Ice_cream_suit

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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
Some non-US prices: http://www.calcuttahearing.com/shrobonee/Siemens%20Hearing%2...
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
The Siemens Orion is sold in India for around $250. While it is not a premium hearing aid, it appears to be adequate for at least some. Unbranded Chinese hearing aids are available for around $25.
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
Language is not knowledge or culture. It is merely a tool for communication. I deliberately chose not to teach my children my or my wife's fairly obscure and mutually completely unintelligible languages. On the other hand, I ensured th
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
"Then, too, there was me. I don’t have the easiest personality and I rub some/many people the wrong way. I can be too impatient and prickly and more than a few people have referred to me as a curmudgeon. I am all of that. I have a
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
The Zoroastrian way of disposal is rather exotic: "The bodies are not placed on the ground because their presence would corrupt the earth. For the same reason, Zoroastrians do not cremate their dead, as it would corrupt the fire. The d
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
"The 100G program is exploring high-order modulation and spatial multiplexing techniques to achieve the 100 Gb/s capacity at ranges of 200 km air-to-air and 100 km air-to-ground from a high-altitude (e.g. 60,000 ft.) aerial platfo
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
"“Of concern, the full width frontal test showed a risk of serious head, chest and leg injury for the rear passenger. There was also insufficient inflation of both the driver and front passenger airbags in the frontal offset test which
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
The Ford Mustang fails basic safety tests: "“Of concern, the full width frontal test showed a risk of serious head, chest and leg injury for the rear passenger. There was also insufficient inflation of both the driver and front passeng
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
They were just seriously bad cars with a poor reputation and worse resale value. It got to the stage where when buying cars, people I knew would check the VINs to ensure that they were not made in Australia. Fords made in Australia were par
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
North Korea now use filament winding machines to make lightweight, long range airframes for it's rockets and ICBMS. It takes large spools of advanced composite filaments as the input and outputs airframes. Impressive for such an impove
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
"DDT seemed, initially, like a miraculous savior of human health and crops from harm by insects." DDT saved over 0.5 billion lives before it was banned in the USA.In India, between 1952 and 1962, DDT caused a decrease in annual ma
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
"A DIY Epinephrine Autoinjector for just over $30" Do it wrong, and a child dies...
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ROKRAT nice North Korean malware(blog.talosintelligence.com)
1 points by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago|0 comments
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
Leaks data from production servers to a Microsoft run network. What fun.... "Behavior The telemetry feature is on by default. You can opt-out of the telemetry feature by setting an environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT (e.g.
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.NET core spies on users by default(github.com)
250 points by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago|150 comments
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HTC shares enter trading halt
1 points by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago|0 comments
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
I have a Prius C with Toyota's infotainment system. It works fairly well.
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
"It lacks much of the latest file system research that has gone into things like ZFS and Btrfs." Could you recommend a recent book on file system design ? thanks.
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
Collective hallucination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_hysteria#Tanganyika_laugh...
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
The video presentation is particularly bad.
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
Your presentation needs improvement.
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
Oracle, Palantir, Symantec and IBM have close links with American intelligence agencies. Perhaps all non-American countries should ban the use of their products.
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
His far right politics was a bit of a turnoff for me. YMMV
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by Ice_cream_suit 9y ago
Cutting off your nose to spite your face...