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by kweks 9y ago
"Smart Photos" are fascinating. I travel frequently, and depending on the country that I'm in, within 24 hours, a new smart photo will filter to the top. I'd love to see research into this - revealing which cultures &#x2
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by kweks 10y ago
Scaffold refers to the structure used for execution by hanging. It's a somewhat clumsy phrase meaning: the last attempt to drink someone's blood after they were executed (presumably hanged)
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Not necessarily. Anyone who runs small farms or boutique cattle studs would disagree. All animals will die at some stage. If their life up to that point was in a caring and respectful environment, and they are humanely killed, what's
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This works, until they put 'temporary' holds on you. The holds seem reasonable at first (ID check, business verification, etc) - but can / will drag on for weeks / months. All the while, the funds in your account add up
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by kweks 10y ago
Depends on the product. I've seen businesses run at 10%, and others at 0%. Until you have a massive, public facing product that sells internationally across many facets of customer - you've probably never experienced the hell of C
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by kweks 10y ago
I had a similar story. Launched a product - which ended up doing much more volume than anticipated. The account got flagged for information, and then went into the same non-sense spiral that you experienced: requests for the same documents,
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by kweks 10y ago
Poster is referring to this thing, for anyone curious: http://www.gettyimages.fr/%C3%A9v%C3%A9nement/russian-orthod...
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by kweks 10y ago
You're totally right, the paper passport could be considered a strange object in a very electronic world. However, in my experience, truly electronically equipped borders are the edge case. The countries that take e-passports without a
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by kweks 10y ago
I've been closely following (and full disclaimer: have invested in) this company: http://www.snopes.com/scientists-find-australian-berry-can-c... Their results for tumours are startling: once applied, the tumours fall
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by kweks 10y ago
I recently visited the Chinese ones. It tools a good day or so of driving off road (after two weeks of driving to get into the area) to reach them. Totally in the middle of nowhere, and quite amazing to see.
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The sections on Rive Gauche that they have turned into pedestrian areas are really quite pleasant - and traffic hasn't suffered so much. Also slated is turning place de la bastille into pedestrian only square, and potentially opening t
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Most of my turkish friends refer to him as Tayyip. The habit stuck, I guess.
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by kweks 10y ago
You'll find yourself modded up and down over this. In a purely intellectual sense, it is definitely a shame that the coup failed. The turkish miliatry has a history of stepping in when a government no longer adheres to the pricipals of
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by kweks 10y ago
This has been going on for years under Tayyip unfortunately. Around the time of the Gezi protests, I had several renouned journalist friends with high-profile jobs (hurriyet etc) that were immediately axed: their publishers were given the &
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by kweks 10y ago
I've been fascinated by mosque architecture for the last few years - and have been fortunate enough to visit each one photographed in the the article, and others in the Turkey, UAE, Iraq, Tunisia, Morocco, etc. So far, Iranian mosques
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by kweks 10y ago
The BladeRF or the upcoming LimeSDR can handle this.
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by kweks 10y ago
I'm unsure that Jordan could be called primitive by any quantitative means. The metric of 'having a constant supply of goods' equating to living like a king seems like a personal opinion. As the article alludes: material poss
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by kweks 10y ago
A year or so ago I was in Wadi Rum, the desert in the south of Jordan, near the Saudi border. I spent a few days with a young bedouin, who in the absence of his parents, maintained the extended family, had mounted a successful business, spo
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by kweks 10y ago
The magstrip has a bit that declares whether or not the terminal should require a PIN. Flip the bit, write to a blank card, and make purchases.
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by kweks 10y ago
Right, I had always assumed that it was to keep the roof on. For the reply below, temperatures vary wildly, as it's in altitude - even between the shade and sun in summer, there's a large variation, and in winter, it gets coooold.
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by kweks 10y ago
Thanks! Shot on a Canon 5D, with a very battered 70-200L F4, and a 16-35 F2.8. Have a selection from the smartphone that came out very nicely too, surprisingly!
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I think you're correct :D
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Larung Gar is quite clean. Whilst the living conditions are basic, it's certainly not a slum. The surrounding towns definitely have a lower standard of living. As you noted, I spent time hanging out in teahouses with monks passing thei
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by kweks 10y ago
Whilst the town itself is built in the upper saddle of a hill, the valley itself is fecund and wide, with many farms. I would assume that most supplies are brought in..
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by kweks 10y ago
I was there literally three days ago. The place is nothing short of breathtaking. Nestled at 4200km, it was a three day motorbike ride from Chengdu. Even at its foothills, you have no concept of the scale of the town hiding in the hills. T
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by kweks 10y ago
https://github.com/quantum-x/esp8266-deauth (Among others..)
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by kweks 10y ago
Hey - we've been performing PCBA in China for our own commerical project and some open source projects for a few years. Outside of that, have been working in traditional manufacturing in China for many years. Feel free to reach out, I&
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EgyptAir MS804: Plane vanishes after entering Egyptian air space(news.google.com)
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by kweks 11y ago
This is fantastic news. PySide with Qt 4 has been an incredible asset to our business, and is truly a pleasure to use. We've only encountered two bugs over two years of use. Multi-platform python3 UI apps that work out of the box - ama
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by kweks 11y ago
Personally, I think the question is more: when photography change from "Look where I was" or "Look at that", to "Look at me"

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