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danielmg
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danielmg
6y ago
Did you read the notes in the link next to that item? "In order to use Bluetooth features in your application, you must declare the Bluetooth permission BLUETOOTH. You need this permission to perform any Bluetooth communication, such a
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danielmg
7y ago
We still have no good evidence that is does work for SARS-CoV-2.
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7y ago
My wife is just like that. She can't deal with conflict or opposing views. Her mother and father are limited imitations of human personalities. Somehow we get on together but our families are so different. In her family emotions out
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7y ago
laden or unladen?
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danielmg
7y ago
The bootlock thing is easy to overcome. I had to fix a neighbour who got scammed. It is a password on the Windows registry not actually the boot but it needs to open the registry to boot. Windows backs up the registry. Just boot from a W
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7y ago
Does "blockchain" get an honourable mention?
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7y ago
"...nothing in return to the US." Cui bono? It's almost like Russia has some sort of influence over the President of the USA.
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7y ago
Just in response to both of you. I feel you! I went through similar things. I do alright now but my brother stayed on the same line and things aren't so good there. If there is one difference I can point at, it was my friends and gir
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7y ago
Bacs limit is £20 million per item but is 3 day clearing. The £250k limit is FPS (instant clearing) I believe, or your bank.
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7y ago
Why not remove PAL* and delegate authority to local commanders? I'd rather take the risk of trusting a human over a human designed, highly complex computer system. In the UK, due to the lack of land-mass to absorb a strike, the PM issu
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7y ago
it is not
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7y ago
Yes and no. Banks reconcile funds via Fedwire.
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danielmg
7y ago
That's what happened to the Neanderthals. We got all the good patents locked up first.
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7y ago
Not the way I do it.
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7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_water_extraction
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7y ago
I clicked the link. Laptop set to loud by mistake. The cat asleep on the keyboard nearly died.
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7y ago
For what it's worth I'm a semi-grey beard (20 years in) and I love golang. For me it was like going back to being 8 years old on my Commodore Plus/4 and really enjoying writing code again. It needs close parenting. Java ha
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7y ago
https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi... "Electricity produced from natural gas has the lowest risk of the 11 technologies (five conventional, six non-conventional) It is a fa
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7y ago
60 kWh capacity EV will get you (realisticaly) 200 miles. A gallon of petrol - 40 miles (realistcally and using UK gallon). According to Tesla their charging is 92% efficient so reduce that 200 to 184 miles. Your process is 4.5 times less e
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7y ago
What would you do with more land? Considering that in the UK there are significant restrictions on what you can do with the land. It's a silly metric. As someone else pointed out in this section, you need to look at holding by value n
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8y ago
A $3k desktop for which you need to buy an external drive. At some point slavishness to the Apple brand must have a breaking point. Not wanting to start a fanboy war but I am a big believer in the right tool for the right job at the right
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8y ago
Is the goose laden or unladen?
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8y ago
The big problem with these kind of arguments is that is misses the interface between the real world and the blockchain. Say I have a blockchain that tracks births and deaths. Now if I see a record on there I can be assured it hasn't b
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8y ago
That wasn't about the provenance of the meat but the production of the end products - e.g. pies etc. They were just dumping in bad meat in place of good. Blockchain isn't going to solve that - you could put the ingredients in the
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8y ago
but in most countries there is a central authority in the shape of a government agency responsible for agriculture.
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8y ago
has worked for literally millennia without it.
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8y ago
That's already a solved problem in the UK after the BSE crisis. From what I was told (by a friend who worked on it), it uses certificates to provide trust and verification. Uses a central database hosted by DEFRA. No blockchain need
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8y ago
I work in Finance! I shall have a butchers.
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I'm sorry - $500k! I work for a big US company in the UK in a senior role and I get $150k approx. I work just outside London but I regularly have to attend meetings right in the City. I'm going to move to Mexico before Trump gets
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8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetohydrodynamic_drive
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