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IANAL but threat of filing a lawsuit and threat of reporting criminal activity to authorities are not equivalent.

I would really like to see a business case study of building out and operating an HFC network in a single average suburb, and how that varies with how cooperative the suburb is. Co…

With respect, you don't know who my local government representative is or how effectively I can persuade him. The question I asked was what policies, not how to persuade politician…

Could a local government impose net neutrality rules as a condition for a franchise? [edit] Or more practically, what general policy changes could a municipality make to maximize t…

I doubt they'll ever throw anything out entirely . 2000ms latency and 75% packet loss is as good as blocked and the PR team can keep saying they don't block anything.

> e.g. Tor and P2P style. You are always going to be able to encrypt your data in a way that their filters do not understand. The problem is that anything the filters do not unders…

Speaking of FB ad targeting in elections, I was recently surprised to learn that an advertiser can give FB a specific list of names of people they want to target. I learned that be…

It could have been an accident that they survived. In this case the assassins dying along with the victim is a feature, not a bug.

People have been saying that if the emergency spillway fails, it will release the top 30' (?) of the lake. What determines that height? Is there bedrock or something else expected …

The keyspace of SSNs is only 10^9. I don't think password hashing would help much.

That could actually be an interesting problem. It might sound like "in the event of a impact >Xg, stop, shut down, and wait for police/NTSB/etc to come investigate". But if, say, y…

It moves at that speed because the index of refraction of glass is about 1.5. In single-mode fiber the light doesn't really bounce off the walls.

From what I understand, the gas is not flowing out of a pipe at ground level; the leak is deep underground and it is diffusing into rock and coming up over a wide area. It's not cl…

Yeah. I can't even imagine how much revenue YC must lose for each minute of news downtime.

Once again, someone has proposed that an ad supported company offer subscriptions for exactly its revenue-per-user, without seeming to realize that not all users are equally valuab…

> Can you explain why there is a line going to the airport? I assume it is because there is a fixed fare to/from JFK so drivers have little incentive to start/stop the meter at the…

The trouble with making a higher res image is that when you make that lat/lon buckets smaller, you have fewer samples in each one, so the image gets noisier. For the best possible …

I downloaded the first year dataset and didn't get very far in my analysis... but this was the first result, which was kind of pretty: http://i.imgur.com/ov6K6mt.jpg

> which can put out a very harmful amount of ionizing radiation It's not ionizing radiation any more than wifi is. It's just a lot of concentrated non-ionizing radiation.

A much more important example of this than "martian potatoes" is uranium enrichment. Natural uranium is ~1% U235; bombs need 90+% U235. So when you've enriched it from 1% to 2% it …

An alternative theory to "don't want other 4/5 eyes knowing" is they want to filter out people who don't take OpSec rules seriously.

> it's a constantly growing amount. If they're still pumping coolant into the reactors, why aren't they reusing the water that's already radioactive for that purpose?

You cannot compare averages because the users who choose to pay to kill ads will not be randomly selected. No, there will be massive adverse selection -- the users with lots of dis…

> statement about the software being bug free I bet they required the guy who delivered the rocket fuel to sign something saying it contained no impurities, the guy who delivered t…

My first thought from "properly dispose of, we don't want it in landfills" was, this is for hazardous waste -- you know, that box of old paint cans and dead SLA batteries that you …