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by dexen 8y ago
A doomsday weapon in space. As the article mentions, the station will beam the collected energy down to Earth. Whether in visible light, microwave or any other spectral band, it will need two things for everyday operations: - ability to p
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by dexen 8y ago
>We've detected unusual activity from your computer network To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot. Looks more like automated protection against scrapping, or perhaps DDoS-like access patterns
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by dexen 8y ago
There are certain key differences, but basically the supply of drivers / vehicles, and the pricepoints are regulated by the company rather than by municipal legislative. Which has upsides and downsides wrt quality, availability, wait t
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by dexen 8y ago
Tim Pool. He's got both a news channel ( https://www.youtube.com/user/Timcasts/videos ) and an Op-Ed channel ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCe02lGcO-ahAURWuxAJnjdA ).
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by dexen 8y ago
>The solution is to discourage the "idiots" from having kids in the first place Eugenics have been tried several times, all over the world, and both produced terrible abuses - especially of disenfranchised social groups - and
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by dexen 8y ago
>How do you explain the cost of education 1. Value of a service is how much the market is willing to pay. 2. In the times of abundant, easy access to service X, a high price tag is indicator of quality and rarity. I.e., it's a fea
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by dexen 8y ago
I wholeheartedly recommend The Drive [1] and Alex Roy [2]. Both are biased. Towards a good driving experience :] [1] https://twitter.com/thedrive [2] https://twitter.com/alexroy144
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by dexen 8y ago
>[news isn't] free to produce Software also isn't free to produce, and yet here we are - in a world dominated by freely available software. It runs on every computer, because it's either "good enough", or in so
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by dexen 8y ago
There are good independent journalists out there [1]. While they are naturally biased individuals, you quickly learn their biases and apply correction. If you subscribe to a few of them, their coverage averages out to about neutral. IMO a h
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by dexen 8y ago
>Sure it's more restrictive and yes will likely break existing adblockers, but it's probably a better model for the future. A good example why "secure system" is, in a longer run, a system with low usability, and li
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by dexen 8y ago
Possible explanation: a navy ship runs on rotation of three watches, each in turn taking control of the ship for 8 hours. Thus a ship ought to have a crew of 3x the manpower needed to run it. So by "crewed with about 1.5X the number of
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by dexen 8y ago
This... this looks great for the independent newscasters, that presently don't get to be featured in Google at all. Think the blog, youtube channel or private website that currently can't get any inroads with the news, due to utte
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by dexen 8y ago
>swappable batteries would require a huge engineering effort. Worked just fine back in 2013. The people's habits were the only obstacle: owners wanted to retain their own battery pack, instead of getting pre-owned one left by some
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by dexen 8y ago
Meta: please avoid snarky replies. If you feel the OP is misplaced, downvote or perhaps even flag if it is egregious. FWIW, I've found the suicide interpretation quite interesting and eye-opening: a thought of a woman, silently hidin
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by dexen 8y ago
> There is exactly zero difference from the operating system's perspective (...) Close, but not quite: in case of larger allocations, malloc() tends to use mmap( , , , | MAP_ANON) rather than brk() to request memory from the OS. Fo
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by dexen 8y ago
Honestly I am speculating here wrt distilled feedwater, essentially just geeking on a subject I happen to enjoy :^) Any ship installation is limited in size, weight, and power, so you carry machines only big enough to produce sufficient sup
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by dexen 8y ago
Running out of fuel aside (as mentioned by rypskar ), they may have also needed to conserve the boiler feedwater[0]. The boilers need well distilled water to turn into steam without leaving scaly residue all over the place. During normal o
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by dexen 8y ago
The thing you are trying to speak in favor of is Apple Macintosh, with its proprietary OS long since replaced by POSIX-based and Mach-based MacOS X. We had beautiful gaming consoles, beautiful Macintoshes, and IBM mainframes, and beautiful
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by dexen 8y ago
This thread started with > There is an intensive negative media campaign against Facebook lately, rightful or not. , to which I replied. We are in agreement that the press should hold Facebook and other powerful players to account. My po
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by dexen 8y ago
Seems I was unclear when presenting my thesis. My impression is the journalists used to give Facebook a pass on many, many well-known bad behaviors. Atrocious behaviors, even. And then it changed, and they would go to great lengths to point
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by dexen 8y ago
We are discussing the press' behavior in this thread. Whataboutism ("but the other guy did something bad?") doesn't help us with understanding why journalists switched from tacitly ignoring Facebook's various transg
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The negative campaign started when the media learned of Facebook selling data to Trump's presidential campaign via Cambridge Analytica. It was more or less the same [edit: data / service] Facebook provided to Obama's both cam
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The airframe of airplanes is surprisingly lightweight. Engine(s) can easily be around 25% of the (empty) weight, and on anything with decent range, the fuel dominates. Both necessitates a lot of supporting infrastructure. The airplane can p
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by dexen 8y ago
A news article mis-representing a satirical[1] publication as "fake news". Expected better from BBC than going full meta-circular non-ironic, not-true news . Particularly damning is the "The birth of the term" infobox,
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The police doesn't have much of discretion on the subject according to common training material. Consider the following points selected from Stop Violence Against Women website[1]: To determine the predominant aggressor, police mus
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by dexen 8y ago
Meta: if a post is dead due to flagging / banning, but you find it valuable, you can "vouch" for it. With several (perhaps one?) users vouching, the post is back from dead. Click on the "30 minutes ago" link next to
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by dexen 8y ago
That one I don't know. They seem tolerate me just fine so far, for what it's worth. Call them "realists" perhaps? While gaming, they are well aware I have much worse reaction times and working memory than them, but I can
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Too soon. This forum is on an intersection of progressives , who by default champion womens' causes, and entrepreneurs , who favor expanding labor pool to lower workforce costs. HN will needs to see a lot more papers & articles
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> they respect their personal qualifications enough to expect that they will get hired somewhere just might decide not to apply for the job From my experience people judge the company both by the hard facts, and also by the feel (impr
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by dexen 8y ago
Thanks for the anecdote, your company sounds like a pretty cool place to live given its openness to learn at work. > from the corporate perspective Aside of a brief stint at 15k-large corporation years ago, my customers tend to be small

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