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by specialp 10y ago
ChromeOS is just as bad with spying as Windows 10 (or worse considering how much other information Google has to tie to you. Apple is well on their way to making their upcoming OS similar as well. We live in a world now where most people ar
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by specialp 10y ago
This: git clone https://github.com/Day8/re-frame-template lein new re-frame <project-name> lein figwheel Program with a great functional language (Clojure) and watch magic happen when Figwheel dynamicall
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by specialp 10y ago
I come in at varying times but officially I work 7.5 hrs a day with an unpaid lunch. Usually I come in ~10am and leave ~6pm. If something is broken on weekends or nights though I am fixing it, and when there is a large time sensitive projec
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by specialp 10y ago
That limit does not apply to prepaid MetroCards at the same station. What the OP is referring to is that one cannot clone an unlimited weekly or monthly card while having it be useful. They have a 18 min lock out. Using a prepaid card repea
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by specialp 10y ago
NYC subway system has over double the stations of Boston and San Francisco combined. All of which in a densely populated city, and operating 24 hours a day. Doing any work in NYC costs huge amounts of money. Many of the BART and MBTA are in
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by specialp 10y ago
Probably going to get down-voted to hell for this, but you all ever think of supporting those whom you are reading double digit number of articles a month from with a subscription? They aren't terribly expensive. Decent news sources ar
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by specialp 10y ago
I have found that the site https://mxtoolbox.com/ is very good for scanning your records for SPF/DMARC/DKIM and pointing out problems. Unfortunately even with implementing all of this some email providers are heav
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by specialp 10y ago
There is also an effort to get these detectors in space with eLISA: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/63 This will be able to detect wave frequencies that would normally be drowned out by terrestrial sources.
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by specialp 10y ago
Stoset is right. The reason why we do not notice them is due to the inverse square law. This event was 1.3 billion light years away. 1 Solar mass of energy being turned into a gravitational wave nearly instantly creates a very strong gravit
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Second Gravitational Wave Detected at LIGO(journals.aps.org)
621 points by specialp 10y ago|174 comments
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by specialp 10y ago
Well the Devil's advocate view is that Mr. Dell orchestrated the sale to himself without giving the market the knowledge he possessed at the time of the sale. I do not know the details of the case, but Mr. Dell as the CEO of Dell is no
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by specialp 10y ago
I think they are doing quite a good job considering the vigilance it takes. The beach near me has mostly teenagers lifeguarding, and there has been 30k rescues over the years, with zero deaths while lifeguards were on duty. I do not hear o
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by specialp 10y ago
This is very true. Exercise has more of an effect than the calories burned. It improves your health and you feel much better than when you had a sedentary life. As always the answer is that decreasing calorie consumption with moderate exerc
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by specialp 11y ago
While cameras will never be the whole story, it does not hurt to have an additional piece of evidence. Something I noticed while watching the videos was that the wearer of the camera did not even have it properly strapped down, so it was fl
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by specialp 11y ago
It is against Amazon's interests to have price comparison these days. Early on in my computer shopping days I'd hit pricewatch and buy from random vendors based on price. Eventually this company called Newegg often had the near th
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by specialp 11y ago
It is ironic that Apple is mentioning this as I believe this is going to spell the end of their era of massive profits. Phones now are getting to the state where much like PCs, the older phone is good enough, and the new phone is not substa
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by specialp 11y ago
Feeling dissed, is one thing, but subverting the process is another. The explanation given was that scaling the Blackberry that the POTUS was given was unmanageable. Whether that is a fair explanation or not we do not know. Even if it were
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by specialp 11y ago
I was in Iceland 2 years ago, and I could not get fuel for my rental car anywhere with my chipless and PINless card, and had to pay a large amount of money to have the agency fill it. Even though the USA has finally started to roll out chip
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by specialp 11y ago
I understand that is is very inconvenient to use the channels provided to transmit confidential information, but that goes with the job. It is also probably inconvenient to have a massive physical security detail follow you everywhere as we
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by specialp 11y ago
We ramped up capacity. Massive traffic! Also, if you are looking for a good article on this from a field expert, we have a Physics Viewpoint on it here: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v9/17
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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger(journals.aps.org)
102 points by specialp 11y ago|23 comments
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by specialp 11y ago
This is going to continue and get worse. Margins are going to be under pressure even for Apple and Samsung. The technology in phones is leveling off. Chinese manufacturers that for a long time were making everyone else's phones are now
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by specialp 11y ago
OK well I suppose then it is fair to say that on average 150 police a year die in the line of duty from criminal action, yet in the UK, here is a list of all that have died since 1900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List
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by specialp 11y ago
Perhaps I could be wrong, but isn't bail returned when one successfully shows up in court until the matter is adjudicated regardless of the outcome? The only way bail is forfeited is when the defendant skips out on returning to court.
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by specialp 11y ago
I think people here do not really remember or weren't around when Kim Dotcom was not internet hero of piracy, but he was "Kimble" with a website showing him in jets and with women. He has basically lived his whole life with s
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by specialp 11y ago
Basic panel of blood tests is reimbursed $8 from medicare. That is pretty darn cheap. I know here we always think that industries are ripe for disruption, but the lab industry is mature, highly competitive, and has a high barrier to entry t
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by specialp 11y ago
Theranos changes none of that. Unless a test is CLIA waived, it needs a prescription to be done. They are trying to make it easier to take samples by requiring less blood to be drawn but it is silly for those in the field. Most chemistry te
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by specialp 11y ago
All Apple needs to do to stop their cables from fraying at very high rates is to use a continuous flex cable like these: http://www.igus.com/wpck/15029/productoverview_CF?C=US&L=en I used to work on amusement
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by specialp 11y ago
There are still plenty of people out there that can work at the low level, and young people that can work at low level too. I compare it to the beginning of CS to now. In the 70's a computer scientist was familiar with electronics, and
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by specialp 11y ago
There are tests that are done lab on chip but not everything can be done this way. Even a basic chem panel for your blood is 20 analytes. The mechanism for these tests are all different. Also the pre-testing prep for the blood is different.

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