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by rory096 9y ago
>before anyone has even downloaded the recordings The second paragraph of the article states "video footage taken from cameras equipped to the autonomous Volvo SUV potentially shift the blame to the victim herself."
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>(which doesn't seem to actually contain "agora") I do believe that's a hit on "So Pyth agora s was wrong?"
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This article's premise seems to be jumping the gun — and I question the author's thoroughness in researching it. He links to an article[0] clearly stating that while the design appeared to be a cable-stayed bridge, the tower and
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by rory096 9y ago
Recent coverage of bitcoin mining in Plattsburgh: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/28/business/economy/bitcoin-... Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16498776 Gives you
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How does forking over cash help with the burden on said volunteer infrastructure? Is there any relationship at all between Wikimedia's monetary expenditures and editor effort expended?
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This seems like an example of Wikimedia cancer.[0] They should be crowing about the novel ways in which people are spreading their freely licensed knowledge without a pile of cash, obstacles, and bureaucracy thanks to the wonders of copylef
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by rory096 9y ago
There have been reports of supposed large-scale Chinese investments into EmDrive as well. It's probably one or a combination of "don't believe everything you hear" and poor funding allocation in a corrupt system.
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by rory096 9y ago
Median wage is a bad metric in a world where health insurance costs (and thus non-wage benefits) are rapidly rising. Median household wage is doubly bad in a world of changing household composition. https://www.minneapolisfed.org
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by rory096 9y ago
This is of course not surprising - in the long run all difficulties (for similarly hashed coins) should trend towards equalizing profitability lest they create an arbitrage opportunity. The driving factor in the grandparent's case was
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Worth noting that the author is /u/FredTesla on reddit, moderator of /r/TeslaMotors as well as the founder of Electrek. His career is essentially built on being a Tesla fanboy.
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It also doesn't include revenue from backbone services that the same projections planned to form the bulk of Starlink's business. Consumer revenues (and thus average prices) are lower.
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by rory096 9y ago
Swype has supported swiping your email addresses for years — just add them to the dictionary and swipe over 'a' for '@'.
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Settlements don't establish precedent.
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Boostback and reentry burns are always 3 engines. Landing burns are often 2 engine and often 1-3-1, usually on the drone ship. The unique part of the GovSat "failed to expend" mission a few weeks ago was not cutting off the outer
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by rory096 9y ago
It's the same amount of relights - boostback burn, re-entry burn, and landing burn. It's possible the re-entry burn used more TEA-TEB than usual because of the high speed, but it's also possible that non-boostback GTO mission
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by rory096 9y ago
If they were flying their 'friends and family' all about in 2016-17 in response to bookings on their app without bona fide reasons to go to those places (not least with a student pilot as SIC on business jets), then that's an
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by rory096 9y ago
>It actually does make a difference. The main difference between a Private Pilots License (PPL) and a Commercial Pilots License (CPL) is that you cannot fly customers for profit on a PPL (but you can fly people as favors and be reimburse
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by rory096 9y ago
>The batteries had a low auto-ignition temperature of 150 degrees Celsius, which meant they were highly likely to burn up in the atmosphere before reaching Earth's surface, MfE said. The batteries contained no lead, acid, mercury, c
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by rory096 9y ago
Are paywalls ok? It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. In comments, it's ok to ask how to read an article and to help other users do so. But please don't post complaints about paywalls. Tho
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It's almost like speaking at an International Institute of Communications forum is not correlated with shilling.
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Color me unimpressed. Tom Wheeler spoke at the 2016 event and their 2015 annual convention. [0] https://www.iicom.org/events/telecommunications-and-media-fo... [1] http://www.iicom.org/events/item&
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by rory096 9y ago
This will probably get me some hate, but that speech was genuinely funny. Anyone who can't put aside their political differences and laugh along with it is a wet blanket. And it points out how ridiculous the Verizon shill claim is —
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>What is preventing, or perhaps more likely - disincentivizing, people of even moderate means from doing this? Well that's an easy one. >price-controlled chicken Price controls (caps) lead to shortages. It's an Econ 101 conc
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This $100 million is a follow-on to a $350mm round started this summer, bringing this year's total to $450mm. This puts them up to $1.68 billion in funding, including their $1 billion funding from Google and Fidelity in January 2015. L
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>You will not win hearts and minds with pure rationality when your opponent doesn't give a shit about that. Where are these hardline radical pro-Comcast types? >There are responsible ways to make pleas to emotion on a large scale
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This problem sounds familiar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incumbent_local_exchange_carri... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local-loop_unbundling
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>I'm all for net neutrality, but it feels important to note that this is for mobile service: The current net neutrality regulations apply to both fixed and mobile broadband. https://www.federalregister.gov/document
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>Portugal... lacks any kind of net neutrality. Last I checked, Portugal is in the European Union. Presumably it has the same net neutrality rules the rest of the EU does.
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I'm sorry, what? The lesson of the last couple years is that we should act more like extremists drumming up outrage with misinformation?
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I have a scan. Email is rory at (either) domain in profile. It only came out in 1991 though — does Internet Archive host books that aren't public domain?

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