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by eksith 13y ago
This is a dubious investment IMO. Rockets that have shrouds have been thrown about for a long time, but they have one fundamental weakness. The shroud only works while in the atmosphere. After that, it's dead weight (since no significa
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by eksith 13y ago
> Not to mention there is http://programmers.stackexchange.com which is exactly "a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow" so really, what's the point? http://programmers.st
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by eksith 13y ago
When the vibe turns to over-moderation I.E. strict enforcement to the point human beings are forced to act as functions with predictable output, it's tedious, Not Constructive (ironically) and overall unpleasant to even browse let alon
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by eksith 13y ago
Quora is a walled garden (behind FB) which I sincerely hope this won't end up as.
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No, I think that's the picture. It's already happening in those "black sites" we hear about and the sad thing is that the citizens in those countries would be up in arms about them if they were more widely known. It&#x27
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by eksith 13y ago
Why is it that every leader in power seems to forget that they won't stay in that position forever? Let's take his word for it and say the power won't be abused. What of his successors? If a power exists, it will be abused. P
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Using pulsars to define space-time coordinates(arxiv.org)
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I think this really hits the point. Since the vast majority of these are no different from spam (in fact, I'm convinced some percentage may be from reengineered spam software), it's those that actually respond that they have a hop
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by eksith 13y ago
Let me ask again... what evidence do you have that he specifically deserved to be killed without explanation? Let me put it in another way, since the question doesn't seem to be making sense to you: If your father happened to be Timo
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by eksith 13y ago
You're assuming he was a "bad enough dude" with no evidence to support that assertion. The burden of proof is always on the accuser. If he was accused of being worthy of death, let's see some documentation to support t
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by eksith 13y ago
Last I checked, we weren't governed by Klingon law, but sadly it seems to be the case that you can be held guilty of the crimes of your father. I don't mean to trivialize this, but my geek brain can't quite find any other ima
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by eksith 13y ago
Completely false. Your license plate is the equivalent of a online pseudonym linked to a database. Common users aren't able to browse this database, however if someone's keeping a tally of the appearances of said license plate (th
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by eksith 13y ago
Anonymity != Privacy. If you're in a crowd, by definition, you're not expected to have privacy, however you are allowed anonymity by virtue of being in a crowd. If you're in a cafe, you're naturally not afforded privacy,
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by eksith 13y ago
Good customers tend to be a rare too though. It's less about the fluctuation and more about other services not accepting Bitcoin at the moment. If your utility providers accept Bitcoin that could grease the wheels a bit toward general
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by eksith 13y ago
I think what was meant was the opposition can play a large part in an intervention for trivial reasons so a grave reason should be more than enough motivation. ...If there is true opposition.
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by eksith 13y ago
That's very true. But look at the political atmosphere now. I feel that there's opposition theater rather than true opposition. Some of the things in opposition don't even make sense. People bicker over trite best left to lat
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by eksith 13y ago
That's not how justice works. Unless you're found with a dead prostitute covered in blood, you don't owe anything to anyone if you're already powerful.
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by eksith 13y ago
Happy Birthday! I came across HN while searching for code examples for forums (strangely enough). This was when Digg was still relevant, but someone suggested looking to alternatives for link sharing and HN came up in the conversation. I lu
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by eksith 13y ago
> among good technical people Good technical people appreciate others who are of equal or greater skill. And I've noticed older (no offense to you folks; I'm speaking relatively) people tend to abhor office politics and
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by eksith 13y ago
>Whether people choose to read the whole comment, or prefer to see "bla, bla, bla, garbage!" is a different matter. Interesting that you assume we didn't read the rest of the comment. I assure you most of us do pre
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by eksith 13y ago
>...art of that sort is garbage. There are plenty of people who vehemently defend that garbage, but it doesn't make it any less wasteful use of human time and attention. ...is your opinion. Opinion that as downvoters h
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by eksith 13y ago
Not living North enough ;) This is mostly a problem further South and West in Alaska. The higher up you go, the colder it is to the point you don't get that many insects at all.
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by eksith 13y ago
Maximizing breeze was actually more about keeping cool than getting rid of mosquitos. Besides, sometimes the breeze would die down and you've got the same old problem. Mosquito nets were available back then : http://www.nott
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by eksith 13y ago
That's very true. Thank you for that well reasoned response. I suppose Ubuntu as a "brand" is getting more and more inseparable form Unity from the user perspective, which is unfortunate, since there are so many flavors to ch
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by eksith 13y ago
This is the standard procedure in Sri Lanka as well, when people aren't lighting those poison coils (because some people still don't have indoor fans) or putting on the mosquito net when sleeping.
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>Fragmenting what? I can't quite figure that out from the article either, but from the language, I guess they're insinuating that the architecture changes ( in the Ubuntu way as opposed to the traditional "Linux wa
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by eksith 13y ago
Summary: Ubuntu has become Windows. It's pursuing devices and fragmenting the ecosystem. The problem with Ubuntu, by and large, seems to be a Metro style revolt against Unity although Unity achieved suckdom first. Things broke with cha
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by eksith 13y ago
That, I'm not too sure of, but it's more than likely a PIC-16 or 18 series. There's a nice write-up from last year on using a PIC16F628A and four servos to build a walking robot. http://www.academia.edu/17675
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by eksith 13y ago
To be fair, there have been far more interesting posts on HN that were ignored because it was only a YouTube video. Would you be commenting if it wasn't linked to a different site (however spammy looking the domain)?
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