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by ferongr 8y ago
> if SpaceX rents an unused launch pad from NASA instead of spending $1 billion to build a new one, is that a subsidy No, it's called renting. If it was unused then the presumably low price SpaceX pays for it is the right one. This
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by ferongr 8y ago
I live in a hole of an apartment in a European city and contrary to most Hackernews I'd love a detached house with a hobby shed to house some metalworking equipment and a driveway were I could wrench on my motorcycle. Also, there'
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by ferongr 8y ago
>Tesla invented battery management technology to scale up bundles of small lithiun ion cells. I dispute that claim. They may have created a solution for use in their vehicles but did not "invent" anything, they just upscaled ex
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by ferongr 8y ago
>Authoritarianism is inherently right-wing, if you use the original definition of right and left. Communism.
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by ferongr 8y ago
"Commercial" has a different definition in Germany and really, in much of Europe.
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by ferongr 8y ago
It's the rational belief to hold.
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by ferongr 8y ago
The App Settings xposed module allows you to change locale (among other settings) per app. I use it to keep Google Maps and Here Maps in Greek while my device locale is English.
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by ferongr 8y ago
>roguelikes which encourage more frequent, "short"(-er) games Those are roguelites, not roguelikes.
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by ferongr 8y ago
The absolute state of USians
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by ferongr 8y ago
Link unrelated?
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by ferongr 8y ago
As long as you didn't grind the dial into dust and inhale it, it was pretty safe and an excellent solution compared to the weak glow of Super-Luminova pigment.
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by ferongr 8y ago
There's just not enough unlicensed spectrum for something like that to happen I'm afraid.
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by ferongr 8y ago
The speeds are theoretical and plummet as spectrum utilization increases. If everybody replaced their xDSL/DOCSIS/FTTx connections with 4G/5G and utilized them the same, the speeds would be terrible. Restrictive data transfe
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by ferongr 8y ago
It's not named babyseekingbrutalkiller9000, meh.
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by ferongr 8y ago
Admittedly, my own experience was with older versions up to 57, but what it felt like e10s did not really help with responsiveness, especially after very long sessions (24 hours+). Restarting Firefox used to be a daily ritual (with all the
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by ferongr 8y ago
Looks like this comment was force-hidden by the mods for some reason.
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by ferongr 8y ago
They're called image macros, not memes.
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by ferongr 8y ago
The state has decided to regulate or even ban the "gig economy". The media is just paving the way shaping the narrative.
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by ferongr 8y ago
If my experience with Asus Android devices and routers is anything to go by, the feature will be a minimum viable gimmick with lots of bugs that will be abandoned down the line.
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by ferongr 8y ago
Yes, as well as rents. A 1BR apartment can be as low as 150€/mo or even a bit lower. It's only a few "hip" neighborhoods that are affected. Still, Athens is relatively compact and mass transit is excellent so you can eas
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by ferongr 8y ago
Long form pieces are nice but most of New Yorker's stuff read like student essays padded to meet a quota.
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by ferongr 8y ago
>careful prose Heh.
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by ferongr 8y ago
Nothing says "beautiful" like having to fumble with a touchscreen to adjust the air vents.
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by ferongr 8y ago
>10 percent of companies introduce fixed rest hours for employees by 2020 So in other words, they did nothing.
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by ferongr 8y ago
You can shoot at drones with impunity, unlike people that you have to feed, house, process and eventually extradict if that's even possible.
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by ferongr 8y ago
If production slightly exceeded consumption, and production was not reduced, the generators at the powerplants would end up speeding up and the frequency and voltage of the network would go up. As voltage increases, many loads end producing
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by ferongr 8y ago
Then you can't use Autopilot. Where's the confusion.
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by ferongr 8y ago
I don't know why this reply is downvoted, it's essentially correct. Many science AMAs feature obscure subjects that not many would be interested in interacting with.
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by ferongr 8y ago
Provide proof in the form of ABX logs.
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by ferongr 8y ago
No.

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