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by Maken 9y ago
@mmphosis: you can always link different profiles to different Firefox account so they all get sync between devices.
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by Maken 9y ago
You can launch Firefox with different profiles (including navigation history, Firefox account, extension, etc) in the same machine. It's a bit cumbersome since you need to select the profile as a launch option (firefox -p) or launch it
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by Maken 9y ago
You just need to figure how to survive the volcanic winter. It's not like the magma is going to cover the entire surface of the Earth.
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by Maken 9y ago
The King of the Corona was far from an absolute monarchy, and there limits to what the monarchy could do. The Fueros were a kind of primitive Constitution pacted between the king and the kingdom (mostly the nobility), and nobody was above i
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by Maken 9y ago
Sometimes I wonder why it is "natural" that some fields are dominated by females by nearly a 90% but it is worrisome that others are 80% male. I mean, given a more or less equivalent intelligence distribution people needs to end d
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by Maken 9y ago
Well, some people is stronger than others to social pressure. Anyway, the author is not saying that sexual harassment doesn't exist nor it does not matter, but that even putting those aside maybe engineering is just not an attractive f
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by Maken 9y ago
GNOME guys seriously need to learn to make land pages.
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by Maken 9y ago
I find kinda funny how many of those themes are displaying captures of a themed up Unity rather than Shell.
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by Maken 9y ago
The Finns are always ready to fight the Russians again...
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by Maken 9y ago
Artistically, yes, but I don't think the DS can pump out much more in terms of raw polygonal and texture load.
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by Maken 9y ago
It was the same for me. I was expecting cool biotechnology, found web programming.
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by Maken 9y ago
What I can't understand is why anybody still used Newton's notation. Also, at least for me Leibniz notation tends to make pen-and-paper symbol manipulation simpler.
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by Maken 9y ago
Do a public campaign to eradicate pie charts.
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by Maken 9y ago
It's not a method to generate random numbers, but to re-distribute random numbers according to an arbitrary distribution. In general RNG generate purely uniform distributions.
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by Maken 9y ago
I don't know if it was explicitly part of the campaign, but UK's government was one of the biggest blockers on European Union's net neutrality laws. Also, the conservatives mentioned the interference of the European Court of
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by Maken 9y ago
There is something that always puzzles me and I would like if something could illuminate me. How are those kind of massive scale astrophysical calculations made? Do they take into account every visible mass aggregate in the galaxy and simul
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by Maken 9y ago
Also, wasn't one of the reasons behind the Brexit that the European courts were blocking this kind of legislation?
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by Maken 9y ago
While I can understand some of the arguments in favour of regulating internet content, it amazes me people are still talking about pornography like some ancient demon from which our children must be protected at all costs. Does anybody stil
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by Maken 9y ago
It's not clear if hosting your own Gitlab instance (they are not using Gitlab's servers, but their own) is cheaper than a Github's subscription. It's more a question about owning your own infrastructure rather than cutti
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by Maken 9y ago
I do see an issue with storing your nation's critical data in a OS with security backdoors enforced by a foreign country.
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by Maken 9y ago
It not that they were convinced the new look was better. It's just that no sane individual would stick to a iPhone from two generations ago just because he doesn't like his notes' background color.
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by Maken 9y ago
How many of those companies actually have their own network and aren't subcontracting from one of the top companies?
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by Maken 9y ago
Net neutrality just makes internet services a free market, which does not avoid monopolies but makes competition possible. The alternative is a captive market, which actively imposes monopolies. Also, net neutrality is about consumers not b
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by Maken 9y ago
That's because the Mossos have developed their own "code of conduct" about regularly beating protesters, immigrants, prostitutes and poor people in general.
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by Maken 10y ago
I think being underfeatured is part of the reason why HN works.
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by Maken 10y ago
Too bad, it's your old friend Unicode.
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by Maken 10y ago
Well, that's mostly how the feudal system came to be.
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by Maken 10y ago
Until another guy comes, shots you and takes it. Laws exist for a reason.
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by Maken 10y ago
Feeding shit and trash to pigs, and other animals like chickens or rabbits, used to be a common custom in European countries as well. It's not as terrible as it sounds, since for the most time these animals don't get infected by h
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by Maken 10y ago
Wouldn't it be better to explain them nobody is perfect?

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