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by cptaj 8y ago
Its not the landfills. Its the slums around cities in developing countries. They don't even have roads most of the time, much less effective trash collection. They usually just dump the trash down the hill or through some water drainag
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by cptaj 9y ago
It absolutely is. I've always had positive experiences research and asking questions in SO. You just need to put a little bit of effort into the question and it will be fine
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by cptaj 9y ago
For personal use, sure. But remember he wants to fund Mars missions.
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by cptaj 9y ago
Yeah, I've never really had any luck getting stuff that is really cheaper than traditional options.
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by cptaj 9y ago
I really wish this was a podcast. I always digest my history in podcast form
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by cptaj 9y ago
They haven't made their first commercial launch yet. They've certainly received money for scheduled launches in the future, but I'd say they're definitely just getting started. Some industries have longer incubation peri
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by cptaj 9y ago
I disagree. The economy would've been fine, just as it was before the prices boomed in the 00's. The problem is entirely caused by government policy. Arbitrary and CONSTANT expropiations accross all industries and subsequent bankr
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by cptaj 9y ago
Completely false statement. The oil industry is the majority chunk of our economy. In other industries, the government has expropiated most of the main players (and subsequently driven them to bankrupcy). Forex is banned and most goods are
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by cptaj 9y ago
Not the case here. Industry was simply destroyed by expropiations and price controls. Add forex ban to that and we get our current lovely situation.
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by cptaj 9y ago
That's what corruption will do to you.
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by cptaj 9y ago
Its illegal to do commercial operations in foreign currency here. People still do it privately, but you can't openly accept them in your business anywhere.
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by cptaj 9y ago
They are very apt to expropiate. They've notoriously fucked up most industries that way. They also encourage "invasions" of unoccupied properties. Furthermore, credit is a joke now. The average venezuelan credit card now issu
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by cptaj 9y ago
How have you not? Its one of the top 5 arguments against.
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by cptaj 9y ago
I wish ALL companies distributed their software through torrents. I live in Venezuela and my ISPs throttle each connection, they're also slow and unstable. Bittorrent gets around all this by giving me the ability to resume and leech th
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by cptaj 9y ago
They can just wear a helmet. Lead lined balaclava? They also mention that is not a showstopper and that it can potentially be countered with entertainment and exercise. It also remains to be seen what the effect is like on humans. Might be
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by cptaj 9y ago
Depends very much on the writing style. Some authors don't use a lot of fancy, poetic language. For instance, reading a translation of the Da Vinci Code, Hunger Games or Harry Potter, you're probably not missing out on anything. R
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by cptaj 9y ago
Soundcloud has great content but one of the most horrible interfaces I've ever seen. Getting to my favorite podcasts always involves 5-10 slow loading clicks
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by cptaj 9y ago
What I don't like is the "accredited investors" part. That just means its going to be just as hard as getting stock which is prohibitive to a lot of investors in the world.
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by cptaj 9y ago
The SEC would not have any jurisdiction there.
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by cptaj 9y ago
Here's an episode of Space Policy from Planetary Radio. They go very in depth on the issue of pu-238, the efforts to restart production and why it is so complicated. http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-ra
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by cptaj 9y ago
This is by far the most incredible orca story I've read. There can be little doubt after this that they're sentient.
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by cptaj 9y ago
Makes you think about how dangerous it would be to even release captive orcas. They may actually be capable of hating our guts and ideas have a way of spreading.
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by cptaj 9y ago
I don't think its a weird decision at all. They support almost 50 editors and are likely to add more. If you were to port the entire application to each editor's idiosyncratic plugin API, it would be a huge scaling issue for them.
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by cptaj 9y ago
Its a momma duck problem. Once they've accepted something as fact, they have a hard time parting ways with it. But if you could interject at this moment of initial assimilation and provide some legitimacy or point out the lack thereof,
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by cptaj 9y ago
Definitely worth it just to learn about the prefetch API and the XHR prefetch technique
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by cptaj 9y ago
Came in to say exactly this. The funny thing is that someone HAS created browser as a service XD