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110,949karma·51,753submissions·October 26, 2011
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"We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills without being overcome by them."
In life, everything is a wager. Whether you realize it or not, you are constantly making implicit and explicit predictions about the future state of reality. To live is to predict.
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Also interested in answer to this.
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I'd take that offer, but I make $120K/year, so I can afford to lose 40% of my income. How about we regulate the number of hours in the work week according to productivity? If productivity is skyrocket…
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Or let Google do it. Google can scale much faster than the Red Cross can outsource it.
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All phones have the ability to get broadcast SMS messages based on the cell tower they're connected to. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Broadcast …
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I agree very much with your post.
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Using a processor who stores the card number outside of your infrastructure (ie. Stripe) can also be helpful.
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I've done PCI "audits" for several companies I've worked for; it's a checklist you go down yourself . That's why its called a "pci self assessment".
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My organization is hiring for ops and java engineers right now. We pay well. We're having a hard time finding anyone who wants to work full time. Most people we're talking with would rather work on pr…
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Is there any way to profit or take advantage of a drop in the dollar besides forex trading?
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Correct. You're not paying for that field of gas turbines to run. You're paying for them to sit in the field warm until issued to run, because if they're not there, hello blackouts.
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Generation and transmission are two different utility businesses. This article is about how people are not going to want to pay to be hooked to the utility "just in case".
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This is actually a huge deal. Coal advocates disparage environmentalists about the coal industry going down the tubes, when its really US fracking efforts that are driving down the cost of natural gas…
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Most people should be using geothermal instead of air conditioners, but the upfront cost is much higher ($20-30K). We should be subsidizing geothermal installations because of how damn efficient it is…
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The cheapest watt is the watt you never had to generate.
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Iterate services quickly, not the tools to build them. Netflix down? Oh well. Latest Django build breaks thousands of sites. No thank you.
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Yes, you can configure inverters to not dump excess current back to the utility. You either charge batteries or you dump the power into a load like an electric water heater. In almost all grid-tied sc…
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You mean you don't see these things in countries with strong social safety nets (i.e first world countries). While the US is a first world country (disclaimer: US citizen/resident), we have nowhere ne…
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I'm asking who is responsible for the poor application design choice.
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Are Facebook mobile developers that bad they can't check if they're on a Homeified device and degrade gracefully if they're not?
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If you want to throw far (200-300 miles), it never hurts to have more watts.
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Once you let any employees go, the barn door is open. Unless the consensus is that those employees (or employee) were dead weight, resumes are already up on Craigslist and job searches are in progre…
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Your radio horizon if you're a ground attacker will be limited by your antenna height. Attacked with powerful transmitted in Class B airspace at a busy airport? You're gonna have a bad time.
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I have done long haul 2.4ghz wireless links before with directional antennas (60+ miles). 36K feet is 6NM vertical. I have an antenna in my car, and enough power with the car running to reach a large …
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Will it work with Google Apps SSO? Wasn't mentioned in the blog post.
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Any chance that you'd package the site up and submit it to the Internet Archive once its been polished?
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Probably. It happens. Apologies for not connecting on the thought.
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Very true. If coming up on an intersection with a stale green light that has red light enforcement, I floor it to make it through the light before it has a chance to go yellow. Most of the time, I jus…
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If they can organize a non-profit org to build out the network and operate it, and get the capital for the equipment, yes. https://www.google.com/search?q=community+broadband …
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Why switch majors? Drop the education part, build something, show it to companies looking, profit. Degrees are overrated.