dhughes

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by dhughes 15y ago
There is a €400 billion project planned to put solar panels in the Sahara desert to generate power for the EU and surrounding areas called Desertec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
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by dhughes 15y ago
What's funny though is the Middle East is a sunny place which is perfect for generating power from solar, if electric takes over from oil it may still be in the energy business. Add to that oil is used for more than just fuel for vehicles
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by dhughes 15y ago
You were too.
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by dhughes 15y ago
In Canada uncontrolled airspace are the areas not in an aerodrome and goes up to 1,500 feet (?), I forget the exact height, that's where radio controlled planes, hangliders, ultra-light aircraft, hot air balloons can go without needing a p
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by dhughes 15y ago
I'm Canadian. I guess we're both guilty of being ignorant of distant lands.
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by dhughes 15y ago
You're assuming I'm in the USA. I didn't write, imply or say at all that every person from day one until now was a prisoner obviously not but I figured the subject would be viewed differently in Australia.
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by dhughes 15y ago
> Being convicted of a crime punishable under Australian law to 12 months or more in prison can disqualify a person from sitting in the Australian parliament for the duration of the sentence, even if that sentence is suspended. That se
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by dhughes 15y ago
Will you have to unjam the paper first before unprinting?
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by dhughes 15y ago
By the time my SGII phone officially gets it here (Canada) I'll have moved on to another phone. I don't see the point in such long delays, I know there is some checking to see if it works on certain hardware which makes sense. Phones have
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by dhughes 15y ago
I don't see a problem with giving homeless people jobs it seems nobody else will.
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by dhughes 15y ago
I think MS should make a Windows: Bifocals. My dad does the same thing, bifocal eyeglasses and a belly make for some weird contortions when trying to view a monitor.
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by dhughes 15y ago
Good to know because I leaped before I looked, never had AP level physics and barely any calculus but 1/3 of the way through an electronics cert.
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by dhughes 15y ago
My reasoning was compared to a CAT scan it seems safer.
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by dhughes 15y ago
If there was medical procedure that would cost a lot in a hospital an MRI would not surprise me, it such a large powerful, power hungry, complex device I can't see how it couldn't. I wish each person could get access to an MRI each year it
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by dhughes 15y ago
I'm not a biologist or chemical engineer I'm just going by the information I can find and decipher. If the sucrose molecule can be broken down/decomposed into two other molecules one fructose and the other glucose is that not accurate? Fro
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by dhughes 15y ago
I think to myself "I'm spending too much time on Reddit looking at stupid stuff" so I come to HN for some highbrow articles and see a link to Reddit of Neil deGrasse Tyson doing an AMA :/ ...back to Reddit.
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by dhughes 15y ago
HFCS 55% fructose 45% glucose Sucrose (regular sugar) 50% fructose 50% glucose Not much of a difference.
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by dhughes 15y ago
What about diesel engines? I have a diesel, have run out of fuel (clogged filer), have had air in the system - bled it out, was dangerously low on radiator fluid but no ill effects. All that over the span of ten years and I still drive it
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by dhughes 15y ago
The US is your democracy not mine.
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by dhughes 15y ago
That's probably true I'm just going by memory and what we have. IGT seems to own all, it's like you can't touch a thing without IGT being involved. I've even heard stories of potential new IGT employees being asked if they have any inventi
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by dhughes 15y ago
Before I worked in a casino and before regulations changed to allow them my uncle had "grey area" slot machines which didn't spit out anything but points added up on an on-screen counter. Occasionally you would get people would spend too m
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by dhughes 15y ago
That's happened at card games and they keep going!
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by dhughes 15y ago
I work in a small casino in Canada and I bet I could put a slot machine in a giant room with nothing else in it and people would still play it. But there has to be money involved nobody will play if money can't be won, it's not the slot mac
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by dhughes 15y ago
Exactly, there are (usually) 22 stops on a reel, a real reel, but video can have 100 stops; this includes the blank spaces. If you're curious just search for "PAR sheet" or "payable and reel sheet".
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by dhughes 15y ago
Maybe years from now they'll get really specific and put the molecular formula of glass in the logo.
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by dhughes 15y ago
Isn't $900 less than $1,000? Edit: err... DNA verus genome nevermind I see what you meant.
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by dhughes 15y ago
It would be cool if he could see X-rays in the 10 nm range from what I have read UV and X-rays seem to overlap in that area at 10 nm. But the link to his page shows he can see 340 to 350 nm at best.
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by dhughes 15y ago
A big red "critical update patch" banner showing on the TRENDnet site already, nice to see.
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by dhughes 15y ago
I found that incredible, amazing, stunning but also hilarious for some reason. I don't know why but it funny seeing them all working together like that.
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by dhughes 15y ago
I'll have to go check again I only recently got it working and I'm quite sure the password I chose was restricted to something like 10 to 15 characters. Nearly all my passwords for other site are a minimum of 25 (completely random) charact

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