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by Rizz 8y ago
No, cars aren't too blame, the car owner is only liable for damage, and why does that law exist? Because cars have mandatory liability insurance, bicycles and pedestrians do not. It's not about making drivers more responsible, alt
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by Rizz 8y ago
What would create more jobs, running the same old coal power plant a couple more years or building a million new wind turbines? Or running the same old coal power plant or inventing, building and installing new filters and furnaces for exis
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by Rizz 8y ago
They are presented like that, in between two escalators, but the escalators move too fast and you're standing just a bit too far away to see details
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by Rizz 10y ago
Is a grammar pendant also more intolerant of petty crimes? I could see language errors as a sort of crime against the rules we as a society made.
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by Rizz 12y ago
They didn't hold back the Internet 6-7 years. IE was far, far beyond whatever competitors offered, it might be more fair to say that Microsoft released IE6 years too early. AJAX, CSS, JS, all the cool technologies that make the web tod
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by Rizz 12y ago
I wonder in how many states doing this is an illegal form of tampering with electronic communications. It seems to me interfering with communications would be illegal unless it is necessary for network operations, which advertising trackers
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by Rizz 12y ago
And a another way to use tupled is: list map Function.tupled(plus) Hereby additionally proving the old saying 'if you need help with a product don't say you need help because you'll get hit with RTFM, just say too ba
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by Rizz 12y ago
Medical ultrasound imaging uses far higher frequencies than the patents for uBeam claim, so they can't be compared. And even medical ultrasound isn't fully safe, there are some indications of brain damage in mouse models after lon
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by Rizz 12y ago
Copyright affects more than just assets, it also includes e.g. creative physics. The idea of an RTS in a medieval time period is not copyrightable, but copying all the specific choices AoE2 made even when those choices weren't made bec
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by Rizz 12y ago
No addresses or phone numbers for the fund, no associated lawyers, nothing to indicate that this is legitimate. Please do some additional checks before sending money to the bitcoin address mentioned.
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by Rizz 12y ago
How about observation bias as another reason. There are plenty of research papers written in Russian and Chinese (fewer every decade of course), but they aren't considered for Nobel prizes and they aren't reported on in the Wester
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Four Uberpop drivers arrested in Amsterdam, face fines of €4,200(dutchnews.nl)
2 points by Rizz 12y ago|0 comments
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by Rizz 12y ago
Children already have some regenerative abilities, a lost finger tip in a child of only a few years will usually grow back if the wound is not sutured close by surgeons. Extending that to all humans might not be all that impossible. Wikiped
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by Rizz 12y ago
Because sunny weather improves peoples mood, just look around you when it's raining and cold, people are glum and looking down a lot, while on a sunny day you see plenty of people smiling. Good mood means you feel better and perform be
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by Rizz 12y ago
A derived work is still protected by the original copyright. Because there is a substantial creative contribution the derived work is also copyrighted in its own right, but that doesn't diminish the original copyright. Translating a bo
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How One Startup Found Success by Making an Obsessive User Its CEO (2013)(wired.com)
2 points by Rizz 12y ago|0 comments
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by Rizz 12y ago
Or with different characters that are keyed with the same digit on a phone, like P, R or S for the Q?
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by Rizz 12y ago
There are a few swan farms in The Netherlands, where swans are grown for consumption. They are considered a delicacy in several European countries, but they don't taste as good as duck or geese in my opinion. Some years ago there were
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by Rizz 12y ago
Choice is an interesting question for the ethicists, but there are also many more reasons to use mice, rats, fruit flies and other animals: you can easily get thousands of genetically similar ones, you can get ones bred with specific proper
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by Rizz 12y ago
There are many variants of A* that can handle changing environments/imperfect information, multiple goals, limited time, etc. A number of them are listed at: http://idm-lab.org/project-a.html
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by Rizz 12y ago
"Course of employment" has a legal definition, it's the things you do because you have to for your work, so the actual work in the office, required education, travel to customers, that sort of stuff.
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by Rizz 13y ago
When half the internet is going to install your code without much additional testing in the next day it had better be properly tested beforehand.
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by Rizz 13y ago
The units were pretty unambiguous for a long time. For a long time disk storage was measured in 2^10x, at least in operating systems, then hard disk manufacturers decided the way they reported disk size would be 10^3x. Obviously the prefixe
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by Rizz 13y ago
I bought a sony e-reader 5 years ago, it still functions fine. Sony did however give up their e-reader business in the past weeks, but they have transferred all purchased books to a different vendor, so I don't lose anything. And earli
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Palmer Luckey's comments on Oculus' acquisition by Facebook(reddit.com)
2 points by Rizz 13y ago|0 comments
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by Rizz 13y ago
They now have only one place to get funding, before they could go up to pretty much any investor and get funding. Maybe it wouldn't have lasted if the VR turns out not as good as it's hyped to be, but for now I don't see why
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by Rizz 13y ago
http://sysprogs.com/VisualKernel/tutorials/kgdb/ It supports many VS features. The same people also sell a debugging program that claims to support everything debugging-related of Visual Studio, but I don&#x2
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by Rizz 13y ago
Don't forget that while you're working from home, other people will be at work, so you might not see any other person 8 hours a day. This could be harder than you think.
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by Rizz 13y ago
What about the data Whatsapp does collect? Like other people's phone numbers. What happens with that within Facebook? And of course being principled about not tracking or getting more information than necessary and then partnering with
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by Rizz 13y ago
Meh :/ I started with the techrights link, and first looked at the 3rd link, "Installing GNU/Linux is Still Hard Due to UEFI" to learn, and the source article it was based on actually had the writer saying there was no

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