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by Aqwis 12y ago
I think it's more likely that more powerful batteries will allow more power-hungry electronics. This is already happening -- just look at the giant/high resolution screens of modern smartphones that would be unthinkable a few year
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Tangential story: I live in Norway where neon signs are basically unknown (or at least, were back then). When I was a kid and visited the continent for the first time, I recall being struck by how common neon signs were, even in "serio
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Reminds me a lot of Pyongyang. Empty, wide roads, few people on the streets, and a whole lot of luxery facilities for the few well-connected.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
It seems unlikely that you'd get people to eat camels on a large scale if they're only going to be available for a short period while they're being culled.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
However, as is mentioned on that page and in previous HN discussions on the topic, an Estonian e-residency does not give the owner any rights to enter, live or work in Estonia. I suspect giving such rights to arbitrary non-EU citizens wou
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by Aqwis 12y ago
You're right, I didn't think of that. I wonder why at least one country in Eastern Europe that doesn't have to adhere to EU/Schengen immigration regulations hasn't opened up for long-term work visas. I imagine that
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by Aqwis 12y ago
>I get asked a lot about what software consulting (aka freelancing) is like. Are consulting and freelancing synonyms now? In my world, most "consultants" work for small or big (Accenture, one of the French corps, Deloitte...) c
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by Aqwis 12y ago
>It turns out that the labor costs in Romania are similar to those in the Philippines, but internet speeds are much better and there are no typhoons. I keep wondering why so-called "digital nomads" keep moving to south-east Asi
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Is there an IMDB Top 250 list out there ranked by percentage of 10/10 ratings instead of average rating?
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by Aqwis 12y ago
The article notes that Germany bans shopping on Sundays. Indeed, many European countries ban stores from being open at certain times of day or on Sundays. For the sake of curiosity I will attempt to elucidate the various restrictions, and e
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by Aqwis 12y ago
>The sad truth of browsers is that most people use whatever comes on their machine. Clearly not, as statistics show that IE is no longer the most popular browser in any country in Europe.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Could IBM turn itself into a generic tech consultancy? Accenture & co. seem to be doing fine.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Fun, but even after hundreds of generations the walkers are still pretty bad. How good would they be after thousands or millions of generations? Is it even feasible to create a decent walker using genetic algorithms?
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by Aqwis 12y ago
I am surprised to hear that you consider 16 m^2 small. In Norway, the vast majority of rooms that you can rent from the semi-public student welfare organizations are roughly 7-13 m^2. If you want a bigger living space, you'll either ha
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by Aqwis 12y ago
"Farm 432" would be a great title for a dystopian science fiction novel. I'm imagining a fictional future Soviet Union where the citizens are fed with insect products from collective farms simply named "Farm #".
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Eating crab out of its shell (sometimes they even take crab meat and put it in another crab's shell before selling it) is very common where I live. Is that really not done in the US?
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by Aqwis 12y ago
If those are anodized non-stick pans, using metal utensils is perfectly fine.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Even more tangentially relevant, but has there been just one hack in all of 2014?
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by Aqwis 12y ago
I took a look at the B-52's Wikipedia article. Apparently, it's expected to serve until the 2040s. If the last B-52 is active until 2045, B-52s will have been around for 90 (!) years. Isn't that utterly ridiculous? Imagine if
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by Aqwis 12y ago
As a student of statistics, I'm kind of split on R. On one hand, it's just not a very well-designed language. The fact that it has three (!) independent object systems is a testament to this. On the other hand, as vegabook also me
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by Aqwis 12y ago
No, I can buy the phone without any contract/subsidy for that price. Indeed, I don't think subsidised candybar-style phones are even sold here anymore. But even if it's $30 in the UK, are there really no (unlocked) phones ava
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Is this really that extraordinary? I can buy a Samsung GT-E1200 candybar phone for $15 in Norway. Presumably similarly priced phones are sold in the US. That's a considerably nicer phone too, with a bigger screen and more features.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Is small size the only thing the A/A+ has over the B/B+ board? Is size really such a big issue for prototyping boards like the Raspberry Pi?
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by Aqwis 12y ago
One thing worries me that is not about podcasts themselves but about the podcast delivery ecosystem: a huge share of podcasters use Google's FeedBurner to deliver the podcast RSS feed and get statistics on listeners and subscribers. Un
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by Aqwis 12y ago
I may be misreading the paper, but as far as I understand you need a collection of photos in addition to the video.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Very impressive. How large does the photo collection of the individual have to be to achieve results like those in the video?
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by Aqwis 12y ago
LG's Optimus G is supposedly getting the Kit Kat update in August/September/October. I'm not sure why they're even bothering given how late they are. Personally, I've switched to Cyanogen on my Optimus G despit
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by Aqwis 12y ago
Reminds me of the painted high rises in Prague: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Jahodov%C... Just painting harsh concrete architecture with some simple patterns can make it a lot more
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by Aqwis 12y ago
The Register is 50% satire and 50% tech news. Don't take it seriously.
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by Aqwis 12y ago
In many countries, you can be punished for buying a stolen bike (or any other item). Is this not the case in the US, or do people consider the probability of punishment so low that they don't care?

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