Hondor

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by Hondor 10y ago
You might be painting too rosy a picture of the past. Gyrating wildly? The UK no longer gets bombed by the IRA, there's no cold war, there's no crippling union strikes everywhere. As for more serious but less sexy problems, it&#x2
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by Hondor 10y ago
Yea, it's disappointing how biased the reporting is. I suspect the science is almost as biased. Even the papers that do show that things aren't as bad as we thought find some way to say "Don't worry, it's still bad!
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by Hondor 10y ago
More secure? Everyone on the network can see everyone else's traffic wherease wifi only communicates between the router and each computer.
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by Hondor 10y ago
Great to see that the author's quite opinionated on date formats. It doesn't support any of the ridiculous local cultural conventions like MM/dd/yy or dd/MM/yy but he recommends the unambiguous ISO standard yyy
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by Hondor 10y ago
That has to be a spec violation of at least one part of the system. How can a USB-A port possibly ever receive power? Does it actually charge the battery or does the phone just think it's delivering power - perhaps because of a non-com
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by Hondor 10y ago
It won't be able to focus on something so close. It'll just slightly darken the whole image uniformly.
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by Hondor 10y ago
You mean a green light? That can trick human drivers into seeing a green light.
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by Hondor 10y ago
It advised me to go a police station 8000 km away. That's the closest one it could find.
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by Hondor 10y ago
The article consistently qualifies it like "According to Christian tradition". Only the title is inaccurate. It even mentions that they're interested in finding out "how it evolved as the focal point of veneration since
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by Hondor 10y ago
Not just religion. People cried when Princess Diana died. They cried on the anniversary of 9/11. And on 9/11 itself. People develop personal feelings towards popular people/events/concepts. That's just how we are, a
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by Hondor 10y ago
Yes. Not his actual tomb at all. It's like opening an old room in an old church. Not really as amazing as the title sounds.
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by Hondor 10y ago
I was expecting this to be a complaint that the only questions people ask female engineers are about kids and dating, instead of engineering. Who can tell which way public opinion will spin these days!
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by Hondor 10y ago
Some employers also accommodate side businesses and hobbies. One place I worked at even encouraged employees to use their equipment to work on side projects. My current employer lets me work on my side business in the office when I don&#x27
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by Hondor 10y ago
That's certainly a problem about salesmen taking their clients and other relationships with them. For small sales-only companies anyway, where the company doesn't provide much infrastructure beyond a desk and a phone. But in those
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by Hondor 10y ago
> If you work for ABC corp and they make a 'sales automation tool' - and you go off and build your own 'sales automation tool' - then fine. It's not about IP or trade secrets. You can do as you like. Unless you h
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by Hondor 10y ago
Iphones and Macs don't work well for most people. Apple only has a 10-20% share of the global smartphone market and 7% of the PC market. I don't think it's very special to make a good product that's expensive. Competitor
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by Hondor 10y ago
From this other page https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu/ , it looks like he can take his grants, research, Phd students and courses with him to a new job! I'm totally amazed at that. Don't they belong to his old univers
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by Hondor 10y ago
The US does track what you say on Facebook to see how much of a terrorist or criminal you might be. Just because you think "praise the government" isn't worthy of reward, doesn't mean it isn't. Afterall, China doesn
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by Hondor 10y ago
Perhaps soldiers should be exempt from due process because they don't apply it to the people they kill. Even if they don't directly kill anyone, they're stomping all over laws and rights in the countries they attack.
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by Hondor 10y ago
I agree linking the two unrelated things is a weak argument. My comment was more of a reaction to the opposite linking shown so commonly by many people, which is "They deserve to be treated fairly because they're soldiers". T
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by Hondor 10y ago
Thanks for your civil response. I mean soldiers know when they sign up that they might be required to do bad things. They agree to do those bad things to save themselves from poverty/unemployment/etc. I don't think that'
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by Hondor 10y ago
I agree those are all problems and people suffer from them. But that doesn't excuse those unfortunate people from dragging others down to their level - ie the Iraqis. Or from killing people. Many criminals ruin other people's live
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by Hondor 10y ago
Just about every war ever has taught us these things over and over again. Maybe if we stop glorifying soldiers, those naive kids will stop believing it. Perhaps we should just admit that soldiers in wars do bad things and are bad people. We
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by Hondor 10y ago
Many people joined the Taliban for those reasons, and ISIS and Al Quaeda. Many common criminals commit crime because they need money too. Just because you're desperate, doesn't give you the right to kill people. Just because you f
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by Hondor 10y ago
Probably no more fascinating than what we've seen of human evolution on Earth already. If you were living that far in the future, the differences between Earth people and Mars people would be mundane common sense to you already, just a
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by Hondor 10y ago
Is EM radiation that can't be blocked by sheets of metal really an important problem? It looks like we can use magnetic fields to block charged particles and apparently that's good enough for space travel - but perhaps not for a p
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It's an order of magnitude. 1e3, not 1.000e3 which would indeed be suspicious.
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The lander appears to have failed :( Official confirmation at 6pm UTC.
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It's wrong to support a popular political party that you don't like? At the end of the day, campaign funding only works because non-thinking American voters just vote for whoever appears on their TV the most often. Thiel isn'
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How can anyone possibly show causality between demonization and votes? Where's the control group? Have you got any scientific evidence for your claims or are they really just rationalization? Increasing from 17% to 18% sounds like an i

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