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by toby 12y ago
Do people remember 1999? 24% of people in the developed world and 5% worldwide had internet access. No one had mobile broadband (remember WAP?), and wired broadband was just starting. Virtually none of the public .com companies made a profi
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by toby 12y ago
Running a strand of WS2812 LEDs is a pretty common starter project and requires real-time. The BBB does support this through the PRU, but it's a lot more complicated than just using an Arduino with the library.
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by toby 12y ago
FB has put options listed for Jan 2017, that's nearly two years.
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by toby 12y ago
Interesting. I'm sure people are doing this illegally, but technically you're supposed to buy a commercial Spotify license for public performance.
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by toby 12y ago
I'm a bit confused by the reasoning here. It's clear that light users are subsidizing heavy users, but why are we assuming that light users prefer indie bands and heavy users prefer pop music?
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by toby 12y ago
I think what he's referring to is people who are proud of their ignorance, which it doesn't sound like you are doing. You've certainly encountered people who believe saying things like "Oh, I don't even know who Kim
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by toby 12y ago
My main use for C code is embedded / bare-metal programming, so I was curious if Rust could run directly on ARM boards. I found https://github.com/hackndev/zinc but haven't given it a try yet.
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by toby 12y ago
Is this what you mean? http://www.plos.org/ The current system rewards people who publish in the high-impact journals, which means they get the "coolest" papers, which means they remain high impact. The ones at th
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by toby 12y ago
Agreed, I'm fascinated by this theory but I can't find a single reference to it.
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by toby 12y ago
Isn't that exactly what decriminalization is? "The new law maintained the status of illegality for using or possessing any drug for personal use without authorization. However, the offense was changed from a criminal one, with pri
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by toby 12y ago
If you're going to use the follow feature, it seems like it would be possible to run power cables down to a much larger battery in your backpack or something. Just an idea.
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by toby 12y ago
NJ has successfully sued companies that created bitcoin botnets in the past. This is clearly not the same thing, but I guess it's enough to make a court grant a subpoena. http://www.wired.com/2013/11/e-sports&
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by toby 12y ago
Heh, I recently posted this on Facebook: As I spent a sunny Sunday working through Project Euler problems in Haskell, I got a little sad that the word "nerd" has been re-appropriated to people who like video games ($100billion ind
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by toby 12y ago
This is interesting to me... how did you go about finding the space?
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by toby 12y ago
Agreed, you'd probably find that a lot of tech guys in a hoodie and jeans spent more on their clothes than DC staffers in "suits".
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by toby 12y ago
I'm an engineer, and I have several friends who are or were management consultants. None of the ones I met "lived to screw people over".
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by toby 12y ago
What are some advantages of OCaml over Haskell?
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by toby 12y ago
I have a few "home automation" items in my house -- lights, thermostats, outlets, switches, etc. By far the most useful is the Z-Wave deadbolt on my front door. It means I never carry keys, I can give codes to friends or the contr
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by toby 12y ago
In economic terms, this is not a transaction (both parties agree to exchange things for their mutual benefit) which is usually considered positive. It's closer to rent-seeking, which is usually considered neutral to negative.
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by toby 12y ago
Serious question -- there appear to be common two ways of allocating scarce resources in situations like this: either through price, or through semi-random who-gets-through first (see also online ticket sales). Why do people think the latte
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by toby 12y ago
"Many studies have sought to explain why there is a low incidence of heart disease in France, despite many of its inhabitants eating a high-fat diet." It's funny that this is where this theory came from. It was unfathomable a
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by toby 12y ago
For a game this complex the evolution will be so slow you'll likely never see any progress. My experience with genetic programs is they'll go through hundreds of thousands of generations just to play tic-tac-toe properly.
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by toby 12y ago
I think that matches what I was trying to say. In the individual distribution, Person A prefers Artist 1 and his listens are worth more because he used the service less. I'm not saying this is worse necessarily, I'm just not sure
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by toby 12y ago
This is a strange proposal. Assuming everyone paid a fixed subscription fee and listened to the same amount of music each, the artist payouts would work out exactly the same. In practice people vary in their usage of these services. Basical
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by toby 12y ago
I'm not sure if it's completely standard, but my royalties have always been 10% of wholesale (which usually works out to about 5% of retail). Amazon will pay out 5%-10% referral fees depending on the item and how good an affiliate
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by toby 12y ago
There are also Journals of Negative Results in a few fields, such as this one: http://www.jnrbm.com/
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by toby 12y ago
Fair enough, I guess I was hoping for the satire to be a bit more original. It was just the first episode though so I have some faith that there will be some more subtle humor as well later on.
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by toby 13y ago
Those bikes do exist, but they're more of a Burning Man thing. I don't think anyone actually has meetings on them.
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by toby 13y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I was really excited about this show (big fan of Mike Judge in general) but it feels like what someone would think SV was like if they based their entire impression on Techcrunch articles and 80s ner
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by toby 13y ago
Peter Gregory was clearly based on Peter Thiel

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