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by drucken 14y ago
Microfluidics or lab-on-a-chip are the latest advances: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/84340-new-silicon-chip-... The progress in this field has been far better than Moore's Law [1] so it could be very practical. [1] Excellent TED t
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Youtube bans 500-year old Japanese festival (Obon)(youtube.com)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Wired.
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by drucken 14y ago
The UK has a spectacularly weak judicial system for an industrialized country. From the lack of judicial review of primary legislation ([1]) through a huge abundance of archaic haphazard laws, to lack of representative judges, to the ease w
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by drucken 14y ago
As far as I understand, Youtube operates the following copyright tools [1], A. Content owners: Copyright Infringement Notification (modelled on US DMCA takedown). - content owners fill out a form with specific pre-stated legalese expression
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by drucken 14y ago
For personal/small setups, UKReg.com Domainmonster.com 123-reg.co.uk All have solid reputations with 123-reg being the elephant in the industry but UKReg and Domainmonster having superb responsiveness and customer support.
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Curiosity's landing- as seen by 1 of her 3,000+ creators (youtube.com)
5 points by drucken 14y ago|1 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
I hope you are not being snarky, because to anyone else the following may be somewhat obvious: "Stop!" is for benefit of others listening, + more attention-grabbing than "Help!" because it could be targeted at anyone in the vicinity or it c
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by drucken 14y ago
Agreed. This is an extremely misleading title. 1. It bears no relation to the content of the article nor its title, which is only an introductory guide to two specific distributions, Slackware and Arch Linux. 2. It is plain wrong (and outda
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by drucken 14y ago
Tokamaks have always seemed to me such a massive distraction in practical energy production, other than ancillary benefits due to the funding, upfront energies involved, and sheer scale. Instead military complexes are quietly focussing on o
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by drucken 14y ago
No. It is merely an IP/country wall to content that is not paid for (directly) by UK taxpayer. Free proxies like Hide My Ass work. Alternatively, here is pastebin for convenience: http://pastebin.com/7dFAS82m
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by drucken 14y ago
How on Earth is that condescending? How is a nun in middle of Africa meant to have even a basic understanding of how a specific government's budgeting and economic system works? I am willing to bet the vast majority of Americans themselves
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by drucken 14y ago
Painful reading an HN front page article like this. An entire article around use of two-word (marketing) nomenclature with no informative value in the article at all...
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by drucken 14y ago
Copyright wars begin in earnest...
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by drucken 14y ago
For most people savy enough to use an arbitrary answer, it is because you can use a different one each time (with the very few exceptions where you may not be able, e.g. banks). Offline portable password managers like Keepass/Password Safe/
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by drucken 14y ago
I doubt it has much to do with luck at all. Almost no one starts doing stuff like this, especially with technology at the time, because they have nefarious goals or have a crime career planned. They are kids. They do it to push their limits
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by drucken 14y ago
Needs to be at least (reverse) adjusted by number of athletes per country ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Summer_Olympics#Sorted_by_... ). This would reduce anomalies like Great Britain submitting approx. same number of atheletes as US,
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by drucken 14y ago
Sounds like someone's just discovered how different DVCS are to centralized VCS. Still, tools like Tower, Smartgit and Github for Windows, especially Tower, make interface to Git less painful. With time, the interfaces to Git workflows can
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Knight Capital: Software Installation Costs Firm $440 Million in 45 minutes(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by drucken 14y ago|0 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
I fail to see the link between the title plus domain of this site and opposing CISPA. I do not think I could even call it link bait. They may as well have called it, "doyoulovebluewhales.org"... Also, the soundtrack ruins its factual/inform
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by drucken 14y ago
Yup, a true eye-opening short series! However, the emphasis in Black Mirror is more on an "augmented sensing from birth" perspective and the many implications if yourself, authorities and others have access to this archive. On the other han
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by drucken 14y ago
Also, game publisher Nexon silently installs a browser plugin (Nexon Game Controller) on many (all?) of its games, none of which AFAIK need a browser: Vindictus/Mabinogi Heroes Dragon Nest Maplestory Atlantica Online Combat Arms
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by drucken 14y ago
There is still a lot of (perceived) covering up and lack of information release going on in Japan around the Fukushima incident. Much of it never makes it to the mainstream news. For example, relatively recent reports of - doubled estimates
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by drucken 14y ago
Bayes' Theorem trivially flows from, Mnemonic: P(A ∩ B) = P(A|B)P(B) = P(B|A)P(A) Visualise the above concept once as Venn Diagrams (aka. frequentist interpretation) and you'll never forget it.
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by drucken 14y ago
And yet soft AR, e.g. Aurasma, may revolutionize many areas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frrZbq2LpwI That is, do we actually need hard AR right now?
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by drucken 14y ago
This change has been a positive development for me. It made me realise that in all my many online identities, 51 at last count, I use my real name in exactly one online service provider (excluding banks) - a non-Google email service for "In
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Will Chirp become the next Twitter?(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by drucken 14y ago|5 comments
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by drucken 14y ago
Fat Head (2009) BBC Horizon: Why Are Thin People Not Fat? (2009) - both very interesting programmes that contain surprising amount of cutting edge scientific information. - both demonstrate how the Lipid Hypothesis has effectively been debu
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by drucken 14y ago
Original science article: http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nph...
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by drucken 14y ago
While Goldman are culpable for at minimum the fraudulent valuation services and poor deal preparation, I would foot the blame for the overall transaction almost squarely on Dragon's CFO and a pressuring board. Regardless of the advisor, it

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