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by knz 10y ago
> because they knew the US would come after their empire at some point. This makes it sound as if the US only acted to end competition against another Empire. Japan invaded numerous territories for access to resources and committed horri
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by knz 10y ago
They do teach that in some history classes. I would encourage you to read more about events such as the Rape of Nanking or Comfort Women if you have any concerns about why the Allied nations fought Japan. It was not due to the business inte
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by knz 10y ago
Japan also forced the hand of the Allied nations by invading other territories. Personally I think Japan forced our hands earlier than that (Invasion of Manchuria was a big geopolitical move IIRC) - it just wasn't apparent at the time.
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by knz 10y ago
My response was more for others reading - I agreed with everything you had written. My experience has always been that most kids travel well especially if the parents have prepared.
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure 6 hours counts as long haul in the context of needing supplies! If you are on a 20+ hour itinerary with multiple layovers and the potential for delays then you will have substantially more carry on items. Throw in needing
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by knz 10y ago
I assume you have never travelled long haul with small children. It's in everyone's interest for children onboard to have access to entertainment, food, diapers, comfort objects, and clean clothes. That all takes space.
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by knz 10y ago
> From a long-term point of view, the cost of the wind energy is just the depreciation of the turbines plus the maintenance costs on the farm. A minor detail, but don't forget the cost of transmission. My understanding is that the U
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by knz 10y ago
> Two ex-Uber employees told Buzzfeed News that the "God View" tool, which allows users to track both Uber vehicles and customers who have requested a car, is not open to contracted Uber drivers, but is "widely available&q
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by knz 10y ago
Check with the city first - in the US they often have a management program due to the need to inspect manholes. Depending upon how advanced they are they may even have georeferenced photos and age information.
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by knz 10y ago
OP was talking about hiding Christmas shopping so I'm not sure there is a need to spoof locations in this case.
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by knz 10y ago
Or just turn off location services.
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by knz 10y ago
"Honorable mention: The Grid, by Gretchen Bakke. This book, about our aging electrical grid, fits in one of my favorite genres: “Books About Mundane Stuff That Are Actually Fascinating.” " The author of this book was on NPR/F
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by knz 10y ago
"Live Long and Prosper" according to Google... I misread your comment as LDAP and spent a couple of seconds trying to work out what LDAP had to do with Firebug (and having flashbacks to trying to debug a call to LDAP with firebug
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by knz 10y ago
Compared to other online communities - absolutely. HN rarely devolves into "Damn [liberals|conservatives]" and people often get called out here for ad hominem attacks. Political articles without any basis in technology and clickba
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by knz 10y ago
> Tribalism is so toxic. And yet isn't one solution to tribalism a respectful exchange of ideas and dialogue? Political changes have many direct impacts on this community - net neutrality, education policy related to STEM, funding f
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by knz 10y ago
Can you elaborate more on what features OpenLayers has or does better than Leaflet? We recently replaced an app built with GeoServer for one with Leaflet and Angular. My employer had previously used OpenLayers so we considered it but Leafle
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by knz 10y ago
Mapping trees has many legitimate use cases (fighting invasive species that kill the trees, mapping potential hazards from falling trees or where you may need to respond most after a storm, managing trimming trees, estimating runoff and inf
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by knz 10y ago
I'm not sure QGIS is quite ready for your average municipal GIS user yet. I did 6 years at a city and was involved with a regional GIS users group - it was an odd mix of people trained in geospatial sciences (geography/forestry e
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by knz 10y ago
PostGIS is awesome. I was only exposed to ESRI at university (ArcIMS) and can still remember how I felt when someone told me I could have a world-class spatial engine for free. ESRI/ArcServer is just too expensive for smaller organisat
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by knz 10y ago
Awesome, it's great to see QGIS getting more popular. Thanks for the reply!
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by knz 10y ago
I'm curious what software you and other media agencies use to make the maps (ESRI?) and how they manage their GIS data (any enterprise GIS software or just a bunch of shapefiles sitting on a network share)? Do they actively collect dat
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by knz 10y ago
Isn't that part of why Republicans are pushing for increased exploration/extraction in many of the public lands found in the west/Alaska?
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by knz 10y ago
> This is dangerously naive, "communism" had almost nothing to do with the genocide(s) that Stalin purposefully perpetrated for political and economic reasons. Who said anything about Russia? https://en.wikipedia.org
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by knz 10y ago
>It's infuriating that the money is going to paying for self-preserving bureaucracy and campus beautification projects like replacing the flowers every month. You forgot paying for sports facilities... Edit: Downvotes for wondering
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by knz 10y ago
> or domino theorists in Washington Domino theory wasn't just an abstract concept that artificially created conflict. Every country involved in the domino theory (Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Burma,
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by knz 10y ago
Does 2FA help in this situation? If the token signs in from a previously unknown device/server wouldn't it prompt for authentication details?
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by knz 10y ago
Great question. Most countries have a mapping agency/authority ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_mapping_agency ). I've always assumed that each country defines it's own spatial boundary defined by
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by knz 10y ago
There are board games that teach similar concepts. I've played Robot Turtles ( http://www.robotturtles.com/ ) with my 5 year old at a friends place and they all appeared to enjoy it. I'm not sold on whether it'
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by knz 10y ago
Interesting article - thanks for sharing it. I've had some limited involvement as a GIS expert brought into assist the IT department in dealing with a geofencing solution they agreed to use with various ride sharing companies that use
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by knz 10y ago
> I'm curious to know how close it is to the book before I shell out the dough to see it in the theaters. It's worth seeing just for the cinematography (and support of Sci-Fi movies!). I was not familiar with the story before s

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