kpil

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by kpil 10y ago
Not really. It is no problem to help financing the already existing UNHCR funded missions in Turkey, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran, Ethiopia, Jordan, etc that all are close neighbors to conflict zones. Perhaps surprisingly, as it is not following
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by kpil 10y ago
I don't know your Swedish skills, but here is a follow up interview: https://www.svd.se/man-hade-kunnat-salja-asylratten-for-20-0... He quotes 10 SEK / day compared to 500 SEK per day. He is a bit defensive and sa
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by kpil 10y ago
That was almost like 1984. Surrealistic to come from someone that have dismissed "numbers" and "statistics" (with quotes) as irrelevant distractions from the emotional narrative.
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by kpil 10y ago
Actually, in EU almost anyone with a little bit of money could start a financial institute that would be able to lend money to people using real estate as security, backed by the central banks. The more complicated bank licence is needed to
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by kpil 10y ago
I think this has historically been the main reason. The computers where introduces to reduce the operational costs, and that mentality has stuck. But I think most banks have realized that they need to do something, lest they will end up the
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by kpil 10y ago
I could say that the debate is mostly relevant to "1337" hackers, that are un-pragmatic bordering to religious. I won't do that, and instead state that the wise person selects the tool appropriate for the task. I sometimes us
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by kpil 10y ago
I think lately his illness, but I think he peaked in popularity just before he stated his belief that it is multiple times (100 times?) more efficient to help refugees from the Middle East and Africa in their home countries or local region
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by kpil 10y ago
I came to think of molds and how they route networks with just local agents...
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by kpil 10y ago
The free capital is probably a large factor, just as you say because there is a culture of investing in software development. I don't think you see that as much in say Japan or Germany or anywhere in EU. The northern European countries
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by kpil 10y ago
It's like every service providers wet dream to arbitrarily lock up our private files. Currently only the russian cybercriminals are a bit ahead of the competition.
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by kpil 10y ago
There is probably more than one route between two points, in a tightly connected mesh. But I agree, it gets insanely complicated rather quickly.
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by kpil 10y ago
I think geography is a red herring. The addresses must have meaning and hosts must self organise into a subnet based on connectivity, which feels like a np-hard problem... That does not imply that there is no reasonably well working approx
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by kpil 10y ago
That's BSD's sort, not GNU sort, isn't it?
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by kpil 10y ago
The algorithms are improved, and there are more network types, and better understanding of real neurons, but I think you are mostly correct. I built a program that played tic-tac-toe in -94, using a combination of traversing a problem tree
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by kpil 10y ago
According to Wikipedia, it seems that ASCII was first used by AT&T's TWX teleprinter network, that previously used another encoding, ITA2. The keyword is "evolved into" as a long chain of changes, from Morse code, Murray
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by kpil 10y ago
I'd say it's more plausible that it drank a lot of ocean water, and acquired the gold that way...
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by kpil 10y ago
Is pork actually worse than eating other omnivores?
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by kpil 10y ago
Still, diplomatic passport, although a shady one. I guess we could go an lock up all Chinese diplomatic representatives then?
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by kpil 10y ago
Are you sure? Seems to be pointless if it just means that it will not be irrecovably damaged.
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by kpil 10y ago
Ha ha, but is it more confusing than javascript actually - removing the factor that what you already know is less complex than a new thing. (Especially scheme is rather rigid in my humble opinion.)
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by kpil 10y ago
I guess you could then just plop in a small lisp (scheme!) function instead of units and values in order to place things as you like them. You could then have standard functions that did what a lot of the keywords did. On the other hand, It
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by kpil 10y ago
Eh, that's true just about everywhere... Code = Money. You spend some money, get new and hopefully better code, and with some luck you will get a return on the investment, ie more money than you spent on doing it. Unless you are doing
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by kpil 10y ago
Probably good as microwaves behave very unpredictable in the complex fat-air-water boundaries in a body. It is hard to rule out that a focused reflection from the head accidentally heat up a part of the retina just a few degrees, which migh
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by kpil 10y ago
I think most of it is highly unlikely...
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by kpil 10y ago
Yes, but I think I see the analogy. The problem is the commercial model for funding and research, as a new antibiotic is guaranteed to be a commercial failure, and the risks are high. If EU, US and maybe the Chinese funded research - both u
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by kpil 10y ago
I think that more importantly they are not coupled, so that the input on one does not show or is felt on the other. It's possible to make simultaneous conflicting inputs and not notice. From a UX perspective, I think one major factor w
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by kpil 10y ago
Airbus have the joystick on the left hand side on captain's seat (on the left). The right hand is typically on the throttle when taking off and other maneuvers, even when using a yoke. I think that single seat fighters typically have t
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by kpil 10y ago
A) saving money. It would take quite some time to recuperate the expensive toilet. Probably at least 10 years. B) DON'T flush them. C) I really don't feel as clean from a jet spray. And I don't like it. Especially if the to
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by kpil 10y ago
There's soft wipes (not the paper type). Nothing can beat that.
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by kpil 10y ago
I think the optimal route is to not bother with (extra) abstractions and interfaces, but try to avoid using things that is unreasonably tied to vendor - unless you save a lot of time. If the code base is not a pile of dung anyway, the cost

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