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by polartx 10y ago
>I think that age is correlation, not causation. Agreed. I started working in tech when I was 22--now I'm over 30. I've never witnessed old-age discrimination. What I have witnessed are start-ups, built on newer tech, (AWS over
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by polartx 10y ago
police need protection from themselves. I read a story some time back about police getting access to a dna database from a genealogical software company. ( http://fusion.net/story/215204/law-enforcement-agencies-are
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by polartx 10y ago
>I suggested we increase the standard pay for this position. My boss’s response was, “If [employees] want more money, they need to go and get another job offer.” Is this a common workplace practice? tl;dr-yes.
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by polartx 10y ago
I signed up for early access--my place in line is 2,253 folks ahead of me. No indicator as to how quickly that queue is processed, however. Hours? Days? Weeks? Months?
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by polartx 10y ago
>Except 0,0 is not in the Arctic, it's a little bit off the coast of Nigeria. Amusingly, that would actually lead many agencies to a closer proximity of the scammers they're searching for.
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by polartx 10y ago
It would have been really useful if we could see the last visualization (male/female comparison by dept) include department AND experience. As hotly debated as that topic can be, (and no coincidence that it was presented last in order)
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by polartx 10y ago
>tell a story or to highlight an interesting pattern the story here is how visualizations are leveraged to manipulate peoples' conclusions. Especially when the conclusions inferred by the data directly contradict the authors' o
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by polartx 10y ago
Its not strange, its lying with statistics. I understand why someone would want to use a balanced distribution scale (even though you get weird boundaries sometimes), its so you get the most dynamic visualization and take full advantage of
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by polartx 10y ago
It wasn't long ago that an officer serving a warrant for a non violent offense threw a grenade into a baby's crib (yes, the baby was inside). Now I'm not sure where their training draws the line on infant collateral damage: D
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by polartx 10y ago
>Why does US Law Enforcement so dramatically escalate every contact with a citizen? US LEOs are indoctrinated with the belief that they are 'at war'. Convincing the public of this is imperative to retaining authority, securing
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by polartx 10y ago
A friend of mine was having a discussion with a contractor working in his yard about something he was entirely unfamiliar with--natural gas powered grills. Having never researched the topic before, he was a little unnerved later to have Fac
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by polartx 10y ago
I see that the satellite pictures come from openstreetmap, but I'm not familiar how often those pictures are updated, anybody know? When they are updated, does Terrapattern recognize the change an update the corresponding photos?
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by polartx 10y ago
I'm on a thunderbolt display (with integrated camera) sitting back about 3 feet. After 5 or so clicks against the corner regions, tracking became surprisingly accurate. I'm impressed!
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by polartx 11y ago
second that. I never got so much as a confirmation email when I signed up. Signed up again today--I'd really love to have a tool like this while I attempt to learn programming.
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by polartx 11y ago
----Round 1---- $13m raised 20k units shipped ~$650 per unit ----Round 2---- $15m needed 36k units remaining ~$420 per unit Obviously I'm not factoring in initial manufacturing costs. Having 13 million to invest in manufacturing at sca
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by polartx 11y ago
what are the supported data sources? I saw SQL tables and I imagine flat files, can you write calls to web service endpoints?
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by polartx 11y ago
I work and play in data. By far the best resource I've encountered is https://app.enigma.io/ Signups are free. The aggregated public data is plentiful and easily discovered, indexed, filtered, and exported. Free accoun
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by polartx 11y ago
The state already taxes electricity consumption, the same way you pay state taxes per your rate of gasoline consumption. People that drive 'green' cars are inherently rewarded with paying few taxes at the pump, because they are bu
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by polartx 11y ago
When you guys have some api documentation I'd love to hear about it. I find myself relying more and more on 'life automation', dashboards and reminders that help to measure, as well as encourage productivity from work, to exe
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by polartx 11y ago
This kind of generic financial advice is dangerous, and pretty irresponsible for someone in his position (and supposed expertise). I bought my first house while I was still in college. I patiently waded through the 8 month process of buying
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by polartx 11y ago
This article gave me a fantastic idea for a new invention--Smart Parachutes!! A battery operated sensor on the ripcord will analyze the operators fingerprint and pulling position to computer whether the chute will or will not actually be de
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by polartx 11y ago
I'm liking the interactivity. How did you choose which visualizations to include?