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by icanhackit 8y ago
Just a thought... Normally the concrete reinforcement panels that line tunnels are precast based on calculations for how many they'll need to complete the project, which makes sense because tunnels are usually large one-off infrastruct
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Ant 2 is known as a dwarf galaxy. As structures emerged in the early Universe, dwarfs were the first galaxies to form [...] What makes Ant 2 even more unusual is how little light it gives out. Compared to the LMC, another satellite of th
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by icanhackit 8y ago
> his role in Apple is to provide strategic direction and guidance That's the feeling I got, as well as perhaps being a human abstraction layer between the engineers and the executives. If you can describe in relatively understand
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by icanhackit 8y ago
> On the other, I remember the Power days. Having non Mac users “talk down” to me about using a different processor was beyond annoying. Sample size of one and all that - but for me it was a selling point. The PowerPC G5 (PPC 970) was
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by icanhackit 8y ago
I vaguely remember this episode and want to rewatch it. Do you know what the name or episode#/season it was?
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by icanhackit 8y ago
It’s just a form of networking in a country that officially forbids networking as a concept — like many things in Catholic states, it is officially forbidden but everybody does it anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by icanhackit 8y ago
Yes, there is a bit of an issue with downvotes being handed out just because someone disagrees. But that also happens on HN - there's an issue with voting being used as a blunt instrument across all sites that implement it. But in defe
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by icanhackit 8y ago
Not sure whether you're saying being stuck in an embassy meant he lacked a backup plan or whether it was one, but I'd side with him being able to stay in the embassy as a backup plan considering WL suspected there was a secret gra
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by icanhackit 8y ago
First, it's a hunch so there is nothing to support its veracity. But Assange has never been caught without a backup plan and he'd be stupid to put all of his cards on the table.
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by icanhackit 8y ago
Just a hunch - I feel as though Wikileaks is hanging on to any dirt they have on the Republicans and Trump's clique so they can use it as leverage should Julian Assange be taken into custody in the UK. All it would take is a taste of w
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by icanhackit 8y ago
Depends on the style of photography. I tend to go for hyperfocal-distance landscapes using a 36 megapixel FF sensor. If you want to call that an edge case then I'd agree. I'm not too hung up on shallow DoF - it looks nice for a po
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by icanhackit 8y ago
> What is the best socioeconomic system depends on the circumstances. Yes, just as life must bend to the contours of the environment it inhabits or otherwise perish, and there are a lot of permutations to the environment so life has evol
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by icanhackit 8y ago
> most train stations don't have gates Minor stations lack gates, popular stations have them. We still get people avoiding fares, homeless people sleeping on seats, people who leave a lot of rubbish etc. But Sydney's modern War
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by icanhackit 8y ago
> Trains are much more pleasant to ride compared to Melbourne. Sydneysider here. I didn't realise the trains were bad in Melbourne. I travel to Melbourne regularly but rely on cabs when my legs won't suffice i.e. to/from
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by icanhackit 8y ago
I was responding to the "Apple has lost a lot of ground" part, I'm not suggesting Apple will overtake Google with their assistant. I should have quoted the original text.
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by icanhackit 8y ago
True for now, but WWDC in June might tell a different story.
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by icanhackit 8y ago
RSS link to free full-length reports from the Intercept.
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by icanhackit 8y ago
I'll just leave this here... https://theintercept.com/feed/?lang=en
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by icanhackit 8y ago
> we’re going to look back on smart watches the way we do digital watches: as an odd fad that noöne will be able to explain later on I think you've achieved that rare state of being both right and wrong. My experience with smart w
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by icanhackit 8y ago
> I grew up in a poor neighborhood and dropping by unannounced was the norm. Same and I think you're onto something, but my childhood predated mobile phones. I've watched my nephew, who's from a fairly affluent family, cal
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by icanhackit 8y ago
It's not inefficient if your metric is quickly getting workers in the door as contracting firms are built for this purpose. But you could argue that it will result in a poorer selection of high-quality candidates. I'd say this is
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by icanhackit 8y ago
Being a hard ass CEO isn't sexy, but it's what so many successful CEO's are. > Often, it is like a Russian nesting doll of contractor, subcontractor, sub-subcontractor, etc. before you finally find someone doing actual wo
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by icanhackit 8y ago
As someone with Canon, Nikon, Panasonic and Pentax cameras I'd say Panasonic have the best menus out there. Their app for remotely controlling cameras is also excellent. Panasonic really seems to understand software and interface desig
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by icanhackit 9y ago
> It might open people's eyes to some of the hypocrisy in the current public dialogue, just one of many issues being that the same action (wearing revealing clothing) is considered just fine and don't you dare even question it
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by icanhackit 9y ago
> culture of exhibitionism that takes place in real life that "strangely" seems to have so far escaped being raised in the ongoing gender wars I'm not sure what discussing a lack of clothing or dressing provocatively wou
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by icanhackit 9y ago
> It seems like every time I like a photo and look the posters profile No offence intended but could it be that well-proportioned, model-like subjects are more likely to have their profile viewed, so it's a case of sample bias? Wh
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by icanhackit 9y ago
> reddit is a 1960s Playboy magazine fifty years in the future [...] Just like the old saying about Playboy, I only read it for r/ama not the nekkid ladies. That's a thought-provoking way of putting it, though I'd add th
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by icanhackit 9y ago
While a poor solution for programming or word processing where input speed is vital, very useful for music, photo and video processing as they are reliant on contextual functions and emulating real-world interfaces. You could possibly make
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by icanhackit 9y ago
> What is going to happen if iphones, ipads, etc don't sell as well? Given their track record on privacy, particularly using it as a selling point, they'd be poisoning the well pretty badly if they did this. It's more like
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by icanhackit 9y ago
And down the Wikipedia rabbit hole... IBM 1360 Photo-Digital Storage System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360

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