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by fluxquanta 5mo ago
>Then you just give everyone a different discount and only the privacy-minded folks end up paying the (inflated) sticker price. This is already happening at Lidl. I was standing in line one day and the lady in front of me asked if I had
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by fluxquanta 1y ago
> aircraft surveillance has moved from controller-based interrogation to automatic broadcast I'd take issue with the phrasing "moved from" and would rather use "supplemented by". Controller-based interrogation is
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by fluxquanta 6y ago
Athletes on that level rarely have just one coach throughout their careers, and are constantly striving to do better. Players of team sports demand trades due to (perceived, if not actual) deficiencies in coaching all the time. It's po
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
>if someone keeps getting passed up for an award, it just signifies that there are people who deserved the award more I would be less salty if another author received it over Murakami, but to make the jump to songwriter sets a precedent
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
Yeah, I just happened to read that last chapter of Colorless Tsukuru at the right time in my personal life where I could relate directly to just about every sentence, and at the end I just felt empty in a satisfying way, if that makes any s
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
I'm not the OP, but Norwegian Wood and Kafka on the Shore are my favorites.
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
I can't upvote this enough. I have a degree in physics, but even so every year around this time for about the past decade I pay more attention to the literature prize, waiting for him to get recognized. The last chapter of Colorless Ts
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
On a related note, a couple of weeks ago I wanted to meet up at a friend's house to watch the Overwatch ELeague finals airing on TBS (basically a competitive video game event on national tv). They did air a bare bones version on Twitch
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
If you have an iPhone the PhotoPills app [0] will help with steps 1 and 3 (and in a lot of other photography situations as well). I found it to be worth the money. That said, my Milky Way shots pale in comparison to yours (but my excuse is
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
I went from an original Kickstarter Pebble, to a Samsung Gear 2, to a Moto 360, back to the Pebble Time Steel. It really does seem like Pebble provides a better product all around. It was a fun trip, I guess.
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
This sounds almost exactly like the plot of the anime "Psycho-Pass". The story takes place in an authoritarian future dystopia, where omnipresent public sensors continuously scan the Psycho-Pass of every citizen in range. The sen
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
The clients I work with tend to still use physical fax machines to send/receive financing details to small banks and credit unions. The banks themselves probably use some sort of internet service, or at least I hope they do.
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
>Faxing is 90% dead as far as I can tell. I've got a fax machine, I think the last time I plugged it in was 2008. Depends on the industry. I would say probably 80% of the clients I work with still rely on faxing as a regular part of
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
>Small sensors are getting better. They are, but they will also hit a physical wall at some point (if not already), and you'll continue trading "natural" dynamic range and low noise for software interpolated dynamic range
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
>The Tao is not a physical system. If these are unmeasurable, non-modelable systems that we can never comprehend, then how can we say that they are "physical systems" that differ from the Tao?
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
One thing to note about open circumaural headphones is that everyone around you can almost certainly hear what you're listening to. I work in an open office and like to listen to rather offensive comedy podcasts, so they're a no-g
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
This was something that confused me a bit too. On their product page they mention twice (once as a bold headline) that the maximum aperture of the camera is f/1.8. Why? I'm guessing that the average consumer has no idea what an f-
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
>But us not ever being able to understand it does not mean there is no reasoning behind it. I didn't mean to imply that. But honestly, the idea that there exist physical systems in the universe that are too complex for the human bra
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
>There may well be phenomena in the universe (or elsewhere) that are not amenable to modeling in any way that is compatible with human cognitive machinery. Could these phenomena collectively be considered a "higher power"?
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
Wasn't one of the excuses the CEO had for missing pay dates that his money was tied up in IRS dealings? Maybe a copy of QuickBooks would've helped with that.
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
But isn't price still an issue with those new aircraft? I've thought many times about trying to get my pilots license but have always been dissuaded by the thought that the only general aviation plane I can imagine being able to a
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
Related question: If some other advanced civilization sent us one of these iPhone sized computers, do we have the technology to detect it before it zooms past our planet or burns up in our atmosphere?
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
The kid is a public figure, so I'm not sure what you mean there. Public figures are frequent subjects for comedians because of the shared experience between them and the audience. If it was some random disabled kid I doubt anyone would
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
I'm a big comedy fan and found this whole case to be pretty disturbing. It validates the idea that a comedian should be punished, legally, for doing their job and telling a joke. It's not a particularly good joke in this case, but
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
Remember Susan Boyle from a few years ago? The talent show star with the great voice who perhaps wasn't the most attractive woman in the world? Hundreds (probably thousands) of comedians have jokes commenting on her perceived ugliness.
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
It wasn't just some random child -- it was a public figure. Where do we draw the line?
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
Fun fact -- I originally wrote "80 hour weeks" in my post and thought, "Nah, that's too much," and bumped it down to 70. Looks like I was way off, haha.
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
Maybe I've seen it in the past but I don't remember it now -- what is their employee turnover rate? I imagine they have no shortage of applicants willing to put in 70 hour weeks until they burn out, just to get that name on their
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
I find myself fighting with the morality of it all. I grew up with a lot of friends whose parents were prison guards. My hometown of Malone, NY is the site of 4 separate facilities (a state supermax, two state medium security, and the count
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by fluxquanta 10y ago
I'm working with a very well-known American company with over $4b annual revenue that shall remain nameless and is currently developing a new SOAP API to replace the existing "dump a CSV on an FTP server" integration.

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