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>How large an area would you need to cover to accuratly dim a star's output to an array at another star, say 100 light years away Jupiter-sized is good enough for some 3700 light-years with 2016-era technology [1]. We know because t
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The american DMCA includes provision to penalize false takedowns, but from what I've seen the provision isn't used too often.
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This already is in progress on Youtube (an Alphabet company). There is significant push to onboard the well known cable news brands on Youtube, on preferential conditions as compared to the regular, individual youtubers.
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Living trees are only about 15...18% carbon by weight. [1] Other greenery is probably even less, given that significant proportion of trees' mass is in the trunk as cellulose (some 50% of it)[2], which is about 44% carbon. On the other
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Tesco offers similar service - shop online, drive up to the mall, get groceries deposited directly to your car's trunk. Haven't tried it yet.
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Personally prefer it over any other method - the most comfortable pickup in a mid-sized city, given somewhat irregular office hours. I've noticed some friends were having serious misgivings about trusting this method of delivery, but h
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In Poland the dominant online marketplace is our domestic Allegro.pl. Started off in 1999 as eBay equivalent - mostly individuals selling new and used goods - but in recent years it developed more into direct competition with Amazon, by cat
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I understand you don't like nationalism. Tough. Substituting its staunchly opposing ideology of internationalism doesn't help at all, from historical perspective. As for >[changing subject, skipping questions, jumping on 100
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>Poland still has negative net change of population, and it's getting worse I'll buy a vacation house on the cheap/s. Also, try convincing the greens that it's a bad thing. Also, try convincing anybody that with growi
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>Besides - Poland is one of the few countries in EU that haven't had budget surplus in last few years despite the economic boom in EU. Money remained in the private economy rather than in the central budget? Is that your point here?
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I've read your post twice, just to be sure I didn't overlook an "/s" marker, a wink emoji or something. It strikes me as a narrow view taken to extreme - entire vision of our country built up from referencing critic
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This idea has been tested extensively over several years, on many popular platforms, and failed all the way, every time it's been tried. Two prominent examples being Facebook and Twitter; the former requires real names and photos (fake
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There is no difference in kind between two hungry IT students developing better web search, and several hungry artists developing awesome dungeon of animatronics. Either start off poor, but once they get major traction, the money starts rol
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>the air quality in cities is bad I'm all for reducing emissions. Having said that, let's be frank about air quality having improved immensely over recent decades. Back before the (ICE and electric) cars became a thing, the i
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Consider the following four combinations of {stable, unique}: - stable sort of unique values is ordering - stable sort of non-unique values is categorization + ordering; this is a most general algorithm which could reasonably be used fo
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For diff on whole rows, use you could use Linux' CLI tools, in particular join(1) which is very similar to SQL's [LEFT/RIGHT] JOIN clause. Another option is the combination of sort(1) and uniq(1); with proper choice of option
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> Large tech corporations have been ignoring the concerns of governments, steamrolling those governments citizens Quite the opposite; in case of copyright expansion the large companies you mention are the copyright holders, which are
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A great koan, thank you. There's also a related, from-the-trenches, story: It is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it is also very memorable. I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize th
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>Union activities are essentially price-fixing. Fair point. You could also say it makes certain sense vis-a-vis the company shareholders (be it the founders, or stockholders) being "colluding" and "price-fixing" on
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>that the president uses a private medium like twitter as a seemingly primary channel to communicate with the nation This has happened several times in the history, as new technologies became common. Newspapers, radio, (live) TV, social
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Air launch (to orbit)[1] has been a thing for a good while now. As others have stated, fuel savings are enormous; jet engines have orders of magnitude higher efficiency than rocket engines when taking fuel tankage into account. Air resistan
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From the second link, >Interestingly the indicators are incandescent bulbs… >an odd choice as they have used LEDs as indicators on the PCBs as we will see later. Lightbulbs have well-understood failure mode (open circuit) and dete
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>Why do people keep tiptoeing around this man? Because they can't write a rule-abiding patch set and yet feel the pressure to deliver off of their half-baked code. Under the pressure from their customers/bosses/whomever,
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I remember a paper on a close subject - "Revealing hidden services by their clock skew" [1] tl;dr: performing operations on the hidden Tor nodes causes CPU heating, which causes OS clock drift due changing CPU clock circuit proper
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>Why would Facebook have any content moderation obligations towards any government? This argument, if applied strictly, would allow any government to meddle in the affairs (say, influencing elections) of any other government simply by es
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I guess there's a new generation of cryptographic primitives implied by your assertion - given a parametric high-dimensional unit sphere, ...
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This is a fine sentiment at small scale, but once a service becomes significant, close to mandatory, in daily life, the other aspects become overwhelming. For sake of example, as much as I detest various extremists [†], I would strongly opp
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Out of curiosity, where did the idea of student debts being likely to be forgiven come from? AFAIK, the students loan were specifically designed to not be easily shed; point in case, they don't get discharged through personal bankruptc
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You are missing one important factor: prices of locally rendered services will factor in the high housing costs of the service provider workers, and of service establishments. I.e., all the services will be significantly more expensive just

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