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by eck 9y ago
IANAL but threat of filing a lawsuit and threat of reporting criminal activity to authorities are not equivalent.
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by eck 9y ago
I would really like to see a business case study of building out and operating an HFC network in a single average suburb, and how that varies with how cooperative the suburb is. Could any of the economies of scale enjoyed by the huge/e
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by eck 9y ago
With respect, you don't know who my local government representative is or how effectively I can persuade him. The question I asked was what policies, not how to persuade politicians to pass them.
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by eck 9y ago
Could a local government impose net neutrality rules as a condition for a franchise? [edit] Or more practically, what general policy changes could a municipality make to maximize the availability of competitive free internet?
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by eck 9y ago
I doubt they'll ever throw anything out entirely . 2000ms latency and 75% packet loss is as good as blocked and the PR team can keep saying they don't block anything.
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by eck 9y ago
> e.g. Tor and P2P style. You are always going to be able to encrypt your data in a way that their filters do not understand. The problem is that anything the filters do not understand will go to the low priority queue. Your Tor traffi
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by eck 9y ago
Speaking of FB ad targeting in elections, I was recently surprised to learn that an advertiser can give FB a specific list of names of people they want to target. I learned that because I own a handful of shares of Arconic, which is a compa
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by eck 10y ago
It could have been an accident that they survived. In this case the assassins dying along with the victim is a feature, not a bug.
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by eck 10y ago
People have been saying that if the emergency spillway fails, it will release the top 30' (?) of the lake. What determines that height? Is there bedrock or something else expected to stop erosion 30' below the level of the emerg
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by eck 10y ago
The keyspace of SSNs is only 10^9. I don't think password hashing would help much.
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by eck 10y ago
That could actually be an interesting problem. It might sound like "in the event of a impact >Xg, stop, shut down, and wait for police/NTSB/etc to come investigate". But if, say, you hit a deer on a wilderness road
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by eck 10y ago
It moves at that speed because the index of refraction of glass is about 1.5. In single-mode fiber the light doesn't really bounce off the walls.
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by eck 11y ago
From what I understand, the gas is not flowing out of a pipe at ground level; the leak is deep underground and it is diffusing into rock and coming up over a wide area. It's not clear that combustion could be sustained in that configu
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by eck 11y ago
Yeah. I can't even imagine how much revenue YC must lose for each minute of news downtime.
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by eck 11y ago
Once again, someone has proposed that an ad supported company offer subscriptions for exactly its revenue-per-user, without seeming to realize that not all users are equally valuable to advertise to, and only the most valuable ones will opt
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by eck 11y ago
> Can you explain why there is a line going to the airport? I assume it is because there is a fixed fare to/from JFK so drivers have little incentive to start/stop the meter at the exact pickup/dropoff location. > Also
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by eck 11y ago
The trouble with making a higher res image is that when you make that lat/lon buckets smaller, you have fewer samples in each one, so the image gets noisier. For the best possible image you'd want to download all the years of d
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by eck 11y ago
I downloaded the first year dataset and didn't get very far in my analysis... but this was the first result, which was kind of pretty: http://i.imgur.com/ov6K6mt.jpg
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by eck 11y ago
> which can put out a very harmful amount of ionizing radiation It's not ionizing radiation any more than wifi is. It's just a lot of concentrated non-ionizing radiation.
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by eck 11y ago
A much more important example of this than "martian potatoes" is uranium enrichment. Natural uranium is ~1% U235; bombs need 90+% U235. So when you've enriched it from 1% to 2% it doesn't seem like you've made a
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by eck 11y ago
An alternative theory to "don't want other 4/5 eyes knowing" is they want to filter out people who don't take OpSec rules seriously.
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by eck 11y ago
> it's a constantly growing amount. If they're still pumping coolant into the reactors, why aren't they reusing the water that's already radioactive for that purpose?
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by eck 11y ago
You cannot compare averages because the users who choose to pay to kill ads will not be randomly selected. No, there will be massive adverse selection -- the users with lots of disposable income are the ones that make advertising lucrative
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by eck 11y ago
> statement about the software being bug free I bet they required the guy who delivered the rocket fuel to sign something saying it contained no impurities, the guy who delivered the external tank to sign something saying it did not leak
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by eck 11y ago
My first thought from "properly dispose of, we don't want it in landfills" was, this is for hazardous waste -- you know, that box of old paint cans and dead SLA batteries that you know your city has a plan for, if only you co
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by eck 11y ago
FTS means flight termination system. Meaning the thing that blows it up if it goes off course and is going to crash into people. They were saying "safed" not "saved", meaning, no longer armed.
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by eck 11y ago
> What are the odds that I'm going to get a payout? The expected value of slot machines is negative too. Humans have a psychological weakness for "Just one more, I haven't won in a while, I'm due." In this case
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by eck 11y ago
1. Alice installs app on smartphone. Alice puts smartphone in cradle on dashboard. Smartphone captures license plates Alice drives by on way to work. Alice drives by Bob. 2. Carol goes to website. Carol enters Bob's license plate n
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by eck 12y ago
It's not erase(), it's begin(). It's going to do a linear scan of the hash table from the beginning to find the first non-empty cell.
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by eck 12y ago
This was a good one: http://blog.willbenton.com/2008/11/rent-a-coder-hilarity/

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