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by danielvf 10y ago
The records are by the distance from ground to the top of the seat where the rider sits. This would preclude the balloon trick. :)
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by danielvf 10y ago
This actually seems really easy. The writing style alone of the Quran is very distinctive. (I got one wrong out of eighteen, but that one was because the verse from the Bible had the word "God" in brackets, which is the usual conv
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by danielvf 10y ago
"...some major insurers charge minority neighborhoods as much as 30 percent more than other areas with similar accident costs" If this effect is true, any insurance company can make a many millions by charging these neighborhoods
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by danielvf 10y ago
Correct - they just have to notify you. It does not have to be signed by a judge. They may or may not be bluffing about 72 hours, but if you decide to continue you need to have talked to a lawyer.
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by danielvf 10y ago
In the US, copyright damages are basically profits made times a multiplier based in willfullness. Once you have received a cease and desist letter, any further copyright infringement gets mega-multiplied damages. Other areas of the law work
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by danielvf 10y ago
> Impact: An attacker within range may be able to execute arbitrary code on the Wi-Fi chip" That's a major problem!
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by danielvf 10y ago
Perhaps you are confusing mega bytes per second with mega bits per second? Internet speeds are usually sold in bits per second, while file transfer speeds are usually reported in bytes per second. Let's do the math. 50/8 = 6.25
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by danielvf 10y ago
Is this just a normal free trade zone with "digital" tacked onto the name?
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by danielvf 10y ago
"When a query takes more than 1 second we send an alert into Slack." One day, during a problem, every single query will take over a second, and this will be an exciting Slack channel to be in.
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by danielvf 10y ago
Assist someone wiring up a data center?
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by danielvf 10y ago
The number of newly graduated college students per year has increased approximately 50% in the last fifteen years. A reduction in average wages would be expected from supply and demand alone. However, I don't think an "oversupply&
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by danielvf 10y ago
I don't think either one of those was true after after WW1. Russia, though large, was not regarded as a serious military threat to Europe. When attacked by Russia, Poland (!) beat Russia in the 1920's and gained half of the Ukrain
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by danielvf 10y ago
No, that's correlation, not evidence. :)
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by danielvf 10y ago
Great question! I don't think either one was true the case after after WW1. Russia, though large, was not regarded as a serious military threat to Europe. When attacked by Russia, Poland (!) beat the snot out of Russia in the 1920&#x27
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by danielvf 10y ago
I know there has been intra-nation peace in western Europe since the end of WWII, but how do we know it was due to the EU? Both the peace and the EU would seem to as easily explained by the post war situation where European nations were now
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by danielvf 10y ago
Not GP, but it's been publicly available long before that.
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by danielvf 10y ago
The Chinese Imperial Examinations system determined who could hold which rank of government office based on grueling study and testing on Chinese literature. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination The co
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by danielvf 10y ago
I worked on the light fixtures for the US Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, vehicle research center. http://www.iihs.org/iihs/about-us/vrc These lights were 72,000 watts each, with a total of around three-qu
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by danielvf 10y ago
This is "sharing seats on the same jet", vs "getting to use a whole jet, sometimes." NetJets isn't really comparable.
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by danielvf 10y ago
I belive the fundamental difference is that in the old system, someone could be incredibly selective in which facts they used, and slant those facts as much as they wanted, but the sacred line than could not be crossed was making up facts.
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by danielvf 10y ago
Actually, protracted wars against entrenched insurgent populations have been won, both historically and recently. The Huks in the Philippines in the 1950 for one. The Tamil Tigers, inventors of the sucide belt, holders of the world record f
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by danielvf 10y ago
Yes, it looks like this applies to existing, paying customers!
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by danielvf 10y ago
That last line of the abstract...
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by danielvf 10y ago
This sounds super cool. I want to know more, do you guys have a web site?
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by danielvf 10y ago
Father of four with one on the way. As mempko said, kids can go to bed at a structured time. Kids getting enough sleep is really good for them and really good for you. After work I spend about three hours with the whole family, including su
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by danielvf 10y ago
Microsoft's language roadmap list F# as their third most important language: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/dotnet/2017/02/01/the-net-l... But I wouldn't judge too much based on team size - t
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by danielvf 10y ago
You can just watch the network traffic from the device to see when it is streaming audio. Now this obviously doesn't rule out the device saving stuff locally, but plenty of people have verified that it does generally only send lots of
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by danielvf 10y ago
Low wing aircraft will do that too. It's a matter of dihedral - the upward slope of the wings on most civilian aircraft.
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by danielvf 10y ago
You've seen the XKCD comic on Nerd Sniping[1]? I just can't resist solving a puzzle. It's really just as simple as that. There's zero extrinsic motivation, only the intrinsic joy of solving problems or optimizing the hec
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by danielvf 10y ago
I had no idea this was an option. Great to know!

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