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by PietdeVries 7y ago
And just in the news: T-Mobile says it owns exclusive rights to the color magenta https://adage.com/article/digital/t-mobile-says-it-owns-excl...
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
And the downside: you will only have a few technicians that really understand how things work, hiring new ones is next to impossible as teenagers have never seen neither the hardware nor the software that is running on it. It scales terribl
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
What would the force of the wind be on a structure 2 km long and 200 meter wide? Just a little breeze will require an amazing force just to keep the thing docked. Think that you have to maneuvre the thing into position...
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
You can shift the solar peak at least by one hour when importing electricity from California is possible... In Europe there are a lot of international power cables that help redistribute power across the region and that seems to work quite
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
Could the fire that the crew fought with their lives indeed have damaged the reactor (and thus have caused the "planetary catastrophe" - I assume that is what the article hints on)? Or basically, was the reactor designed in such a
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
What bothers me even more is the precision of time they can keep the data: 13.8 billion years. Not 13.7, not 13.9 - no: they figured out 13.8 exactly. That's fake precision and remarkably close to the current age of the universe...
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by PietdeVries 7y ago
Is the issue with the private company, or with the centralized/government instead? Suppose I start my own little company - at least on paper - can I submit a request to access this face-recognization database as well?
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by PietdeVries 8y ago
If only companies/countries/individuals without a scandal or controversy in their history could become a 'victim', the newspapers would be amazingly empty...
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by PietdeVries 8y ago
While the idea is new to me - using friction in a windmill to heat your house - the practical use in Western Europe could be limited. Installing a 12 meter windmill in my backyard is not going to happen... And then efficiency. A heatpump ha
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by PietdeVries 8y ago
"British security/police seem to take their power a bit too far very often"... And that is the actual problem here as well. At the airport you end up in a "your rights end here" zone. According to the original story
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by PietdeVries 8y ago
The thing is that this working-from-home people significantly impact the efficiency of your office. It's a trend (could be the open-office space started it) but resulted in people easily working 2 or more days from home. That implies t
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by PietdeVries 8y ago
But what is the value-add of this service? Complex passwords are quite useful if the server gets hacked and someone walks away with the (salted) password hashes. Against brute-forcing passwords at the login screen of an application they don
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by PietdeVries 8y ago
"tried" indeed - because according to the wikipedia lemma covering the topic: However, in July 2013, Ecuador's president Rafael Correa's commission on the Yasuni-ITT Initiative's progress, the commission concluded
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
Well, if wealth is spread more evenly around the globe, this will indeed be good. Less unrest, less war, less refugees. Not sure if it's beneficial for the US as well though - the money flowing to Vietnam/Slovakia/Nigeria, et
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
Exports of what? iPhones? These are all made in China, and with the dollar dropping against the Yuan, anything the US imports from China (and also from Europe) will be getting more expensive. And with the dollar dropping, bonds in dollars w
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
So citizenship for a robot. That implies 'human' rights for the 'thing'. Healthcare, unemployment, etc. It should be allowed to vote I guess? And as citizens cannot have an owner, it is now an independent legal entity? I
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
More than 40 million households - about a quarter of all in the country - are yet to be electrified and about 300 million of India’s 1.3 billion people are still not hooked up to the grid. Soo.... The article suggests that there are rough
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
I have heard of malware that does more or less the same: exploit a vulnerability, but patch it as soon as it has access to prevent others from exploiting it too. While your plan makes sense, I can see a future where there are two big gray-m
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
What kilburn is referring to is that the business model that telco's use more or less stimulate this type of calls. If a telemarketeer has to pay for setting up a call, rather than the end-user for accepting it (no matter how small the
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
With the real news gone, the fake news will no longer seem fake...
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
From reading the "reviews" at http://www.stackoverflow.feedback/reviews , I get the feeling the entire .feedback TLD will soon be hosting all kinds of 4chan-alike pages and the owners will have to take the sites do
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
So I've been strugling a bit with how this went... She downloaded/retrieved a document, then printed it, then scanned it again and mailed it to The Intercept? Some stories claim she was caught because access to the document was lo
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
Now how would google find the relevant info (and index it) yet at the same time a 'regular' user would be restricted by the paywall? That might be a solution you can implement technically, but will it also work for your users? If
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
you refer to for instance those US Postal service LLV's that do 10 miles to the gallon (converts to 4.3 km per liter)? https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3xqc4m/til_t...
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by PietdeVries 9y ago
Isn't this exactly the definition of capitalism and what is at the basis of the entire American economy? You can complain that a foreign company is hiring you for what you consider below-par payment, but unless you find a better paying
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
For the nerds among us this shouldn't be too hard. A Virtual Private Server can be rented for a few dollars a month. I have seen examples that charge less than $4 for unlimited bandwidth. Install VPN software on the server and become y
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
interestingly, you see airlines moving away from in-flight entertainment screens in the seat in front of you, in favor of BYOD. A logical move: let the clients bring their equipment (they bring it anyway) so you don't have to (install,
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Could it be that the lifespan of a appliance is shortened because it his to be more energy-efficient? The old fridges (and car-engines, or antything) were not very economic. A few decades ago getting 10 km per liter of petrol was more or le
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
The biggest issue I see is that the scientists specify a depth of 700 meters for the 30 meter sphere to hold 20 MWh. No where near Germany the sea is 700 meters deep. You will likely have to go all the way to Norway to find a suitable sea -
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
You are aware that getting a new, clean passport without any trace of his visit to Iran would have cost him less than the efforts of going through, say, getting an ESTA in place? If customs is triggered by what countries one has visited in

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