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jcvhaarston When Your Fiber ISP's 'Dumb' Device Screws Your TCP Sessions

So ISP delivers router that breaks your internet, and they won't replace it with a real ONT? Then why not simply replace it yourself? As long as it isn't PON, but just plain AON, that should be relatively straight forward.

jcvhaarston Britain to ban new petrol cars and vans by 2030 on road to net zero emissions

Rather late to the party in Europe : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-out_of_fossil_fuel_veh...

jcvhaarston Ikea designed its own Soffa font

You are aware that there are shortcuts ? In our local stores (NL), they are clearly marked, so one can more easily get to the sections one is interested in, and skip those that aren't.

jcvhaarston OpenDroneMap – Simple Images into 3D

What kind of image quality would one need to get something useful out of this. Useful : Create a 3d model of a house with surrounding trees, so I can see the effect of those trees on a planned solar installation. Or create a 3d model of a garden to see where the sun and shadow are over the course of the year.

jcvhaarston Counting solar panels in the U.S. with machine learning and satellite images

Another project in the same field is"Deep Solaris" : https://www.biss-institute.com/cases/case-5/ and (in Dutch) : https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/onze-diensten/innovatie/project/zon...

jcvhaarston 50 SWAT officers bombard, destroy bystander’s house with bombs

So to be clear : In the US the government (or its representatives) can damage your property, and then isn't paying for those damages without hassle for the owner ?

Besides that : Why does the police need to use this amount of force to apprehend someone with a gun ? Couldn't they just isolate the guy, and cordon off the area so he can't harm others and then just wait ? Unless there are hostages involved, or immediate danger to the public, it seems a more appropriate way is to de-escalate rather then escalate.

jcvhaarston No human genome has ever been completely sequenced

PacBio and ONT are far from upstarts, they have both already invested millions and millions into their respective technologies. Pacific Biosciences has a Market Cap of 532.88M Oxford Nanopore is at least as big.

jcvhaarston Tesla Misses Model 3 Production Goals

So Tesla is selling 100K cars per year, which according to http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/tesla/ would translate to about 0.5% market share.

Looks like they have a long way to go before they will be a threat to the big car companies..

jcvhaarston Scalable, Lie-Detecting Timeserving with Roughtime

Aren't all the goals already met by e.g. http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/20151212.html ?