4k). This is ~5 seconds of much less than 4k.
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by peeters 9y ago
Just a pond and wide angle: https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.4325043,-75.6175154,97a,35y,1...
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by peeters 9y ago
If I'm remembering the analogy in the livestream correctly, if you applied the laser's precision to astronomical scales, it would be the equivalent of measuring the distance to the moon with a tolerance the width of a human hair.
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by peeters 9y ago
Yeah that was tongue in cheek, I'd assume they're talking about flash storage too. But still to check, I looked at two different reviews of the thing and they also said 8/16 GB ROM. I assume that says more about the knowled

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