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by runamok 11y ago
Actually I think a self driving car might be better at driving on slippery roads than most humans. Detect any wheel slip, vehicle yaw, etc. and immediately take action. Not to mention being better at simple rules like 'when temp is bel
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by runamok 11y ago
I think it can fill a valuable niche telling you the "right way" to do things. Such as using an ide/linters, testing, a code repo, virtual servers, etc. When you first try to learn to program you often hack things together to
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by runamok 11y ago
At least there is a feedback mechanism in place? That and cabs that will not pick up in certain areas or certain times are the biggest problem with taxis I have experienced.
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by runamok 11y ago
Exactly. It would be trivial to have a "flag" button that after a certain amount of "boy cried wolf" complaints Nextdoor either prevents people from making crime alerts or in some other way throttles them. If this sort o
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by runamok 11y ago
Right. We have reached a point of post scarcity. A tiny portion of humanity (at least in first world nations) provides food, shelter and things like medical care. Personally I suggest we just get rid of the concept of "non-exempt"
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by runamok 11y ago
Yes, it does. There are percentages shown relating how many would (if the shuttle service was gone): drive alone, carpool, move, get a closer job, take public transportation... Granted it is self reported but whatever.
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by runamok 11y ago
Slower than that. I used to regularly walk from IIRC chestnut and Mason to CalTrain through Chinatown at around 6pm and regularly beat the 30.
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by runamok 11y ago
I heard https://ifttt.com/wtf was good but have not used it.
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by runamok 11y ago
Am I the only one that thinks a self driving car needs far more than a 'software update'? I would imagine it would need multiple redundant 360 degree sensor packages. Supposedly the Google self driving cars analyze a gig of data p
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by runamok 11y ago
This reminds me of an anecdote where someone who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge wrote that if a single person smiled at them while they walked to the bridge they would not jump off. That sadly didn't happen... I think caring for one
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by runamok 11y ago
Thanks for the detail. It is interesting that violating an NDA about physical hardware results in getting your software pulled from a sibling app store. Clearly an android app would not be similarly affected. Though it does seems like the
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by runamok 11y ago
It really depends on what you consider endurance running. A marathon distance is quite different than a mile and even a 5k. But all the above require training at various paces. You tend to train your endurance, lactate threshold, vo2 max an
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by runamok 11y ago
I don't think "runners tend to be less quantitative about performance gains" is true. There are an enormous number of folks that compete in races and are timed. I would assume most of them care about said time. Also look at t
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by runamok 11y ago
It seems like there should be a no fault period where you can remove the image at no cost if it's as wide spread as this and the true origin is difficult to discern. Also gag orders in general should be unenforceable.
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by runamok 11y ago
You can easily set up billing alerts in cloudwatch to do this. I have done so. I agree by default it should prompt you to do so during the aws on boarding process.
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by runamok 11y ago
How would the components of a microsd card or USB stick have a unique odor compared to the myriad chips in all of our electronics? Such as TVs, stereo's, computers, etc.? Wasn't there an article that said drug dogs were about as a
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by runamok 11y ago
It's a mecca for programmers. I can go to talks on various technical topics every day of the week if I wanted to. I have spoken to the creator of Scala, the Symfony PHP framework and Optimizely. It's just really exciting (to me) t
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by runamok 11y ago
Not my area of expertise but I'd imagine it's a function of population and interconnectedness of economies. I do see that some nation economies will be hurt and others helped as everything will probably revert to a mean to some de
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by runamok 11y ago
Unless I am confused this is just an example of what filling in the form would look like.
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by runamok 11y ago
> I would not enjoy living on either one of the coasts. Have you left the tiny midwest town and know that for a fact? Or do you base that on just word of mouth, articles, or..? I have lived in a lot of different places: (New Jersey, Nort
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by runamok 11y ago
Thank you for your comments. The fact that the author did no real research on what led up to this outrage did jump out at me. It probably still would not justify this level of force but at least there would be some context.
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by runamok 11y ago
The argument is: a. Since there are not many women in these professions, young girls and women don't aspire to them. b. A decent amount of women enter the STEM fields but fall out of them because they feel unwelcome, discriminated aga
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by runamok 11y ago
They seem to have accounted for that: > These differences weren’t present at birth, Wolfe says. “We found that before age 1, infants’ brains were basically the same, regardless of whether or not they were growing up in a poor family. But
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by runamok 11y ago
All this "bad for the joints" stuff is mostly urban legend. One ref but there are others: https://fitness.stackexchange.com/questions/6298/do-joints-w... Running in sand usually causes quite a bit more
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by runamok 11y ago
I think the main issue with this philosophy is Mint is a very juicy target for hackers and it only takes one person on the inside to "turn bad". The company itself can have the best of intentions. That being said I use them too...
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by runamok 11y ago
Totally agree. You could even limit it by whichever app you want to give access to.
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by runamok 11y ago
FYI the losses of different power plants vary greatly but are higher than I thought. http://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/72369-compa...
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by runamok 11y ago
A huge amount of energy in gasoline is wasted as heat. About 70%. Electric plants lose much less energy due to reusing the heat fairly efficiently. There are some losses due to power transmission there of course. Keep in mind some electrici
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by runamok 11y ago
IIRC Capital One had some sort of Uber promotion recently so they are likely testing the waters for such a move.
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by runamok 11y ago
Yeah. This gentleman ( http://zoomcaffe.com/ ) lasted at the Mountain View Caltrain station for a few weeks before he got kicked out (so I heard). It was very welcome. I actually found a reddit thread about it: https:/&

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