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eurleif
12y ago
How, exactly, does reddit get anyone's MAC address from outside of their private network?
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12y ago
>Bad weather and unexpected obstacles like pedestrians are actually trivial to handle. Google's self-driving cars still have trouble with heavy rain and snow (or at least they did as of last year). http://www.technologyre
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12y ago
In this study[0], honey compares favorably to silver sulfadiazine dressing for healing burn wounds. [0] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2845359/
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12y ago
I wonder if choline supplementation would counteract this effect. In fact, I wonder if choline supplementation might help stave off dementia in general. As much as 90% of the population may be deficient in choline.[0] [0] http://
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12y ago
>Evolution means that out of all states that stem from the current one, the optimal one tends to endure, so the "best of all possible worlds" is indeed a pretty good way of phrasing it, if a little vague. "Best of all poss
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12y ago
>You can make a car that looks like a Mercedes and no one will bat an eyelid http://www.motorauthority.com/news/1085935_spanish-police-bu...
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12y ago
>it would be limited to your individual contractual obligations as the owner of an airline ticke Interfering with a contractual relationship is a tort. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
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eurleif
12y ago
"I and the Father are one." --Jesus in John 10:30
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12y ago
FWIW, there's also Snap Circuits: http://www.snapcircuits.net/ I had this one as a kid, and I had fun with it, but I don't know how it compares to the other electronic kits you listed.
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12y ago
>> ban advertisement > This kills the media. Are you sure? I agree that if any individual media outlet stopped accepting ads, it would kill them; but that's because their competitors would still accept ads. Given a choice betw
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12y ago
But your title would place the blame on the opposite side of where the post places it. Is it really just the title you disagree with, or the post itself? If it's the latter, it would help if you could make specific criticisms of the ar
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eurleif
12y ago
This is already built-in: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14264
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eurleif
12y ago
Firefox's UI is already built using XUL markup, which is rendered using the rendering engine.
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12y ago
Note that with statements kill performance, at least in V8. https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...
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eurleif
12y ago
Since we're talking about space, I wonder if they could use cold welding... ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_welding )
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eurleif
12y ago
Huh? Android uses the Linux kernel...
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12y ago
This post seems to be hinting that this is potential security issue, but I'm not sure how it would be. All I can imagine this buying you is the ability to serve JS from someone else's domain, but the domain JS is served from doesn
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12y ago
>Each of these options requires that those who choose to use more of the service pay more than others. The Flexible-Data Option adds an alternative, permitting those who choose to use less to pay less. It's so nice to have alternati
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12y ago
>Using the patent to to produce and sell the invention, in which case it's not a paper patent. If they're successful, patent trolls end up with licensees too. If you're not allowed to sue anyone until you already have lice
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eurleif
12y ago
Patent trolls could just put out sham products that are cheap to produce but use their patent. And there are also legitimate cases for inventing something and licensing the patent out without producing anything yourself.
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12y ago
It would be neat to see the same thing, except using two OCR libraries instead of just one, and requiring both libraries to be able to read the message. I imagine the letters would start to look a bit less insane.
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12y ago
>Instead of repeatedly trying and failing to bring about meaningful change, we should adapt -- because that is the reasonable thing to do. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to
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12y ago
>After "the ship has sailed", no choices matter anymore. Surely, you may decompose faster or slower, rot for quite some time or go out with the bang. But it's confined to your own body now, which is definitely mortal. You&
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12y ago
How about "Windows Nine"?
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12y ago
I wonder what they're afraid of here? How would allowing this harm them? There must be some reason (even if it's ultimately misguided), but I've been trying to figure it out, and I can't.
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12y ago
This doesn't answer your question, but Manhattan used to have a pneumatic tube system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube_mail_in_New_Yor...
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12y ago
>The concept of a "private beach" would be strikingly alien and unnatural in any ethical universe. What's so special about beaches? Or do you want to do away with all forms of private property?
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12y ago
Organic and non-GMO have specific definitions (which are in scientific terms). That does not imply there is a scientific justification for believing that they are better in any way.
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12y ago
If Airbnb hosts want to be taxed as a corporation, is anything stopping them from simply forming a corporation?
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12y ago
>ASP.NET is not a framework, but a language C# and VB.NET are languages. ASP.NET is a framework.
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