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by aravindet 8y ago
From the article: > Note: this article was edited on the 21/12/16 because Sean's mate was going to get fired and we really like that guy. I remember reading that a previous Vice story about Naomi Watts published off-the-re
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by aravindet 8y ago
This article is somewhat light on details of the technology. More information on their website: https://www.accion-systems.com/our-technology This is not in the same category xenon ion thrusters (such as on Dawn), seems muc
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by aravindet 8y ago
If you change the "365 Day Average" above the graph to, say "7 day average" you'll see a recent uptick that does justify the "exploding right now" language. It went from 23.5 million/day to 27.9 in th
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by aravindet 8y ago
Can you explain the expf_fast function?
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by aravindet 8y ago
"We won't do it again" is incredibly inadequate. I'm not familiar with the Japanese legal system, but punitive fines for the university plus the criminal charges on the individuals involved seem warranted here.
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by aravindet 8y ago
Wouldn't attaching the pole at a pole (heh) be a better strategy to avoid uncomfortable relative velocities? It would also have the advantage of providing a fixed place on the earth to find a stash of warm clothes and an energy drink.
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by aravindet 9y ago
In my use case, the component receives the URL of a resource as a prop, and it re-fetches the resource from a backend when the URL changes. I'd like to avoid the expensive fetch when it's some other prop that changed. Copying the
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by aravindet 9y ago
From the post it looks like getDerivedStateFromProps does not receive the old props as an argument. I can think of cases where that would be helpful, has this been considered?
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by aravindet 9y ago
If you have two rows with at=1, how would you insert a row between them?
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Device could make washing machines lighter and greener(bbc.com)
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by aravindet 9y ago
What were the limitations of the Ripple protocol?
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by aravindet 10y ago
Wrong, after differential pricing was banned, at least two Indian telecom operators began offering free Internet access (with a data cap and speed limit, but no restrictions on which websites you can visit). Aircel is one, I forgot the othe
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by aravindet 10y ago
This is good news for a healthy Node.js ecosystem, but I can't see what’s in it for Microsoft. V8-based Node.js works fine on Windows and Azure, so they don’t need this to attract Node.js developers and the npm ecosystem to their platf
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by aravindet 10y ago
And I assume a very similar argument was made in apartheid South Africa, or Jim Crow US. “We are all human, we deserve the same opportunities. But when [black people move into white neighborhoods], they threaten [white neighborhoods] and al
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by aravindet 10y ago
"My own people". Clearly you use that phrase to mean people who share a nationality with you. Historically, this phrase has been used more often to refer to people with the same skin color, or religion, as you. You could use the e
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by aravindet 10y ago
Not at all. The background to this is that when a security researcher discovered that CloudFlares upstream connections are being tampered with, Airtel issued a denial. Matthew Prince's answers here contradict Airtel's statement.
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by aravindet 10y ago
For those who missed the background to this, CloudFlare’s Indian ISP was modifying the response from the upstream server to their proxy servers; Unable to detect this, CloudFlare serves the fake response to users under an authentic SSL cert
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by aravindet 11y ago
What a terrible article. Lots of unprovable allegations and over-the-top adjectives, very light on actual facts. Looks like it was written by representatives for the prosecution or DuPont. The author throws "America" and "Chi
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by aravindet 11y ago
The only issue with that is sites like archive.org might not be able to legally cache and serve these. Edit: It’s still a Very Good Thing.
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by aravindet 11y ago
srean: A system where market forces decide the level or duration of patent protection is an excellent idea. Could you share anything you’ve read or written that elaborates on this?
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by aravindet 11y ago
This is the correlation-causation confusion again. Some countries have big pharma companies, others don't. Big pharma companies can spend more on research as well as on lobbying to maintain over-the-top “IP” protections. The flaw in yo
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by aravindet 11y ago
A node.js fork where you can optionally swap out v8 for chakra: already baked by none other than microsoft. They hope to merge it back into upstream, that seems possible given the recent history of the Node.js project. Of course, it is ve
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by aravindet 11y ago
This is definitely a problem today, but NAN ( https://github.com/nodejs/nan ) which is now the recommended way to build native modules, offers a way out. That project provides a stable API to insulate module developers f
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by aravindet 11y ago
Haha. Maybe related: https://github.com/servo/servo/issues/4378
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by aravindet 11y ago
> They have zero qualms about keeping features out of the database, no matter how useful, if they can't be implemented well. Another example, INSERT ... ON CONFLICT UPDATE (UPSERT/MERGE) available just now in the 9.5 beta.
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by aravindet 11y ago
In the very short run, they will be worse off. In about a year or two, they will have access to the Internet anyway (see below). If internet.org is not allowed to violate net neutrality, they will come online to a better, more open Internet
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by aravindet 11y ago
Yes. Internet.org will hand facebook enormous power that would threaten open competition on the public internet, not just on internet.org. Participation on internet.org is subject to approval by Facebook and ISPs. They choose the winners on
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by aravindet 11y ago
Scrollback ( https://scrollback.io/scrollback ) does, but in a different way (just two levels threading, each thread displayed as a card). I don't think HN-like multi-level threading would work very well with chat - yo
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by aravindet 11y ago
Is there any engineering information on that site apart from the spec sheet? Any description of the propulsion system, or how this will accomplish VTOL?
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by aravindet 11y ago
One more: because its value depends on network effects. For example, it might be a communication service, a community forum or a multiplayer game. Free (of cost) results in more users, which makes the service more valuable for every user. U

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