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by iwwr 11y ago
More like restrict a particular avenue for education and advancement: on the job. Some people fare well, others get left behind.
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by iwwr 11y ago
Ah, but it'll encourage innovation and automation. It also forces people to get a better education and greater skills, or become trapped in poverty and never advance socially.
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by iwwr 11y ago
That's the wonder of genetic engineering, if you have a digital record of genomes you get to keep genetic diversity forever. You can mix and match across the entire gene pool. You can eliminate whole categories of disease and disabilit
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by iwwr 11y ago
This could easily be classed as one of the great crimes in history next to actual warfare.
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by iwwr 11y ago
The Space Shuttle was expensive and this was apparent even at the end of the design stage. It was hobbled by the partnership with the Air Force, where it needed a large minimum payload and specific dimensions for the cargohold. Design consi
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Lunar soil can be used as rocket fuel (1996)(asi.org)
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by iwwr 11y ago
There's the old plan of Zubrin and Baker: Mars Direct. It involves manufacturing methane fuel on Mars from a small import of Earth hydrogen. 95% of the return fuel mass is manufactured on Mars, giving significant mass fraction savings
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by iwwr 11y ago
Had Sun not sued Microsoft then Microsoft would have ran off with the platform and built themselves an incompatible JVM and framework (common java + Windows-only Microsoft extensions).
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by iwwr 11y ago
Wood was mostly used for fuel back then. The turn of the 20th century also marked the end of the sailship era and the end of wood as a major element in ship construction. Other uses for wood were sleepers for railways and whole logs for uti
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by iwwr 11y ago
Any reason for the removal of loadable kernel modules?
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by iwwr 11y ago
The objective was to protect Mojang's IP on the (probably mistaken) idea that if they release the source code it means they lose control over it. Added to that, my own speculation is that members of the modding community want to keep t
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by iwwr 11y ago
Why md5 and not something more solid?
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by iwwr 11y ago
Or that cities need to get more dense and friendlier toward pedestrians and bikes.
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by iwwr 11y ago
If anything, modders create demand for the original product. You can't play the mod if you don't own the game. Something like DayZ was a major driver of ARMA2 demand.
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Apple bans Watch apps “whose primary function is telling time”(9to5mac.com)
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by iwwr 11y ago
North America was inhabited for thousands of years by the time Europeans arrived and land tended to be managed as a matter of living on it. The thick forests early European colonists encountered were the result of massive depopulation of pe
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by iwwr 11y ago
From what I've heard from farmers, fields left to the wild are hard to clear and it's more difficult to return to agriculture after a few years. As a matter of real-estate the value goes down.
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by iwwr 11y ago
Regarding the US http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/storie...
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by iwwr 11y ago
The US and Europe is more forested now than it was 100 years ago, on average. Wood is no longer needed for fuel and ship building. Most commercial logging now goes on in managed 'tree farms' rather than virgin woodlands.
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The Seventy-Billion-Mile Telescope (Our Sun as a Gravitational Lens)(newyorker.com)
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by iwwr 11y ago
So Voyager 1 is 1/6 of the way to the Sun's gravitational lens focus, a point in space past which the Sun itself acts as a gravitational lens (with a very small field of view) in the opposite direction. Those points can be exploit
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by iwwr 11y ago
D looks great, but I feel like depending on a GC is kind of a deal-breaker. If that is accurate, then D fills the same niches as Google's Go rather than C++'s. Rust looks more like a proper replacement for C++.
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by iwwr 11y ago
tl;dr June 26, 2014 “An employee rode in the utility trailer to hold down the foam material during transport exposing him to the hazards of falling out of the trailer and striking the asphalt”
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by iwwr 11y ago
There's nothing stopping you from submitting a patch for a small sample of the issues and a friendly question on their mailing list.
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The US congressman that defeats sneaky bills with a 500yard dash(mrctv.org)
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by iwwr 11y ago
It's possible the Russian state use this as yet another tool of its legal arsenal to target dissidents and regime opponents. It could also be used to conscript hackers and technies running those services. Some incidents a few years bac
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by iwwr 11y ago
Some software that uses anti-debug measures can also detect when it's being run inside a VM. Skype famously did that too (before Microsoft changed the protocol), emplying a whole host of reverse-engineering circumvention measures.
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by iwwr 12y ago
His name was Randy, which he shortened to Rand when he got married, at the behest of his wife. There could be some tenuous connection to Ayn Rand, but he has not acknowledged it. He definitely knows about Ayn Rand and her philosophy, as doe
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Framework Kickoff: Angular vs. Backbone vs. Ember(airpair.com)
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by iwwr 12y ago
>that wouldn't make any difference because I have the right to make any changes to the computer that I own Diminishing Adblock's business model also removes development resources from adblock which would impact negatively your

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