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by iwwr 12y ago
Organic components prevalent in one kind of chirality may be a give-away for life-like processes. As would unusual concentrations for hard to synthesize components. Also, a surface under significant chemical disequilibrium (oxygen and reduc
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by iwwr 12y ago
At least the whole endeavor has fueled public discussion about Mars exploration, which is valuable in and of itself. There is also some value in exploring Mars-to-stay kinds of missions. To people interested in this, you can also contact th
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by iwwr 12y ago
Apparently, that practice is still banned in some US states and counted as 'water theft'.
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by iwwr 12y ago
Perhaps a new class of network devices would be some sort of network auditor that sample traffic and check for diversions. These would have to contain almost exclusively open hardware and software and be buildable by individual customers. B
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by iwwr 12y ago
The better question may be: "Are there successful countries due to mandatory voting?"
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by iwwr 12y ago
It if must be done, it must be done with a radical reform of ballot access, low electoral ceilings and easy-to-register third parties. However, it's not a panacea. Greece, Argentina, Brazil managed to have quite corrupt, dirty politics
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by iwwr 12y ago
In the mean time, if you're interested in solidly-designed and open-source arduino clones, you can check out those over at Olimex: https://www.olimex.com/Products/Duino/AVR/OLIMEXINO-32U4/ope... ht
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Dark market Evolution Marketplace was a scam, $12M USD in Bitcoin stolen(reddit.com)
7 points by iwwr 12y ago|1 comments
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by iwwr 12y ago
Doesn't the culture of free web services actually create some of the perverse incentives at play in Google, Facebook and others today? The paying customers become advertisers and data miners and users are relegated to giving up their i
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by iwwr 12y ago
The Colossus telescope is also a nice proposal that fits in the $1bn pricetag, if its proponents are to be believed: http://the-colossus.com/technology.html Basically, a 74m telescope made of independent 8m mirrors, with a
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by iwwr 12y ago
Not only that, by making flying a painful and inconvenient experience, it has caused more people to drive and consequently get killed on the roads.
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by iwwr 12y ago
I take it no serious investor makes any decision based on that arbitrary number, do they? So then, why require it?
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by iwwr 12y ago
This is just a 1% solution, which may be enough to defeat mass data collection as long as it remains niche. For a bigger effect, carry light strong enough to saturate even a HDR camera.
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by iwwr 12y ago
Were you in a position to use a competitor's parts?
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by iwwr 12y ago
This link was found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/2xhofi/1969_to...
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On-die GaAs LED matrix made by hand (1969)(youtube.com)
4 points by iwwr 12y ago|1 comments
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by iwwr 12y ago
People are starting to realize social media is not that friendly. Every statement made in public gets recorded and attached to your real identity forever. Kids who say stupid shit get that held against them forever from employers, associate
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Allwinner GPL violations(groups.google.com)
118 points by iwwr 12y ago|80 comments
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Tales of Antarctica(drunkard.com)
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by iwwr 12y ago
>five hop circuit, permanent guard nodes, and routes through countries unlikely to cooperate with one another Won't that make your circuits more predictible as a consequence?
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by iwwr 12y ago
>You have to trust the vendor's interest in making a profit. Nothing wrong with that :-) Sometimes there are conflicts of interest. We have documented cases of 3-letter agencies paying companies to leave bugs or unsafe options in co
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by iwwr 12y ago
Whereas closed source proprietary software has no eyeballs on it. Open source is at least an opportunity to identify problems by third parties without reverse-engineering. Open source also allows code analysis tools to do automated tests ac
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by iwwr 12y ago
As a source of materials it's also not very good. Most of the stuff is a finely mixed slag with hard-to-recover materials. All this from the bottom of a deep gravity well, deeper than that of Mars when we account for no atmosphere to s
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by iwwr 12y ago
Isolation is possible in a multi-user system with text-mode apps (ncurses and such), just xorg presents a privilege hole that can't be easily plugged. One way to do it may be to run a separate instance of X inside the container and acc
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by iwwr 12y ago
What were the first two times?
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by iwwr 12y ago
Or re-anneal the materials in an oven?
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by iwwr 12y ago
If that's true it'd be hard to identify the responsible star since in a few million years it would be thousands of light years away and difficult to measure precise kinematics of it.
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by iwwr 12y ago
Nope, "number of pawns" is only a notional number, it's a score calculated by a chess engine. Being 1 pawn ahead may just mean a particular position where one side has an equivalent advantage though not necessarily being a ph
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by iwwr 12y ago
It's not just about strict adherence to the law. These companies have been willing to cooperate with the state voluntarily, even when doing that was legally questionable. For instance, the AT&T data collection 'room' as w
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Toyota dealer charges $4400 for a $10 repair on a hybrid car(imgur.com)
2 points by iwwr 12y ago|0 comments

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