TenaciousValor

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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
>> The founders had a very good rationale for putting it in. > Yeah, slavery. No, tyranny of the majority. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_the_majority Even women couldn't vote, so it's
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
Perhaps those who live in urban areas may want to consider moving to a rural area so their vote can matter more. Living in a large urban area and voting Democratic is generally meaningless. Move to a rural area (or a small city), and the ga
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
You may find my post in this thread useful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20683615
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
I was curious what mathematics this startup uses to calculate your return on investment. Based on my research (you can verify it by plugging in identical values on their site), this is the formula they use (written in Python): ========= STA
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
Downlink frequency is 437.025 MHz. You'll be able to download telemetry, but you won't be able to decode photos because NOAA says no.
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
The author talked about if data is "yours," but they never mention the truest form of that: ownership. If ownership of data becomes an established concept, data will fit nicely into existing legal frameworks. If a random person co
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'Schrems II' ruling on EU dataflows could have unintended consequences(europeanlawblog.eu)
1 points by TenaciousValor 7y ago|0 comments
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
>I think it's important to distinguish between conditions which are unfortunate and conditions which are unbearable. Ok. Some conditions created by sanctions are unbearable, and some conditions created by sanctions are unfortunate.
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
Short of receiving an act of aggression challenging the sovereign of your nation, sanctions are always preferable to war. Resource starvation occurs during wartime, but, in contrast to war, sanctions mean no lives are being lost and no prop
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
And war doesn't?
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
Milwaukee, WI is building a Deep Tunnel project as well. It's certainly not as large as Chicago's, but the need is similar (city built on swampland). They are, after all, neighboring cities on Lake Michigan. https://www
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
Here's the general rules of thumb I follow when deciphering a schematic/PCB: 1) Ask yourself: what's the application? What should this board be capable of doing? If you can't answer this question from the start, it'
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by TenaciousValor 7y ago
In the quoted statement, only one of those statements--"defying the laws of physics"--is perhaps beyond the purview of the military. We don't allow aircraft to willy-nilly cross borders, and neither does any other country in
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by TenaciousValor 8y ago
>Maybe we need to design new audio/video formats that degrade more "artistically" when there is data loss or insufficient bandwidth. If "art is in the eye of the beholder," then an artistic decomposition would pr
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by TenaciousValor 8y ago
If there's little evidence showing that the medium is affecting people positively or negatively, perhaps the key differentiator is content. A medium is the vehicle for content, and content is dictated by the medium. However, the conten
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by TenaciousValor 8y ago
According to [1], "[b]ecause the production of high-quality semiconductor materials was still decades away, Lilienfeld's solid-state amplifier ideas would not have found practical use in the 1920s and 1930s, even if such a device
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by TenaciousValor 8y ago
Solid state non-volatile storage technologies such as NOR and NAND flash memory use something called floating-gate transistors [1]. Making these transistors is highly complex, and substantial amounts of research efforts have gone into R&amp
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How the Roomba Company Decided to Stop Making Bots for the Military(nymag.com)
2 points by TenaciousValor 8y ago|0 comments
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by TenaciousValor 8y ago
See my reply above for an explanation. TL;DR: the reason is business, not necessarily incompetence.
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by TenaciousValor 8y ago
Publishers knew about the GDPR; there was a two-year grace period before the GDPR went into effect, which ended earlier this year. No, it's a conscious choice rooted in business. News websites make substantial amounts of money through
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by TenaciousValor 8y ago
You could, but it's not just the LA Times that acts this way. Many websites have engaged in this behavior because of the restrictions imposed by the GDPR. Lots of issues with the GDPR...