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by huxley 10y ago
According to your citations, that figure is for all of urban and suburban Australia, not Sydney and would be spread out over 30-40 years
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by huxley 10y ago
The "Sick man of Europe" in 1970s --and most famously-- was the UK, not Germany (which didn't happen until the 1990s and was attributed to re-unification, not any particular issues with manufacturing) The original "sick
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by huxley 10y ago
The Nomad 1 came out in 1999 so it wasn't so very long before the iPod's 2001 release. But you're right, I did forget about the Jukebox and it was much more competitive.
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by huxley 10y ago
Sorry, which market was that? The most generous reading is that the smartphone market has been flat. 2015-2016 has been really tough on most of Apple's smartphone competitors, it's been a moving window and it affected some sooner
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by huxley 10y ago
Sure it means something, it means that Apple had a spectacular 2015. In 2001, Apple had revenues of $5.3 billion and a net loss of $25 million. 2014, revenues of $182.8 billion with $39.5 billion in profit. 2015, revenues of $233.7 billion
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by huxley 10y ago
The Nomad was pretty much just a rebranded Samsung Yepp YP-D40. It had 64MB of flash storage and a parallel port connector compared to the 5GB and Firewire 400 that the iPod had, the Nomad/Yepp YP-D40 was fairly decent compared to a lo
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by huxley 10y ago
Monty Python's "How to Do It" skit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM "... this week on 'How to Do It' we're going to learn how to play the flute, how to split the atom, how to c
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by huxley 10y ago
Not quite what happened, Intel got stuck itself in several anti-trust quagmires because of their attempts to rescind the x86 license that IBM forced Intel to give to AMD when the 8088 was selected for the original IBM PC. Intel did everyth
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by huxley 10y ago
I totally agree that phoning is the optimal choice, but it does not have to be either/or, if it bothers someone enough, do it all. Phoning and letter mail are definitely way higher in the attention scale than email (or worse yet an onl
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by huxley 10y ago
Wouldn't allegations of journalists being arrested fall under federal jurisdiction since it could be reasonably argued that jailing reporters is a civil rights violation?
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by huxley 10y ago
Mac hosting doesn't tend to be VMs largely because of Apple's licensing rules for macOS (which is a big hassle, no question) so they'll naturally be more expensive than a $5 virtualized Linux VM. But Macincloud has ~$20/
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by huxley 10y ago
Won't affect my decisions come renewal time, I have no beef against the jack but I've come to despise wired headphones so much that the loss of the jack is inconsequential to me. And even driving my old beater won't cause me
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by huxley 10y ago
No, the test doesn't show that Stradivarius violins are junk but rather that the best violins by modern violin makers are able to challenge and surpass Stradivarius violins.
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by huxley 10y ago
Braintree does process American Express: https://www.braintreepayments.com/en-au/payment-methods/acce...
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by huxley 10y ago
In Western Canada, prairie oysters are cooked bull testicles, so another acquired taste (one I never acquired)
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by huxley 10y ago
Reminded me quite a bit of the stories in Orson Welles' "F is for Fake" (1973)
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by huxley 10y ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ is a type of emoticon referred to as kaomoji common in Asia (and now worldwide), but like the happy face :-) it is an emoticon (kaomoji use a wider character set than the ASCII commonly used in Western emoticons) Emoji is a J
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by huxley 10y ago
Opening Keynote is really for the press, it'll probably be mentioned more prominently in the State of the Union keynotes and in its own session.
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by huxley 10y ago
If someone isn't ready to go with Argon2 and truncating past 72 characters is an issue, Django (and possibly other implementations that I'm not aware of) overcome that by first hashing the password with SHA256 before passing it to
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by huxley 10y ago
Federally in Canada, the upper limit seems to be 500W and 32km/h in Canada.
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by huxley 10y ago
You'll find that in some communities, the Universalist Unitarians or liberal/universalist/nontheist Quaker meetings might fit the need. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism https:/&
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by huxley 10y ago
Sad, Scott McNealy was reputed to have banned Powerpoints in 1997 for pretty much that reason.
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by huxley 10y ago
If you configure your server to use TLS resumption and False Start there should only be one extra roundtrip, which can make a significant difference. https://istlsfastyet.com
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by huxley 10y ago
For how long? Won't the lack of a global magnetosphere on Mars make that a relatively short term "fix"?
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by huxley 10y ago
Yep, though the fussiness of OTA (over-the-air) TV and radio broadcasts was probably quite inspirational. Rowan Atkinson explored OTA in a Mr. Bean skit: https://youtu.be/Sm3_qEMTdc4
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by huxley 10y ago
Tycho Brahe was wrong but on stronger scientific ground given the observations available, stellar parallax wasn't observed until around 1806 by Giuseppe Calandrelli and not definitively measured until 1838 by Friedrich Bessel.
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by huxley 10y ago
It's important to remember that the voyages weren't attempts to prove scientific theories, the Spanish wanted to establish new trade routes.
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by huxley 10y ago
That's a bit of an anachronistic view, there really wasn't much secular science at the time, the vast majority of science was done under the patronage and support church officials (Catholic or Protestant). Copernicus was a canon o
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by huxley 10y ago
Apparently both "Pet Sounds"and Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde" were released on the same day. It's hard to imagine two albums that were recorded so differently could emerge at the same time; I imagine the common th
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by huxley 10y ago
Most gambling is against a rigged system, the house always wins in the long run.

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