gingerbread-man

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by gingerbread-man 3y ago
Why not a pigouvian tax on jet fuel (and other fossil fuels?)
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by gingerbread-man 3y ago
Does a ‘shallow article’ even merit a dismissive comment? Wouldn’t it be better simply to ignore it and find another thread on which to engage?
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by gingerbread-man 4y ago
I read this in disbelief, picturing a uniformed INS employee drawing vials of blood in some poorly sanitized strip mall. It turns out US green card applicants are required to show proof of vaccinations and undergo a physical exam by perform
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by gingerbread-man 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20221227125216/https://www.nytim...
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by gingerbread-man 4y ago
I stumbled upon this site when researching flight control algorithms for small UAVs. It appears to be an out-of-date reference for commercial pilots seeking type ratings for the Airbus A320 family. Link to a collection of A320 system schema
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Airbus Flight Control Laws/Operating Modes(airbusdriver.net)
4 points by gingerbread-man 4y ago|2 comments
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by gingerbread-man 5y ago
Gross daily trading volumes are a poor gauge of how much capital investors have deployed in a particular market, seeking returns. A single international transaction may induce several forex trades, such as when the sale price of goods is de
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by gingerbread-man 5y ago
Am I crazy, or is this a reference to one of the cheat codes on Age of Empires?
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by gingerbread-man 6y ago
Alzheimer’s is a neurological disease with a well-documented physiological pathology and terminal prognosis. Mental illnesses generally lack both of those things. The ethics of assisted suicide for terminal patients are distinct, I think, a
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by gingerbread-man 6y ago
Wouldn't the lack of means to contact all of your users, immediately and directly, create other compliance challenges? You would be unable to notify users of a data breech until their next login; former users might be left permanently
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by gingerbread-man 6y ago
Speaking only for myself, I found this article to be particularly difficult to comprehend. If there are any physicians or molecular biologists who could more plainly summarize the authors' conclusions, I would greatly appreciate it. Fr
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by gingerbread-man 7y ago
That's a rather misleading statement. Discretionary spending makes up less than a third of the federal budget. Defense spending works out to about 15% of federal spending overall. Confusion seems to arise because mandatory spending pro
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by gingerbread-man 7y ago
Most ad tech companies (Google, FB) likely devote well under 10% of their engineering might to work directly related to the advertising that forms their revenue stream. Newspapers and magazines are ad-funded, too, but few would consider the
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by gingerbread-man 7y ago
“'I would say that a robot is a physically embodied artificially intelligent agent that can take actions that have effects on the physical world,' says roboticist Anca Dragan of UC Berkeley." [ https://www.wired.com
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by gingerbread-man 7y ago
There's another advantage for which human workers that don't get nearly enough much credit: flexibility. When Tesla tried to create the world's most automated assembly line for the Model 3, they learned the hard way why Toyot
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
Speaking for myself, I generally prefer to learn at my own pace studying from books than from lectures and a standardized curriculum. But the issue here is value vs. risk: Lambda provides greater value (instructors, curriculum, etc...), but
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
This is for people who would prefer to teach themselves.
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
$42 on Amazon is a huge ripoff. I think it's about $20 a bottle at my local Asian grocery store. I like it, but I don't have "super taster" powers either so take that for what you will.
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
Because Google can extract value from captchas, it makes world-class captchas and bot detection AI available to every webmaster for free. I don't know what that level of service would otherwise cost, but it almost certainly wouldn&#x27
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
The payday lending industry operates within an intrinsically challenging ethical landscape. Their customers are generally poor, often desperate, and proportionately vulnerable. But payday lenders also don't operate within a vacuum: oft
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
The most significant regulatory change following the Colgan crash was the added requirement that all airline (Part 21) first officers possess an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate prior to hiring. Previously, only captains (as pilots
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
Could someone please help explain the technical details of this? From what I can gather from the chrome.webRequest and chrome.declarativeNetRequest documentation, it looks like this change would make it difficult to have long lists of bloc
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
A lot of progress has been made since the 2003 passage of "PREA," the Prison Rape Elimination Act. https://www.prearesourcecenter.org/about/prison-rape-elimina... Anecdotal: When I went through police trainin
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
It's worth noting that commercial airlines are exempted from paying any taxes on fuel worldwide by treaty. [1] While this may eventually change, in the short term, airlines probably have less to fear about carbon taxes than any other i
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
A very good point. But if that were the only impediment, I suspect Microsoft could come up with a rollout plan to mitigate (though not completely eliminate) this problem. Releasing a "preview" of the kernel source to trusted secur
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
I was thinking more that an open-source kernel could result in unix-y distros e.g. Arch Windows.
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
Here's a dopey idea: What if Microsoft open-sourced the Windows NT kernel? (While retaining some proprietary drivers, etc..) If handled well, a community would blossom around "NT," with multiple "unofficial" distros
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
Joyent's cloud (and the open-source software they use to run it!) is notable b/c they don't run containers inside VMs. Instead, they use illumos zones to secure multiple tenants running on a single host os and bare metal serv
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by gingerbread-man 8y ago
I'm surprised no one from Google has made a full-throated defense of this project. Not that I personally agree with it, but there is a case to be made that projects like Dragonfly embody the longstanding US policy of "constructive
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How Plato Foresaw Facebook's Folly(nytimes.com)
2 points by gingerbread-man 8y ago|0 comments

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