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by kbart 10y ago
"Would they kill the kidnappers by driving over them?" Of course, in many countries that would count as self defense (if kidnappers were armed and pointed guns towards your car).
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by kbart 10y ago
Natural, we did plant them ourselves. I haven't tried to keep them afresh myself, my father is taking care of this. However, after quick googling I've found that it works only for some kinds of apples and the are certain tricks to
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by kbart 10y ago
" Six months were passed and it was still looking pretty and shiny." Given the right conditions, it's not a problem for apples to stay fresh for a long time. We usually keep apples, grown in our own garden without any "
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by kbart 10y ago
The hardest part for me was to read an ugly formatted code with no highlights.
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by kbart 10y ago
No, it's not. Genocide has a clearly defined meaning[1]: "Genocide is the intentional action to systematically eliminate an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group" 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by kbart 10y ago
Also, Google doesn't drive it's test car on highway speeds with humans inside. Google self-driving car's speed is limited to 25 mph, so even if it hit something, potential that it would be lethal is very slim.
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by kbart 10y ago
From wiki: "An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of a vehicle without constant 'hands-on' control by a human operator being required." That's the clear opposite of what Tesla's manual sugge
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by kbart 10y ago
You have to pass a medical examination to get a driving license. Driving while medically incapacitated is irresponsible and illegal the same as driving drunk or on drugs. Unless we have a real self driving car, which Tesla is clearly not.
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by kbart 10y ago
"things that are banned in the EU" I'm not aware of any EU-wide Internet censorship mechanism, can you please expand on this?
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by kbart 10y ago
Cats do need to eat grass. If they didn't have access to grass, they eat any other plant they can find, including flowers. They do that to clean their digestion system from inedible parts(1), as for a home cat, that's mostly their
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by kbart 10y ago
"meanwhile median income between poorest and richest EU members is close to 10x - in the US it's ~2-3 between states" That's comparing apples to oranges. Country != state.
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by kbart 10y ago
As I said - incidents happen. And if the last scandal you have found is dated back to 2013, that only confirms my point.
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by kbart 10y ago
EU does enforce food safety and labeling laws quite well. That might be because every EU country has its own FDA equivalent that provisions much smaller market. Sure, incidents happen, but fake food is nowhere such widespread in EU than USA
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by kbart 10y ago
I buy Greek olive oil. I didn't do any serious research, but it tastes much better than Italian or Spanish counterparts bought locally. I've been to Greece and what I tasted there, wasn't much different from what I buy back h
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by kbart 10y ago
Agree. Epithets like "darknet", "dark mail", "underground net" etc. along with names like this certainly doesn't help to improve encryption and privacy promoting software image to general public and media.
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by kbart 10y ago
I always find term "PC" somewhat inaccurate as not many PCs are actually personal . "Home Computer" reflects the true meaning much more accurately.
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by kbart 10y ago
"in New Zealand bike rider fatalities are not the motor bike riders fault about 30% of the time and in non fatal crashes the figure is about 40%." In Lithuania it's even worse, around 60% (2014 data).
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by kbart 10y ago
Nice, but robot-on-two-wheels is not quite the same as motorcycle autopiloting with human on top, who doesn't sit still and doesn't handle sudden movements well.
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by kbart 10y ago
"In the future though, it will always be your fault, because you are one person trying to prove an accident was not your fault against a big-money company." That's why I always wear videoregistrator on my helmet. It paid of
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by kbart 10y ago
"If you actually replace all human drivers with all computer drivers" I drive motorcycle (and enjoy that), I doubt autopilot will come to those anytime soon..
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by kbart 10y ago
Somewhat strange methodology is used there: "speeds can be altered by mobile networks' use of proxies, meaning that the speeds recorded will be between those proxies and Akamai's servers, rather than between the servers and
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by kbart 10y ago
UK is infamous for its overcrowded networks and sloppy telecoms, so that's not a problem of the technology itself. I have seen better Internet/cell networks in some 3rd world countries than UK.. In my country, there's a prett
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by kbart 10y ago
"Almost every time I check some thing in the news or public opinion, it's either wrong, misinterpreted or too simplified" I'd attribute that to the decline of real (read professional) journalism, not an actual decline
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by kbart 10y ago
Every nation rewrites its history according to contemporary needs and cherry picks (or creates) sources to support it. A good example of today is Russia, where Stalin cult is resurgent and not so honorable history facts (pact with Hitler, H
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by kbart 10y ago
"This stuff should be taught in high schools." Strange, so it's not taught in USA? I always assumed compound interest to be basics and taught universally. I did learn about them probably in 7th or 8th grade.
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by kbart 10y ago
It's time to add [FLASH] tag to HN.
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by kbart 10y ago
Only because it is still cheaper than renewables, but that won't be for too long.
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by kbart 10y ago
"The glass ornament likely uses a comparable amount of oil to create" The energy might come from renewables, not necessarily oil.
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by kbart 10y ago
The usefulness of symbols is subjective. For example, I personally find all these emoji useless, and you clearly stated opposite.
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by kbart 10y ago
It's too big (at least according to those "slim" worshiping designers).

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