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by dredds 7y ago
There's also a lot more understanding of the corporate and political culture against whistleblowers, so even engineers or managers with good morals would not risk the backlash of endless lawsuits or corporate shaming. We should add thi
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by dredds 7y ago
And "socialized" like Github with followers & favs, but without the forks or personalized pages.
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by dredds 8y ago
2019: "send Microsoft feedback on Twitter about their Github blog post". So Twitter became a Swiss army knife.
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by dredds 8y ago
Just sayin' - https://github.com/topics/hacker-news
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by dredds 8y ago
And a G+ instant archiving button will be their 'killer' feature in a couple of months. KA-CHING!! Yes, it will even conveniently estimate the exact plan you'll need to purchase in order to store all of your posts, collection
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by dredds 8y ago
The next generation Shinkansen will begin testing around May next year (2019). The ‘Alfa-X’ is expected to travel faster than 400 km/h (360 km/h with passengers) note: The fastest commercial train in the world is Shanghai’s maglev
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by dredds 8y ago
Ford buys e-scooter company Spin for $100 million. Ford has committed to making a $200 million investment in the startup.
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by dredds 8y ago
Not just you. If you narrow the browser the index hides.
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by dredds 8y ago
"Yohan Yoon noticed that his Korean-American parents kept opening the door to his room whenever he slept with the fan on.. So what’s behind this superstition and what role does culture play?" Vid - https://www.youtube.
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by dredds 8y ago
Possibly next-gen small fission reactors will have them looking for close-to-deep-ocean far-from-large-population launch sites again. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/demonstration-proves-nucl...
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by dredds 8y ago
Yep, the America's Cup success lead to recognition of NZ's somewhat burgeoning super-yacht industry, which in turn fed back more talented craftsman, fabricators, designers.
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by dredds 8y ago
> "just that waltz past the camera will do" Indeed. Mission Impossible: “Gait recognition can’t be fooled by simply limping, walking with splayed feet or hunching over, because we’re analyzing all the features of an entire body
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by dredds 8y ago
Instead they will make laws against facial obfuscation.
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by dredds 8y ago
Getting downvoted, so i'll add that i'm using a Chrome-based Chinese browser (UC) so have no control over the Chrome version.
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by dredds 8y ago
My security, my choice. If i say no ('X') then they shouldn't keep nagging me.
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by dredds 8y ago
Possibly they are tracking our mouse movements (such is the feeling that their 'responsive design' gives me)
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by dredds 8y ago
Expecting people to revert to a 25 year old text version, and repeatedly demanding users to upgrade their Chrome version from a 6 month old one shouldn't be necessary either.
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by dredds 8y ago
Sent feedback during the test phase that it was unusable (hangs while "loading...") on slower connections and average laptops. Still forced it on us. Killing G+. Google Search "mini games" annoying eyesore (Winter Olympi
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by dredds 8y ago
Sleep, dreams, and mental recuperation are underrated. How many coders wake up with the solution to a bug or problem they couldn't resolve.
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by dredds 8y ago
Looks more creative: https://www.google.com/search?q=weed+art&num=50&tbm=isch&tbo...
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by dredds 8y ago
ZERO mention of cancer on that page. Smoking WHILE on cancer therapy: "A number of small studies of smoked marijuana found that it can be helpful in treating nausea and vomiting from cancer chemotherapy." Anti-cancer benefits: &qu
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by dredds 8y ago
Most people say that weed helps them be more creative, which is the opposite of the South Park quote. Having creative thoughts and dreams but not acting on them can lead to depression. "Being in the moment" is doing what you are t
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by dredds 8y ago
Again, show us the evidence that a non-tobacco-smoking average pot smoker has increased risk of lung cancer.
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by dredds 8y ago
> Unfortunately not. If you spend a long time smoking you'll end up permanently slower in the brain. "permanently slower" based on what evidence? By what measure? Are you speaking from personal experience? (i stopped a few
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by dredds 8y ago
They recently announced the first detection of an exo-moon, but said the moon was the same size as the Earth (orbiting a much larger gas planet) so the definition of planet and moon is blurry. Unfortunately the terms 'dual-planets&#x27
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by dredds 8y ago
We don't usually detect them directly. We observe a star dimming (planetary transit) or wobble and infer the planet's location, speed, and mass from that. We are only just developing techniques to observe very large planets close
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by dredds 8y ago
Has a nice ring to it; "Canada Canabiz" Congrats from the rest of us in the world who are still waiting!
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by dredds 8y ago
Webamp - "A reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and Javascript" - Load any classic Winamp skin just by dragging it onto the main window. - If a skin specifies some transparent regions in its region.txt, they are respected. Fea
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by dredds 8y ago
The infrastructure no longer exists. The tooling no longer exists. Miniaturization makes old designs obsolete. Design is now the cheapest part of manufacturing. (See "Can we rebuild Saturn V in 2018") https://www.youtu
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by dredds 8y ago
Hard to put a price on astroscience or cosmology. Hubble was just recently assisting in the search for the very first discovered exo-moon. http://earthsky.org/space/1st-exomoon-neptune-sized-kepler-1... In the mid-1990

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