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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Isn't this just the high-tech version of for-customers-only restrooms, which is not such an uncommon thing AFAIK? For instance in McDonalds in Belgrade, Serbia you have to scan the barcode from the receipt to open the door of the toile
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Without some form of government or entity to dictate and enforce the laws the free market wouldn't stay free for long, country would turn into Somalia quickly. Why is this different?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Most of shark attacks on surfers are mistakes, so perhaps orcas are just smarter and see better, and can make a distinction between seals and humans on boards? But then again I've heard about orcas sinking sailing boats and trying to a
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
You probably can also use IP addresses to match at least some of the returning users.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
IRC is still the best place to get help quickly (if you know the right place to ask), especially for some more esoteric tech niches...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
or even a perfectly functional hardware in presence of EM noise.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Because in many countries, including US, it's illegal to leverage one product to ensure unfair market advantage for your other products, and this is very close to that...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Do you find it equally disturbing that Oracle DBA (or Postgres DBA or Mysql DBA) are specific skills (and job positions)?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
We now have come the full circle, and I expect that people now - after rediscovering plain html - will next start to rediscover all the issues with maintaining purely static html sites, all those reasons why we ditched the idea back in 90s
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Does a general public really needs bulletproof cars with unbreakable windows? What if there's a traffic accident and passengers are caught inside, how do you get them out? (assuming you don't have a handy metal ball laying around
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I once managed to fit an entire king size bed inside a fiat punto, but it doesn't make punto a good choice for transporting things. Once you have kids, a dog, these modern mars-rover like baby trolleys, occasional need to transport fur
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
According to Allan Savory and some other respectable scientists the problem arose because the plants evolved to support huge buffalo populations and depended on them to clean and fertilize the ground. As their population declined, there was
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
In Greek letter β is actual pronounced like Vee-ta and in words it's read like latin V (Babylon is pronounced like Vah-vee-lon).
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
That is thanks to Latin having declension, which many other languages have too. I don't speak it, but I've read that Finnish has 15 cases (compared to 5 in Latin). Nice thing with Latin is that it manages to be both powerful and v
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Because banks are where the money is. (yeah, lame pun, but I had to write it :))
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Modeling everything realistically is super hard - any interaction with the real-world is so full of the weirdest unexpected electric and mechanical issues. Who hasn't tried it first-hand can't imagine the half of ways that will al
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
The fact that he's been "drinking" (actually barely sipping) water all over Flint for cameras turns it into a cheap media stunt, but I actually was referring to this fake-as-hell "Can I have some water": https:&#x2
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Magicians are entertainers, and it's fake just like all entertainment is, like the movie characters and plots are fake. If you're adult you're expected to know that. It makes it very different from astrology, where people act
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Probably all of the factors you mention are important, but lead certainly didn't help. The main reason to mention lead specifically is the horrible way the situation with water pollution was handled by pretty much everyone, from city o
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Pretty much any well-known museum in any popular touristic city has the same problem. Should they all be closed for the general public, and only snobby journalists be allowed to enter?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Depends, if you are a contractor then yes. As an employee you probably also hope to earn some raises and promotions, as the only way to get paid more. And that always involves a lot of politics.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
This is usually called the Russian famine as Soviet Union wasn't established yet. The one in 1932 is called Soviet famine and even more people died that time, some 10 millions. There was also 1919-1922 famine in Kazakhstan, and in thes
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> and if you don't get to sit in a room and look at everyone to figure out the politics nothing works This is actually a big problem in my experience, because remote workers are cut out of the "inner-circle of people" when
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Frankly, pro-solar people started doing that first, but yes pro-nuclear internet warriors are catching up. I find it useful, how ever strange that might sound - it actually promotes the dialog. Unfortunately in todays highly populist politi
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It's possible that there're trolling attempts too, but there's a lot of real (and smart) people who're truly passionate about nuclear power as the best option - to the point that it looks like trolling. Solar vs nuclear
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It very much depends on where you live and personal lifestyle preferences. At my latitude current DST means in winter I wake up approx. around the sunrise, and while I get out of the apartment it's already full daylight. For me this is
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Yes, in a perfect dream world where governments and agencies are made of perfect, valiant, James Bond kinda characters who fight only for the good causes and are never tempted to misuse the power. In reality, it's obvious that such set
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
In this case the analogy would be that software companies should be hold accountable for the decisions their AI makes?
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
That's only one way to do it, probably the most efficient one for mass farming. In my country there is a similar delicacy, but instead of tube traditionally geese were fed by hand. Farmers would prepare balls of food, and then those ba
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Weird that there seems to be much more debate in US about force feeding geese than force-feeding prisoners. Not that I support either of the practices.

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