DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

The downvotes without reply to zeveb here pretty much prove zeveb's point.

9 jaar geledendiscuss

>Honestly I think it makes him more "relateable" by making him not "the enemy" for viewers

Does this mean you think all viewers are democrats (or even most) and that republicans are the enemy?

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm not inventing anything.

And why would it be outdated if it works, and we (US) aren't using it.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

Keep in mind this is relatively new. The press seems to be spinning it as an "ah ha, old phones really are getting slower!" Well, yes, now. I mean as of 10.2.1, so a year ago, but people have been thinking their phones were getting slower since smartphones became a thing.

Likewise with old computers.

And as someone else commented, "apple will never add a MAKE MY PHONE UNSTABLE switch."

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

That’s what sensor fusion is for.

That said, inertial nav can take a plane across the country without correction and get within sight of the target.

I think integrating actual speed while on rails would be vastly more accurate.

And really, it just need to augment gps.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

That this is a problem is just ridiculous. It's on freaking rails! There is absolutely no excuse for this. GPS, Inertial Nav, simply integrating speed over time, it should be absolutely dead simple to calculate exactly where the train is at all times.

The article mentioned crap like differential GPS. Completely unnecessary. You don't need to be that accurate, I mean good grief, +/- 100 feet would be just fine for dealing with such gross overspeed detection.

I can't believe this is actually a problem. Pure politics/bureaucracy. It's certainly not a technical problem.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

The downvotes seem weird to me. Maybe it felt off topic?

Dr. Francis S. Collins is in several of the videos, and the third video is all about this particular controversy of dangerous experiments at the dawn of genetic engineering(for example one guy wanted to splice a cancer causing gene in e. coli bacterium).

It seemed relevant to me. It is what the article is talking about afterall.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

"Patient protection and affordable care act"

"Patriot act"

All "right to work" laws

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

An informative series from pbs narrated by Jeff goldblum on YouTube: search for "dna episode 1 of 5 the secret of life"

It's a great high level overview of dna sequencing from the discovery of its shape through the completion of the human genome project in 2000.

I'm having trouble pasting a link, maybe someone could help me out.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

I must have missed that. Thanks for pointing it out, I was bothered by the seemingly contradictory advice :)

all I noticed was:

  >"Titles are 80% of the work, but you
  write it as the very last thing. 
  It has to be an compelling opinion 
  or important learning"

followed by

  >"Most of my writing comes from
  talking/reading deciding I strongly
  agree or disagree. These opinions
  become titles. Titles become essays."

and then the example

  >"The best example of this in
  my work is 'Growth Hacker is the
  new VP Marketing' which started
  out as a tweet with 20+ shares, and
  then was developed into an essay
  afterwards."

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

I'm happy he wrote this, and I'll read it again at home tonight.

But what's the deal with "write the title last" and his examples all start with the title?

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

I agree with the "because it's fun to learn" answers.

But I'd also add the reliability factor of keeping a quorum of containers running. It's a tool for dealing with the unreliability of cloud infrastructure, and unexpected process death.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

There aren't enough altruistic people to make the blockchain trustworthy. Profit motive is the entire driving force behind the trust model of bitcoin, et al.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

Yeah, fugitive seems pointless to me. Might as well just use the git cli...which I do, but when I want something quicker to navigate/visualize, magit is my go to.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

  > Fugitive

That's interesting. I switched back from emacs to vim (neovim), and fugitive was recommended. it just looked like :commands for the normal git cli... maybe I missed something.

So even though I edit in vim, I jump back to emacs for magit for bigger commits or multiple smaller commits (where I need to see diffs to be sure I capture my changes).

I have desired something as useful in vim, but I didn't think there was anything. I'll take another look at fugitive.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

I wonder if this would be feasible at the neighborhood level via Home owners association. The neighborhood gets a tower and microwave link to a backhaul station, and provides internet via wifi or wires to the neighborhood.

I think our neighboorhood is about 130 houses. probably not enough to make it cost effective.

On the flip side, maybe starting a local company to provide LOS microwave hookups to the various neighborhoods in the area could make it work.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

You should look up the stash command.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

Email them and hope they build it. Solves your problem and saves you the effort.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

You get exactly what you expect and want from the cup of coffee. Apps, not so much.

DigitalJack

9 jaar geledendiscuss

  > Is there a base number of participants that are required?

Well, the money has to come from somewhere. If you have a homogenous group, all with the same income/wealth, then UBI would do nothing. You'd give everyone the same money you took at tax time. No net change.

You need a group of people with diversified income/wealth. The wealthier contribute more than they get from UBI, the poorer contribute less (if any) than they get from UBI.

I like it mainly for the idea of replacing welfare with a much simpler system. But it will never happen in America, land of absurd tax code complexity. And certainly not with a name like Universal Basic Income. It would have to be called something else to avoid triggering people.

DigitalJack

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