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by iso1631 6y ago
What was Wenger thinking sending Walcott on that early?
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by iso1631 6y ago
Its interesting as many people have a revenue tax on people -- it's called income tax. Your expenses (rent, food, commute, power) are generally not removable -- some expenses can be taken off before tax, but most can't. Most peopl
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by iso1631 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24955651
3184.
by iso1631 6y ago
90% turnout is amazing, is it a legal obligation to vote?
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by iso1631 6y ago
No, it's how you get to start, probably while still in education, but you learn about framing, focus, white balance, learn about direction (forget the ball -- you want to follow the ref at this point), on a larger event you'll be
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by iso1631 6y ago
> Almost nobody chooses [to be] a cameraman We just said goodbye to a camerman with 30+ years of experience, from Diana's crash in Paris, to the fall of Ghadaffi, interviewing multiple US presidents one day, and Rohingya fleeing int
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by iso1631 6y ago
I tend to see these solution used where before there wouldn't be anyone to point the camera in the first place. That said I don't agree. If you can afford the technology for this type of camera and the connectivity to get it onlin
3188.
by iso1631 6y ago
Perhaps because the sun comes up in the East (at that latitude at least)
3189.
by iso1631 6y ago
0°00'00.0"N+0°00'00.0"E Funny how it's N+E, not S+W
3190.
by iso1631 6y ago
If it hadn't lapsed it would have remained unloved at the bottom of a vault somewhere and not become a cultural icon.
3191.
by iso1631 6y ago
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c...
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by iso1631 6y ago
DDG'd BASIC programming all the results were about BASIC, the wiki page to start with, then * BASIC Programming : 7 Steps - Instructables * Learn More - Just BASIC * The History of the BASIC Programming Language * Programming in
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by iso1631 6y ago
"It's a wonderful life" was released under 1909 rules. It came out in 1946, so was copyrighted until 1974. The owners (RKO) didn't renew the copyright, as it was a failed film, it was well before home video, so why bothe
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by iso1631 6y ago
It's increased recently due to tarriffs on China imports
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by iso1631 6y ago
"as of May 2019, the US has the highest tariff rate among all developed nations with a trade-weighted tariff rate of 4.2%"
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by iso1631 6y ago
In that case, you using any publicly funded service or good - including education, roads and defence, is theft.
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by iso1631 6y ago
I tried declaring a $3k server equipment once at Mumbai airport. Exceptionally difficult to pay the correct amount ($1k or so - it was 7 years ago so amount might be off) and get a receipt, they wanted me to pay $50.
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by iso1631 6y ago
6666 is meaningless for people who speak French (that would be lune, 5863), or German (Mond, 6663), or Spanish (Luna, 5862). The rest of the world would be quite happy with say +83 for interplanetary codes. Perhaps America should change its
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by iso1631 6y ago
I think the full list is Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 20, 21, 24 (1966-1976) Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6, 7 (1966-68) Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,17 (1969-72) Chang'e 3 and 4 (2013 + 2019)
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by iso1631 6y ago
You're suggesting an entire country of millions of people change their phone numbers because America decides that it wants to create a new international area code which happens to match the word "moon" in English?
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by iso1631 6y ago
Most country codes are 3 digits. There are a few 2 digits, and I think parts the old USSR and the North American Dialing region are the only 1-digit codes.
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by iso1631 6y ago
With Blackjack. And Hookers. In fact forget the cellular network!
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by iso1631 6y ago
https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer/blob/dev/LICENSE.md The Flowplayer Free version is released under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3 (GPL). The GPL requires that you not remove the Flowpla
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by iso1631 6y ago
It's odd. What desktop environment are you using? Mine's from 2014 or 2015 with xfce. spell check is enabled from the looks of it, but only comes in when I press "space".
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by iso1631 6y ago
Just filmed myself pressing a key on slack (linux client). Framerate was 30fps. 5 frames / 160ms for the key to appear at the start of a chat line. 3 frames / 100ms for the next key to appear Firefox in a plain text box takes 2 fr
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by iso1631 6y ago
GPL3 allows for advertising clauses -- e.g. in flowplayer https://github.com/flowplayer/flowplayer/blob/dev/LICENSE.md "The GPL requires that you not remove the Flowplayer logo and copyright notices
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by iso1631 6y ago
Something like https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin... ?
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by iso1631 6y ago
£50 a breach. Patheticly small amount. IAG has £23 billion of revenue last year. Over the last 9 years their total profit was £10,000 million, partly driven from slashing IT costs. A £1 billion fine wouldn't massively hurt a company th
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by iso1631 6y ago
I did some calculations on how much more renewable the UK would need based on demand over a given year, and how much storage. With 20 times the current renewable, 1GWh of charged storage, and a perfect grid, starting on Sep 18th 2018, we&#x
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by iso1631 6y ago
> I have a feeling the UK will end up relying on interconnectors. Gridwatch used to allow you to download an entire year (or more) with a 5 minute resolution. Based on my last download from Sep 2018 to Sep 2019, a net of 7.6% of UK'

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