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by sgnelson 10y ago
It's not just how much, it's also what, who, how, where, and why.
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by sgnelson 10y ago
I've wanted to sit down for a while now and chart out company lifespans over the past 100 years. I could very well be wrong, but I have a feeling that just as technology/product life cycles are getting shorter, so too are the lif
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by sgnelson 10y ago
I don't know what the original poster meant, but I may (I'm not sure I would) argue that he may mean things other than simple income/profit. Such things as core competencies/competitiveness/managerial and employee
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Add Cisco to that list.
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Rather than being pedantic like most of these replies which describe lobbyings definition, but to take your intent to mean" lobbying in which large amounts of dollars change hands between special interests and politicians in which case
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by sgnelson 10y ago
I haven't read the ruling, so I'm talking a bit out of my ass here; however, that's rather nonsensical approach considering that many areas of the country have multi-jurisdictional systems in place for services. As an exampl
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by sgnelson 10y ago
For those who want to know a bit more about a few of these topics, I found this article via HN discussing the role computers, fly by wire, and a lack of training had in the AirFrance 447 crash. Found the article quite interesting. http:&#x
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by sgnelson 10y ago
I want to know how many more of these rooms exist, and where exactly they are. I'm surprised we haven't had many more leaks about them given what I would consider the ease of identifying them. (ie, how many doors out there don&#
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Yes.
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Makes me wonder if we'll ever see a "hot" war that starts off as a "cyber" war.
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by sgnelson 10y ago
I wonder if anyone has ever run this system on Lewis Carrol's Jabberwocky[1] or even something like Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, both of which contain a large number of made up words/slang/re-use. I remember tha
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by sgnelson 10y ago
To further this comment, also see Tacit Knowledge, of which the very definition is essentially knowledge that cannot or is extremely difficult to transfer through words alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_knowled
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by sgnelson 10y ago
for a very narrow and personal definition of "optimal."
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by sgnelson 10y ago
For more information, you can read about Spatial Mismatch Theory, which is almost exactly this point. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial_mismatch
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by sgnelson 10y ago
As others have already stated, there are some problems with this "study." I'm too lazy to do this myself, but my guess is that when you actually redo this auto-complete search, and look at not just the top search, but rather
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Most metal 3d printers simply don't have the surface finish to make this feasible, never mind cost (it'd be ridiculous).
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by sgnelson 10y ago
This is a nice tutorial, but it seems a bit kludgey (and I'm guessing part of that is due to Fusion 360's "not quite a fully finished CAD system," though they are making pretty good progress with it, and I find it's
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Live exposed wires is not an emergency. That's what 311 is for (or similar City Information and Reporting services.)
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by sgnelson 10y ago
At least for the US, you can check out USPS CASS. I can't tell you about the rest of the world, but I'd bet bet that the EU has something similar.
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Thanks for replying, your data sources are amazing, it must have taken quite a bit of work to put them all together. And I get that different users have different needs, but I'm still curious about the accuracy (it's geography aft
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Nobody wants to believe they were conned. Check this out: the link in which Wright uses to say he can't prove he's Satoshi or risk going to jail, appears to be completely fraudulent: http://bitcoinist.net/uk-law-e
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by sgnelson 10y ago
The software looks neat. But for the above user, is there an option to vertically exaggerate the topography?
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Wow, I had no idea that Geocoding was so big around here, nice to see. So a question for all of you geocoders, how are you testing and determining accuracy? ie, how many "failed to geocode records" out of an arbitrary number cou
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by sgnelson 10y ago
Could the title of this article be any less informative?
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by sgnelson 10y ago
If nothing else, I learned that you can write Python scripts for Blender. Neat.
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by sgnelson 10y ago
This article/company are misrepresenting the truth. Once you add the carburetor, a starter (watch the video, they use a drill to start the engine, obviously real small engines have pull starters, which add weight.), the exhaust, inta
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by sgnelson 10y ago
No, it's a thousand times worse than that. They're comparing a city from the 1400's to a tiny piece of a city of the 21st century. It's such a bad comparison, it blows my mind.
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by sgnelson 10y ago
But you don't have to bribe 100k people. You just have to bribe/influence 50,001 people (and I know that's not exactly true, this is based on a US two party system, not the variety of parties in the UK, but hang with me here
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by sgnelson 10y ago
The US has been down that road, and I forgive you for not knowing this (as you're Australian). But let me introduce you to Hanging Chad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_(paper) https://en.wikipedia.o
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by sgnelson 10y ago
The thing about online voting that has always gotten me is that it violates the ideals behind the "Australian Ballot." [0] ie, one should have the right to cast a secret ballot, and doing so in a public polling place at least theo

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