ElBarto

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by ElBarto 8y ago
Can I return the blenders?
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Notice how he masterfully distilled cool details about his software culminating in the 'low' price, all wrapped in a captivating story? 30 minutes later after he has left and you have closed the door to go back to your chores, yo
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by ElBarto 8y ago
> Sure and while you're at it why not implement cameras all over every roadway to automatically ticket you every time you break the speed limit. This is a common and interesting sarcasm. It is interesting because the law is indeed t
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The Moon is right next door. It is obviously a much better ground to learn to live in a self-sustained way on another planet. He writes "It is ultimately much easier to journey to Mars from low Earth orbit than from the moon". His
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Settling on the Moon first would certainly be the more logical and cost effective starting point. Once all the techs have matured on the Moon then Mars is just a longer trip.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
The upper atmosphere of Venus is actually the closest to Earth conditions we have in the solar system. Just float around in an airtight habitat. Gravity is the same as on Earth, pressure is the same, temperature is 25C. You literally only n
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Who knows. Obviously no-one would have publicised this, so if you weren't involved you would have had no idea. The story does report that Amazon completely dropped Supermicro as a supplier following this alleged hack (that should be ve
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It would be unwise for Chinese missiles to use a positioning system controlled by the US military, to say the least...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Assuming the story is real it is quite obvious that there aren't that many compromised motherboards. It wouldn't make sense and it would make the attack easier to detect and to publicly incriminate the culprit. As the attack is sa
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That's were the strings of those banks are pulled from...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Saudi Arabia is a peace-loving country that wouldn't harm a fly.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Most of them, if not all, have links with the middle East or other muslim countries. Either they are subsidiaries of middle eastern banks, or were funded by middle eastern investors. As a Westerner and an atheist, ethics to me is staying fa
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by ElBarto 8y ago
So-called 'sharia finance' isn't more ethical, not that there anything unethical with charging interests. What they do is a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid calling what you pay for a loan 'interest'.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Which defeats the purposes of having reviews by removing the negative reviews...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
> Amazon is going downhill quickly Unfortunately I have to agree. There has been a huge increase in the number of dodgy sellers and obviously fake reviews, and Amazon does not seem to care. I reported a few dishonest listings and absolut
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Considering the ups and downs of the Japanese economy this can also be seen as a subsidy to boost consumption and economic activity.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It's OK everyone will get an implant at birth....
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Roundabouts usually do away with traffic lights. Crossing a road when cars are not held by traffic lights always 'suck' for pedestrians.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
It's difficult to convey the same information. From experience, the information provided on gov.uk can be incorrect because it is simplified too much. Very important aspects are lost and it becomes misleading. As the saying goes, simpl
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by ElBarto 8y ago
I'm more measured on this. The "plain English campaign" often boils down to dumbing down copy and removing all words that a 12 year old might not know. There are many terms, especially legal terms, which have a precise meanin
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This feels a bit like JIT processing. There may be a number of states possible but there is no need to 'process' which one it is until that information is needed.
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by ElBarto 8y ago
This is the sort of idea that looks great on paper and simulations but that totally falls flat in the real world. The system would require trusted communication. The system would also have to cope with any number of vehicles not having this
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Lest we forget that the USPS seems to have been quite OK with how things worked: http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2010/pr10_058.h...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Yes, I would assume that if the US isn't part of the postal union then foreign post services have no way to send letters and parcels to the US anymore unless and until they negotiate service deals with US operators. The same should app
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Lest we forget that the USPS seems to have been quite OK with how things worked: http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2010/pr10_058.h...
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by ElBarto 8y ago
"MI5 would just hold them back, almost certainly if researchers strayed into illegality, says the source. Bellingcat’s willingness to buy information on the black market or scoop it up from pirate sites makes them better than governmen
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by ElBarto 8y ago
To do good requires understanding the issue at hand and devising a measurable plan for improvement. This is not what many, if not most people do, or want to do, when they "try to do good". They simply want to do something based on
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Many, if not most, chip companies are fabless these days, including the very major ones (Broadcom, Qualcomm, Nvidia, etc. I think even AMD). It means that they do not own any foundry/factory to produce chips. They design chips then sen
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by ElBarto 8y ago
Yes, this is pretty standard. I recently pay my home insurance's renewal that way (Europe). However, these days many systems use voice recognition rather than having to key in numbers. I'm guessing that this is on Twilio's ro
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by ElBarto 8y ago
That's the standard short-term vision: Oh this won't affect us this year so we don't need to care...

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