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by iwwr 15y ago
It's very easy to dwell on that too. Companies rise and fall, some are well lead, others not. A frequent jump is to raise the "family card" in order to prop up a failing business. The error in the latter case is ignoring people on the other
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by iwwr 15y ago
People could just use other currencies (like USD) for their cash transactions then. I imagine this could be made illegal too, which only gets more alarming. Is there no value in a government that knows less than everything about their citiz
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by iwwr 15y ago
The point about decentralization is to ensure development can continue unhindered by political factors. With an empire it's very easy for the ruling aristocracy (or autocrat) to kill development. Yes, you can have enlightened rulers, but th
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by iwwr 15y ago
For most of human history (and before that), the norm is not growth, but stagnation. Centralized empires tend to strangle economic development. The ascendancy of Europe was not a fluke, but rather a condition where a free market philosophy
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by iwwr 15y ago
That's where mods like Redpower comes in. http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/365357-123-eloraams-mods... The mods are really what set Minecraft apart.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Rarely would you get higher than inflation returns from just parking money in a bank. In reality it just gets eroded away.
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Why is quicksort better than other sorting algorithms in practice?(cs.stackexchange.com)
4 points by iwwr 15y ago|0 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
The neocon motto is: "Tell them what they want to hear, so long they keep paying for the empire"
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by iwwr 15y ago
Is this caused by zero-g or by the low pressure (0.3 bar) environment of the ISS/Shuttle?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Reused paper tends to be crumpled and warped, especially if you try to feed it through a (laser) printer multiple times. It's more trouble than it's worth, unless they make printers that can handle less-than-perfect paper.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Given the wide availability of pirate books, publishers may be shooting themselves in the foot by making their titles overly expensive.
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by iwwr 15y ago
Credit card transactions are also by design bound to the US. A transaction going from France to Germany, legal in both places, may still need to be routed through the US and hence controllable. And when all that fails, the US can pull on th
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by iwwr 15y ago
The estimated size of the universe beyond the visible part is at most a guess. It could be infinite. This would mean that even at the time of the big bang there was a lot of volume, just very high energy density. What we do know is that the
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by iwwr 15y ago
Don't forget that in Canada it's illegal to be a private medic. Medical services are ostensibly free, but rationed through queues. If you have a medical condition that's not immediately threatening, you may find yourself waiting for years f
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by iwwr 15y ago
Can we get the designs of these robots somewhere?
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by iwwr 15y ago
This is shaping into a battle cry of the IP rent seekers: "[We fight against] foreign criminals selling counterfeit pharmaceuticals to Americans?" second only to "think of the children" and "Save American Jobs Law".
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by iwwr 15y ago
One thing that might have saved the Titanic would have been to steer directly into the iceberg, bow-on. That way, only one compartment (the front one) would have been damaged), allowing it to stay afloat.
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Linux computer the size of a thumb drive(arstechnica.com)
65 points by iwwr 15y ago|25 comments
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by iwwr 15y ago
Even at the peak, the total Neanderthal population was not that great. Much smaller than human hunter-gatherer densities.
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by iwwr 15y ago
The only way to restrain abuse is to restrain the underlying power. Social networks may be used to organize more effectively, but ordinary people have a limited budget of attention and time. This means the lobbyists have to wait just long e
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by iwwr 15y ago
So the solution should be standardized testing?
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by iwwr 15y ago
Don't forget silly things like fleecing European customers or region-locking.
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by iwwr 15y ago
ACTA is not the beginning, nor the end. Bureaucratic minds are hard at work all the time on legislation just like it. If ACTA will fail, there are many options still available. At some point, the vigilance of the public will waver and ACTA
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by iwwr 15y ago
The word "anarchy" is thrown around when a politician does not understand how something exists without their approval. Maybe we should embrace this idea once more. Anarchy is not the same as disorder or lack of rules. Opposing chaos is a no
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by iwwr 15y ago
Ignoring for a moment the relation between US foreign policy and terrorism, or between the drug war and drug violence... The problem here is banks and established payment processors banding together to squash their potential competition. No
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by iwwr 15y ago
More likely, he was asked to resign in order to hold two sets of elections at the same time (parliamentary and county/mayoral). Resignation allows for earlier than planned parliamentary elections.
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by iwwr 15y ago
What are possible consequences if those organizations ignore or defy these "requests"? (By and by, what would happen if said organizations defied a EU decree?)
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by iwwr 15y ago
You can use the bitcoin block chain as a reliable way to store information (append-only). Was wondering why this isn't being advertised as the killer app of the service.
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by iwwr 15y ago
TPB have made themselves a kind of bastion against the copyright rentseekers by being a visible and hard to quash target. The kind of money and effort wasted against them is impressive. Of course, what this verdict establishes is a preceden
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by iwwr 15y ago
The 100km is not arbitrary. It's an altitude past which a wing would have to travel faster than the orbital velocity in order to retain lift. It's a model that only considers angle of attack and the density of the atmosphere. In other words

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