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721.
by ams6110 8y ago
The Pope leads the Roman Catholic branch of Christianity. I don't think the Protestant denominations pay a lot of attention to what he says.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Aerospace industry has a deeply engrained culture of safety, and improving from failure. Construction industry has a history of building to bare minimum requirements, organized crime involvement, corruption, and passing the buck when anythi
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by ams6110 8y ago
When the marginal cost of the energy is zero (as in solar/wind) the efficiency matters less.
724.
by ams6110 8y ago
All administrations want to censor the press, or more generally speech, that they find inconvenient.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I have to say, from reading TFA, it sounds quite appealing. I'd guess good internet service is pretty uncommon in those parts, which would limit its potential as an isolated remote-work kind of place. But if you're financially ind
726.
by ams6110 8y ago
I use a Chromebook as a mobile terminal in the data center. A nice thing about them is they are ready to use in a second or two after opening the cover. Booting up is phenomenally quick for a device that cost about $300.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I think a history of failures in mobile tech keeps most people from even considering Microsoft gear. Surface may be great, but who is buying them? Who is developing for them? Mobile is Apple/iOS, or Google/Android, for better or w
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by ams6110 8y ago
Creaking and cracking noises are common in tall buildings from my experience, but in this case it seems an actual crack in the structure has been found
729.
by ams6110 8y ago
Trivia: Erlang's syntax comes from Prolog.
730.
by ams6110 8y ago
I think in those days it was simple filename versioning (VMS had it in the 1980s) and not based on diffs or COW.
731.
by ams6110 8y ago
Does anyone really control their IP addresses? I thought that ultimately those were controlled by ARIN, RIPE, et.al.
732.
by ams6110 8y ago
The fast pizza delivery model in the US was really invented/established in suburban Detroit (Domino's).
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by ams6110 8y ago
I thought there was an actually arrest made? Don't know about the UK, but in the US arrests are public record.
734.
by ams6110 8y ago
You need to watch out for counterfeit products in those dollar stores. I found one selling "Colgate" toothpaste that was not the real thing.
735.
by ams6110 8y ago
Amazon Textract was recently announced, sounds like it might be good for that. Haven't tried it myself. https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2018/11/introduci...
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's common for teachers and many positions in higher education.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I guess the record low unemployment rates this year aren't a benefit for anyone?
738.
by ams6110 8y ago
Yes it's welfare by another mechanism. It's giving you someone else's money, not letting you keep more of yours.
739.
by ams6110 8y ago
Or pay for YouTube Red.
740.
by ams6110 8y ago
Yep, my kid had a video of himself singing a popular song removed on copyright grounds. He was like 8 years old.
741.
by ams6110 8y ago
Commercial air travel is more efficient in fuel usage than driving, per passenger mile.
742.
by ams6110 8y ago
You can't do that anymore with commercial aircraft either, since they started looking the cockpit door, yet we still act like every passenger is likely to try it.
743.
by ams6110 8y ago
Exactly. The TSA will do that, if rail ever becomes popular.
744.
by ams6110 8y ago
With any tax cut, the rich will benefit the most because they pay most of the taxes.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I'm a developer of 20+ years and I found R to be unfathomable. By that I mean so arbitrary and inconsistent that I quickly gave up on thinking it was worth my time.
746.
by ams6110 8y ago
Yes I have always DBANed my work computer on the last day of a job. Haven't done that since SSDs so not sure it is as effective anymore.
747.
by ams6110 8y ago
How does this actually work? Does Windows keep a log of files accessed or copied? Or does the company install additional security software that audits this?
748.
by ams6110 8y ago
Of course, the debugging of the human race was achieved by getting eaten by predators.
749.
by ams6110 8y ago
Well, do tell. And why do these society rituals seem so infused with homoeroticism and other sexual elements?
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by ams6110 8y ago
The cooling towers are used to cool waste water before discharging back to rivers/lakes, if I am not mistaken. Too bad there's not a practical way to put that heat to better use.

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