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14y ago
Usually it's not a house, but a block of apartments, each of which are owned individually. It's usually cost prohibitive for someone who owns one apartment in a block of twenty to buy out the land for all twenty.
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14y ago
https://lockitron.com/ is close to that
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14y ago
Electric showers should already heat up water immediately, any water already in the shower head might be cold though.. Houses with "combi" boilers should always have hot water on demand. The water that has been sat in the pipes for a while
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14y ago
Even then, out of the box, the only services listening to ports are dhcp and mdns.
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14y ago
Those end users aren't people who matter to many Western businesses though. When persuading a client to drop explicit IE6 support they said "but x00000 hits are using IE6", we looked into the stats and the vast majority of the IE6 traffic w
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14y ago
It strikes that Google probably has some algorithms to detect this. Otherwise black hat SEOers would use this trick to stuff keywords or something.
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I doubt it would prompt you for the permissions in a similar way to the play store, I imagine that everything they need legally is probably covered by the facebook ToS, or will be in an extra ToS clicked through on first use.
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14y ago
That's addressed in his third point, the ecosystem isn't as good as other options.
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14y ago
I grew up in England learning English. sth is not very common here either.
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14y ago
Redhat tried being a web company. They launched their own social network about six or seven years that played nice with the others as far as possible. Mugshot closed down after a couple of years, the source was still available last I knew.
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14y ago
> And why exactly is it the man's responsibility to provide financial security for the woman? I'm sure for most women it's not that it is the man's responsibility to provide financial security, but that the man is going to work with you
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14y ago
According to the article government spending wasn't the problem here, the problem was Cypriot banks making bad investment decisions.
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14y ago
How does the amazon shopping lens spy on users? The search string gets sent to Canonical, they search amazon using that string and return results with their Amazon affiliate link.
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14y ago
There's no Amazon back door. The search string gets sent to Canonical, they search amazon using that string and return results with their snazin affiliate link.
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14y ago
> many egg laying reptiles (keeping snakes out of the chickens house is never any fun). Neither of those things are a problem in the UK.
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14y ago
I'm afraid I have no idea about the answer to either of your questions. I assumed the "we" in your original post meant "we humans". I do understand that humans don't have an instinctual understanding of using nipples, human babies have a ph
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14y ago
> I can't think of almost any companies where the shareholders are the staff. The famous example in the UK is the John Lewis Parternship department stores. Their workers own the company, they receive fixed wages and then a share of the
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14y ago
Land scarcity? Where do you live? The EU population density is something like 4x the US, admittedly we don't have inhospitable desert wastelands but there's a lot of space still left.
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14y ago
Babies have to learn how to work a nipple, it's not some innate human knowledge.
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14y ago
It doesn't happen for .co.uk, it does happen for .nhs.uk (by design). http://publicsuffix.org/ has the list that you use to distinguish
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14y ago
The blocking technology (cleanfeed) was installed by most ISPs for the IWF blocking, once it was installed the industry took the ISPs to court to use it for blocking other things.
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14y ago
Robert Heinleins For Us, The Living describes this kind of society. Everyone gets a "dividend" which is enough to live on and people do what would be a low wage/non-job such as being an artist for part time fun and high wages.
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14y ago
You don't have to hammer a website to scrape it. You can write scraper programs to limit the number of HTTP requests per second.
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14y ago
You mean the chromebook?
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14y ago
I wonder how often the shipping cost works out to be more expensive than just buying the kindle version.
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14y ago
The drought only really effected the south, the north and Scotland still had less water reserves than normal but plenty of capacity left. The hydro generation is mostly based in Scotland. There is also a Welsh hydro-electric dam, excess cap
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14y ago
They work out how much renewable generated energy they're obligated to provide (or estimate) and ensure that they have at least that much renewable energy generation capacity. The actual electricity supplied to the households doesn't have t
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14y ago
My Nexus S runs JB, this feature must just not be enabled on this phone for some reason
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14y ago
1. Is Samsung specific I think. On my Nexus S pulling the notification drawer down has a button that launches the Settings app but doesn't have the settings right there. My wifes Samsung S3 does however.
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14y ago
There's HSR right into the middle of London. Big cities can have HSR.
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