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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Interesting observation, but author's analysis is a way off IMHO. I use sass not because I'm "unprivileged" or there're some special legacy requirements - I use it because it does the job wonderfully and I don'
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Depends on the area of expertise we're talking about. In sport amateurs absolutely can be as good or better than professional athletes. Musician or painter or programmer, same thing. But a skilled worker in jobs that are all about prac
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
This is not about amateurs but people acting "professionally" vs. those acting "unprofessionally"...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I hear things like this from time to time, but among programmers that I hang with almost no one ever uses any math beyond a basic primary school stuff. I really wonder is it: - us doing boring projects (quite possible), or - web dev and bus
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It's just not popular enough to be handled by bot scripts (yet)... and most of spam bots are not targeting one particular site so this worked for a while, just like math captcha and drag-an-image worked for a while. The moment they get
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
It's extremely long range for low-power devices. LORA is mostly used for sensors, trackers and other miniature, usually battery/solar powered devices that need to run for months or sometimes years unmaintained.
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More like setting a set of mental breakpoints on critical actions, so when they run you can stop and analyze the situation before going any further.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
This can work for people who don't really need a lot of weight loss. Obese people are too deeply conditioned, their brains are wired differently and their bodies probably not responding on the hormonal level the same way as yours. To t
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> And if you ignore the bottom half of the centaur, it's just a dude playing a flute. :) Good one, but you probably meant Satyr (or Faun as Romans called it)
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Well in Croatia OIB is a random 11 digit number, but still most people I know managed to memorize theirs, especially if you're an entrepreneur running a business and have to fill it all the time.
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Well if you ask me, the face shaving is even worse social construct and the whole industries were invented around it... but that's because I hate shaving, and also like how I look with the beard better. However, let's take into ac
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
All of the above, plus the lost wars, thousands of people killed and displaced, broken dreams and promises, broken economy, huge rise of crime, mob bosses and crime-connected tycoons, one of the greatest hyper-inflations ever, nationalizati
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
All true, and yet a lot of people in USSR and many other East block countries miss those times nowadays, as there were also good things about it, mainly a sense of financial and social security and also "equality" between people (
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
This story reminds me of my own growing up in Serbia in 90s under UN sanctions. One of the side-effects of it was that we couldn't access Internet directly for a while, we were almost completely cut off (Belgrade University was half-il
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> Set the initial conditions and then the whole thing is deterministic If quantum physics theories are correct than there's always some amount of pure randomness in the game, making it impossible to create perfectly deterministic an
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
IMHO both Norway and Japan fully deserve the public outrage for still slaughtering highly intelligent creatures to satisfy decadent consumerism and bizarre traditions. Unlike in some indigenous whaling communities, no one in Norway or Japan
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
True, they gave a number of general apologies, but never on this particular matter. Unit 731 was completely pushed under the carpet, the people involved were given immunity by US in exchange for their knowledge on making bio-weapons. During
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
> yet other countries kill more whales (not just per capita but in absolute numbers) A country, not countries - only Norway kills (slightly) more whales than Japan. Since the ban in 1985. Japan killed far more whales than any other count
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Yup, operation Cherry Blossoms at Night. Japan planned an air-raid attack on San Diego at night to spread plague infected fleas. They never did that in the end because the war ended, but they killed some estimated 200K people in China while
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
But they are, Facebook has exactly the same rights to use any photo you upload royalty free or to share it with the 3rd parties as they find suitable... perhaps the legal wording is a bit different, but the rights are the same...
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also, you don't have to give it access to your photos... it works perfectly fine with just camera access
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I'd say horses are the most important factor here, as why would anyone bother with bad roads and easy to break (due to the lack of tech) machine when horses and donkeys were so much superior way of transportation
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
Ideal consumer, from the power network point of view, is as constant as possible. Each time you cut off a consumer node it creates harmonics and surges that need to be compensated upstream. Lots of nodes going on and off simultaneously (and
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
The cost of manufacturing energy is not the only cost when you need to distribute energy on a large scale. Electrical grids are prone to oscillations and having less and bigger power sources makes things a lot easier and more reliable (and
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
That's not possible, but geothermal energy is a passive way of cooling that actually works (to some point). Install pipes sufficiently deep under the surface and drive air through them and soil will cool the air for you - and because i
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
There should be also more focus on proper thermal insulation of houses in warm climate, which is something that is not often mentioned. Lots of energy gets lost on AC simply because heat easily enters the houses.
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Is there a way to limit who can join the server that I choose to host?
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Sometimes you need both, especially in countries where there's no environmentalist culture and people have too much troubles in day-to-day survival to really have time and incentive to care about global and longterm issues like ecology
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well, if you look on viruses and bacteria situation stops looking that much uniform, there're some odd bugs there https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/98/A_Novel_...
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
How we smell depends a lot on our activities. It's really the bacteria that cause sweat to smell bad, so it depends a lot on a physical activity and how long it's been sitting on the body. When a person sweats a lot, like during s

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