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by Iv 7y ago
KSA leaders have been more predictable than American presidents. International rules are set up so that people have incentives to follow them. Any leader, elected or not, may decide to nationalize and confiscate assets in his country. There
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by Iv 7y ago
I support the right to shout that but I have several problems with the way the Tibetan government in exile is set up and the place it gives to their spiritual leaders. They are a bit evasive as to the democratic guarantees they would give t
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by Iv 7y ago
This is how modern censorship works: let people have some limited margin, some limited freedom of speech when they only talk to friends or to groups of 4-5 people. Monitor them though. Do not believe for one second that Blizzard does not ha
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by Iv 7y ago
I play sc2, which is free to play. I changed my account name for "FreedomForHK". I play on Asian servers and responses have been very positive so far.
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by Iv 7y ago
And that you only get a 20 seconds message once you won a tournament.
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by Iv 7y ago
I wanted to delete my SC2 account then realize that boycotting a free to play game makes little sense. Instead I changed my name for "FreedomForHK". I saw another player with a similar name on Asian servers (FreeHongKong). Receive
847.
by Iv 7y ago
Oil is half the value of Saudi Arabia. The other half is US support. Since WWII the deal has never changed: cheap oil in exchange of military support. Saudi deals are effectively backed by US. And a country like Saudi, whose fortune solely
848.
by Iv 7y ago
Somewhere, eyes closed, sitting on a lotus flower made from PDP-11 listings, Knuth is smiling. Deep in the underground forge from which internets and androids are made from, Torvalds is fuming, hard at work with his army of assistants. The
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by Iv 7y ago
True, but in such case, defense mechanisms don't just disappear from the gene pool, they just get deactivated. The second time they are going to be much faster to re-evolve, making the disappearance of the second appearance of predator
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by Iv 7y ago
"If". What if the substance is abundant? I suspect (here again, just an intuition) that our planet is actually exceptionally good, not for life to appear, but for evolution to occur. One theory of abiogenesis supposes that life st
851.
by Iv 7y ago
But what if you have already reach optimal growth and optimal energy efficiency? If you have ever played with evolutionary algorithm, you have seen that it is very easy for a system to just "win". Want to optimize a thing that hea
852.
by Iv 7y ago
I think it is very easy to imagine a local minima in which evolution would be stuck. Making a membrane far too hard to pierce could starve a predator into extinction instead of making it evolve. If you reach a point where one organism devel
853.
by Iv 7y ago
I am not aware of state-run "detox camps" in other countries. The title by itself makes it a bit scary (which I guess is the click-baity intent) but the article seems to paint an actually worthy effort.
854.
by Iv 7y ago
How is this legal?
855.
by Iv 7y ago
False positives are not a big deal for this trait. False negatives are. A spat of blood may not mean danger, but if it systematically put you on your guards, you are likely to get an advantages over individuals who are oblivious to it.
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by Iv 7y ago
Surprisingly, there indeed seems to be no hard-wired understanding of periods. Freaking out on your first one is common for unwarned young women. Dealing with this has been off-loaded to culture. And the various idiocies in traditional cult
857.
by Iv 7y ago
I think China's development stalled automation efforts for two decades. Now finally that China starts being too expensive, once investors will realize it is complicated and costly to outsource to Vietnam, India or African countries, I
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by Iv 7y ago
> FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang. Very good a breaking up used car rings. Kind of confused on anything more complicated. Fun to jerk with. Not fun when they jerk back. -- Stratfor Glossary of Useful, Baffl
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by Iv 7y ago
The last years have given us two estimates of previously unknown factors in the Drake equation, that's why everybody is excited. Yes, life could be very improbable to appear, but there is a counterargument to this hypothesis: on our pl
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by Iv 7y ago
I love the style of packets organization that they describe. I think it has a name, I have seen it promoted as an alaternative to the typical mess that is "install everything in various parts of /usr/ and /opt/, put
861.
by Iv 7y ago
I think it is hard to imagine that evolution did not result in some hard-wiring of our reactions to the sight of blood. Blood=violence, LOOK OUT!
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by Iv 7y ago
I think the answer is simpler: they could not have run a pilot project by themselves. Logistics are complex businesses. Google does not have warehouses in enough places to cover an interesting area. FedEx has. And drone deliveries are going
863.
by Iv 7y ago
My policy is to not click on articles whose title are unclear. If I am intrigued I read the comments first and generally find out a comment (like yours) explaining this article was a waste of time
864.
by Iv 7y ago
I am really surprised that Bitcoin (or cryptocurrencies in general) hasn't solved its energy use yet and is still legal. I thought the world would switch to proof-of-stake coins and gradually make bitcoins harder to use.
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by Iv 7y ago
Not all releases have to be ground breaking, especially in a mature and stable language. Cleaning up things, putting other things in place for major releases, that's commendable too. I did not follow all the conversation around the typ
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by Iv 7y ago
Costco is the only place in Japan where I can find decent French cheese. I am not sure how it happened, but there it is.
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by Iv 7y ago
For the same reason I cared to run linux even before we had open BIOS. Would you have been shouting at young Torvalds that he was wasting his time trying to write a free OS in a world of proprietary hardware? We won't get to a fully op
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by Iv 7y ago
Because not everything is about FSF-purity standards. Running a profitable company while providing as many open packages as possible is commendable. Pushing to open more is. But jeez, would it hurt to show some love to people who genuinely
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by Iv 7y ago
Just wanted to give you some love. It must be really harsh for morale dealing with the OSS crowd who will always consider you don't do enough without recognizing that you are helping building a road where none existed before. Kudos to
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by Iv 7y ago
There's a 32 nm fab in France (ST Microelectronics) doing a lot of components. I am not sure about the displays though.

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