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by BariumBlue 12y ago
The thermal camo is likely from BAE who corroborated on this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pftna34TbJU&t=0m46s I do find the missile protection feature to be interesting; active protection been proven to be u
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by BariumBlue 12y ago
That's a lesser disloyalty, considering the whole thing is on an android device
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by BariumBlue 12y ago
I think being aware and conscious of what you write isn't necessarily a bad thing. More ever, internet-writing encourages short, clear and concise sentences and argument points which is a very useful and necessary skill in any social c
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by BariumBlue 12y ago
as someone thinking about navy nukes, may i ask what was unpalatable about it?
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by BariumBlue 12y ago
Most likely he was just used as a scapegoat. Someone wanted somebody else behind bars, either so they could say that some issue was being dealt with or that the issue has been dealt with, and some other person was used to fill that role.
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by BariumBlue 12y ago
Remember, these are adults, not little kids. If I can't trust them to be professional and cautious of risks, I wouldn't bother with their services, and likely neither would their employer. Personally, i think sleep deprivation is
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
Using it to power your home would drastically impact the lifetime of the battery. Depending on costs, possibly not worth it.
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
IIRC, the previous Brazilian president (Lula da Silva) wanted/advocated for the Rafale, so as to strengthen relations with France / Sarkozy. After Lula left, the competition become more about cheapness and transfer of technology.
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
Could anybody comment on the practical difference between tmux and using a tiling wm?
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
By checking to see whether there's any unauthorized drones in the sky?
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
At the very least, it does obsolete jobs. The more accurate question to be asking would be whether tech or the economy create enough other jobs to come fill in those gaps.
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
> foreign countries to stop exploiting them Most developing countries need/would benefit greatly from foreign goods. The only way to get those foreign goods is from foreign currency, which can only be gotten from foreign companies.
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
>How does one even go about disagreeing with a comment like this? preferably by ignoring it and then moving on. Argument or refutation is merely encouragement. Best to give the impression they're nothing more than a mere annoyance t
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
>128 gigabit (Gb) [per chip] This is the first I think I've seen size measured in gigabits, rather than gigabytes, of which there'd be 16, which is still impressive, but on amazon I can buy a 32GB sdcard for $20.
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
Different consumers; there's probably a fair amount of overlap between people who'd use Firefox OS and people who'd use Tizen. Not that I think either will really take off.
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
well, let's say the majority of people are "smart" enough to not comment on something. Then you only get comments from the "stupid" people, giving an appearance those comments are from the majority, rather than a less constrained minority.
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by BariumBlue 13y ago
being skeptical isn't being dismissive. There's alot of software that simply never takes off for one reason or another, so an air of skepticism is reasonable. It looks nice, but simply being "nice" or a small amount better won't amount to m
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by BariumBlue 14y ago
>yeah, tablets feel very constrained for creation. It is a consumption device. Which why I like the idea of the Ubuntu smartphone so much; a portable consumption device that can easily turn into a development machine. At least, that's m
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by BariumBlue 14y ago
>I think there should be a third option in the form of a decentralized social protocol. You mean something like diaspora? https://joindiaspora.com/
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by BariumBlue 14y ago
I think the way to think about them is not so much as the CEOs actually producing anything, but being more of a productivity multiplier rather than adding to productivity linearly (an engineer). In this way, they can increase productivity
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by BariumBlue 14y ago
I seem to be one of the few people to have learned from a class. Over a semester, I learned all the important commands, and commands I probably have otherwise learned, like uniq -c, dmesg, or cut (although I can't imagine ever actually usin
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by BariumBlue 14y ago
here ya go: http://pastebin.com/dG0cPYPa
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by BariumBlue 14y ago
True, but assuming in this future humans have developed brain enhancements, the issue of storage space and computing power becomes less relevant. Though I suppose the whole idea of brain enhancements would render the author's point null any
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by BariumBlue 14y ago
We know that the mind is Turing complete. What the author is suggesting is that it's possible for there to be some science or mathematics that is beyond the capability of our mind to comprehend. (and that it's possible that there's science