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by westbywest 10y ago
The problem is that the current fad among manufacturers of cleverly externalizing their social costs (e.g. cost of labor, cost of environmental stewardship, cost of meeting regulatory requirements) also removes their incentive to pay much h
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by westbywest 10y ago
Analog electronic computers actually offered significant advantages in precision over their digital equivalents for much of the mid-20th century, due to limitations imposed by slow clock speeds and small word sizes. Calibrating them was no
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by westbywest 10y ago
Given that border agents may go as far as cloning hard drive contents, what advantage does an additional partition have? A thorough search may uncover the hidden/encrypted partition, which then becomes another item for which you'
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by westbywest 10y ago
Excluding the Russian state media outlet RT from the "enemies of the United States" group, while including local media outlets you presumably disagree with, seems pretty fallacious. To put it mildly.
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by westbywest 10y ago
Actually, the camera was embedded deep inside the probe's pressure vessel. The aperture on the probe's surface was glazed with a quartz window, and the image projected through a long periscope arrangement to the sensor inside.
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by westbywest 10y ago
FWIW, Samuel Morse obtained a $30,000 grant from Congress in 1843 to build an experimental telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington.
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by westbywest 10y ago
German language (or more precisely, idiom) maintains distinct meanings for "mein Freund" versus "Freund von mir," the former being far more intimate.
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by westbywest 10y ago
Admitted that the erratic nature of the new administration makes it tricky to anticipate what tack (if any) Pai's FCC will take. However, the progress thus far in enormous telco mergers, Charter/TimeWarner/Verizon in particu
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by westbywest 10y ago
The impossible grey area would be what defines 'urgent.' Nevertheless, I would welcome less abuse of state secrets privilege.
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by westbywest 10y ago
Many other cultures (and even many of my relatives) frame the task of rearing children as means to better ensure for your own care towards the end of your life, rather than as a high-risk endeavor comparable to purchasing real estate.
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by westbywest 10y ago
The ability for one spouse to forego work in lieu of dedicating themselves to childcare is a privilege not enjoyed by a substantial percentage of parents. Besides that, the choice to have kids (or not) remains in this country one everyone
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by westbywest 10y ago
Having young children can place constraints on your ability to shift work hours away from conventional 9-5. Childcare/schooling/etc are not as flexible in the schedules they follow, and not everyone has a spouse/partner with
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by westbywest 10y ago
A glance at the board's membership suggests the clock is a side project. Their daytime pursuits include nuclear research, environmental policy, public health preparedness against bio-attacks, climatology, and quantum physics. http:&
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by westbywest 10y ago
ZFS storage layers built on OmniOS/OpenSolaris/Illumos enjoy more years of maturity (and thus demonstrated stability) than upcoming versions for Linux/Ubuntu. If you have to build large storage in-house, stability is a high
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by westbywest 10y ago
Considering that tracking also occurs based on browser cookies or even more indirect methods, seems this tool's primary effectiveness would just be deterring profiling by public wifi AP operators.
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by westbywest 10y ago
As learned from relatives living there, Altanta's long-term water situation kinda frightens me. Their aquifer (aka Lake Lanier) can't sustain the anticipated population, and it looks like fights are brewing with downstream partie
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by westbywest 10y ago
Hot, dry, humid, in varying quantities during the warm season. Occasional bouts of days-long rain when the remnants of tropical storm systems come ashore.
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by westbywest 10y ago
I'm surprised the NYT article didn't mention anything about Barcelona's existing legacy in novel and pedestrian-friendly urban layout. The "superilles" likely reference part of the city's existing street grid
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by westbywest 10y ago
While I can have no idea what you would deem to be strong evidence, swift Googling can point you to published research from sociologists, et al, about bias and other behaviors that make the justice system dramatically less impartial than it
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by westbywest 10y ago
I would expect any 3rd party manufacturer seeking to replicate the safety margins of Apple's own power adapters may ultimately find it difficult to produce a competitive alternative, once you factor in costs of NDAs with Apple and such
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by westbywest 10y ago
The catch-22 is that Apple shoehorned substantial complexity into the charger, to make it and associated cables/connectors very lightweight, while still supporting batteries with very high power density. Compare the article's pho
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by westbywest 10y ago
The power density of modern Li-Ion batteries is surprising. These chargers have to move substantial current over cables and connectors that just become ever lighter.
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by westbywest 10y ago
Used Nextdoor after home purchase, since I only was only comfortable using their snail mail postcard verification. Nextdoor does indeed treat their location verification more seriously that other services, although that likely is warranted
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by westbywest 10y ago
Nextdoor isn't especially unique compared to other social media platforms. What does appear unique is its traction among highly localized user groups (i.e. neighborhoods). Both myself and friends found Nextdoor actually extremely use
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by westbywest 11y ago
Some people/organizations associated with this thread on ninux.org have a Gofundme page to collect funds supporting their efforts in persuading more coherent action from the FCC. https://www.gofundme.com/save_wifi_round
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by westbywest 11y ago
It's expected other manufacturers will begin locking down their firmware. Ubiquiti, for example, already does.
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TP-Link begins router firmware lockdown due to FCC proposed regulation(ml.ninux.org)
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by westbywest 12y ago
Dual-band (2.4GHz, 5.8GHz) AP with a Qualcomm 802.11ac SoC. Maybe it uses 802.11s to assist with mesh layer 2 routing? I'm curious to what extent the device may depend on Cloud-based mgmt services provided only by Eero, similar to Cl
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by westbywest 14y ago
I would have to imagine there is still some challenge to 'bringing' Google Fiber to the remaining 48 US states. Sprint's presence in Kansas City was a large determining factor in its selection for the initial fiber deployment. Besides, th
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by westbywest 14y ago
"Any 'gigabit wireless' scheme will likely look the same it does today: a handful of key players with reciprocal data roaming agreements, and a few MVNOs which piggyback off the big guys. Wireless infrastructure is so expensive that carrier

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