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by po 11y ago
> The acceptable particulate level in Colorado emissions testing is 35% opacity. That means the smoke and particulates that are coming out of the exhaust pipe can block up to 35% of light and pass the test. This is a lot of smoke. This i
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I think this is great news to right a wrong but a recent Slate article has me worried that it won't be enough: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2015/0... The basic argument is
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Mass incarceration: A new theory for why so many Americans are in prison(slate.com)
115 points by po 11y ago|180 comments
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by po 11y ago
Yeah I like it too... as a character it's fun and silly and everything I like about being a developer. What I don't like about it is exactly as I said: too shifty looking. As you say, it's time to redesign and improve it. It
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by po 11y ago
Since the keybase people are probably here reading, can I make a suggestion? Please change your logo from a shifty-looking character to something that inspires more confidence. I actually think the character in the logo is cool and I love y
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by po 11y ago
Why hasn't someone qualified re-written that unix man page by now? I've been reading cryptographers trying to explain all of this for a while now. I feel like that would help put a lot of this to rest and save everyone time.
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by po 11y ago
Yeah it's confusing... You're right that a devalued Yuan helps their exporters. Of course, too much is a bad thing too. They want to keep their currency within a narrow range relative to the USD. They were recently making a move t
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by po 11y ago
People seem to think this is a problem for the US (and I suppose it sort of is) but may not realize that it's not rosey for China either. The article ends by implying that they want to be doing this to get rid of much of their reserv
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by po 11y ago
What's the easiest way to try out an alpha version of postgres? I can't find a ubuntu or homebrew pacakged build of it... easiest to build it from source? edit : seems like the alpha release is available on the downloads page now
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by po 11y ago
This was recently discussed on the django mailing list as well and resulted in them putting a quick mention about it in the docs: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-developers/IkRgMxTTzP... I think the pe
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by po 11y ago
I think as a bare minimum, you should choose a web application that has a well documented guide covering security and make sure you read it and understand it. Django and rails both have well organized documentation around this topic. Most o
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by po 11y ago
Las Vegas Sands also operates two and their page has better photos of the stubby body and huge tail of the SP: http://www.planespotters.net/Production_List/Boeing/747/2164... http://www.planespotte
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by po 11y ago
I always wish researchers would figure out how to make an indistinguishable synthetic ivory and have the government subsidize to the point where we could flood the market with it. If ivory were as easy to come by as plastic, nobody would bo
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Why Privacy Is the Bedrock of an “Open and Connected” World(medium.com)
2 points by po 11y ago|0 comments
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by po 11y ago
Sometimes there are games that are awesome and important and I am glad that they exist… but that I don't think I ever want to play. Pretty sure this is one of them.
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by po 11y ago
Definitely. There's one in Ithaca NY as well. They are pretty simple to do, I wish there were one in every town. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagan_Planet_Walk
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by po 11y ago
So, you're saying you've become the guy with the hat. :-)
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I highly recommend going through Oskar's other puzzles and contraptions which includes tons of very very strange cubes, puzzle rings and other oddities: https://www.youtube.com/user/OskarPuzzle http://o
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by po 11y ago
Yeah, you're right. I don't mean transverse in that it is a wave in water. There is no 'water' particles there to be moving up/down left/right. Interestingly, Maxwell himself worked in a time when the aether mo
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by po 11y ago
I actually had the same misconception about light when studying it in highschool. I though that the up/down things that the teacher was drawing on the board was not literally how it worked (transverse wave) but that it was a measuremen
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by po 11y ago
I was taught that the southern states were simply for states rights and doing the "fuck this we're out" thing but that storyline is highly revisionist. They had dreams of empire as well. If you read what they were saying at t
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by po 11y ago
For those that don't know, varnish was always a bit reluctant to take on the challenges of TLS termination. They traditionally had more of a 'do one thing well' policy. Here's a good description of their reasoning around
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The Agency(nytimes.com)
1 points by po 11y ago|0 comments
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Very cool space to play around in. You should check out Naveen's personal site (foursquare founder) as he was playing around with something similar for his own data a few years ago: http://api.naveen.com/
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by po 11y ago
In a greased bearing the problem is that the balls can touch each other (causing sliding friction) and /or pack together on one side of the race causing uneven load or the inner race to shift relative to the outer. The solution is typi
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by po 11y ago
No need to apologize, frankly this needs a lot more discussion than it's probably going to get.
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In my case, in college, I would go to a club or show that was hearing-damaging probably at least once a week. Hundreds of shows a year, so I think that would qualify as very frequently as you say. One of my friends was in a band and over th
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by po 11y ago
Thanks for the complement! Hmmm... not easy to think of them. It's not that they're weird, in practice they come off as sounding very normal, but very conservative. I would say the first thing to do is to get to know all of the kn
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by po 11y ago
Here's a fun fact: the yellow school busses most North Americans get trucked to school in usually don't have seatbelts. The reason is that they follow a different school of thought regarding safety. The basic idea is that instead
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by po 11y ago
At least in manhattan, the yellow-taxi cab Taxi and Limousine Commission (the TLC I mentioned above) lobbied have an exemption to that law. Same thing with baby carriers. It's illegal to have a baby in a car without a certified car sea

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