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I assume it is just marketing. This is cheap chinese device. And spec says: > Measurement error – <30% within a given deviation between For many people even 50% error is acceptable. It is just to check if house or hotel is safe. I
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I find it funny that university protects students from everything even remotely triggering. But on other side it exploits them with debt.
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Death penalty would make it impossible to send illegal immigrants back to Turkey. Right now there is a deal with EU and Turkey has to accept them.
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For that price I would expect build-in battery as a backup for main power supply. This thing does not even work without internet.
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> The cost implications remain slightly unclear, although at Zipline’s Kigali launch on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum on Africa, Rwanda’s health minister, Dr Agnes Binagwaho, insisted that they were comparable to current del
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I am in skywatcher group, we travel to Atacama desert... One of the experiments we did was determining maximal visual magnitude. My friend was able to see 8.1 magnitude star with 90% probability. We counted stars in triangles, 2nd person pr
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10y ago
Yes, fat burning releases 'toxins' which are accumulated there. It is a problem when fasting for extended periods (week+).
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I think SV first needs to solve its own problems: transportation, infrastructure, homelessness, housing cost.
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> We bought some emergency supplies in case one or both of us ended up feeling ill or fainting: some energy drinks, a couple of bars of Swiss milk chocolate, some fruit, and some bread and cheese, and put them in the refrigerator. >
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10y ago
UK has two military bases at Cyprus.
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You mean the same intel which said Iraq / Iran / Libya / Syria has weapons of mass destruction? There is also a chance Israel or Russia would bomb the site, before those bombs get in wrong hands.
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Is there some source that elites want "hyper-efficient global economy"? From what I see, there is a push towards bigger government spending and higher taxes. A lot of that actually decreases efficiency, to the point it suffocates
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> WHEN ROMER EXPLAINS charter cities, he likes to invoke Hong Kong. For much of the 20th century, Hong Kong’s economy left mainland China’s in the dust, proving that enlightened rules can make a world of difference. Charter cities are
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Paper was published first time several years ago. Lawsuit is mentioned in other article.
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Some of my relatives have similar non-czech name. And he said himself on video that passport has some owner. Is there some other way to get valid passport number?
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10y ago
That passport has an owner. It could come from robbery... and identity theft is nothing nice...
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10y ago
I am Czech, he used passport of my country. For fake passport there is a sentence for upto 3 years in jail.
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I think security model on Android 6 is now different. You can grant permission to use camera for 10 minutes etc...
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10y ago
Paranoid talks about "well financed groups" have no place in science. Climate science is way more important than astronomy. It should have much higher standards for transparency, not other way around.
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Read linked article, offensive language was used AFTER they refused to provide raw data. It took lawsuit to get them.
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It should also be possible to disable JS. We all know how that worked out.
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> Meanwhile, our team received a flurry of hate mail and an onslaught of time-consuming Freedom of Information requests for access to our raw data and years of our emails, in search of ammunition to undermine and discredit our team and
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> security risk is the product of defect rate multiplied by attack surface. Call me crazy, but security sensitive application should not have direct access to 3D acceleration, microphone, camera, USB etc.
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10y ago
Some days have 25 hours.
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People block malware, ads are often hosted on the same domains or networks.
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You can live cheaply everywhere. I do not mind to eat local food etc... But it sounds that Nairobi is fairly expensive when you want some basic standard.
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10y ago
How is cost of living in Nairobi? From quick search it looks a bit more expensive than SE Asia or East Europe.
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How about people living in bigger apartment they do not need? Or keeping an apartment, they only use for a few months every year? I lived in Prague when it had rent control. This was very common. There are other causes as well. But this is
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10y ago
"Null Island" search on Google Maps returns Library of Congress.
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Tablets sold in US also do not have voice capabilities. 8" table is an excellent phone for daily use. In some European countries you have to pay license for radio receiver. For phone with FN radio you would pay $25/year, that is l
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