PietdeVries

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by PietdeVries 10y ago
And interestingly, Germans that were at that time not even considering to migrate to the US (Werner von Braun anyone?) were just forced...
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
I drive one (C350e), and indeed it monitors traffic and brakes when another car in front does too. Now the question is: "does it really matter that the car can see through the car in front"? Because if the car is self-driving it w
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
And in addition: the efficiency of a petrol-engine is much lower than an electric engine. So you perhaps only take in half of the fuel, if it gets you just as far you have what you need, isn't it?
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
The story suggests there is a 300 foot wide canal that can be used to let water go in casse of an emergency. Well, how about doing so now? Rather than using the turbines, use the canal to let the water out, but without it generating electri
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Not sure about your statement... In the Netherlands this is still done quite often because the soil is too unstable. Concrete piles are driven into the weak soil until it hits the sand. Houses are typically built on top. The pole can be pro
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
And now you do the same with pumping water back and forth... I get it that trains are handy when you have plenty of space and lack water, but many, many places around the globe lack the space for the hughe amounts of train tracks running up
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
I have two of their products, and must say: when they work, they work awesome! Range is great, monitoring is great - just compliments. But a firmware upgrade on their access point caused quite a lot of trouble. And with only one access poin
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
In a world where a lot of money is made in the gaming industry?
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
With the drop in oil prices from the past years, getting oil out of the ground in the US became too expensive. A lot of newly installed sites were closed because they could only operate efficiently with an oil price near $80 a barrel. I am
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
This seems true for most modern, western economies: they are migrating from a producing economy to a service & knowledge economy. Logistics is big (moving stuff) and services are big (consultancy, lawfirms, etc), but the actual factorie
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
And is there an alternative to software patents? One of the examples (linked to the case against TomTom) is related to Fat32. I can imagine that if you "invent" a filesystem and everyone is enthusiastic & starts using it - you
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
To my knowledge the essence of an electric engine is that is has max traction almost independent of the rpm. Where a petrol engine has an optimal rpm (4000 for instance) where it provides most power, the electric car does not. Consequence i
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Thing with these tracks is that you know where they are and thus you can anticipate. Just as with the trams riding them: if you stay off the tracks the chance of being run over by a tram are quite close to zero. Cars however are different.
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Well, let's extend even further - why restrict to things abusive to kids, why not extend to all things abusive to anyone?!? Like news shows that obviously have "wrong" news or different opinions, history-channels that focus o
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
And it makes you wonder - 9/11 caused roughly 3.000 deaths. How many casualties have been made by US troops outside the US borders for "the good cause"? 10x times? 100x times more? Perhaps even a 1000 times more people died f
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Adding to that with a simple quote: "When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Matlovich
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Good that you mention the blowing up of wedding parties by US drones - because by the same law that allows Americans to sue the Saudi's, any victim can now sue the US for damages because of these (often quite uncontrolled) drone attack
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
I think the article is complaining too much... True, it takes 30 years for an idea to grow to something useful, but that is not because nobody cares (or think you are nuts) - the idea just hasn't gotten to a final, usable form. Carter
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
There is price, and there is cost... Living in the Netherlands, the price of a Tesla is around 100.000 euros. However, if I can lease the thing, the actual cost (due to tax benefit, etc) drops like a rock to a level that compares to a small
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Well... If you have to chose between sending in your troops/colleagues or a robot, what would you pick?
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
And so it begins... If a Brexit-fanatic like Boris somehow gets hold of the UK, and Trump does the same in the US, we'll be looking back at "those good old days prior to June 2016" in no time... The world-economy will get mo
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
And the bad thing is, that it's in general not the cleverest set of people that make extra kids to get a higher income. Overall, the more educated people are, the smaller their families are. So this will effectively reverse everything
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Sure - or alternatively, employers move to another country where wages are lower and employees complain less. China for instance. Think back: what is still entirely made in the US or the UK? What can we still produce without China? And why
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Let me know when you have this thing in place: I will start a "Spring Break Holiday Park" somewhere in the south where beer is $20 and a Rum&Coke goes for $40. Only people from 25 are allowed in.
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Hmm... So with everyone getting free money, including the children, there is no need for a father to take care of the family when he decides to diforce, right? Afterall, the family gets a good deal of income even when daddy is gone. So marr
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
Ah - and that is where the problem starts... What I've picked up from 'rule-making' so far is that rules in general are OK for 80% of the users. It's the 20% that is the exception (to the rule) and that requires addition
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by PietdeVries 10y ago
I fear it will only increase inflation to a level that the 10k people get is representing about the same in goods as the current level is they have. Free money is fake: it doesn't work in my opinion. It either increases the price level
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by PietdeVries 11y ago
True - those were the days... However, I believe these OS-es come with certain presets that will not expose them to the wild-internet immediately. I assume (yes - assume) that MS has enabled the firewalls per default on these images, so unl
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by PietdeVries 11y ago
I would almost say "challenge accepted" - this calls for a little test! I don't believe that the images that Microsoft made available are so vulnerable as-they-are that they will be infected within hours...
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by PietdeVries 11y ago
But... As soon as your bridge for the lights is on some sort of guest AP/network, your client on your phone can't reach it anymore, and thus has to be on that same network. And that will annoy you quick enought to not try to insta

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