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by ahje 8y ago
Ditto in Finland. I can imagine the Internet being largely 4G-based in the northern parts of Norway too? Luckily, most people born before 1990 still remember the basics of living in a society that isn't completely reliant on the Intern
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by ahje 8y ago
If we fail, there's still a chance that another intelligent species manage to develop on Earth before the planet becomes inhabitable for whatever reason. That doesn't help us, although it does raise a few other questions, like &qu
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by ahje 8y ago
4. Or they haven't developed yet, or, they died out 50,000 years ago. The Universe is a big place. It's taken us billions of years to reach this point where we're on the brink of becoming a multi-planterary species, and frank
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by ahje 8y ago
The workers might be working in order to make money though. Making a profit isn't just for businesses.
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by ahje 8y ago
No worries -- based on their names, I'd say the girl and her uncle are Finnish as well. :)
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by ahje 8y ago
> We usually see a general practitioner first instead of heading straight for a dermatologist about a rash. Which is why, sadly, most polymaths within tech end up getting stuck at tech support.
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by ahje 8y ago
Even if the feedback may result in improvements that would result in a product they _want_ to pay for?
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by ahje 8y ago
For what it's worth, I agree. Still, you did ask for an elaboration. :)
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by ahje 8y ago
> That single collision turned two satellites into two thousand high-velocity projectiles, too. Just to add to that point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envisat#Space_safety A single 10kg. chunk of debris could resu
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by ahje 8y ago
From the article: > But Cheng asked that scientists worldwide don’t just allow the machine to be built and use it without exercising their political power to help address the country’s issues. “International scientists have leverage and
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by ahje 8y ago
Atlantis may very well be a true story. Problem is we have no idea what the original myth was; such stories have a tendency to develop over time, getting more and more fantastical for every iteration. How would a Paleolithic hunter/gat
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by ahje 8y ago
There's some anectotal evidence for pre-Younger Dryas civilizations, such as various peoples' myths regarding previous golden ages ended by terrible floods and so on, as well as some early civilizations using techniques and doing
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by ahje 8y ago
I use a similar setup. Spam is simply discarded, whereas mails from all whitelisted users will force autolearn. Any mails thrown into the spam folder will be passed on to sa-learn as spam (and submitted to SpamCop and Razor2). So far, no us
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by ahje 8y ago
Actually, I think this may be a real time-saver for quick builds where you need an extra building like a garage or extra storage space. As others have pointed out there are some flaws in the wall in that article and it might not be optimal
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by ahje 8y ago
Havent read that book, but there has been several species of very large birds living during our time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_birds#Largest_... I can imagine a 2m tall bird of prey would be a frig
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by ahje 8y ago
Jack McDewitt's 'ECHO' comes to mind. Let's hope it's not a bunch of ill-behaved interstellar tourists. :)
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by ahje 8y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head here, and it's not even limited to retirees: Why would anyone want such a job? One might get someone unemployed and with no other choice to do it for a while, until another job comes by, but
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by ahje 8y ago
Shovels as a service?
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by ahje 8y ago
I'd guess they use either aucustic communications with some encoding sheme[0], or some kind of VLF communication system with very low bit-rates. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_acoustic_communicat...
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by ahje 8y ago
The investment would be quite steep for a farmer that has already taken large loans in order to fund tractors. Many farmers simply don't have the margins. Some still drive around with 40 year-old machinery because buying modern equipme
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by ahje 8y ago
That's a cool site -- will have a look! :)
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by ahje 8y ago
This. I live less than 30 km from a large military base (although not in Switzerland). If we actually reach the point where someone decides to nuke that base, then I'm toast reagardless of whether I survice the blast or not. A quick en
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by ahje 8y ago
As much fun as a 4 GHz Tualatin 4- or 8-core CPU sounds, it would probably take several years of development to make something usable by today's standards.
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by ahje 8y ago
With Noscript enabled I have the power to chose what to trust and not to trust. That means I have gradual control over what runs and doesn't run, and can chose to only allow the bare minimum for getting a specific page to run. It'
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by ahje 8y ago
I'd prefer a regular wood-burning stove for that. Those can also double for providing heat.
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by ahje 8y ago
The idea seems nice, but: > You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.
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by ahje 8y ago
Interesting times ahead for us people up here then... Good thing I grow my own potatoes.
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by ahje 8y ago
Stuff like this just makes me lose hope...
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According to some semi-official sources I found with a quick Googling, Sweden was mostly self-sufficient up until the mid-90's. Dunno how many people lived there during the 90's, but I take it that it was more than a million? Of c
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by ahje 8y ago
The anger has always been there, and we're seeing more and more of it on the internet, as more and more people are getting online. Combine that with the fact that mental health issues seem to be on the rise, the fact that previously is

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