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Global Mass Transit Visualization Client(tracker.geops.ch)
1 points by rmxt 11y ago|0 comments
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by rmxt 11y ago
You made the unfortunate jump to the other extreme from the GP: nowhere did the GP say or imply that "spies should not be spying, soldiers should not be fighting." There's room for nuance between "dragnet surveillance&qu
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by rmxt 11y ago
Came here to share the good news about Esperanto on Duolingo, too! Duolingo is fantastic and I am addicted to keeping my streak alive. However, I find the lack of variety and relative rigidity of the sentences to be offputting over time. I&
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by rmxt 11y ago
Excuse my arcane units, but it is what I am familiar with: ΔL=αΔtL; ΔL/L=αΔt; ϵ=ΔL/L; ϵ=αΔt; E=f/ϵ; f=ϵ/E; so f=αΔtE ΔL = change in length due to temperature L = restrained length f = stress that arises due to full restr
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by rmxt 11y ago
Thank you for the additional info. I am skeptical merely because they were quite hand-wavy about temperature accommodations, and it certainly is/was simplistic to think that ALL thermal movements can be accommodated for only at station
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by rmxt 11y ago
Thermal is an issue that gets worse with distance. Did you look at the article that I posted above? If you are proposing expansion/slip joints at every pier, that runs directly counter to the proposal which states that expansion join
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by rmxt 11y ago
According to Wikipedia [1], the only 3 passenger service operational Maglev lines have lengths of 18.95 miles, 5.5 miles, and 3.8 miles, which are in China, Japan and South Korea respectively. That would make it seem like it is far from a &
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by rmxt 11y ago
A 5-mile test track won't be big enough to examine the biggest concerns: thermal and seismic. The alpha brochure linked to in the OP barely touches on the two. Here [1] is a better analysis/take-down of what thermal issues such a
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by rmxt 11y ago
Both Harris [1] and Mantech [2] offer products that include "intel analysis". Section 215 seems like a great avenue to perpetually harvest data and keep these products a necessity. Yes, [1] looks like any other analytics dashboard
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by rmxt 11y ago
Judging from here [1], it looks like it's "unavailable"... does that mean it's maybe reserved? [1] http://www.ownit.nyc/register
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by rmxt 11y ago
This is absolutely fantastic and fascinating. Always glad to see the continuing transition of libraries from physical to digital. Also, imagine the potential for a mashup between this and the current/historical Street Views available o
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by rmxt 11y ago
This is a real throwback to many days spent "playing" Mavis Beacon in computer class. It's interesting to see the breakdown in speed on a per key basis: it really makes you conscious of the keys between your hands when you ar
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by rmxt 11y ago
Thank you for the reminder. I genuinely am not trying to suffocate discourse and I am interested in engaging in conversation, but I have no qualms about pointing out disingenuous or deceptive pseudo-discourse when I see it. Posting a link t
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by rmxt 11y ago
Are you really equating the plight and histories of Asian-Americans and African-Americans in America over the past 3 centuries? You can do that with a straight face? Hint: one history includes codified discrimination until ~50 years ago and
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by rmxt 11y ago
The testosterone argument is a bullshit one in this context: the article you posted isn't trying to connect the dots in the disingenuous way you are, it's talking about prostate cancer . It does not attempt to suss out whether or
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by rmxt 11y ago
The racists and/or "human biodiversity" types have come out to play. Better to ignore the disingenuous comments and move on, as they tend not to be here for discussion. Articles on race and crime often draw out these sorts of
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by rmxt 11y ago
Ignoring the disingenuity, if racism (e.g., redlining, gerrymandering, selective use of semi-legal police procedures, etc.) hasn't led to the current disparate state of affairs between races in America, then what has , pray tell? &q
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by rmxt 11y ago
Some discussion and background can be found here: https://plus.google.com/communities/115544462558726220980 Looks like it's Turing complete too... http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=
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Xorballs: A tile puzzle game with balls(xorballs.dskl.net)
3 points by rmxt 11y ago|1 comments
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by rmxt 11y ago
You, presumably as an American citizen, already trust the government to do a whole lot more than "wash your car," so the fear seems a bit unfounded. You implicitly trust them to fund/manage/develop/build: the entire
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by rmxt 11y ago
Why does anyone comment on the stories posted on HN? Why do we have leisure activities? I don't think that anyone is commenting on HN in lieu of learning, spending time with family or friends, or pursuing a career. (Though many may be
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by rmxt 11y ago
To say that the positions lobbyists are lobbying for "virtually all have majority support" is a much bolder claim than the one that I making, which is merely that they are untested opinions that run counter to the spirit of democr
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by rmxt 11y ago
Yet again, you've missed the point. Lobbying and its disproportional impacts are the antitheses of majoritarian rule. They are examples of failed (or more accurately, untested) minority opinions crafted into law and policy without pass
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by rmxt 11y ago
Doubling down on the good old "appeal to the majority," I see... guess we won't be getting anywhere in this thread. The real problem is the one that I am addressing: it starts with the offices themselves and continues as the
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by rmxt 11y ago
Saying that it's unfeasible to criticize the elected without criticizing the electorate is silly. It's not that the laws are wrong in spirit, it's that they are crafted or operated around so as to benefit the people that put
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by rmxt 11y ago
You say this as if lobbying/corruption doesn't happen from the top (federal) to the bottom (local/city) in the United States... We don't need to compare the federal government's issues with "security" spen
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by rmxt 11y ago
I see your argument more clearly now... I guess it's an unfortunate result of disparities in the poorest living conditions between countries. The poorest x% of people in Canada probably live better than the poorest x% of people in Sout
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by rmxt 11y ago
I agree... I don't think that other chains necessarily make more "natural" food than McDonalds and I wasn't really trying to draw out that comparison. I'm not a paleo/organic advocate by any means. "Countr
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by rmxt 11y ago
It's "dumb" not in the sense that it's a stupid point. I would say that the quoted person merely feels "dumb," as in "small-minded," after the fact. They were first opposed to it on economic grounds,
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by rmxt 11y ago
I don't mean to fear-monger, but at least I can read and mentally visualize all of the ingredients in some supermarket breads. See here: http://www.womenandweight.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/pep..

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