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by suprgeek 12y ago
SF is one of the worst cities for income inequality. Add to this that Towing companies are probably the worst scum suckers when it comes to unethical and downright illegal practices [1] and you have a deadly combination that preys on the we
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The logical next step would be to predictively send these drones up with the most likely packages that the customers could possibly order. The mobile app would then tell you here are 50 drones with a 10 mile radius - & here is the list
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by suprgeek 12y ago
TL;DR "Fairly homogenous country of 5 Million people total" coupled with some good decision making. For reference NY alone has a population of about 8 Million.
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by suprgeek 12y ago
India is a great market for a low cost smartphone. For a long time Nokia was king, both high-end to very-low end. There are many people who are now migrating off these cheap Nokia's into these tier-two companies, such as Micromax/
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First Android One devices hit India next month for $115-$165(arstechnica.com)
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by suprgeek 12y ago
If you want to put faces to names mentioned: http://www.pressherald.com/2013/04/09/north-pond-hermit-susp...
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Fix the Modularity business properly! Please simplify and make a standard system that most people can get behind. While Jigsaw started out ambitiously, I attended some of the initial meetings and the scope was....awesome. Then it scaled bac
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Red light camera firm paid for Chicago official’s car, condo(arstechnica.com)
72 points by suprgeek 12y ago|22 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Great Idea - I think this really should be integrated with http://allaregreen.us/ AllareGreen is a "..free browser extension for Chrome, Safari, and Firefox that exposes the role money plays in Congress. Displays on an
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by suprgeek 12y ago
source https://twitter.com/jonswaine/status/499744438092980224
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by suprgeek 12y ago
In Ferguson we are finally getting to see the glimpse(just a peek) of the tyranny creeping up on us in America. - Fully militarized police with a Tank(!) and multiple snipers with assault rifles confronting unarmed civilian protesters.[1] -
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The Artists sure made a statement! The truly wonderful part of this action is that the statement they made was perhaps not the one they intended. New Yorker's sensitivities aside, this beautifully demonstrated how bat-shit crazy the go
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by suprgeek 12y ago
I had two concerns when this was made public: that this was a laughably low amount considering the scope of the collusion and the time-scale over which it happened. that it looks like a good deal to all the companies concerned on two fronts
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Two states in particular of India, Uttar Pradesh (U.P) & Bihar are the worst affected by this phenomenon. Both have very large populations and deeply entrenched caste systems that are at the root of a lot of this non-sense. The long ter
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Sublime Web Inspector: Debug JavaScript in Sublime(github.com)
55 points by suprgeek 12y ago|11 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Photos are one of the few (only?) good things that they got mostly right in G+ and which I use pretty extensively. Business-wise this is the correct move except drop the ridiculous name "Google+ Photos"? Focus on adding great new
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Indian Inventor Makes A Open Source Glass Clone(techcrunch.com)
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When ever I see a new place or country allowing a test of these cars this wired article always comes to mind [1]. I think the two main questions will be liability & drivability - 1) when (not if) these cars get into a serious crash, wh
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TSA willing to pay $15,000 for best ideas to help shorten airport lines(washingtonpost.com)
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Rig up a couple of motion triggered IR camera's at critical points not commonly accessed, disguised and tamper proof. Check it once every so often just to make sure it works. Next time some jokester tries a stunt like this go check, fi
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The nugget buried at the end is very interesting - Boole (of Boolean Logic) was related to Voynich who found what is perhaps one of the most cryptic documents of all time.
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by suprgeek 12y ago
It bothers me that the term "Big-Data" is thrown around casually for basically using Google Trends canned. The hokey conspiracy theories are needless when there are multiple sites that specifically benchmark the iPhone when new re
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Same tortured definition: Copying(but not depriving you of it) without accessing (reading) is technically not seizing
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by suprgeek 12y ago
One of the points that I hope will be fully put to the sword is the tortured definition that the NSA & Govt. uses of spying. That argument is phrased approximately as: We are making limited digital copies of stuff (-possibly all interne
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by suprgeek 12y ago
How safe does this street "look" to a Human? NOT How safe is this street? Very important distinction - I would suggest changing the name of the project to "PerceivedStreetScore". What is now needed is actually part 2 of
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by suprgeek 12y ago
This is very exciting at one level. We need a project like this to accomplish a "Species" level map of our biology. Knowing a little bit about how data moves thru the Labs & clinics systems however, and the widespread tentacl
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I think we should be making a financial/societal incentive to do the right thing if the science is settled enough. The trouble with the view presented here is that sure the children get the vaccine due to this hypothetical rule. what h
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by suprgeek 12y ago
From section 3.9: "...some activities conducted by U.S Persons or activities taking place inside the United States, maybe an exercise of rights guaranteed by the First Amendment" So you will be put on a punitive list even after th
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by suprgeek 12y ago
I am usually comfortable engaging with and learning from people who hold completely different world views (that is usually the point of learning after all). This one is a bit hard to take anything from: (ad hominem) "I'm a Certifi
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by suprgeek 12y ago
In the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave" not only do we have "free speech zones" but we apparently have so much in the non-free-speech category that Watch-dog groups have to sue to get rid of some of them. In

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