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by iwwr 12y ago
Actually, the reason iron is so cheap is because life chemistry and tectonic-hydrothermal processes have concentrated it. The bulk of the reserves date back from the Great Oxygenation event from 2-1 bn years ago when the first photosyntheti
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>If you know of way around that, please let me know. Beamed power has been proposed to get around this problem. Keep your oversized powerplant at home as much as possible. This still requires a monumental infrastructure, but once it&#x27
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>a fusion rocket is still nowhere near good enough to reach even the closest star system in a reasonable time If by "reasonable time" you mean 40 years to get there at 10% of lightspeed. At those speeds the big limitation start
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More like they tapped into a nice tax credit. Solar power is hardly worth if on its own merits alone, at least currently.
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Wood burning creates quite a bit of indoor pollution. It gets worse for people living where there aren't much trees, who resort to burning dung.
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Instead of paying for a closed license, how about paying to have features added by the developers and then open to everyone?
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DRM isn't preventing people from pirating the works, it just makes life harder for paying customers and potentially presenting a security hole to them as well.
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Have you considered getting some help to finish it faster? It looks great, by the way.
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"Free software" has a narrower meaning in the context of the four freedoms . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software#Definition
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I would be interested in a short rundown on the current state of privacy networks, including: tor, i2p, gnunet, freenet, anonet etc. Do kad/emule/gnutella still exist?
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They do it because they can and no consequences if they do.
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Are you aware of a documentary in the English language on Olivetti?
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It could be a switch with a firewall. The article also says zero configuration.
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This, in case you missed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc
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What the article fails to mention is the NSA's instrumental efforts in weakening crypto standards and computer security in general. We don't know the extent of that undermining yet, but it's likely significant. They are also
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by iwwr 12y ago
Pinta in Ubuntu (14.04LTS) still lacks beziers and an ability to resize selected bits of an image (you have to resize the whole image at once). Then there is "gnome paint" which is merely a placeholder for a yet-to-be paint applic
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There is also the printer-oriented color management in Photoshop, whereas Gimp appears more screen-oriented. Designs made in sRGB may look radically different when converted to CMYK.
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So right now, what are recommended public key, cyphers and hash functions for reasonable crypto safety? What about safe crypto pRNG's? The ubuntu's gpg lists the following: Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA Cipher: I
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by iwwr 12y ago
Explicit permissions for desktop apps like mobile apps have would be a nice thing however.
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C4 game engine drops Linux support citing frustrations with desktop Linux(terathon.com)
44 points by iwwr 12y ago|84 comments
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Isn't there a problem with ZFS' memory footprint to be usable for desktop systems?
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You can at least increase costs as far as mass surveillance is concerned. Facing a targeted attack is rather hard, even with proper crypto and procedures in place.
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>One of the benefits of the Java version is it is easier to understand if you don't have a Java background but do have an FP background. Are there professional programmers with only FP and no imperative language experience?
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That's a frequent argument: "it's no point being secure if you can't be 100% secure". Being a little more secure still has value. You can even disable the gsm function in the phone and use it as a wifi voip device w
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Relaxed IP requirements helped software and hardware develop reasonably fast. Imagine if the big corps like AT&T or IBM had the foresight to patent vital early algorithmic research. Or how hardware may have developed if AMD's early
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Nature should be treated as GPLv3 or greater. Things like suicide or sterile seeds are DRM.
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Do you happen to have a link to that?
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The pathway crosses several cells, one in which CO2 is filtered from an oxygen atmosphere and another anoxic stage where the CO2 is fixed again, this time to produce sugars which plants actually need. The two stage fixation prevents somethi
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Specifically, it's a serious project to adapt the C4 carbon fixation pathway to rice, which is a C3 plant. C4 fixation is much more efficient in drier climates like the ones more prevalent in developing nations. C4 plants while small a
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What is C4 rice?(c4rice.irri.org)
72 points by iwwr 12y ago|49 comments

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