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by buckminster 9y ago
Most Western countries have banned the use of asbestos so the problem isn't getting any worse. But not America! What's worse is that we've known about the dangers for more than 100 years.
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by buckminster 9y ago
British builders call this a "fuck off quote".
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by buckminster 9y ago
A classic research paper illustrating your point: http://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459
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by buckminster 9y ago
It would only be blackmail if she had made a threat first, but she seems to have acted out of spite. It would be a crime in the UK however; it's a malicious communication.
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by buckminster 9y ago
That Snopes article is just wrong. Coca Cola still contains coca leaf extract. Coca leaf extract is not cocaine.
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by buckminster 9y ago
I've experienced this. My first computer managed about 100 flop/s, or 3 Gflop/year. A modern PC can do that year's work in a millisecond! Yet when my current computer struggles to display a web page there isn't much
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by buckminster 9y ago
Off topic, but we can't. All the readily available sources of energy have been used. As someone else said, this is literally the last great civilization. Best not screw it up!
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by buckminster 9y ago
I've been in similar situations and I've resolved them by writing an old fashioned letter to the company. It feels like a chore but it's much less stressful than interacting with telephone support. And letter handling departm
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by buckminster 9y ago
Branson's business model is selling the right to use the Virgin brand to other companies. The article doesn't say he made an investment. It is rather more likely that they paid him.
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by buckminster 9y ago
A blockchain - a secure public ledger with immutable history - does not need to use mining for authentication. When banks, etc. talk about blockchain I think they mean something that is publicly verifiable but only privately updatable.
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by buckminster 9y ago
Apart from the label, AltGr is identical to right hand Alt. The difference is all in software. For example, if you tell your computer you have a UK keyboard it will treat right hand Alt as AltGr.
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by buckminster 9y ago
Case doesn't matter for the protocol or domain name but it does matter for the rest of the URL.
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by buckminster 9y ago
What would you expect the page to say if they were malicious?
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by buckminster 9y ago
Yes, SQL Server was that customer.
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by buckminster 9y ago
Let's not forget the kidnap and murder of Osama bin Laden.
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by buckminster 9y ago
It worked the other way round too. You could overwrite the screen buffer of anyone on the network. Usually with something offensive. Sun even provided a command to do it. This was hilarious in 1989.