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by sathackr 11y ago
Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10984755 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10981220 tl;dr: consensus is, barring some wild, unknown innovation, the technology claimed does not
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Yes. Most HD(1080p) video is 8mb/s or lower. I feel like Santa Claus most of the time because people are so thankful to even get 10mb/s. It makes my line of work very rewarding. You would be amazed at how quickly a 10mb/s int
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I agree. If you build it, they will come. And who knows what or who 'they' are. But while Google is spending millions putting fiber to every door in a few select cities, huge portions of the country still only have dial-up and sat
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I didn't say nobody needs gigabit fiber. I said everyone doesn't need gigabit fiber. Obviously at least someone needs gigabit fiber. And 10 gigabit fiber, and 100gigabit fiber. It's what runs the internet. I work in IT,
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by sathackr 11y ago
The company in the article seems to poo-poo a local WISP, but Wireless ISPs will continue to be the chief deliverers of last-mile broadband to rural areas for a long time. Nobody is willing to foot the bill for a huge capital buildout. It j
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by sathackr 11y ago
Thank you for the link -- that is pretty wild. 'So the Virginia Tech researchers took 30 different readings at various flow levels. What they found shocked them: The lowest reading they obtained was around 200 ppb, already ridiculously
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by sathackr 11y ago
I agree -- I wasn't trying to show that there wasn't enough affected cases to indicate definitive lead poisoning, just that it's likely not nearly as widespread or causing as much damage as is currently being ascribed to it.
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A lot of these cases seem to be borderline, and many times the maladies are only loosely ascribed to lead poisoning. Reading the articles, you see things like "16ppb, 1ppb above the level that the CDC requires you to take action"
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Hackers claim to have downloaded 250GB of data from NASA and diverted a drone(theregister.co.uk)
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I believe you are correct, for new construction. Yes, thankfully we have the NFPA. Interestingly, I just attended a high-angle rescue course last week, taught by a highly trained firefighter with more than a few actual rescues under his bel
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by sathackr 11y ago
Many US plugs are now designed with a guard, such that both main prongs must be present before the socket will open and allow either prong to enter (sticking a fork in one side won't open it). Voltages present at outlets in the US is a
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As possibly a supporting point, many Americans are unnecessarily on disability(for those outside the US, if you can prove a permanent disability that prohibits you from working, the US government will send you a check every month). They liv
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I wonder what sort of feedback loop would result if they tied the basic income to something like the CPI[1] in the USA? -- As the price of living increased(due to the surge in demand) the basic income would be increased to retain the same b
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by sathackr 11y ago
thank you for the sound advice. I'm checkout out bulletjournal and will likely at least try the medication route, assuming a doctor agrees and officially diagnoses me. I was on Ritalin for a short time when I was around 14, I was as an
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Yes, that is something. The act of writing it down helps my ability to remember it.
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Probably not for the same reason, because they are easy to replace. A notebook full of thoughts is not. Interestingly though, I have shunned glasses for fear of becoming dependent on them. I can see well enough without them, and noticed, af
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by sathackr 11y ago
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1244/
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It's unfortunate that this type of therapy is out of reach for the majority of kids. Not many parents have $50,000/yr of disposable income to send their child. I know of a child right now that something positive like this may be t
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by sathackr 11y ago
I've shunned mechanisms like this for fear I would become dependent on them, and then really in trouble if I were to lose the notebook, which, unless it was permanently attached to my body, would be quite likely. Having 'the cloud
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by sathackr 11y ago
But once you got to the point of near starvation, assuming you were still physically capable, I bet you would become an excellent hunter. Until your appetite is satiated. Then it's off to lizard chasing in the middle of building your s
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by sathackr 11y ago
I had the exact same grade in English IV - barely scraping by with a D. If I had failed that I would have been another year in school. CPT "College Placement Test" was required by the local community college even though I had tak
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by sathackr 11y ago
Interesting nearly simul-post. Same here, I scored 1250 on the SAT, 31 on the ACT, and in the top 99th percentile on the CPT. Literature/Comprehension has always been my weakness "Read the passage below, then select what you think
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Yep. Get me in front of KSP(or World of Warcraft in the past) and 14 hours will have passed without me even looking up. My older sister hates fidgeting. She punches me(somewhat playfully, on the arm/leg/etc...) every time I start
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by sathackr 11y ago
Tests are the only way I passed highschool. If I got a teacher that required homework as a significant portion of the grade, I would fail that class. Leave me alone, let me sleep through class, then give me the test and let me go. Thankfull
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by sathackr 11y ago
I'm probably in the same boat. I see myself as a firefighter, things don't get my attention until their burning down, then I perform miracles to save them. Every few months my utility bills don't get paid until they turn it o
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I believe they are referring to a beam-forming antenna when they say active phased array. Basically, timing of the RF signal to various portions of the antenna is altered such that it restricts and focuses the beam towards an intended targe
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I see some major issues here. 1. Weather - The higher the frequency, the more things like rain/fog/sleet/snow start to affect you. For example, 24ghz in Florida is useless for more than about 1 mile, unless you're okay w
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Then the judicial system is tasked with case after case of having to discern the meaning of the law and how to interpret it legally within the confines of the state and federal constitutions. I wish I had a dollar for every case I've r
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by sathackr 11y ago
This sounds a lot like demand-billing [1] [2] that's common with electric utilities, particularly commercial, and increasingly, people with grid-tied solar installations. [citation needed] You pay a lower per-kilowatt-hour rate, but yo
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Yes...I'm curious to see how 'things stored in the cloud' will eventually work out with the 4th/5th amendment protections. Seems most of the current law applies to them as electronic communications, but I think they are

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