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   by desdiv 9y ago

   I think OP's point was that a 20 second blurb, no matter how truthful or accurate, is downplaying the situation. If an analogous event happened in the US, all entertainment programming would be suspended and there would be continuous n
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   >I wonder then why Indian/Chinese did not go in much larger numbers to Canada as compared to US. They did, and they still do: Canada's percentage of foreign born population: 20.6% [0] US's percentage of foreign born popula
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   Thanks for the tip. I enabled CloudWatch for billing, and I'm getting something , but it's not pretty: http://i.imgur.com/SO2dJzd.png No matter what graph format I choose (between line and stacked area), all I&#x
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   Dumb question: is there a way to show the total AWS costs you're incurring in the past second/minute/hour? The finest granularity I can find in the AWS web console is per day; many times I've butterfingered an input and
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   >His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   >It lists many targets for “systematic destruction” in major cities, including 179 in Moscow, 145 in Leningrad and 91 in East Berlin. I wonder how many members of the Berlin Brigade[0] were aware that East Berlin was a major nuke target.
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   The ostensible reason for this tracking feature is to deter counterfeiters (of currency). Since no currency is B&W, there would be no defensible excuse to coercer the manufactures into complying.
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   I'm selling two pizzas for 10,000 test coins.
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   by desdiv 9y ago

   Taking out an HELOC against the property might be one solution.
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    (Bandwidth is ambiguous in this context so I'll use "data transfers" instead) I personally don't see the outrage. AmaGoogSoft overcharges for data transfers because they know they can get away with it and that lowering i
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    NEO: The human body is the most inefficient source of energy you could possibly imagine. The efficiency of a power plant at converting thermal energy into electricity decreases as you run the turbines at lower temperatures. If you had any s
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    He's asking about base-emoji, not Base65536. >The emojis used are in emojis.json. There are 843 emojis there, but the converter reads sequences of 8 bits at a time, and so only maps the value to the first 256 of them. One byte per e
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    How is this not charity fraud? If I donate to earthquake victims, I expect at least a portion of my donation to end up in the hands of earthquake victims. If I donate whole blood to help those with medical needs, then I expect at least a po
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    >1. Poor countries are allowed to increase their carbon emissions because their current emissions are already low per person, and requiring then to lower emissions would basically be telling then they're not allowed to become develo
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    SpaceX doesn't patent anything[0]. Tesla does file for patents, but has basically made all their patents free to use for all[1]. Seems like Musk is just not a fan of the patent regime. [0] http://www.businessinsider.com&#x2F
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Orbital ATK has been doing air launch to orbit[0] since 1990 with their Pegasus rocket. They've had three dozen successful launches since then[1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_launch_to_orbit [1] https:&
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Ethereum pros: security researchers who find bugs in smart contracts are rewarded handsomely and instantly
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Here is the important part from your article: >Are NATO nations violating a rule? >No. The 2 percent standard is just a guideline, not a legally binding requirement. In 2006, even as the United States was increasing military spending
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Here's the full text of the Paris Agreement[0] and here[1] is Secretary of State John Kerry signing said agreement on behalf of the United States in New York on 2016-04-22. Show me a text of this "NATO spending agreement", wh
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    I don't think consumers will bother with anything that hassle-some: Lexmark: "For $20 you can lease one of our fine cartridges for an indeterminate period of time. Just need your signature on page 2, 5, and 6 of this contract.&quo
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    No Uber in Vancouver, unfortunately. It's one of the very few cities in North America without Uber and Lyft.
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Here's my straw-man proposal: Allow both indentation-based and bracket-based syntax. Have a tool like scalafmt/goformat that freely converts between the two on a per-file and per-project basis. When you're writing your own co
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Is the choice of SPECK a serious decision or is it some kinda of a political/satire/parody thing?
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    TIL that Washington State University makes and sells[0] its own cheese from its own dairy herd. [0] http://cougarcheese.wsu.edu/DirectionsWEB/webcart_itemBuy.ph...
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    >"Give me immunity, and I'll give you all the evidence that Uber was in on this plan from the start" I get that Uber is a toxic company, but I'm not sure if immunity is a good idea. "If you steal on behalf of Big
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Are there any online maps that aren't Web Mercator? Google Maps, Here.com, OpenStreetMap, Bing Maps, MapQuest are all Mercator-only, with no easy option to switch.
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    >there are a lot of small business offering 'managed' vulnerability scans Which managed vulnerability scanners would HNer recommend? When I Google for them I can't tell who's good at security and who's simply goo
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    Mandatory two-factor-confirmation-by-email in order to push software updates on the app store would have been helpful in this case.
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    I prefer explicit words over symbols, like in Scala: scala> 1 to 3 scala.collection.immutable.Range.Inclusive = Range(1, 2, 3) scala> 1 until 3 scala.collection.immutable.Range = Range(1, 2)
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    by desdiv 9y ago

    You need around 4000 qubits to break RSA-2048; IBM's system only have 17 qubits so far.