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by ddalex 6y ago
star trek is not heavy on fighting anyhow, so these battles are plot devices... how would a computer executing and finishing a battle even before humans figure ouut that somethin is happening help with the plot.... in the same vein, why wou
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by ddalex 6y ago
> payments it's similar Without the protected path, how do you know that a malicious program doesn't use a low-level API to start a payment from your account without you noticing ?
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by ddalex 6y ago
very old meme on slashdot....
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by ddalex 6y ago
More troublesome would be Burma Shave ads on the side of the road
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by ddalex 6y ago
I meant that there are no actual repercussions. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalese_cable_car_disaster_(1... repeated incidents where US k
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by ddalex 6y ago
As a speaker of Romanian, I can assure you that Romanian has the neutral gender and it's currently spoken by over 20m people. The argument of the article that the adjectives or articles are either masculine or feminine doesn't hol
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by ddalex 6y ago
Not a good idea as the emanated Sulphur dioxide is a terrible greenhouse gas.
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by ddalex 6y ago
Funny, in German a "table" is masculine (der tisch) but in Romanian (romance language) is feminine (o masa), in Spanish is feminine (la mesa), Italian is masculine (il tavolo) unless you talk about having a supper (la tavola). Wha
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by ddalex 6y ago
Experience shows that mistakenly blasting some civilians into pink mist doesn't mean anything if those civilians aren't white US citizens on US soil...
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by ddalex 6y ago
Wow. Not only DoD have drone swarms, they have been at the forefront of research, invented the concept of drone swarms, and have been testing them for at least 15 years. Search for DoD Unmanned Aircraft Systems Roadmap 2005-2030
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by ddalex 6y ago
I may talk out of my arse, but my understanding is that the majority of the heat is coming from the inner planet core which can't cool to space due to the insulating blanket of CO2, not from illumination from the sun (something like an
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by ddalex 6y ago
If people had cancelled Greenwald this way years ago perhaps nobody would have learned of Snowden's disclosures. Who knows what we will never learn because people want to avoid certain type of discussions
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by ddalex 6y ago
Is it smart to tell people that you are leaving before you actually backed-up and moved you data in the new place!?
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by ddalex 6y ago
I still remember a Nokia sales rep telling me when iPhone just hitting the shelves that the lack of stylus for input will doom it.
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by ddalex 6y ago
Isn't often heard around HN that it's ok to charge for Open Source software ? If you don't want to pay for it, you're free to choose not to, but if others want to pay, what's in it for you? BTW the parts of Synergy
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by ddalex 6y ago
How do you know the TVs don't connect to any open WiFi network, or simply get shipped with embedded 4G radios ?
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by ddalex 6y ago
Enhance 224 to 176. Enhance. Stop. Move in, pull out. Track Right. Center in. Track 45 right. Print.
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by ddalex 6y ago
There is no meaningful separation between TRNC and proper Turkey government. TRNC is a puppet government, kind of the same way Crimea government, the one which decided to hold a "referendum" and "decided" to join Russia.
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by ddalex 6y ago
VPNs ?
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by ddalex 6y ago
Probably somewhere where human labour costs less then soda.
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by ddalex 6y ago
How does SSH knows my password is **** ??!
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by ddalex 6y ago
8:9 is also a sweet spot, where you divide a 16:9 vertically to display two windows. No more awkward monitor rotations !
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by ddalex 6y ago
Well they are trying to move it from advertising based to subscription based :)
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by ddalex 6y ago
Why not? I mean if there is readership interested in that content, nothing wrong with using the ad impression. Text storage requirements are insignificant
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by ddalex 6y ago
Why not? Log analytics are a thing, you know ....
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by ddalex 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clustering_illusion
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by ddalex 6y ago
> We don't owe this money to some foreign planet with a death-star pointing at us It's borrowed from the future. Literally, we owe the money to our future selves, like in human race. To oversimplify it, we expect that the prod
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by ddalex 6y ago
Perhaps that's why they are shutting down?
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by ddalex 6y ago
wouldn't it also count reflections, for example, which are not real bottles to be counted ?
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by ddalex 6y ago
That is, assuming there isn't a nation state keeping one of these whale wallets that never was touched after initial mining.

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