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by teuobk 17y ago
That looks surprisingly consistent to my eye. Any data on how other similar sites (e.g., reddit) have changed?
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The unsubsidized price is US$529, but it operates on a frequency band that is incompatible with the Rogers 3G network, so that won't really help you Canadians, eh.
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Were there similar phenomena during earlier waves of immigration? For example, the majority of my ancestors immigrated to America from Prussia in the mid to late 1800s. In general, they were professionals or businessmen, a tendency which ha
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by teuobk 17y ago
There's a lot of interesting automobile safety research going on in Silicon Valley. For example, Mercedes-Benz has a building in the Stanford Research Park in Palo Alto where they design next-generation safety systems. My former roommate
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by teuobk 17y ago
In the past 34 months (the extent of my Google web history data), I've performed 35401 searches with Google (about 34 per day). Of course, it's easy to switch search engines. The reasons for me that Google has become "very important" or "a
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by teuobk 17y ago
I'm going to be a contrarian and predict that tablets fail to gain traction outside of a small niche market. The Apple tablet will be an amazing piece of technology, sure, but I don't think that people are going to want to carry around a d
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by teuobk 17y ago
A new set of tires for my car and a really nice scarf. I love practical gifts.
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It all sounds very impressive, but the Motorola Droid continues to have a trump card: Verizon.
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by teuobk 17y ago
Would you be interested in an "accountabilibudy" (with apologies to South Park)? I'm finding myself in a bit of a productivity rut at the moment, too, and perhaps some sort of ongoing dialogue would be mutually beneficial. Interested?
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Data sources?
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It's been a concern in the past, too. The distant past. In 1899, Stanford University limited female enrollment to 500 students, apparently out of concern that the university would dilute the men's education. Not sure when that restriction
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by teuobk 17y ago
Nice charts showing this data (albeit a few years out of date): http://perotcharts.com/category/taxation-charts/page/7/
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by teuobk 17y ago
A few different places, depending on the situation: 1. Google scholar 2. Authors' personal websites 3. EBSCO Academic Alumni Edition via my alma matter's alumni association 4. Email requests to friends who are currently enrolled at major un
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by teuobk 17y ago
This isn't necessarily the horrible boondoggle it's being made out to be in the TC article. Consider: - The Yahoo brand has taken a significant beating among techies in SV - Cycling is extremely popular among techies in SV - By sponsoring
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by teuobk 17y ago
...and someone, far away in a remote part of the Rocky Mountains, puts his hand in the air and makes the sign of the dollar.
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by teuobk 17y ago
Based on fitting a simple logarithmic curve, plus some fiddling, I'm thinking 2e6 will happen in late September, 2010.
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by teuobk 17y ago
So, what's an example of a big city in the US that's run exceptionally well?
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What comes after this? A tool for friends to share data about with whom they're sleeping? That would seem to take "making behaviors visible" to its logical end. (Actually, it wouldn't surprise me to learn that something of that sort exist
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by teuobk 17y ago
Nah, never was an English major. However, I did draw a crude comic about them: http://www.zoitz.com/archives/38 In my real life as an electrical engineer designing power supplies, I learned that you can't just hook in a second unsynchron
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Yes, 20 MHz is a higher frequency than 60 Hz. While that would help for the sensor version of the design, it would not directly help for the synchronization of the AC sources. It might help you while building a switching supply to do the
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by teuobk 17y ago
Funny clip :-) If they were powering it from a DC source, like a battery, that would be the way to go. However, it looks like they are powering the device with a separate AC supply. Connecting one AC supply to another -- synchronizing vol
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by teuobk 17y ago
Seems pretty straightforward, conceptually. Sense the presence of AC voltage, and when the AC voltage goes below a certain threshold (e.g., it goes away), close some switches to connect an alternate AC supply in less time than it takes for
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by teuobk 17y ago
Or, to reframe the question for the startup crowd, what is the average wage that a typical high-tech entrepreneur makes, considering hours invested/sale price of the business?
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Would the crank-turners necessarily be suffering? What if they were told that their crank-turning was of vital importance? Is it possible that they might then enjoy turning the crank?
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CSI could be self-fulfilling, in the sense that it might be inspiring young people to study and advance forensic science. Supposedly, it's already changing expectations of juries, in that they are placing more value on forensic evidence (e
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by teuobk 17y ago
Interestingly, in the 1970s, the big fear was not global warming but global cooling. For example: http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/twimberley/EnviroPhilo/Why.pdf
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by teuobk 17y ago
So it doesn't work as a phone? Yup, sounds like the iPhone. Zing! Seriously though, it seems like it wouldn't be too difficult to hook in a GSM radio and make it into a true phone. Looks like there's a kit at SparkFun (using an ATMega ch
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Another way to think about it is that the game used almost all of the available RAM and drive space. That would be like a game today needing 3.5 GB of RAM and 0.90 TB of disk space. :)
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The $4 million might seem more impressive were it not for Twitter having raised $155 million without a revenue plan. Regardless, Milo looks like an interesting site. I could see it having particular value for people looking for popular toy
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Assuming that the treatment is proved to be successful -- and despite promising early results, that's still a ways off -- what happens to the various "find a cure for MS" organizations? Would they go away quietly? Is there a precedent for

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