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howard941
22,428karma·4,690submissions·November 1, 2014
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My article submissions aren't endorsements, unlike my favorites...
My professional interests: Embedded and RF/networking. Droooooones. Bare iron, freertos, lately NuttX. Resource constrained or ARM. Hard realtime. *BSD / linux embedding and BOFHing. New product and sustaining devel.
Amateur radio. Attorney (Fla.)
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Indeed. Check out the link for the intriguing audio, stay for the comments.
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Anectdotal like my brother, an interactive inverter product I developed sampled the 60hz voltage and current at 19.2khz to more accurately determine RMS voltage and current in the face of some really …
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These are not uniquely Californian attributes although blazing the trail for misadventures adopted elsewhere like Prop 8 mandates and three strikes laws deserves some credit.
Its post secondary publi…
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It's probably not just one thing but a whole suite of attributes. California's decent social and policy infrastructure and non-compete unenforceability are two additional elements. Compare t…
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Here's a (the?) source for 3' that Bloomberg omitted
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/states/stories/data-models-sea-le... Misreading the link - as many newspapers have …
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> Florida is a recourse state, isn't it? It is, and the lender almost invariably chooses to first sue on the note so as to avoid taking title to the property for as long as possible.
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[2017] > why do sound economic analysis when you can parrot a junk study that supports your political view? Quoted from a comment on the OP and getting it right.
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Anyone have a link to the Fed Circuit's Ariosa opinion? I could only find their amicus brief at the EFF link.
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Interestingly enough Egypt reportedly brokered a deal between Qatar, Hamas and Israel for a one year ceasefire.
https://www.jns.org/report-israel-hamas-deal-to-include-one-...
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> My cat loves the panic attacks though. I stay up later, and I'm petting her the whole time trying to calm down. Great for her. When I'm away from home I can reduce an anxious feeling by…
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Anecdata warning . Took paper Rx to a very large chain that has a one word name beginning with a W and was told they wouldn't quote the cost of the prescription without scanning the Rx. And des…
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Does the insurance cover pre-existing conditions?
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Milton Friedman [0], a brilliant man I disagreed with on almost everything, had an answer: Class action lawsuits. [0] In Free to Choose, required reading when I was an undergrad
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Politico's founders left and created Axios. They say you can't take it with you when you go, but maybe you can?
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Good times. I enjoyed your thoughtful entry on the SCC at https://steveblank.com/2009/07/30/hes-only-in-field-service/ . When I was using it as a kid on Z80s with…
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> But take it outside... where? Deserted stairwells, vehicles, closets, rooftops, basements, elevator-equipment rooms are better than nothing.
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In my piece of Floriduh a non-expert franks the signature on the envelope. It's still more secure than voting in person as state law prohibits inspection of paper ballots in a recount; The only r…
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Technically possible, politically impossible in large part because there are just too many local jurisdictions with final say over the selection of vendors and their ballot machinery.
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FTA: "It’s a lesson we’re destined to keep learning: Once you share something online, you can’t really ever unshare it." Your genetic info is sort of like a trade secret in the USA, but with…
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That's what I'm thinking too.
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I'm inclined to see this as correlation, not causation. Where is the powerful coupling between <10 years of tighter bank lending standards and income inequality?
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A few alternative storage mechanisms: - Splitting water into the fuels for fuel cells - Converting in-ground swimming pool to neighborhood-scale battery
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> By contrast, in Florida, I get the sense that people think that's the way things are supposed to work. They believe they have a good system and that the system works the way God intended. It…
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> Lots of things along those long and lonely signal paths can cause the packets to get dropped. 50% packet loss is not uncommon; 80% is not unexpected. TCP doesn't perform well with 5% packet…
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Good on you for electing it. Uninsured coverage should almost always be taken at the max policy limit offered.
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Would global distribution of signed canaries be a decent use case for a blockchain sort of technology?
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It's ironic that outlook.com blocked you when it itself is too costly to block in that you can't tell whether the message is important from a contact at say a Fortune 500 or another Nigerian…
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Reading through fn [1] was fun at first but now I feel very old and frail.