JorgeGT

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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Amancio Ortega, Spanish self made billionaire (started as shirts delivery boy at 13yo, now 6th in Forbes list), has announced he will deliver 300k masks per week, will use his huge worldwide logistic network to support the government provis
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Yep. People talk about "peak capitalism", "late capitalism" etc. but they don't realize the world used to be much, much more extreme. Even until a few centuries ago, even public cops or prosecutors weren't a th
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Firefighting used to be a private service since Roman times until recently. Some old buildings in my city still bear a plaque saying "Fire insured" signaling that in case of fire, they should be saved. If not, the firefighters wou
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Time travel will be highly controlled by the authorities, probably that party was surrounded by future cops looking out for rogue amateurs.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Weird how things are. That is hosted in the University of Valencia --- I'm walking through the campus as I write this.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Yep, and now I wonder which could be the oldest open shell connection in the world, maybe some plant or industrial process?
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
My city (third largest in Spain) already has APIs for querying static and real-time data: http://gobiernoabierto.valencia.es/en/info-api/
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
He is still working on it and the latest check I know about was from a few months ago: https://nickdrozd.github.io/2019/05/17/knuth-check.html but I still agree with your first sentence.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
The codename for Crypto AG.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Technically yes, but the jet stream blows at high altitude.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I have one from my grandfather and one from my father. Amazing things. I wonder what device I should leave for my future children! Maybe my Ti-83...
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I agree! It's a very interesting new world. And now I get what you meant. I think the best term for that is COTS (commercial off-the-shelf).
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Hm, a hostile nation state could cause some serious economic damage this way. Maybe they're already doing it?
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
A lot of people are integrating FDM or other AM techniques into their production, so it doesn't meant it will be home-produced. You can order small batches from Stratasys, 3D Systems or any of the other big manufacturers and you get re
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Yep, I agree that any or all of those would apply (note that regarding F/RAND, a holder can refuse, and then the standard must exclude their IP) but at the same time we have seen over and over that corporations (and the nation-states t
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I agree, but if you patent certain processes, concepts, etc. early on, you can get filthy rich as everyone has to license your technology.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Services that are possible because that "company" chose to put the WWW in the public domain: https://cds.cern.ch/record/1164399# Can you imagine, if CERN had patented HTML, HTTP, the Web server and the Web br
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Anonymising data is surprisingly difficult. I'm wondering if there is the "falsehoods programmers believe about" about this, as there are for topics such as names, addresses, time, etc.?
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Maybe, I'll tell you next time it appears in my start menu. In either case it is not the size that bothers me, it's the fact they keep placing gaming icons in the start menu of an enterprise workstation, even after the user delete
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I get candy crush in my Win10 Enterprise, each major upgrade...
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Has someone managed to install and activate a recent version of Office? I managed to install but it never discovered/talked to the KMS server of my uni.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
Cat III can be done with no DH, but you still require some RVR>0 (flare is done by the autoland system). Only IIIc could be done in theory with a blocked windscreen like in this case, but that's still not in standard operation anywh
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
At least in my country avoiding squatters is also a reason to not show the exact address.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
The legal obligations of a bank towards its clients generally extend way beyond your example, depending on the country, but yes, returning the client belongings upon termination of the relationship should be a basic right mandated by law.
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
> That money in the bank account is yours, unless seized through a legal process. And this is because through the centuries we have enacted enough laws to deter private banking companies from messing with our money. If left to their own
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
> It is the forceful physical violation of one’s person or property. But not all property is physical. And increasingly, our property is just data located in somebody's servers: your Dropbox contents, your Steam games, the money in
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I think you have an extra K on there! I do remember my 36 kbps modem though, but the web was optimized for that speed. Webpages had "image warnings"!
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
I advise knowledgeable people to look at the data themselves! Nowadays anyone can browse, download and process open access satellite data (Landsat, Sentinel, Terra, Aqua, Suomi-NPP, etc.) with open source tools (QGIS, Python, etc.). In this
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
> Big labs don't work any faster than small labs Not true, at least in my field. If $BigLab can throw 100k CPU cores at a simulation it is going to finish way faster than $SmallLab 1k simulation. If $BigLab builds 10 dedicated test
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by JorgeGT 7y ago
The whole, complex scientific field of metrology exists in order to make physical measurements anywhere on Earth comparable in a meaningful way. Trying to derive conclusions about the psychological traits of humans by observing n=200 of you

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