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by ddeck 13y ago
Totally agree. Samsung makes great hardware, but consistently fails at putting decent firmware/software on it. I've had numerous Samsung smartphones and all have performed so much better with pure Android vs. the Samsung "imp
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by ddeck 13y ago
It was carrying three GLONASS (Russian GPS, sometimes combined with traditional GPS for improved accuracy, fix time etc - e.g. iPhone 4S/5) satellites. The loss of another three in 2010 was estimated to cost up to $160 million[1]. Expe
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by ddeck 13y ago
I was just thinking the same thing. Unfortunately Australia was a very different environment to that in the US at present (very small hunting/sports shooting culture given an almost entirely urban population, broad public support, a pa
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by ddeck 13y ago
Not to mention the fact that they wait until the twelfth paragraph before disclosing the fact that the entire story is based on unverified transcripts sent to them by individual users, and not their own logs. The Ars IRC server doesn'
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by ddeck 13y ago
The weather service here in Hong Kong offers an amazing array of data from ambient gamma radiation levels in various locations by the hour: http://www.weather.gov.hk/radiation/rmn_hourly_e.htm to real-time lightning st
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by ddeck 13y ago
The popular weather aggregating websites generally do a poor job outside of the US. Presumably because they rely on a global weather data source rather than the country-specific agencies. When travelling, I typically reference the World Met
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In short, it doesn't. Mainland holidays that are also HK holidays see reduced pollution levels, however mainland only holidays do not coincide with significantly lower levels of air pollutants.
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by ddeck 13y ago
HK blames factories in Southern China. Even if both claims are true with respect to total pollution, both regions could be doing much more to reduce pollution This is a common misconception. The reality is that local sources cause the maj
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Yes, although it's somewhat bittersweet. I can't think of another city of similar size where I can live 5-minutes by car from the center of the business/entertainment district and a 5-minute walk from being in the middle of t
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by ddeck 13y ago
True, but it's a bit misleading. Although the developed areas of Hong Kong are quite literally wall-to-wall skyscrapers, the majority of Hong Kong's land is undeveloped country parks and village areas. Less than 25% of total land
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by ddeck 13y ago
Yes, it is possible. Which is why I wrote little chance rather than no chance. Given the magnitude of the debt however, it is a very unlikely outcome. Consider that just to achieve close to zero GDP growth over the last nearly 20 years, the
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by ddeck 13y ago
Bass' thesis is basically sound. Japan is well beyond the tipping point and as he notes, JGB yields will eventually become untenable for the government. Unlike the European nations facing similar issues though, Japan prints it's own currenc
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by ddeck 13y ago
Seems like a pretty deceptive company. They display the following during the signup process: "We'll disable signups that don't seem to be a real person, have few friends, or are obviously underage" I didn't realize there was a minimum age t