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by jayalpha 7y ago
My email is not valuable enough for the US or the EU to put pressure on them. If you are so worried you have to encrypt your email anyway. A Russian hoster likely would not bend. Be advised that a Russian IP address does not help you to pas
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by jayalpha 7y ago
It does not matter if you use Germany or the USA. iPhones or whatever gets produced in China, likely by Foxconn. Profit margins are small. I iphones get sold to Apple HK, apple HK sells them to Apple US or Apple Germany for a huge mark up.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
I like infomaniak. You can buy separate Email hosting. No EU or US jurisdiction. https://www.infomaniak.com/en/hosting/web-and-mail/mail-host... Gandi offers free email with domain registration.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
If you want to lough your balls off, read this story. Iceland involved: https://www.rooshv.com/i-was-detained-by-icelandic-police-af...
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by jayalpha 7y ago
I don't think the Chinese would like this if you say they are selling "Siemens trains". They claim to have developed the technology further. The joint ventures were terminated after the technology transfer.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Use startpage.com
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"If Google wanted a fair play they would come with something akin to the Trade Mark laws built in house." Said by someone who has no idea about trademarks. Trademark. For what class? For what country? Most trademarks have only a f
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Al the options mentioned here are good. Dell XPS ThinkPad Lenovo X1 Carbon I use a Dell XPS with only 8GB RAM. This can be tight at times. I switched to Ubuntu based Bodhi Linux and I am pretty happy about it. The RAM footprint is very very
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Wiki in a jar https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiinajar2/
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Related: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1703148/
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"Frankly, I don't see the point of any post-graduate degree in something that's neither specific nor complex." This is a useless metric. I have a PhD in something that is specific and complex and never could find a job.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Interesting approach. I would have the wallet given to the bank. The bank can't disclose the phone number of the customer but will be happy to give him a call and tell him he can pick it up in the branch. I remember vaguely having give
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by jayalpha 7y ago
What is inflation? Seriously.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
The author in the NYT is a pilot. "Unfortunately, in the case of the 737 Max, it seems that Boeing has built a plane with a fundamental aeronautical issue that it thought would be resolved by adding a new automated system. "
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"No it isn't. It is a stable design. To claim otherwise misunderstands the term." Well, then we just disagree on the term. "Because the 737 Max had been outfitted with larger new engines that could cause its nose to pitc
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by jayalpha 7y ago
No, it should not. But what if you try some SQL injection to do something nasty? The modern law system distinguishes between result and intent.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
It also depends on your definition of live. The best broad test to look for life would be to look for an entropy source.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Extraordinary claims need extraordinary data. We don't have this data. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_lander_biological_exper... It is "inconclusive" at best.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Or your cat is always in all places but your experience only one. At least that one of you.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Do you use OCR on the documents?
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"The tricky part is the retrieval of duplicates, which on the same 10K dataset takes a few minutes" "Doesn't sound too bad." I doesn't? As a word of caution: If a 10k dataset takes a few minutes I would be care
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Well, why would I want a partner with the same interests? To share one or two, great. But I can learn much more from a person that is very different compared to me. This is why I think this clustering based on interests was always bullshit
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Well, I can pick up women in bars you would not believe it. I could just tell a story from last week. Even I don't believe it. :-) But online dating is tricky. There may be people who can pull it off but for me the real world is easier
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"Let’s do a thought experiment. Say the world’s proven oil reserves are 400 million barrels. And say world oil consumption is 20 million barrels a year, growing at 5 percent annually. Question: when will earth’s oil reserves be 100 per
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"Why? Why would it not simply stabilize at say 20% higher than now?" How about 100 or 150%? Above 100 USD you may be able to afford gas. Many people can't. "That is either word games or nonsense. People will keep extract
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"There is a very large amount of oil production on hold or at low capacity in North America because the prices are currently too low and very much expected to go higher in the future." You realize that this is the clusterfuck? no?
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"And more importantly, oil prices are less important to the economy than most people believe." ROTFL https://oilvoice.com/Opinion/24972/Our-Finite-World-Why-We-G...
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Sounds great. Again, how many mols are that? ;-)
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"Our current world mostly doesn't have effective solutions for mental health issues. " This is not true. "Mental health issues" may be a broad field. I guess US prisons are full of such people, some beyond repair. B
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"* Learn how to use it once * Keep using it for a life time" Yeah, right. Like Xara XL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xara_Xtreme_LX

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