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by warfangle 10y ago
Unless you use a hybrid approach, like a super efficient turbine generator + solar cells, so your battery doesn't need to be nearly as big.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Pilates could be very useful. Most of it is very low impact strength training - instead of holding up your body weight, you're straining against springs, for example. There are a lot of exercises that don't focus on the arms becau
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by warfangle 10y ago
"Age-restricted businesses" - wondering what kind of scam this would be...
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by warfangle 10y ago
And static IPs, and a lack of language in the contract stating that servers cannot be hosted on it, and so on and so forth.
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by warfangle 10y ago
In most places telephone deployment involved huge taxes and forced build-out into counties that would be unprofitable. Also, the telephone company paid non-discriminatory fees to the pole/conduit owner. This was often paid for / s
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by warfangle 10y ago
Who says we won't figure out how to reprocess it and safely burn the fissile waste in the next centuries? :)
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by warfangle 10y ago
Feel your pain. Worked on a video player at a previous company. Advertising was the biggest pain point. The fun part is when the ad trafficker would run a VPAID payload with 18 sequential ad-auction vendors. We saw delay from first byte of
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by warfangle 10y ago
Maybe advertising is moving towards being a dead revenue model, and something else needs to take its place.
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by warfangle 10y ago
> financial institutions and investors are pretty good at estimating value. Except when they're really, really not. See: mortgage tranches in 2006.
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by warfangle 10y ago
> There was rampant shadiness back in the day, including countless swindles perpetrated on the public, both related and unrelated to the tontine. Bribery of newspapers and politicians was also routine, as was embezzlement and plain theft
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by warfangle 10y ago
Thanks. Kinda amateur hour with leaving that out of the guide. I wonder how many others have gotten as frustrated and stopped trying to learn it! I'll submit a PR to update the docs in a lil bit.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Maybe the battery form factors that are being improved aren't appropriately sized for use in smartphones? :)
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by warfangle 10y ago
In 2008: The iPhone had an 1150mAh battery and, according to anandtech [0], 284 minutes of talk time (3G) and 400 minutes of web browsing time (WiFi). It weighed 133 grams. In 2016: The iPhone SE has a 1,624mAh battery and gets 556.2[1] min
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by warfangle 10y ago
They work in the live editor on elm-lang.org. But not locally. Maybe my environment isn't set up correctly? I tried the first one (the counter). Copy/pasted directly into a dir as 'counter.elm'. Initialized the dir with
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by warfangle 10y ago
Any suggestions on where to start with Elm? Learn You an Elm examples don't compile on the try-it-live console. Official examples do, but fail to compile on a local install (after setting up elm package install etc). Any suggestions on
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by warfangle 10y ago
Daily Shouts is a humor column... it's definitely satire.
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by warfangle 10y ago
I don't think it matters if the car payments can be counted or not. But, according to [0] (I'm not sure how accurate/reputable it is; again, IANAA), the deductible portion of $604 52=$31,408 is only $2,218.90. Gas at $57 52=$
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by warfangle 10y ago
Average city driving speed for LA is 26.8 MPH [0], which means she's driving around 750 miles per week. She leased a 2015 Honda Civic, which has a rated fuel economy of 31 MPG. Assuming she gets the rated gas mileage from her civic, sh
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by warfangle 10y ago
Would they, though? For which business is employee wages 100% of costs?
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by warfangle 10y ago
There is a huge amount of red tape to any SaaS to store PII. Huge. I can imagine it's even more so for things like financials.
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by warfangle 10y ago
The only difference between the two is what causes the data stored within to flush.
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by warfangle 10y ago
On average. But unlike NYC, there's actually, well, rural areas.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Nope.
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by warfangle 10y ago
That's called last mile unbundling, and is one thing the FCC has refused to consider. aDSL used to be unbundled, too. And while it was unbundled, speeds were increasing. aDSL speeds have been pretty flat since they removed the requirem
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by warfangle 10y ago
Having to ship your code back to the mothership to run unit tests made it impossible to run TDD (~30 second overhead on each test run). That along with the test coverage requirements made it a pain on the first level. Unless you're usi
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by warfangle 10y ago
Given the state of usability labs at Goog, it's probably a substantial and statistically relevant percentage.
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by warfangle 10y ago
And it's a special kind of hell. Reserved for people who talk at the movies.
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by warfangle 10y ago
That's the natural order of unregulated labor-based capitalism.
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by warfangle 10y ago
Also kinda hard to glide in for a landing when there's little/no atmosphere...
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by warfangle 10y ago
Quake 3 doesn't work for you? :) http://media.tojicode.com/q3bsp/

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