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by benjaminl 11y ago
China has their currency, the renminbi (RMB), pegged to the US dollar. Since the Chinese economy has been weakening and their stock market has been plunging, people have been pulling money out of the renminbi, this has put downward pressure
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by benjaminl 11y ago
.. Even a modest deceleration of Moore's law can have a dramatic effect: a five per cent reduction in the pace of gate-length shrinkage -- from 16 percent to 11 per cent per year -- increases the available time to develop products wit
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by benjaminl 11y ago
China is involved with territorial disputes with a large number of neighbors. China claims almost all of the South China Sea though it Nine-dotted line[0] map. There have been a large number of disputes that have resulted from that[1]. Exam
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by benjaminl 12y ago
With the term "powered by water and salt", it makes it seem like the battery can be "recharged" by replacing the salt. This is not the case, when the battery loses power, the battery is "recharged" by replacing
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by benjaminl 12y ago
From the description this sounds like they are using a form of what is commonly called a lemon or potato battery ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_battery ). The salt water is the the electrolyte in the battery cell a
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by benjaminl 12y ago
Since the Eero supports 5 Ghz, the equivalent UniFi is the UAP-Pro which costs $199 per access point. http://www.amazon.com/Ubiquiti-Networks-UAP-PRO-Enterprise-S... Also setting up a Ubiquiti UniFi is an enterprise level p
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by benjaminl 12y ago
Per their security policy, the app and servers respect exchange initiated remote wipes see section 3 "User data retention" at https://www.acompli.com/security/
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by benjaminl 12y ago
OAuth is implemented for products that support it, such as Google and Gmail accounts. Exchange doesn't support OAuth. See https://www.acompli.com/privacy-policy/ .
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by benjaminl 12y ago
What we do know is that fixed function ASICs can be can be 10s to 100s of times more power efficient than general purpose (Von Newman) computing. So noting they have described defies the laws of physics.
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by benjaminl 13y ago
Ubuntu provides five years of support for their LTS releases. The oldest OS that Ubuntu support is from 2010. Red Hat just EOLed an OS from 2003. Debian provides support for previous releases for "about a year or so". While Window