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by furyg3 9y ago
Slaves did not build the pyramids: http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids-ht...
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by furyg3 10y ago
Seriously. I somehow ended up using all of them, and I honestly don't know what's going on anymore. I thought my Talk got merged into Hangouts, if I start a chat in Gmail it's sometimes findable in my iOS hangouts app, and
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by furyg3 10y ago
Bits of Freedom ( https://bof.nl ) was working really hard on fighting this bill.
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by furyg3 10y ago
One thing pointed out in the episode is how charging one fixed price really binds the nation together, whether or not you are mailing something to an address around the corner or from NYC to San Francisco (or to more remote regions like the
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by furyg3 10y ago
After a crash Safari is nice enough to restore your open windows and tabs... I've noticed several times that it's also nice enough to re-open your private browsing windows, too. That throws up some red flags for me.
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by furyg3 10y ago
There's all sorts of cases in real life now when defining fault is not at all easy. Children and animals are two examples of 'autonomous' individuals who's liability may lie with another party (parent/owner), buy
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by furyg3 10y ago
I think the idea is that at Level 4, the car can drive the way humans drive. If it's unsafe for the car to drive autonomously, it's unsafe for humans, too.
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by furyg3 10y ago
This is what struck me when reading the article. The winner of the hackathon is the guy who goes out to the parking lot and plants a tree. :) In all seriousness, they gather the solar energy themselves, absorb the CO2 themselves, after a s
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by furyg3 10y ago
I can imagine this happening very easily. Let's say a contractor is helping add a module to some web application... "It worked on test, but not in production. It's supposed to be live already, what's the holdup? Fine,
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by furyg3 10y ago
I'm also confused. Maybe it's an old chart? They say they 'raised' prices by 20%, and that VAT is included. Based on the chart, a MacBook is $38.80 cheaper in the UK than in the US (excluding VAT). So the real story is
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by furyg3 10y ago
There are always winners and losers, and those on the losing end need to be supported through the transition. If we save some huge amount of labor costs employing the truckers plus the medical costs (normally spent on the 4+ million seriou
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by furyg3 10y ago
I don't even... why in the world would it be important for a doctor to differentiate being struck by a dolphin or struck by orca (side note: orcas are dolphins!).
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by furyg3 10y ago
The point of the grandparent wasn't to outline all possible things that may have happened (Hell, the whole thing could have been made up). The point is that original texts may have differed, omitting certain aspects for logistical or
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by furyg3 10y ago
I wonder about the fruit of the poisonous tree in this case, though. IANAL, so I am honestly curious if this doctrine applies to civil proceedings. Secondly, the tax offices presumably have a right to carry out audits and don't need t
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by furyg3 10y ago
Yes. All intelligenge agencies are by definition criminal organizations outside their home country. While conducting these clandestine operations they may also collect information which could convict someone domestically in court... but US
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by furyg3 10y ago
But there can be a luggage fire? What fuse can you pull to disable that? I assume there are extinguishers for the luggage compartment? Put a GPS/Iridium suitcase in the plane?
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by furyg3 10y ago
Amazing. Maybe I'm extremely naive, but it seems to me that you shouldn't be able to turn the transponder off in a commercial passenger flight, and that international medium/long-haul flights that are likely to be in areas wi
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by furyg3 10y ago
I've said it before, but why WOULDN'T a country provide protections and rights to non-citizens (residents or not) that it outlines in it's constitution? After all, the US founding fathers believed it to be "self-evident
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by furyg3 10y ago
Exactly. This is exactly why we have elected representatives. Nothing is destroyed, it can be 'cleaned up' instantly, nobody climbed any fences or can be asked to leave, yet most people would probably say that it is not ok to pr
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by furyg3 10y ago
Hasn't shipped yet, but Keezel may be interesting: http://keezel.co It's a hardware product and they broker the VPN provider... so the VPN provider doesn't know who you are, and the Keezel device can use the best-
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Was There a Problem with the Rio Pool?(swimswam.com)
229 points by furyg3 10y ago|96 comments
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by furyg3 10y ago
Weirdly the NOS even has a Teletext app that I regularly see people using.
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by furyg3 10y ago
This is actually pretty common, worldwide. The trains in the Netherlands technically 'flush', but they flush right onto the tracks.
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by furyg3 10y ago
Here in NL there's been chip and pin for forever, and 'signing' for a transaction is laughable from a Dutch perspective. Chip + PIN is everywhere, to the point that many merchants don't even accept cash anymore, too muc
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by furyg3 10y ago
Yes, it's a bit of a "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us!" situation.
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by furyg3 10y ago
Solar leasing is not going to be profitable, very soon. Solar panels (+ installation) is now pretty cheap and getting cheaper. Subsidies are being removed, financing is available. It's becoming a no-brainer. So they're winning t
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by furyg3 10y ago
Back in the day X10 (very simple protocol, on/off/dim, no security) actually worked very well, with only a small delay. It's really horrible that 15+ years in the future it's all still so awful. It's really, really
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by furyg3 10y ago
If Americans (of which I am one) and the US government believe that it is self-evident that all men are created equal, then surely they should apply the principles that they have enshrined in their constitution to all equals when dealing wi
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by furyg3 10y ago
A+ for circles, G+ for content.
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by furyg3 10y ago
As shitty as it is to copy and paste spam messages all day for (probably) little money, I'm not quite sure it would qualify as a sweat shop. Even if it was quite warm in the office.

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