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by jkot 11y ago
There is lot of stuff like 'Merkel with mustache' in Greece, it is bit tiring. I would not expect it to reach HN front page. Anyway if debt relieve, why Greece? It is well developed country with good infrastructure. Lets send thos
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by jkot 11y ago
If background data access was really removed in newer browser version, than just WOW.
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by jkot 11y ago
> with small modifications to some of the central points of contention on issues like pension cuts and tax increases It was always about small modifications: I retirement a few years latter, cut 200M euro on military budget... I think
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by jkot 11y ago
So you are only cheaper on expensive stuff.
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by jkot 11y ago
I think at this point US simply has no specialized factories to manufacture things.
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by jkot 11y ago
What is unfair about it? Greek public sector has the same size as France. Pension system is even more generous than Italy. Retirement at 50 with full salary is not uncommon. No, instead of cutting that, they should squeeze even more money o
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by jkot 11y ago
My source is former Irish financial minister talking at parliamentary commission, which investigated crisis, a few months ago. Dont really remember details.
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by jkot 11y ago
Not really. Most people I know have long hours and work their arses of. Taxi driver usually works 12 hours / 6 days a week for 20 euro a day net profit. Security guy takes about 500 euro a month for similar hours. It is about pensioner
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by jkot 11y ago
There were similar leaks from ECB to force Irish to take bailout. Anyway we will see on monday, right now some ATMs in athens are still working.
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by jkot 11y ago
This probe was launched 9 years ago, not decades. I think its speed is even more impressive :-) > New Horizons was launched on January 19, 2006, from Cape Canaveral, directly into an Earth-and-solar-escape trajectory
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by jkot 11y ago
JPL Ephemerides is one of the most complex equations: 1TB of polynoms and still growing :-)
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by jkot 11y ago
Seriously? How many cubic meters did you actually dug out?
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by jkot 11y ago
You are kidding, right? It is backbreaking dirty work.
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by jkot 11y ago
Not really, many of us use Zookeeper and follow its creators. Also this is Hacker News, not lifestyle magazine. But on second guess...
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by jkot 11y ago
X as a protocol is long gone. Direct memory access, kernel drivers etc are not really compatible with network protocol. Wayland is just streamlining and formalizing current situation.
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by jkot 11y ago
How debacles such as micro-kernels and XServer fits into Unix Philosophy?
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by jkot 11y ago
Party is over.
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by jkot 11y ago
Commit messages could have titles :-) Most tools only shows first line of message. Rest of the message can contain whatever you want.
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by jkot 11y ago
This is just UK. I dont think it will fly in Spain, Czech rep or other parts of EU. For start there is author tax to compensate authors for fair use, it is collected as VAT on empty mediums and printers. With this law many powerful people
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by jkot 11y ago
Where is the sleep deficit comming from? I work 7 days a week, sometimes crazy hours in different time-zones, but dont have this problem.
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by jkot 11y ago
> My free day is normally on Friday's and first thing I do is get rid of possible sleep debt that has been slowly increasing between Monday and Thursday Perhaps write how much time you actually spend working. 4 days could also me
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by jkot 11y ago
Good luck getting trucks with this into Nepal. Tents or even wood for cabin can be air droped.
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by jkot 11y ago
BSD license does not cover warranty. There is a risk author gets sued to oblivion.
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by jkot 11y ago
Does it not complicate things for drivers as well? As employees they may have to tax entire income from Uber, including car expenses, maintenance etc..
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by jkot 11y ago
We have public health care system in my country. Hearth surgery is practically free, but Lyme disease is 'non existent', for similar reasons you described. Hard to diagnose, easy to swap under rags as 'flu'...
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by jkot 11y ago
Roman Empire had pretty tolerant culture as well...
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by jkot 11y ago
In 1987 public TV in communist Czechoslovakia distributed programs for 8 bit computers. TV presenter always said "switch on the magnetophones...", followed by 5 minutes of modem beeps :-)
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by jkot 11y ago
I find it better to eliminate Win key and remap Alt to Capslock.
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by jkot 11y ago
This. Redis has single-threaded compact code base.
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by jkot 11y ago
ISS flights relatively low, so its visibility from earth is just a few minutes. Also laser is limites by weather.

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