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601.
by clort 10y ago
and considering that if the cartel was blocking you, but you had a few hundred thousand tons of metal in orbit.. you could just send down a bit for free..
602.
by clort 10y ago
I know somebody who had that done, he never mentioned any pain. Indeed I thought he said it was a day procedure. Along the same lines, I know several people who have had knee replacement surgery and they all said it was the most painful thi
603.
by clort 10y ago
In 'The Moon is a Harsh Mistress' if I recall correctly , it was suggested that if 1/3 of the population really wanted a law then it should probably be enacted. Conversely if 1/3 of the population really didn't lik
604.
by clort 10y ago
Why should they try to do that on snow/ice covered roads? I mean, if its difficult and dangerous (as you imply) then they can just start with the easier trips and make loads of money. The hard stuff can come later.. This whole self-dri
605.
by clort 10y ago
just btw it would not be anonymous. If you are on facebook, you are logged into facebook, and they track every click.
606.
by clort 10y ago
> asking for directions in China If you don't know something and you show your ignorance in this way, then you lose face massively. If they are involved in this (you ask them for directions) then you are tainting them with your lack
607.
by clort 10y ago
In the scenario that kuschku suggested, taking a photo of each child and following them home to record the location (once) would probably not count as stalking IMO but its difficult to say. In the UK it has to happen twice, according to Wik
608.
by clort 10y ago
FWIW: *_optout_nomap => https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3g3xyu/for_wifi_ms...
609.
by clort 10y ago
on this model on next years model? on next years cheap chinese imitation?
610.
by clort 10y ago
Also, Elon Musk came from South Africa and did not become a US citizen until 2002.. I don't know that that makes anything that Tesla or SpaceX have invented to be not completely American, but if he is considered the driving force, th
611.
by clort 10y ago
and apparently it has a light showing when it is recording (cynical me: for now)
612.
by clort 10y ago
Similar happened to me, though I was older at 17, and my assailant was a year or so younger - I always say that he pounded me because he was clearly the better fighter, and a rough and tumble kind of guy but that it was probably pretty clea
613.
by clort 10y ago
noscript solves it for this site at least, since the script which does it appears to live on rgstatic.net
614.
by clort 10y ago
We had a teletype machine at my school in 1980 connected to the local authority mainframe. There was nearly always a queue to type your own program but you could write it out on a sheet of paper (one character per box) and get a printout of
615.
by clort 10y ago
Its interesting that the other doctor did not volunteer this information. I did pool lifeguard training a few years ago (in the UK) and was told that as this training is at a higher level than basic first aid training I would be legally req
616.
by clort 10y ago
Hm, thanks.. I will look closer at this kind of thing over my holidays. That looks like I can program it over RS-232 and operates at battery voltages, which is really what I require.
617.
by clort 10y ago
These micro:bit look pretty interesting from an embedded controller perspective - does anybody have any useful comparisons between them and others, eg Arduino etc? I've been working on a project where I will end up having to make a sim
618.
by clort 10y ago
You know, even oxygen in excess quantities is poisonous to us. I wouldn't say that sugar is a bad thing on its own, but the people who use it to enhance their products are not doing so to help our brains work better. They are doing tha
619.
by clort 10y ago
Maybe offering a reward is a good way to reduce the anonymity of the person, since rewards can be tracked. Speaking only for myself.. If I were to go the trouble to anonymously tip somebody off about a security vulnerability, it would be be
620.
by clort 10y ago
Well, except that Bonobos and Chimpanzees are different species (most recent common ancestor about 2million years ago[1]) whereas Humans are still a single species (most distant common ancestor less than 200,000 years ago[2]) Social differe
621.
by clort 10y ago
I thought that, but the inventory management gets out of sync when stock is removed without going through the POS (stealing) Even for a warehouse (restricted access), there is a need for stock counting as mistakes can be made
622.
by clort 10y ago
Also Sint Maarten is the southern half of a small island https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sint_Maarten-CIA_WFB_Map....
623.
by clort 10y ago
which are these? as far as I understood (I lived in Sint Maarten for a couple of years once) the Netherlands Antilles are colonies only, unlike the French islands (Martinique and Guadeloupe mainly, but St Barts and St Martin too) which are
624.
by clort 10y ago
Seems to me that the centre section of the camden bench is big enough for two - also, in one of the photos a lady is sat on the small side of the end section, so sharing a side is certainly possible - also, two people sat on opposite sides
625.
by clort 10y ago
what is market incentive? I'm not sure we can separate the incentive effects of the company making more money, or the bankers themselves making more money. The people at the top of these companies are bankers themselves, and they have
626.
by clort 10y ago
its only been there a hundred years, according to the article
627.
by clort 10y ago
Its perhaps surprising to those within the tech industry, to find out how fast progress has been -- as I recently read https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/17/findface-... and the HN discussio
628.
by clort 10y ago
No, they are often present in properties where the tenants have had trouble paying the bills in the past for whatever reason. As I understand it, they are very difficult to get rid of even for new occupants. The electricity supplier gets m
629.
by clort 10y ago
Hm, except that this seems to penalize people at the bottom who cannot adequately manage their own finances and I'm not sure I'm completely comfortable with that. In the UK currently, we do that by things like having pre-pay meter
630.
by clort 10y ago
except that a 'felony' can be essentially a minimal possession of drugs http://www.drugtreatment.com/expose/marijuana-felony-amounts-by-state/ all those could be corrected by presidential pardons

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