julespitt

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by julespitt 10y ago
>Great if you live on a route popular enough that they do that. I was alluding to the fact that it a circular problem - frequent routes (within reason) become popular routes. >it also doesn't solve the problem if you want to g
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by julespitt 10y ago
Thank you for the glimpse into your zoning codes - I rarely get a chance to hear ones from other countries explained, and they are always a fascinating counterpoint.
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by julespitt 10y ago
Your point about taking your car and heading to Tahoe and Yosemite, strictly speaking, is correct. However, speaking only for myself, I do not find it particularly urgent to make long-distance trips - presumably for leisure - within ten min
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by julespitt 10y ago
I'm not kidding. I am saying there are tradeoffs between suburban living and urban living. You give up a yard in the city. It is more expensive for far less space. However… - I have Fishing, a Steakhouse, McDonalds, several seafood pla
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by julespitt 10y ago
You do not have access to 10x more things, because the suburbs have less things spread out over much more area. There's no free lunch.
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by julespitt 11y ago
Not to be too pedantic, but the L'Enfant's DC plan precedes Haussmann's plan by 62 years.
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by julespitt 11y ago
Went looking for audio samples, here's some from one of the researchers: http://www.zhizheng.org/demo/is15_mte/demo.html http://www.zhizheng.org/demo/dnn_tts/demo.html
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Meet Improbable, the Startup Building the World's Most Powerful Simulations(forbes.com)
39 points by julespitt 11y ago|21 comments
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An Open Letter to Tony Hsieh(danieltenner.com)
8 points by julespitt 11y ago|1 comments
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by julespitt 11y ago
Yeah, it's pretty sad. His design for a currency is fascinating, and apparently unknown by these people.
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Venture capital has a self-dealing problem(fusion.net)
126 points by julespitt 12y ago|87 comments
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by julespitt 12y ago
Federal spending does not technically create money, as those dollars were collected by taxes or lent by bondholders. However, the point of the Federal Reserve Bank is primarily to create money, or destroy it, to affect inflation, deflation,
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by julespitt 12y ago
Yes, and there's more - Portland cement is made of constituent parts, each presumably extracted from different stones (using energy intensive processes) and then precisely recombined in certain ratios. Roman concrete, lime mortar, and
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by julespitt 12y ago
I second the recommendation of Diana Kleiner's video lectures. Absolutely fantastic, thorough, and well explained.
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I learned just how far Uber will go to silence journalists and attack women(pando.com)
102 points by julespitt 12y ago|10 comments
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by julespitt 12y ago
Correction: An earlier version of this post misidentified the programming language C as the operating system Unix.
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by julespitt 12y ago
Got it, your language was a tad to declaritive. It's certainly niche, and painfully so. I think there is some potential for growth, given the absurdity of my aging friends forcing themselves to continue to engage with music written pre
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by julespitt 12y ago
It's weird and false to imply that classical composition no longer exists. Classical was one of the first fields of art to retreat from mid-century modernist experimentation and get back to basics. Minimalism reintroduced such essentia
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by julespitt 12y ago
When speed increases, the safe distance between cars increases as well, therefore reducing overall throughput.
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Venture capital and the great big Silicon Valley asshole game(pando.com)
16 points by julespitt 12y ago|0 comments
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by julespitt 12y ago
"Since publishers aren’t putting money into first novels anymore, and since the magazines have died, and since television isn’t buying from young freelancers anymore, and since the foundations give grants only to old poops like me, yo
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by julespitt 12y ago
That people outside of the "voting ring" or "in-crowd" get voted up by a "voting ring" or "in-crowd" sometimes does not obviate the central criticism - insiders exclusively decide which outsiders are
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by julespitt 12y ago
Thanks! Was curious if Project Wonderful worked, given how remarkably cheap it is. Targeting specific comics works best, got it.
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by julespitt 12y ago
Willing to share where you advertise and why? I've got lots of friends and relatives doing comics online, would love to have a little specialist knowledge to help them out.
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by julespitt 12y ago
Previously, when I've researched this myself casually, I've found the technical information to be too vague, in terms of both building the devices and specifically where to place them, why - and how it all fits in to the reviewed
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by julespitt 12y ago
Sounds great! Definitely interested - I'll keep tabs on this.
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by julespitt 12y ago
Given that I am constantly deeply tempted to try such experiments myself, I can say - yes, there would be much value to me. Although it's perhaps likely I won't actually try, following along is still very interesting.
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Geeks and Money(noahpinionblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by julespitt 12y ago|0 comments
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Coinbase design allows for mass, targeted phishing of its users(blog.shubh.am)
152 points by julespitt 12y ago|73 comments
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Wrong and Right Reasons To Be Upset About Oculus – with Carmack response(peterberkman.tumblr.com)
211 points by julespitt 12y ago|150 comments

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