Laforet

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by Laforet 10y ago
For those who want an impartial overview on Venezuela's economic woes, I high recommend the podcast below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrfM5UD-Azk Hint: It did not begin with Chavismo, but it has got worse since.
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by Laforet 10y ago
I'm generally amendable to the idea of cryptocurrency but I don't like the current way Bitcoin is designed. Block size has been discussed ad nauseum whereas nobody seems to be willing to admit that a deflationary currency is doome
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by Laforet 10y ago
A Morgan dollar is worth $15 for its material and possibly more for its collectible value, what is the problem here? Every dollar invested in 1900 would still have yielded a better return than $15, i.e. burying silver in the ground. The rea
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by Laforet 10y ago
They already have control of all your traffic so what's the harm? Take the sim out of your phone in case you are really worried, but that would cut you off the network as well. I'd be far more concerned with the hundreds of microc
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by Laforet 10y ago
Back when GMO soy was banned in Brazil, farmers simply banded together and paid smugglers to bring seeds from neighboring Argentina. If the benefits were not so immediate I doubt they'd bother to break the law.
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by Laforet 10y ago
This is true if not somewhat misleading. Most commercial GMO crops do not target yield but lessens the amount of effort required to maintain production. Similar yields are readily achievable by throwing manpower and tons of agrochemicals at
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by Laforet 10y ago
Still less of a burden compared to meat and vegetables
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by Laforet 10y ago
> the exact same plants and mushrooms will be listed as edible in some books and poisonous in others. Are you serious? Any mycologist or survivalist worth their salt will tell you to avoid any mushrooms you could not identify with 100% c
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by Laforet 10y ago
It's not quite like E-cig users and their naked 18650 cells.
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by Laforet 10y ago
In general avoid obscure models, more popular hardware generally have much better community support and development. Having an unlockable bootloader is a bonus but not essential in all cases.
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by Laforet 10y ago
As long as they share the road with other vehicles it does not sound very practical.Heavy vehicles have their unique handling and failure patterns that I doubt are well suited to automation at the moment.
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by Laforet 10y ago
Children living close to the airport serving leaded avgas were found to have a small but tangible increase in blood lead levels. General aviation itself has been on the decline for the past few decades and alternative fuel seems to be final
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by Laforet 10y ago
I never took the conspiracy seriously but I was decently surprised by the number of contrails visible in the sky on a clear day during my visits to the Northeast of USA. I understand it was probably a due to a combination of climate (my vis
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by Laforet 10y ago
The linked post not really about hardware or UI design but how per app sandboxing and lack of a shared local FS has restricted productivity on the iPad pro. I've always likened iOS to living in a bunch of lavishly outfitted tents: they
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by Laforet 10y ago
Thank you, looks like little has changed since I checked last time. I live in a relatively mild climate and B+W development usually means measure the temperature of tap water once and go with it for the day. For C-41 it's also a bit ha
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by Laforet 10y ago
You have to be careful though, last year a good number of companies was burned when DoD started to route their previously unutilised class A block 11.0.0.0/8. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10006534
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by Laforet 10y ago
The French themselves refer to metropolitan France as l'Hexagone so it probably still would not be a square.
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by Laforet 10y ago
I've looked into these processes years ago but backed off because they seemed to require some really stringent temperature control. Is it no longer the case?
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by Laforet 10y ago
While we are at it, the Engineering Guy has a really good youtube channel. His videos are not very frequent most of them does a great job explaining how mundane objects are designed and manufactured. I thought I was familiar with some of hi
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by Laforet 10y ago
I have a bigger issue with fluorescent lights: They have a discontinuous spectrum[0] that can mess with your perception of colour as well as a noticable flicker that gets worse as the tubes age. Some of the newer "warm tone" CFL b
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by Laforet 10y ago
The problems is that the F-35's ground attack capacity is better suited to destory large hardened targets such as latest MBTs fielded by Russia and China, rather than the small, numerous and arguably unsophisticated technicals or the p
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by Laforet 10y ago
It may be a good time to revisit Kurosawa's Rashomon again. YMMV but it might explain a lot of contradictions we feel about how agenda drives the narrative.
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by Laforet 10y ago
I have worked in tech retail and the customer's needs are actually quite flexible with a bit of marketing. In any case the thinner and bigger trend seems to have ran its course: With the current UX design in iOS and Android, phones wit
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by Laforet 10y ago
Typing on one right now and cannot agree more. Great hardware ruined by Verizon exclusivity. Moto and Verizon teased the us with an upcoming lollipop update for a whole year before cancelling it and tried to make us pay more for the newer m
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by Laforet 10y ago
This, MITM using voluntarily installed trust anchors is one thing and explicitly allowed by google, creating a certificate for google.com that will be accepts by all TLS clients is not and Symantec have got in trouble before for doing this.
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by Laforet 10y ago
Bingo, this is how incadescence work: heating any solid material above a certain temperature will make it glow, all we need to worry about is finding a material that can withstand the temperature and make it into an efficient package. Gas m
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by Laforet 10y ago
Me too. I had a friend who was convinced that he's being attacked when a steady stream of UDP packets started reaching his router for days. Asked him to open it in VLC and it turned out to be local news from his ISP's misconfigiur
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by Laforet 10y ago
as well as recorded replays
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by Laforet 10y ago
So much trouble for nothing. All he has to do is to prove his control of any of the email addresses and bitcoin wallets known to belong to Satoshi.
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by Laforet 10y ago
I agree. Not to mention that corn farming was not profitable at pre-recession commodity prices and even more so now without government subsidy. In New Zealand, our main agricultural outputs (dairy and meat cattle) have recently gone into th

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