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by fpp 14y ago
anyone counted the portable toilet cabins in the base camp(s) - stopped with 58 how do they get those up and down?
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Elon Musk’s electric car company Tesla Motors is now cash-flow positive(qz.com)
5 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
That is already happening but more along the lines of 1-2 of those charging stations per "village".
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by fpp 14y ago
You should not underestimate the life changing effects (aka disruptive) the availability of cheap smartphones had for large groups of the population in Africa (where many still live on less than $2 a day). Many for the first time could pay
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20 years ago Neil Papworth sent the 1st SMS when working for Vodaphone(neilpapworth.com)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
A group of scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago have shown that moderate consumption of Alcohol may boost creativity. ... and there is of course the Ballmer Peak http://duvet-dayz.com/archives/2012/04/13/1199/
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by fpp 14y ago
When you want to know what happened to many of the others pictured there (besides Levchin), lookup PayPal Mafia on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Mafia
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by fpp 14y ago
It's called "Hollywood accounting": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
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by fpp 14y ago
One of the key benefits of node.js is that people who are great with JS can write server code and you have one language stack less to worry about. You can with that (watch for security issues) also share code & objects between the serve
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by fpp 14y ago
If you want to get some non-mainstream or non-paid for opinions on this topic, the consequences for farmers in the U.S. and even more in developing countries, also on how the PTO started to allow such patents in the first place watch Food I
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by fpp 14y ago
Wikipedia already has a 3 page description of the Keccak hash approach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keccak
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by fpp 14y ago
Very right - it's called accountability. At the same time (at least in Germany) they want to force citizens to use email (accounts) where they have complete control of the servers / infrastructure it is provided from. In the US they are e.g
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by fpp 14y ago
A bit of history on the work of the NRL on modified Fischer-Tropsch processes / Hydrogenation: From Wikipedia on Fischer-Tropsch: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer–Tropsch_process ) Carbon dioxide reuse In 2009, chemists working for
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New Zealand Prime Minister Apologizes To Kimble(torrentfreak.com)
1 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
The Asus A95V is another one - real workhorse, huge & heavy (18.4 display) but has latest i7 Ivy-Bridge chip set, 2 hard disks, 16GB mem, full HD. similar price point - actually a bit cheaper than the UX31A but originally only available
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by fpp 14y ago
Support from Bing / MS to OpenStreetMap goes even further - at least in London where I'm participating in the OSM mapping they also provide Satellite images for the editing processes.
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by fpp 14y ago
The more twitter is going down that path the more app.net makes sense - already hearing from quite a few that their twitter accounts are slowly dying / they are not checking much on it anymore due to the high noise to content ratio
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by fpp 14y ago
this is a current requirement for everybody submitting a patent application
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by fpp 14y ago
2007: MySpace is for losers ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/bitterjug/462059242/ ) 2012: Facebook is ... (e.g. like a jail - http://duvet-dayz.com/archives/2012/03/07/1192/ )
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by fpp 14y ago
This is really great - some additional suggestions: - When you're submitting a patent application you are required to have done a prior art search and list found prior art. - law firms providing patent services often outsource prior art sea
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by fpp 14y ago
some patents take days to review - some have to be reviewed in context with other patents etc. So maybe 200 teacups each but the direction is definitely right.
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Everything that's wrong with Java in a single class(plus.google.com)
180 points by fpp 14y ago|155 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
Looks pretty neat - saving it as html file works great, but you can't print the docs (in Chrome print to pdf only shows a scroll bar, in FF it does not properly format). Great work anyway - I'll have a deeper look.
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by fpp 14y ago
first hand experience
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by fpp 14y ago
this has been done by a company called Advanced Computer Research in the 1990s - it has been proven to be working very well, so well that it was taken off the market (with force / criminal means). Officially the company was sold to an US co
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by fpp 14y ago
When looking into unused IPv4 /8 blocks besides private companies, could somebody please explain how much of the 201,326,592 addresses (12x /8) allocated to the US DoD have ever been used
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by fpp 14y ago
A technical description and how they got it running together with more pictures: http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~sjc/raspberrypi/pi_supercomput... As you can see from the pictures each of the devices uses its own power supply, so there shou
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4 US diplomats incl. the US Ambassador killed in the militia/mob raid in Libya(bbc.co.uk)
9 points by fpp 14y ago|2 comments
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IETF standardizes the Opus audio codec as RFC 6716(xiph.org)
2 points by fpp 14y ago|0 comments
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by fpp 14y ago
Guess what he's actually saying is that if you want to created "walled gardens" and locking-in users HTML5 is not the way. So if you want to collect fees from publishers, don't own the browser or the OS (and are not the content creator) -

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