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by ddeck 8y ago
Reminiscent of the countless ball tampering incidents in the sport of cricket. [1] Of the England cricket team in 2005: "It was my job to keep the shine on the new ball for as long as possible with a bit of spit and a lot of polish. A
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by ddeck 8y ago
There are plenty of sites for that: https://twinstrangers.net/ https://www.ilooklikeyou.com/ https://www.twinlets.com/ https://findmydoppelganger.net/ https://ww
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by ddeck 8y ago
That's true, and yet we already have a $20-30 billion (depending on who you ask) industrial robotics market. There are a large number of highly profitible robotics companies in this area. Fanuc with over $1 billion in net income from a
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by ddeck 8y ago
It is indeed a somewhat ridiculous claim, but domestic constitutional restrictions aside, the enactment of the Anti-Secession Law in the PRC in 2005 has made it challenging for the ROC to claim that they are instead an independent country.
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by ddeck 8y ago
In the article, the image is stated to be 665 megapixels and the width of the galaxy is given as 60,000 light years. Under the simplifying assumptions that the image is square and encompasses the exact galaxy width, that's about 22 tri
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by ddeck 8y ago
I’d settle for the seemingly vastly simpler simple task of producing an app that doesn’t show me content that I can’t consume. I’m an Amazon Prime video subscriber currently located outside the US and the Prime Video app on Android, Roku, a
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by ddeck 8y ago
I would assume they are saying that it's a whole lot easier for the average person to say: "Please remind me every day at 5pm to water the plants" , or "Please play this song at medium volume every morning at 7am"
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by ddeck 8y ago
>if I disable location and then reenable it when I have moved more than 20-30 miles, the GPS has to reacquire the signal and can take up to 2 minutes (I also tried it when I drove several hundred miles, it took several minutes to reacqu
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by ddeck 8y ago
Is it free to walk down the sidewalk in your country? Under your definition it's not, since ultimately taxes likely paid for that sidewalk, but I think most people would describe it as free.
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by ddeck 8y ago
Strange Parts[1] made a great factory tour video of the JLC facility in China for anyone that interested in such things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljOoGyCso8s [1] https://strangeparts.com/
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by ddeck 8y ago
If you can squeeze your board down, 100 x 100mm seems to be the sweet spot with the cheap Chinese board makers that I've used [1]. 10 boards under 100x100 are typically around $5-10, whereas a 10mm more pushes it to around $30 JLC are
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by ddeck 8y ago
Although he was never tried, the sheer number of witnesses detailing his systematic rape of young girls, murder of opponents and starvation of civilians for example, lends a lot of credibility to him being very much tyrannical. A few summar
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by ddeck 8y ago
Other ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18248230
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by ddeck 8y ago
These are two independent data points. The first is the bulk loss stats. The second is an article discussing India's poor audit results in the ICAO safety audit, per the quote above the link and sourced to it. I'm not sure how you
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by ddeck 8y ago
It's possible this is true of some airlines, but it is not true in general. I know cabin crew on two different airlines and cleaning the toilets during the flight is part of the job.
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by ddeck 8y ago
Some facts: Hull loss rates by region of operator per million departures (Jet / Turboprop) 2012-2016: [0] - 2.21 / 7.38 Africa - 1.17 / 20.59 CIS - 0.74 / 3.42 Middle East / North Africa - 0.53 / 1.55 Latin
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by ddeck 8y ago
From a website that has published around 30 pro-Tesla articles in the last week alone[1], which headlines such as: "Tesla Model 3 Total Cost of Ownership Estimate — Crushing It" "#1 Highest Grossing Car In USA = Tesla Mode
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by ddeck 8y ago
It's unlikely to take that long. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-...
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I wouldn't call them an upstart. They've been around for 23 years and produce some impressive content, but you are correct regarding the story about the families of the Chinese leaders and potential conflict of interest given Bloo
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by ddeck 8y ago
Interestingly the author cites Hong Kong in another question as a city that should be replicated. It's a city where at least 10 (and likely a great deal more#) workers died and 234-600 were injured in the last few years building a brid
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by ddeck 8y ago
Commit: https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b83965785db1eec019edf1... Github blog post on the incident: https://blog.github.com/2012-03-05-responsible-disclosure-po...
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by ddeck 8y ago
Or if you use Whatsapp. Their privacy policy makes this pretty clear: As part of the Facebook family of companies, WhatsApp receives information from, and shares information with, this family of companies. We may use the information we rec
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by ddeck 8y ago
They didn't call the gp crazy. They labelled the stories crazy, which is precisely how the poster described them: >things i have see flying by are crazy
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>who invites the mayor of Taipei (!) to walk the streets picking up cigarette butts One consequence of the lack public trash cans is that every smoker I've seen disposes of their cigarette butts by throwing them down the steel-gr
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And is also the department that famously decided to conduct a mock hostage rescue training exercise in a 5-star hotel without obtaining permission or even notifying the hotel management and staff. When ASIS operators were refused entry int
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by ddeck 8y ago
>Australia's version of the FBI Not to nitpick, but ASIO is closer to Australia's version of the CIA, as they are primarily focused on foreign "adversaries". Australia has the Australian Federal Police, which is the
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Let's hope they find the talent they need for that. Taiwan is home to the world's largest coal-fired power station (which is also the world's largest emitter of CO2 - equivalent to that Switzerland) and just announced constru
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and 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11323122
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According to Wikipedia, it was 17.2% in the US compared with 14.9% in Australia in 2015 [1]. This was based on WHO data published in 2016. According to the same article, the rate had dropped to under 13% in Australia in 2016. The CDC put th
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by ddeck 8y ago
The comparison is US$23 to US$8. In Australia, it's US$23 for a pack of 25 cigarettes. Not a carton of 25 packs of cigarettes.

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