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by seanf 7mo ago
Cool. Found my way to this updates page that has a summary of volcano and seismic activity from different observatories if you click the tabs: https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP/volcano-updates#yvo
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by seanf 7mo ago
No exemptions for medical life flights, local law enforcement, or even the military. You can read a more normal NOTAM posted for New Orleans likely for Mardi Gras ( https://tfr.faa.gov/tfr3/?page=detail_6_2231 ) As a Min
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by seanf 8mo ago
The FBI working to recover stolen property on behalf of a private citizen who was the victim of a crime is something different. Harder to defend a reporter holding stolen property just because the victim is related to a public official. Wou
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by seanf 2y ago
Google Deepmind is based in London.
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by seanf 2y ago
Link to the video from the bottom of the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_nk21389u8 The video includes side-by-side comparison between the original upscaled 480p and 720p. Around 7:00 you hear about what it takes
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by seanf 3y ago
Found this in the acknowledgement section of the article: https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/pyseas Edit: cool examples here https://github.com/GlobalFishingWatch/pyseas/blob/master&#x
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by seanf 3y ago
Collected Fictions [0] is a wonderful group of Borges stories that includes the ones mentioned in this article. There are some amazing short story collections out there if you are the kind of reader that has a hard time staying with an ent
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by seanf 4y ago
Taking this opporuntity to link to Charles Proteus Steinmetz[1]. Among the many, many things Steinmetz did, he invented the Metal Halide Lamp which was later refined for mass production decades later. This took the innovation of others less
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by seanf 4y ago
Can you provide a better source? I know about the waste in large nonprofits, but am also personally benefiting from grant-supported research that if it otherwise didn't happen would leave me and a lot of others dead.
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by seanf 4y ago
American Tower might have info for you. "If we don’t yet work together, but you have land, towers, or a rooftop you want to sell or lease to us, we want to talk to you about a competitive package." https://www.americant
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by seanf 5y ago
This negative comment got me thinking about why I liked the original post so much. The URL of the product itself very clearly tells us what the product is (at least, if you are in the target audience) So many web apps have inscrutable names
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by seanf 5y ago
I don't understand at all why an enormous company like Spotify is so neglectful of the entire apple ecosystem. Part of this might be the legal friction between Spotify and Apple in the past. Here's an article that describes a co
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by seanf 5y ago
The author has said many times that the Iranian Revolution was part of the origin story of the book. The book is set in America, so what do you expect?
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by seanf 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover Fascinating read, sounds like Robert Moses of the Navy
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by seanf 6y ago
The article links to a paint company that is using the pigment, cool video of them adding it to paint. (sorry for FB video) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=405127556741940
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by seanf 6y ago
Still missing transaction tracking. Hopefully it will come back some day. I migrated to https://wallmine.com/ when Google Finance announced it was neutering itself. However, I've noticed Wallmine's listings are no
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by seanf 8y ago
The photo on the card is already stored in a system somewhere, and already vulnerable to attack. The brain is just for authentication at the door.
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by seanf 8y ago
You mean like a photo?
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by seanf 8y ago
My gym also uses facial recognition, but does it via a person sitting behind a desk checking that my member ID matches my face. I don't think many people are uncomfortable with this process, and this biometric method has been used for
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by seanf 8y ago
The ruling group includes some members of Congress and the executive branch. Current and former presidents and vice-presidents are not screened, nor are cabinet secretaries or members of Congress with security details at US airports. Not su
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by seanf 8y ago
Amazon is getting close to a $1T market cap which makes this look more like an argument for hiring non-technical managers. You didn't provide any examples of poor management by the prison guard or DMV manager, other than some jealously
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by seanf 8y ago
In the R. Kelly case, that is true. I clicked into the linked policy and read that before reading the rest of the article. Spotify says, "That’s why we do not permit hate content on Spotify, and remove it whenever we find it." The
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by seanf 8y ago
Taking on a hate content policy will be a big task. So much music, while being dramatic and theatrical, is open to a lot of interpretation as to whether it is truly hateful or just expressing a point of view in an over-the-top way. A song m
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by seanf 8y ago
I wish this article had more on why basic income is being discontinued. Is it being ended simply for political reasons? Or did research show that basic income did not produce good results? Y Combinator's basic income research is highli
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by seanf 8y ago
Why do you consider choosing MySQL over Postgres a grave error? There are some cool features in Postgres. I am going to learn more about partial indexes, that looks useful! But there is plenty of precedent for large, successful MySQL projec
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by seanf 8y ago
I backed this computer science education board game, Turing Tumble, on Kickstarter months ago. It had some exposure here when it was still fundraising, but the updates from the creator have been fascinating. They should be required reading
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A Tour of Board Game Production in China(kickstarter.com)
2 points by seanf 8y ago|2 comments
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by seanf 8y ago
Thanks for the link. Full interview at https://vimeo.com/146145543
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by seanf 9y ago
This article is not about the memo guy.
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by seanf 9y ago
https://www.google.com/publicpolicy/transparency.html

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