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by schainks 13y ago
A "catch 22" you might say...
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by schainks 13y ago
I agree, let's not get too charged up about this current affair.
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by schainks 13y ago
My sentiment exactly. If journalists want to help people through their craft with integrity, these kinds of modifications should be transparently pointed out to the reader. Oh, wait! There's MLA formatting for that: "We can't
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by schainks 13y ago
Sigh... wired fails at citations again. From Masters of Doom: "A sympathetic computer administrator at the University at Wisconsin, Parkside, named David Datta volunteered to let id upload the Doom shareware to a file transfer site he
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by schainks 13y ago
From the comments so far, these lessons seem relevant: 1) Get a contract signed up front. If possible, make sure you're allowed to discuss your experience with the firm publicly along the way, so you're allowed to talk about it (
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by schainks 13y ago
This. Cheap, solar powered, slow moving UAVs or something like that would be ideal for this. Also, for those HNers that haven't learned about California forests: Part of reason we have massive fires today is because in the early 1900s
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by schainks 13y ago
This. The moichendizing was a riot - "It's a good day to... buy!"
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by schainks 13y ago
This is cool, but how does spotify configure the pre/post install/remove hooks of the debian package? also, did spotify look into using fpm? If so, what were it's drawbacks that lead to making a new tool?
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by schainks 13y ago
The ironic thing to me is the NSA is clearly in a position to present evidence for this - unless 'insider' conversations are happening in an analog medium.
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by schainks 13y ago
What irritates me the most is that voting system source code is maintained by "security through obscurity". It makes more sense to me if we require voting systems to be open source and have some government body or 3rd party that&
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by schainks 13y ago
have you seen this Ted Talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izddjAp_N4I It's not totally "user friendly", but I'd say it's a huge step towards "secure and reliable" voting.
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by schainks 13y ago
people fall down by accident sometimes, and it's more dangerous for older folk to fall, no?
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by schainks 13y ago
utilities have looked into this "smart grid" application for a while. The bigger issue, I think, is what's the likelihood that your house/grid will drain your car battery before it can be recharged enough for you to be a
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by schainks 13y ago
some good points, and while i haven't read his other articles, i don't think he grasps the gravity of what "baseline supply" means on the power grid. these are powerplants that are on 24/7 - reliably - always supply
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by schainks 13y ago
this.
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by schainks 13y ago
look at the average salary of worker bee at corporation X in China versus worker bee at government agency X in China. my money is on the government jobs paying better, too.
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by schainks 13y ago
i'm _really_ into this idea. However, the UI looks unpolished, and I need to try before I buy. There is so much more sexy that can go into that UI, though, you are on to something ;).
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by schainks 14y ago
The real question to ask here is how much of this is connected to the grid? China's current 5 year plan is trying to build the wires to connect this wind. As of 2012, barely 10% of all built wind was even connected to the grid...