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by ajnin 7y ago
In other news, Brazil's minister of the environment, Ricardo Salles, recently criticized the Brazilian constitution for imposing too many obligations, and the previous left-wing governments for having slowed down the economic developme
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by ajnin 7y ago
Germany's been breaking the EU's excessive trade surplus rules for more than ten years as well, and nobody even talks about it ! Go figure.
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Some brands that sell lots of variants of similar items, like t-shirt stores, already do something close : they take a few shots of models in various poses, and then somehow "map" the pattern and color of the piece of clothing on
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I was thinking the same thing. I wish they focused their efforts on making good hardware. The risk is that some features like power management will only work well with their OS and not other distros.
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At this point what stopping those people from going the full DIY path and building their own insulin pump ? In those days of 3D printers and cheap electronics this seems like it should be achievable (I'm probably in full Dunning-Kruger
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> It said that once the 737 Max 8 returns to the skies, it will "have an activated and operable disagree alert and an optional angle of attack indicator". Really, after all that they're still going to hide part of that arg
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It's rather 996 : work from 9am to 9pm, 6 days a week.
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The comment you replied to mentioned : > use GPS like an app can that means high resolution location, background updates, geofencing, etc ...
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> Boeing charges extra, for example, for a backup fire extinguisher in the cargo hold. Past incidents have shown that a single extinguishing system may not be enough to put out flames that spread rapidly through the plane. Well that&#x27
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There's not only a light, the article mentions that the MCAS will also take readings from both sensors and be disabled if they disagree too much.
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The whole point of that system is that it would alter the plane controls so that it behaves the same as the older models, so that pilots wouldn't need to be retrained. It was one of the main selling points of that aircraft.
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> The certification requirements require Eh, let's not spin it as "the requirements made them do it", they chose to make the new model stick with the existing 737 certification because building a substantially different
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> max risk of hazardous (people injured) Still, relying on a single sensor when failure could cause multiple injury is grossly negligent. I don't know what failure rates are mandated for this risk level but a single sensor probably
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Eu's GDPR defines several rights and obligations, one of which is : Personal data shall be [...] accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date; every reasonable step must be taken to ensure that personal data that are inaccurate, hav
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by ajnin 8y ago
Open the comment in a separate tab, come back some time later, hit F5.
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There's a standard way to do that, which is to add a rel="noreferrer" tag to your outgoing links.
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In a society we have to consider a balance of various values, competition is a value, and having a rich ecosystem where small bookshops aren't completely obliterated by unequal competition on prices with big online stores is another on
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XFCE (arch also) also does this, and I find that it a great experience that whenever a program is installed I can find it immediately in the category that makes sense.
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I meant someone who spoke as part of the "MeToo" movement. I certainly know women who have had some bad experiences with men, but none that expressed that publicly, as that was the question I was answering.
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In a democracy, there are elections where the people voice their opinions and then the elected carry out the policies expressed during the vote. If instead we have a system where everyone has a voice, but in practice only the groups with th
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> Phytoplankton eat bacteria, correct? No, phytoplankton are basically microscopic plants, they don't eat anything per se, they are autotrophs which use inorganic substances in the environment and get their energy from sunlight.
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I don't know directly anyone who is in that situation. I know about it only indirectly, through the news, blog posts and such, but it's affecting me all the same. I think "MeToo" goes beyond simply exposing particular si
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It seems like it worked this time (it's not over yet). But they can try again next time. And again if it also fails. Will the response in opposition be as loud ? They can try as many times as they want but they only have to succeed onc
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Not sure what you're saying, there was never a doubt about lead or mercury or asbestos harmfulness, the scientists are not the one putting it to market or regulating it.
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I felt immediately sympathetic to this article. The tale of everyday injustice is something that speaks to me, makes me want to change things. However when I see #MeToo, I feel much less sympathetic. Why ? Because it paints a single enemy :
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by ajnin 8y ago
This is an incredibly oppressive, totalitarian way to put things. This is literally Big Brother thinking, which says a lots about the core values of Google. You have to act exclusively in the way that society deems acceptable. Even in priva
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It seems rather odd that the photographer would expect to be able to benefit from the work of the band, taking photos of their on-stage performance (which is just as much an act of creation, if not more, as taking a picture), and use the im
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by ajnin 8y ago
FWIW I've been running my own SMTP client/server for many years (I wrote them myself for my purposes, it's hobby stuff), with the proper SPF records it gets accepted by Google & co. no problem. Only residential Internet I
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CDs are a physical media storing digital data. The data is stored in microscopic pits on the disc surface that, like all physical media, can be subject to read errors, due to various imperfections. It has built-in error correction but it is
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You're experiencing 1g most of the time in everyday life, when not moving. When you jump, you're briefly experiencing a few g downward while you push up on your legs to go against gravity, then briefly zero g for the short amount

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