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by jkot 10y ago
LOL. Technically some heavy trucks and engines, are powered by electric motor with generator. Some of the biggest trucks and tanks were electric ;-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel-electric_transmission
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by jkot 10y ago
Banks have enough cash to cover 20% of their obligations. I think that is not that bad.
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by jkot 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11996355
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by jkot 10y ago
Hyperloop is not that simple. There was article recently that even normal super train is not economically viable between LA and SF. Hyperloop will be much more expensive to build and maintain, while handling less passengers..
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by jkot 10y ago
In many cases the dedicated graphic is cheaper than integrated. Intel Iris comes in more expensive processors which are not necessary for games. You might pay extra $300 on great CPU with integrated card, over slower CPU with dedicated GPU.
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by jkot 10y ago
Facebook had 50 million users at October 2007 [1], that is $300 per user. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/number-active-users-facebook-...
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by jkot 10y ago
Or it was written by king :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we
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by jkot 10y ago
It would be hard to attract talent in Austria. Brno is real startup hub in that region.
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by jkot 10y ago
> makes it a crime to circumvent an “effective means of access control” that sits between users and copyrighted works US had always legal troubles with cryptography. In past programs like PGP, TrueCrypt etc were developed outside US. T
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by jkot 10y ago
Language or "human order" is pretty cumbersome to express ideas. It is full of double meanings, assumption and expectations. Any attempt to express complicated and precise ideas in natural language results in hard to understand gi
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by jkot 10y ago
That recruiter is doing good job, party announcement made it into HN frontpage.
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by jkot 10y ago
Maybe write an app for smart watch. Most devices have compass and vibrations.
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by jkot 10y ago
> Implants are dangerous. They are not approved by any medical authority, and doctors refuse to perform implants because, unlike pacemakers or artificial hips, implanted electronics violate the Hippocratic Oath -- grinders implant magne
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by jkot 10y ago
1st world problems.
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by jkot 10y ago
I personally prefer reproducibility over peer review.
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by jkot 10y ago
Use QT if you want stable API. GTK3 breaks compatibility even at minor releases.
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by jkot 10y ago
> The city needs to evaluate and track people in homeless programs > San Francisco, which gets an influx of about 450 chronically homeless people a year, needs to shed any perception that it is a sanctuary for people who are unwill
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by jkot 10y ago
Maybe author did not want to deal with Lenovo. > Lenovo did not develop the vulnerable SMM code and is still in the process of determining the identity of the original author, it does not know its originally intended purpose.
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by jkot 10y ago
> Hospital hygiene is another focus; there is some evidence that staff are more careless about cleanliness than they were in pre-antibiotic days, when they saw deaths like Albert Alexander’s on a more regular basis.
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by jkot 10y ago
Is it a joke? The Catlins Coast has population 1200 with very low density. Google search returns only seasonal agricultural jobs.
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by jkot 10y ago
Yes, DDR4
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by jkot 10y ago
I already have an old rack server. It is very noisy, heavy and does not fit some graphic cards. I need normal desktop with quiet fans, multiple displays. Mainly for programming but I might play some game as well.
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by jkot 10y ago
My 2600k died recently after 5 years @ 5 GHz. I think Intel desktop CPUs are overpriced and do not offer some important features (ECC). Haswell Xeons are pretty cheap, only downside is lack of NVMe and higher electricity bill. I will probab
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by jkot 10y ago
Cell phone != camera. I have $20 dump phone with no camera for exactly this reason. And it lasts 30 days on battery :-) Infrared transmitters will not solve anything. Too easy to hack this with IR filters etc..
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by jkot 10y ago
30 years old TGV is not possible, but somehow Hyperloop will materialize :-(
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by jkot 10y ago
This reads like old 1918 Soviet Constitution.
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by jkot 10y ago
My friend went to India to visit adopted kid. There are stories on news papers, some students even came to study university in Europe.
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by jkot 10y ago
> some of those who campaigned for Leave are now distancing themselves from this claim. Some have gone as far as admitting that it had been a mistake. So some people said something, and some other said something else, and some other ch
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by jkot 10y ago
Poor people are everywhere. For low cost / direct impact, you could "remotely adopt" kid in India or Africa and provide basic education. You get letters, pictures etc... Its very nice. I found catholic charities to be best f
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by jkot 10y ago
Word robot comes from word "robota". In feudalism that was form of taxation, paid with labor. Feudalism in Austria empire put many restrictions on people (impossible to move, needed permission to marry, no free religion etc), but

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