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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   An American who climed up Mt Fuji met local youth who carried up snacks and drinks on their back to the top of the mountain. These were to be sold at shops and I guess vending machines at top of the mountain. I heard that story about 20 ye
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   This reminds of a fairly well known online/offline service company that does not patch their production Windows servers at all. Their mode of defense is firewall. Apparently they has some servers/apps breaking when Windows servers
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   Ftom all the videos of planes I've seen, I think slides are deployed only when fire is involved. Since the damaged engine didn't start any fire for 2 hours, the pilots probabaly knew there was no need to deploy the slides when th
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   > I probably do watch too many documentaries. You are not alone. I actually watch more and more documentaries than movies or TV series. Reality is even stranger than fiction often.
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   EV1 anyone?
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   Nah, it will never happen again. Not here. That swas the sentiment of many before WW2 broke out. Holocaust happened. Cultural Revolution took off.
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   Equifax was advertising an opening for DevOps engineer right around the hack took place.
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   > "A senior developer shouldn't need documentation. The knowledge should be in your head." So a senior developer shouldn't document, and shouldn't answer questions (since he said one shouldn't ask questions)
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   by dba7dba 9y ago

   I guess there's no way to know for outsiders, but I've heard SpaceX buys a lot from McMaster-Carr. Parts for rocket itself or other tools used to build/test rockets? I have no idea.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    South Korean Navy recently retrofitted their Type 209 and other submarines with digital camera based pericopes, replacing traditional periscopes. When the South Korean Navy procurement office requested proposal from traditional periscope ma
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    Time to buy MORE BTC and LTC and other cryptocurrencies. Remember, when WSJ and analyst says to do something, do the opposite.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    More detailed profile of Mr. John Chun done in 2011. http://www.herald-journal.com/archives/2011/stories/chun-des... He would've been 21 years old in 1950, the year the Korean War started. And the profil
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    https://www.mprnews.org/story/2012/11/28/business/john-chun-... They got scammed by bankers late in their life. Sad.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    > Turns out the printer had a cache for fonts and was using the font cached from the earlier check image which included the font! Dang cache.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    True. It's all about extortion.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    Learning something new lol. No seriously. I missed it. South Korea really did have the Greatest Generation. Those who were were adults during the war and those born around that time. Really.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    > Likewise South Korea definitely did not receive (and properly used) foreign aid. South Korea did receive quite a lot of foreign aid from US, UN. South Korea is the only nation to transition from receiver to giver in international aid.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    Those 1 million people in Europe are going to their home. I bet not even Europe or China can figure out how to suddenly house/feed a million people who had to evacuate from a city for a few days, or even overnight.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    I agree. There are some 'suicide (assisted) by cops'. And than there are 'suicide (assisted) by USA'. I should point out though that Kim of N Korea isn't suicidal. He's not crazy. He's not dumb. He's
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    And disciplined. The nurse competed in 2 separate Olympics as an Alpine skier. You can get to that level only with some insane amount of discipline and will power.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    Sr71 was retired in part due to air tanker support required for Sr71.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    I wish that's the case for me but can't with kids and wife. Looking around though, most of the stuff I use daily will fit in a suitcase, except for 2 monitors.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    Major Winters of the Band of Brothers fame was originally in the army as an enlisted man. But while in basic training he witnessed an army officer giving a presentation while holding a wrong rifle for an hour. So he realized maybe being an
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    Very very few knew what an atomic bomb was at that time. I'm pretty sure even the captain of the ship didnt know exactly what he was really carrying.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    I think stand up desk is still good if you can change between sit and stand 2, 3 times a day.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    The war was truly going badly for UK at the time, with US still not joining the war. And those French naval vessels HAD to be take out of the war somehow. The Royal Navy was mighty, but stretched very thin. Had the French naval vessels been
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    For those who want to know more about why Dunkirk came about and why it was so shocking that France capitulated so quickly, I recommend this book. > Nineteen Weeks: America, Britain, and the Fateful Summer of 1940 Few things I learned th
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    We may soon see 'inertial navigation system (INS)' to supplement GPS. I wonder if the cost of producing/maintaining it could be lowered significantly enough using new sensors developed for use in smartphones and such.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    I personally think all of these problems could be dealt with if the large tech companies would just allow remote work.
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    by dba7dba 9y ago

    I'm not including China because there are no exports from China.