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by adekok 9y ago
> It is very, very rare to meet Europeans who drive across multiple countries for leisure Then you've never been to the south of France in the summer. It's filled with license plates from all over the EU. Mainly Dutch, UK, G
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by adekok 9y ago
Sometimes soft tissue does survive: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/dinosaur-shocke... https://www.theverge.com/2015/6/9/8751897/dinosaur-cells-tis...
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by adekok 9y ago
> why are you in favor of Mac Donald saying everything she wanted to, but against protestors saying all they want to? Why do you insist on asking leading questions which assume nefarious intent? If you could quote my comments to show tha
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by adekok 9y ago
> Should the protestors have been selectively told to shut up? Leading questions are not a good argument. > Are you in favor of arbitrarily saying whoever is on a podium is the only one who can speak and that everyone else must shut
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by adekok 9y ago
> I can't glue your mouth shut, I can't hit you or threaten to do so, but I sure as hell can not give you my microphone. When it's your personal microphone, that comment is reasonable. When it's a universities micro
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by adekok 9y ago
> If a crowd of people were that crazy about getting me to not speak at their college, I would happily leave and find another place, and write a Medium post about my views, not crying that people don't like me and don't want to
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by adekok 9y ago
Or Thunderf00t's deconstruction at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5MPzQnokMU
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by adekok 9y ago
> And then imagine Hitler writing a post on Medium talking about how terrible it was that he couldn't explain how important genocide was. Tough. If someone is incapable of dealing with dissenting opinions, even terrible ones... the
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by adekok 9y ago
> There's no way that a tidal plant running for 100 years is going to change the day by 1 second. You're many orders of magnitudes off. It was a recollection of a problem from 25 years ago for crying out loud. Thinking about it
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by adekok 9y ago
The point is that these are "back of the envelope" calculations. Fermi was known for asking questions like "how many gold balls git into a suitcase". The point isn't to get a perfect answer. The point is to get a
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by adekok 9y ago
Think of it this way... the Earth is a rock ~4K miles in radius. Essentially all of it is molten rock. When people try hard we can melt rocks to make metals. But we need special-built furnaces, machines, etc. And these furnaces are ma
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by adekok 9y ago
EAP-TLS. Wifi authentication for many enterprises and universities. Most of which won't be using LibreSSL, tho...
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by adekok 9y ago
> I wonder if they will push some politic agenda or if they will manage to stay neutral. I don't. They will, of course, push a particular agenda. In the worst possible way. As we've seen with Twitter and other organizations,
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by adekok 9y ago
(ex) Nuclear physicist here... (computers pay better) The Wikipedia page isn't bad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem > Its Lagrangian is rotationally symmetric: from this symmetry, Noether&#x27
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by adekok 9y ago
Those points are polite. If people get resentful when you ask for data, the solution is to have a discussion about their poor attitude. Most large companies I've been at are terrible at this. They want "professionalism",
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by adekok 9y ago
My $0.02 is that people who submit such bug reports need to be fired. They're adding negative value to the company. I get such bug reports for my open source project. People get offended when I point out that the message says what
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by adekok 10y ago
Only if you assume that the share price always reflects company value. The 80s were well known for corporate mavens buying undervalued companies, splitting them up, and selling the assets individually. The practice resulted in a net prof
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by adekok 10y ago
> If life is there, completely disconnected from earth life, IIRC (I can't find the reference now), the "dinosaur killer" asteroid would put rocks from Earth into space. With sufficient velocity that they could reach near
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by adekok 10y ago
Can someone read this: https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of-carriag... and explain where it allows them to refuse transport to a well-behaved passenger after boarding ? Rule 21 seems to apply
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by adekok 10y ago
Legalities and contracts aside, I don't see why an airline would allow someone to board, and then remove them. That just can't end well.
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by adekok 10y ago
> lady questions me in Spanish until finally they realize we have different birthdays and physical descriptions (sarcastically) If only they could check the physical descriptions. And then flag the passport as "already checked&q
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by adekok 10y ago
I have very uncommon first and last names. We apparently both go to the same national bank. And my parents met his parents when the traveled on vacation. It's a small world. And even worse if you have common names.
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by adekok 10y ago
> the temperature of the planet being raised, not by a greenhouse effect, but by the raw power output of all those fusion reactors. Not that Wikipedia is the best source, but... World energy consumption is about 12 terawatts [1], whereas
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by adekok 10y ago
> For some reason, our generation (GEN Y / Millennials) don't seem to care much for their pensions or retirement planning. I don't think the average American is any different. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/
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by adekok 10y ago
I don't think that's legal.
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> When garbage collection moves to the container runtime, it should mean that the application no longer has to worry about garbage collection, since the container runtime will terminate the container when it reaches its memory limit. I c
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by adekok 10y ago
> Apple themselves just today released an entirely new file systems that was a complete rewrite as well. Without CRCs or checksums on the blocks. Grr... "Silent data corruption is real" https://news.ycombinator.com
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by adekok 10y ago
I've used multiple monitors for years. They keys are: * virtual desktops. This keeps each desktop simple and clean * keyboard shortcuts to switch between desktops. This makes the cost of switching near-zero * one monitor is used 90%
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by adekok 10y ago
Studies show that there is a large correlation between genetics and life outcome. i.e. when treated badly, most people will end up bad, some won't. When treated well, most people will end up good, some won't. There are people who
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by adekok 10y ago
One limit is that if you've searched every square of a maze, you're guaranteed to have found the exit. So if you want to have a harder maze than that, you must visit each cell more than once. i.e. lots of backtracking. If you hav

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