scoggs

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by scoggs 8y ago
I think it's safe to say they wouldn't be logging anywhere near 10M miles if that weren't the case. Especially when the graph shows that they've completed 6M of those 10M in the last year! ( https://www.theatla
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by scoggs 8y ago
I know it's a serious conversation but... > Luckily that type of road doesn't exist Speak for yourself. In more related news I have a friend who helps out on Waymo and he's ALWAYS posting great articles about Waymo tech, a
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by scoggs 8y ago
I view facebook's newsfeed and youtube's list of suggestions like entering into a popular reddit thread about something dividing the community that has lots of posts. You enter into the comment section and it's automatically
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by scoggs 8y ago
First: Going in I understand the impact a drone could have on a given aircraft wing if it were to impact. I also understand how that compares to a bird or at higher speeds as I've watched the linked video. I learned a lot I didn't
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by scoggs 8y ago
Time and time again, even without the "threat" (as perceived by police officers that mentally incapable people are unable to follow commands strictly and promptly) of dealing with a "difficult / defiant" subject &#x
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by scoggs 8y ago
I agree with your line of thinking. They are absolutely married to that ball-and-chain for whatever amount of time it takes them to go all out. It seems like the thing that helped American auto makers "bounce back" after things we
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by scoggs 8y ago
Right. It doesn't exactly align with what a normal auditor would be looking out for, I suppose. Thanks, I appreciate it.
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by scoggs 8y ago
Maybe his hands were tied in the sense that releasing things open source would limit his ability to package and sell it off at a later date? I'm sure there were negotiations in progress at the time he would have considered doing so and
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by scoggs 8y ago
I'm guessing the answer is obviously yes that this type of x-ray would easily be able to discover / distinguish something the size of what's been described? (1mm x 2mm from what I've seen thus far?)
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by scoggs 8y ago
Thank you so much. That was a wonderful read and I really enjoyed that.
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by scoggs 8y ago
Honestly if it weren't programming I feel like this is a movie-worthy story. To me it sounds so thrilling like a spy movie plot but am I just imagining that or was it actually this crazy / cool / integral to way bigger moving
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by scoggs 8y ago
Just what?
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by scoggs 8y ago
Nothing makes one's life difficult and impossible to integrate into society like a criminal record for smoking a joint, eh?
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by scoggs 8y ago
I could be understanding the crux of your question wrong but I believe the point the article and technology makes over and over is that it offloads nearly all of the stress and communication off of the backend and instead replaces it with a
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by scoggs 8y ago
The Flappy Birds stuff is utter madness.
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by scoggs 8y ago
From my POV it screams of, "If I can't have it my way than nobody else will have it their way!"
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by scoggs 8y ago
Agreed. Your optimism is awesome and I love seeing people who, without seemingly any question about what they have to do / want to be, go after what they want regardless of anything else. The bigger the hurdle the greater it is to see
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by scoggs 8y ago
> The fact they accord so much importance to a tool is beyond moronic. There's definitely a part of me that thinks this product may be some sort of Thomasson's HyperArt Product / Thought Experiment-type thing. And I'm
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by scoggs 8y ago
I'm not sure how important it is but I think it's also important to note that even if people are telling Facebook lots of things about themselves that there is no guarantee that info is 100% accurate.
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by scoggs 8y ago
If it wasn't obvious already: > For reference, Snapchat did $290 million in the same timeframe, Twitter $660 million. Just goes to show how much potential Amazon has in the Ad Market. Does anyone else think Amazon could overtake one
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by scoggs 8y ago
I read the article first then checked the comments here and I still feel that way. I highly doubt I'm alone.
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by scoggs 8y ago
> If I have to start from scratch I can only start if I have the perfect picture in my head or it is better to do nothing and go hiking. People often wonder why I ask not only so many questions but so many detailed ones when we are worki
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by scoggs 8y ago
I guess in an ocean full of heavier (than most if not all common plastics) sediments and naturally occurring materials the plastic would find it's way to the top (from floating or being just below the surface. It would probably only si
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by scoggs 8y ago
Haha, that's awesome and a hobby farm sounds fantastic. It's great you get to pass on the skills to your two sons. Just know, they might not understand it now, but one day even if they don't verbalize it and especially in the
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by scoggs 8y ago
>in fact it's strongly incentivised to make what they're looking for as difficult to find as possible so that they'll spend hours and hours binging vacuous addictive content looking for something but never quite finding it
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by scoggs 8y ago
As a web dev and designer myself I can't agree with you any more. People outside of design and development often seem obsessed with the "first fold" containing everything needed but it's not always the best approach, thi
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by scoggs 8y ago
I'll check it out. I was also young when I watched it and just remember being mesmerized even if it wasn't my favorite subject / show to watch. It made me want to construct the SHIT out of things, you know?
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by scoggs 8y ago
Ah, you know what? I was worried I was off topic and off base telling such a personal story but I'm glad it resonated with you. I know EXACTLY what you mean about people looking at you and thinking: "This nerdy programmer guy actu
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by scoggs 8y ago
I know this is hard to imagine but I'd love to see a situation where a small community actually gets together and "on good faith" (this is the nearly impossible part, if not impossible) agree to record their votes pre-voting,
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by scoggs 8y ago
I'm not OP but if (s)he's / they're my age or older (young 30's) we grew up in a time where, depending on where you lived and how much money your family had growing up, knowing these non-technical (in a computer &#x

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