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by jkot 11y ago
WinXP (or more precisely Windows 2000) was pretty good operating system. Even Linux kernel developers admit that.
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by jkot 11y ago
I would not trust adblock extensions. /etc/hosts works just fine.
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by jkot 11y ago
To put things into context: Companies in Greece have huge problems to transfer money into foreign countries. There is weekly limit and you need approval from ministry for anything over a few hundred Euro. Many of them are moving to Bulgaria
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by jkot 11y ago
Energy source from that laser is now powering ISS.
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by jkot 11y ago
Jules Verne predicted 'teleconference' in 1863 in one of his first books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_in_the_Twentieth_Century
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by jkot 11y ago
I have problem with this study because it assumes CO2 and green house gases are the only form of pollution.
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by jkot 11y ago
Maybe I am wrong, but I think key innovation is to reduce cost and environmental impact. Tesla and other high tech cars are maybe cleaner to run, but have large footprint due to their complicated production. At this front leader is India an
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by jkot 11y ago
Taiwanese soldiers who served under Japan share similar faith.
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by jkot 11y ago
> Too bad there were no concealed carry permits ... anywhere in Europe ... since 1818. Czech rep. has concealed carry
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by jkot 11y ago
11 years old is not old enough to break the law. Navy is the one who broke the law, and one who should pay compensations for that.
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by jkot 11y ago
I would like to point out that several EU countries have minimal basic income. It translates as 'minimal liveable income' and is paid to people who have no other income. It is about 60 euro/month in Czech republic. In German
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by jkot 11y ago
I work on database software. Right now I am working on queues. I am independent. It started as hobby opensource project, people asked me for help and I started charging them. Now it will be 3 years since I started working full time on this.
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by jkot 11y ago
I think I have this sort of career. I take theoretical paper and turn it into practical implementation. I make money on consulting. Lot of independence and freedom. I dont think it is possible to do such thing in academia. Software guys I k
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by jkot 11y ago
Happens everywhere. My favorite is when EU Commission smugled software patents into fishery regulation law.
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by jkot 11y ago
Both US and USSR lost. Look at predictions, there was supposed to be lunar colony by now.
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by jkot 11y ago
No children was in box etc.. It was replacement for regular ticket, I guess it was cheaper. And comfort in 3th class was not much different.
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by jkot 11y ago
I was going to write long reply, but will keep it short. I stopped contributing to HN because of posts similar to yours. We do not need foreign army of trolls, to bring down discussion sites such as HN.
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by jkot 11y ago
One of the Herschels (Caroline?) fell into well and almost died...
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by jkot 11y ago
Czechoslovak National bank had about 90 tons before war.
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by jkot 11y ago
There is another article claiming that ice albedo changes in Greenland are caused by camera degradation over time: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015GL065912/full http://www.sciencedai
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by jkot 11y ago
At this picture you can see closet door was removed, there is just curtain. http://www.gregkroleski.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/studi...
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by jkot 11y ago
What is dark about this?
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by jkot 11y ago
What is price and reliability difference compared to regular guns? How hard is it to bypass finger print locker with some tools?
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by jkot 11y ago
It has improved battery consumption a lot. They reworked some repainting bugs and now it uses less CPU while editing.
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by jkot 11y ago
Maybe your experience was caused by NYC? I find it quite good except big cities such as NY and London
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by jkot 11y ago
I am surprised nobody mentions Jabber, it is better alternative to Slack than IRC
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by jkot 11y ago
How about 'decies centena milia'? Latin was cultural language back than. Ancient Rome city had population a few millions and they often did census which involved hundreds of millions people.
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by jkot 11y ago
Author tries to optimize for execution time (finish program fast). But most users want to decrease total CPU resource consumption, because most tasks runs in parallel on server. In second case traditional hotspot profiling works just fine.
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by jkot 11y ago
It sort of makes sense. Systemd has many utilities which can replace stuff from Busybox. And Busybox contains its own init system.
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by jkot 11y ago
Why do you assume he stopped working? He could be working harder than ever, but his productivity dropped. Also quitting a job is not always an option, there are implications on unemployment support, health insurance etc.. Some people even f

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