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811.
United States Geological Service (USGS) TopoView Map Viewer(ngmdb.usgs.gov)
1 points by sib 7y ago|0 comments
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by sib 7y ago
Antitrust regulations would certainly not be achieving the goal of reducing customer harm if they were to _prevent_ Apple from delivering a better, less-slimy solution to replace Yelp.
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by sib 7y ago
"Canon rush to reassure investors as camera profits plunge 64%" is the title of the article. Profits dropping 64% is a pretty good indication that things aren't going great.
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I Can Neither Confirm nor Deny – The Glomar Response(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by sib 7y ago|0 comments
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by sib 7y ago
It also represents about 50% of the global advertising market (ad spending), so if the market changes there, it effects the rest of the world (for good and bad).
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by sib 7y ago
Which, I believe, is how the previous long-term ban on exporting of crypto was justified (ITAR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arms_... )
817.
by sib 7y ago
Wow - that's the first time I've heard that actually being operationalized. Who's read The Truth Machine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Truth_Machine
818.
by sib 7y ago
Completely agree. My point is only that there's no real argument here that this is "non-public information," which is what insider trading laws are about.
819.
by sib 7y ago
Something that is visible from space - the number of cars in a parking lot - seems to be the very antithesis of "non-public" information. I think Berkeley missed the thread on this one.
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by sib 7y ago
Interesting. My first impression is, "That's crazy." Stating a fact ("such-and-such business is at thus-and-such address and has this phone number and here is a picture of the building") should not be removable by f
821.
by sib 7y ago
Grrr - wrong link: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=H...
822.
by sib 7y ago
Also see this Amazon patent related to intentionally removing PII from speech transmitted to the cloud. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H... In case the link doesn't work, it's
823.
by sib 7y ago
Later in life, Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln, built a large house called Hildene in southern Vermont that was occupied by descendants into the 1970's. It is maintained as a museum. It's pretty interesting and worth a tri
824.
by sib 7y ago
Just out of curiosity, how would you know if you had seen counterfeit money?
825.
by sib 7y ago
"Know your customer" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
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by sib 7y ago
While Germany would be the 5th state by size, it is only 3.6% of the area of the United States. (Those of us who grew up when there were two Germanies knew it as even smaller - only 2.5% of the US' area...) I learned this when being be
827.
by sib 7y ago
20 million pixels; $5,000. ??
828.
by sib 7y ago
They could port a version of the view of the app that shows up when you turn the phone into landscape mode.
829.
by sib 7y ago
Yes - it's been very clearly communicated since the launch of the Echo in 2014 that the speech goes to the cloud after the wake word is detected (which happens on device).
830.
by sib 7y ago
Echo devices (with Alexa) also have explicit mic mute buttons, plus a UI that indicates when the mics are off, which my phone does not. (And yes, you have to trust that Amazon's devices are behaving according to spec and to what Amazon
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by sib 7y ago
I took 140 flights last year. I made a larger number than that of online purchases. Adding / tracking all that stuff manually is a pure waste of time.
832.
by sib 7y ago
"You're thinking academic aptitude is the only thing the SATs should measure and report" It _is_ pretty hard to make that logical leap from something that is (ok, was once) called the "scholastic aptitude test"... &
833.
by sib 7y ago
So... it's like a hotel minibar for tractor parts. Great idea! (Hopefully the pricing is less outrageous.)
834.
by sib 7y ago
My doctors either send email with a link to their secure messaging portal (meh) or a push notification to their mobile app which contains a messaging capability (much better). This is much better than the old days of phone-only contact.
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by sib 8y ago
I wish the journalist had asked more about this seemingly alarming statistic: "Zendrive now has its monitoring technology on 60 million phones, roughly one of every four U.S. drivers" For example: How did this "monitoring te
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by sib 8y ago
I always thought this should be a "swipe left / swipe right" thing for both driver & passenger. If they both indicate they want to chat, talk away.
837.
by sib 8y ago
Contacts are not on the core Echo (not Alexa) device. Contacts are in the cloud. Location is highly relevant to many frequent queries (e.g., weather) and a common Echo device does not have GPS or similar location-determining hardware. Consu
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by sib 8y ago
I think we should all be able to agree that there are no commercially-available "current self-driving cars" - there are cars with ADAS, but they are far from self-driving. And if you tried to let your "self-driving car"
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by sib 8y ago
I can see the headlines now: "Thousands killed in [less-developed country] civil war; more food left for survivors!" "Average global temperatures up 4' C in past decade; boom in tourism in Hudson Bay and Siberia!&
840.
by sib 8y ago
There's also the fact that there are only 4 Interstate highways in Hawaii totaling 54.9 miles, while in California, there are 25 Interstates totaling 2,455.7 miles. So, we've got more space to get up to speed ;) and, of course, lo

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