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by chha 9y ago
Many unions in Norway in the private sector (if not most) generate statistics based on information from their members regarding salary, education, experience and so on, so for me as a developer/sysop there really is no need to check wh
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by chha 9y ago
But hasn't this generally been an issue since Apollo? Great Ideas(TM) emerge and people get enthusiastic about them, but fail to realize that the cost makes them difficult to carry out as intended. The Great Idea is then either watered
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NASA admits it doesn’t have the funding to land humans on Mars(arstechnica.com)
284 points by chha 9y ago|330 comments
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by chha 9y ago
Same in Norway as well. I can think of at least 5 ISPs offering at least 60Mb/s down, but there are probably smaller companies I haven't thought of.
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Donald Trump’s ‘Impenetrable Cybersecurity’ Is Pure Fantasy(theatlantic.com)
1 points by chha 9y ago|1 comments
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A $400 Smart Tea Machine Gave This Brit an Existential Crisis(gizmodo.com)
1 points by chha 9y ago|0 comments
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by chha 9y ago
History is full of people who have been good at talking and presenting, but not as good when it comes to inventing. So I'm not that surprised that they get money, even if the ideas are somewhat pointless. I'd be more surprised if
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by chha 9y ago
Although unlikely to be representative of SV, does anyone know of other examples than those mentioned?
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Silicon Valley has a bad habit of “inventing” things that already exist(salon.com)
6 points by chha 9y ago|5 comments
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The March for Science was a delightfully nerdy celebration of discontent(vox.com)
1 points by chha 9y ago|0 comments
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by chha 10y ago
Non-IT friends tend to see me as somewhat paranoid when they notice me using 2FA or VPN's, but I was actually surprised people knew this much.
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by chha 10y ago
One would think that making laws and regulations easily accessible would be a priority for lawmakers. Is this issue exclusive to Georgia, or are there other states or nations with similar restrictions?
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If you publish Georgia's state laws, you'll get sued for copyright and lose(arstechnica.com)
167 points by chha 10y ago|85 comments
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Package Management Basics: apt, yum, dnf, pkg(digitalocean.com)
2 points by chha 10y ago|0 comments
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Breaks observed in Mars rover wheel treads(phys.org)
1 points by chha 10y ago|0 comments
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by chha 10y ago
Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPxAvHdrK6U for a nice video. Although not as much snow, there are still locations in Norway where you can find similar conditions.
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We shall fight them on the Xbox: a short history of Nazi-shooting video games(theguardian.com)
2 points by chha 10y ago|0 comments
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by chha 10y ago
If this works out it will revolutionize the EV market more or less overnight. No manufacturer can continue using current batteries if this becomes a reality, an the recharge time is reduced to minutes.
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by chha 10y ago
Didn't spend a lot of time on this, but most expensive I could think of was this PoE card which could be yours for a measly $50.000 USD: https://www.amazon.com/NETWORKS-BlackDiamond-1000BASE-T-opti...
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Li-Ion Batt Inventor: New Tech for Fast-Charging Noncombustible Batteries(news.utexas.edu)
8 points by chha 10y ago|2 comments
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by chha 10y ago
Nothing new. During WW2 (and probably other wars) gambling houses, racetracks, pubs, hotels and many other similarly frivolous services had lots of traffic and customers. People simply needed to escape from reality every now and then and en
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by chha 10y ago
Ars, Wired and a bunch of other sites has also reported on this: https://www.vusec.net/2017/02/aslrcache-anc-mmu-sidechannel-...
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by chha 10y ago
No intimate knowledge of this, but as with anything it's the economics that will decide if this is the next big thing or not. James Hamilton did a writeup on the economics of running a datacenter a few years back[1], and concluded that
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by chha 10y ago
He had a diplomatic passport, meaning that he should be sent straight through with no questions asked (more or less).
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by chha 10y ago
Especially when they happen to be priests and former PM for the christian democratic party!
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by chha 10y ago
I see their point, but this is exactly what I'm trying every day to prevent at work (at least to a certain degree). Way too many people use complex spreadsheets for business critical tasks where other tools are better suited. If the co
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by chha 10y ago
"Facebook's business is data collection in order to sell more effectively targeted advertisements. While massive data collection is not new or unique to Facebook—search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing have the sam
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Facebook already has a Muslim registry–and it should be deleted(arstechnica.com)
2 points by chha 10y ago|1 comments
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by chha 10y ago
Wouldn't replacing the power plants be cheaper (and better) in the run rather than running jet engines to get rid of the pollution? Why isn't that an option in this case?
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Norway’s record breaking undersea road tunnels(worldhighways.com)
2 points by chha 10y ago|0 comments

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