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by huxley 10y ago
Because this particular dam happens to be upstream to some large population centres, back in 2007 they estimated half-million people could be killed and several millions displaced, that figure might be higher today.
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by huxley 10y ago
The US Department of Defense has received about 19% directly and that amount doesn't include defence related spending by other departments nor does it include spending in Iraq and Afghanistan (or other overseas adventures).
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by huxley 10y ago
Apple uses XNU which is a hybrid kernel based on the Mach 3 microkernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XNU
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by huxley 10y ago
Apparently the "source" (a Forbes blogpost) of the number of deaths stretched quite far to find people who died from wind power: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/03/27/forbes-reaches-to-fi...
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by huxley 10y ago
Just FYI UK: Knocking up - visiting, in this case going door to door to canvass voters North America: Knocking up - making pregnant
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by huxley 10y ago
Sorry but that's not true, there are plenty of reasons to do so, in particular to provide context, commentary and explanation. When someone annotates a text, they are modifying it. It's called glossing, it has a long and academica
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by huxley 10y ago
A sizeable contingent of Hacker News readers love Ted Chiang's stuff so it's not uncommon for links to his stories to surface on HN from time to time, but I think you're correct that Arrival's success has revived interes
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by huxley 10y ago
That's one of the things discussed in the article: "To Schmidt and others, these new findings suggest a novel theory of civilization. Scholars have long believed that only after people learned to farm and live in settled communiti
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by huxley 10y ago
Interestingly it wasn't initially targeted at the PowerPC (let alone the PowerMac), the original BeBox prototypes used 2 AT&T ATT92010 Hobbit processors and 3 AT&T DSP3210 DSPs. https://web.archive.org/web/
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by huxley 10y ago
No, it was a different niche, different promise and only one of them flopped (after all NeXTSTEP lives on as macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, etc) NeXTSTEP was Steve Jobs' attempt to build an OS that fulfilled the promise of what he saw duri
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by huxley 10y ago
Avie was one of the lead developers of Mach at Carnegie Mellon as well, so his legacy extends beyond macOS and NEXTSTEP. But I'd argue that beyond code, probably his most important Apple role was establishing a steady release schedule.
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by huxley 10y ago
Given that Apple pulled it off twice with the Mac 68K emulator (for the Motorola 680x0 to PowerPC transition) and on OS X with Rosetta (for the PowerPC to x86 transition), it's certainly possible and ARM processors have come a long way
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by huxley 10y ago
Was that Abe, I thought it was one of his cabinet ministers?
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by huxley 10y ago
Those aren't facts, they are premises It is as likely that tying a university degree as the minimum pre-requisite for a decently paying career is driving the price upwards. Increased competition for desirable placements is the classic
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by huxley 10y ago
The OTA updater was pre-installed and ran as root, is it possible that this would allow it to disregard signatures?
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by huxley 10y ago
"goto fail" certainly could be used as a way of subverting iOS security but it provided indiscriminate access in a way that seems more like a vulnerability caused by a bug. Maybe some actor did add the goto fail for nefarious reas
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by huxley 10y ago
I believe it's still pretty common to use a form of seaweed called Irish Moss as a thickener in ice cream.
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by huxley 10y ago
Not that short-term. Methane has a GWP (Global Warming Potential or equivalent impact compared to same amount of carbon dioxide) of 86 over 20 years; 34 over 100 years; and 7.6 over 500 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by huxley 10y ago
It feels to me sometimes that the "new Miyazaki" is much like being the "new Dylan" used to be in the music industry. Though we lost him too young, Kon Satoshi was able to reach the level of extraordinary several times.
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by huxley 10y ago
It is, but they are talking specifically about iCloud's backup feature being switched off, not iCloud itself. Syncing is not the same as backup.
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by huxley 10y ago
NeXTSTEP (macOS and iOS's predecessor) predates Tk's the use of the term kit by 3 years and GTK's by almost 10.
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by huxley 10y ago
I had that degree of freedom in both Honduras (the capital city of Tegucigalpa) and in Canada in the mid-to-late 1970s and early 1980s so I've got two data points there. Note: my Honduran side of the family was upper middle class so it
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by huxley 10y ago
Why is Linux still licensed as GPLv2? There can be many valid reasons to not want to move to GPLv3 beyond hating software freedom.
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by huxley 10y ago
Not quite at that time, the Powerbook G4 wasn't announced until January 9, 2001, at the time it was the Powerbook G3 Pismo that was Apple's main pro notebook. I don't think the magnesium case played much a role in the weight
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by huxley 10y ago
A couple of things about these anecdotes to give some context: Steve Jobs used a Thinkpad (a 560E I believe) running OPENSTEP for quite a long time after taking over Apple, because of his objections to using what he considered to be the pri
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by huxley 10y ago
It's not easy, candidates have the right to appoint agents to verify the voting process, the ballot counts, the correctness of the markings and to certify the count and confirm the ballots are properly sealed in case of a judicial reco
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by huxley 10y ago
Not sure about elsewhere, but in Canada, any candidate on the ballot is usually allowed to appoint up to two agents or scrutineers per ballot box, usually to spell each other off (it can be a very long day)
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by huxley 10y ago
You can retire the AirPods argument. The W1 chip is in the AirPods, the device that it connects to doesn't need to have a W1, the only requirement is OS support, that includes Macs running Sierra. Under system requirements: "Mac m
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by huxley 10y ago
No, the book (his 4th one) was turned down by 18 different publishers before Oneworld, an indie, picked it up.
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by huxley 10y ago
It's easy enough to do, at least you cited.

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