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by g8oz 8y ago
For Windows and Mac Chromium builds without Google Sync I recommend: https://chromium.woolyss.com/ From the site: "Welcome on this auto-updated website to easily download latest stable version or good build of Chromium
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by g8oz 8y ago
Indeed - Ethiopian (and other African) officials are regularly sent to China for training on governing. It's a very effective soft power tactic. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2016/07&#x2F
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by g8oz 8y ago
A counterexample: In WW1 German patents were declared invalid in the U.S. The U.S chemical industry basically then copied everything they could from them with the government's blessing.
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by g8oz 8y ago
Black? Why the undifferentiated name? Another OSS naming fail.
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by g8oz 8y ago
The discourse within the planning profession has to change before this type of innovative thinking can make any headway in N. America.
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by g8oz 8y ago
A longer term fix would be to fund pensions by taxes on wealth rather than income. At least to the extent of the deficit caused by the difference in age distribution.
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Cell carriers to stop sharing real-time cell phone location data(zdnet.com)
78 points by g8oz 8y ago|20 comments
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by g8oz 8y ago
Ubiquiti routers use them...many of the cheap set-top boxes from a few years ago did too.
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by g8oz 8y ago
India? Oh boy, as if there wasn't enough neighborhood gossip going on there, now it's going online.
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by g8oz 8y ago
noob question: how do I paste those symbols in say Notepad++?
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by g8oz 8y ago
Hydraulic systems and compressed air systems are usually regarded as separate things. Maybe the distinction is a bit arbitrary and the former can be regarded as a subset of the latter but there you go. edit: Google says hydraulic transmits
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by g8oz 8y ago
Also interesting is hydraulic energy storage. Any entrepreneurs want to take a shot with this system? http://license.umn.edu/technologies/z07054_hydraulic-energy-...
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by g8oz 8y ago
I assume this is how we get real-time road traffic information, is it not?
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by g8oz 8y ago
On Linux Google Meet using Chrome is really good in my experience.
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by g8oz 9y ago
Guifi.net is actually mentioned halfway through the article.
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by g8oz 10y ago
Julian Assange is the modern "useful idiot". http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
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by g8oz 10y ago
A certain type of click bait journalist has an interest in creating EEStor-type narratives. True believers in the Magic Product keep clicking links for months or years at a time.
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by g8oz 10y ago
Adelson is on the wrong side of of quite a few issues if you look into his many activities. He is almost comically villainous.
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by g8oz 10y ago
As far as I'm concerned Assange is a delusional megalomaniac and has attracted similar types it seems. The organisation could have been something special instead of a support structure for this self-important, posturing bloviating. Sn
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by g8oz 10y ago
Which of the various conspiracy theories about her have you swallowed?
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by g8oz 10y ago
A company's stated values and mission are often at odds with it's revealed preferences. Employees respond to the latter, which show themselves via what kind of behavior gets rewarded/ignored/punished.
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by g8oz 10y ago
Completely agree about MS SQL Server Management Studio, such an amazing DB management GUI. If it could be cloned, screen for screen for PG then there would be no obstacle to world domination.
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by g8oz 10y ago
The impression is that their preference runs on the ideological/pragmatic divide rather than the emotional/rational. (Not that I wouldn't want to be an FP samurai myself, along with exercising more regularly, flossing, and ac
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by g8oz 10y ago
ALso really obnoxious the way is the way "they" have redefined "unsafe", and created a charge that no one can possibly defend themselves from: "he made me feel unsafe". It really puts one in a Kafkaesque positi
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by g8oz 10y ago
Try any one of a pine tar soap, Dettol, a tea tree oil based wash or an alcohol cleanser.
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by g8oz 10y ago
What self-serving nonsense. Big business plays jurisdictional arbitrage and we're foolish for even questioning much less acting against it? Give me a break.
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by g8oz 10y ago
Here come the grifters! The U.S really needs a counterpart to the U.K's Ofsted agency to do summary executions of substandard education providers.
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by g8oz 10y ago
I'm a little confused as to how the West is committing suicide as he puts it. Allowing the sale of halal meat? What a joke compared to the old communist threat.
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by g8oz 10y ago
Sounds like there is a bad competitive situation in the halal wholesale market in your area. The store owner should have taken that in to account.
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by g8oz 10y ago
I'd call it process theater rather than process rigor.

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