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by litoE 5y ago
Economics 101: the number of subscribers is not too important if the total revenue (from fewer customers at a higher price) is up.
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by litoE 5y ago
Many years ago I visited Buenos Aires, Argentina. In the flat parts of the city center, people would parallel-park their cars and leave them in neutral (very few cars had automatic transmissions) and without setting the parking brake. When
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by litoE 5y ago
This article was written by the same guy who claims that what happened to the Skripals in England was "probably food poisoning" and that the poisononing of Navalny was "done by the mafia". https://fr.wikipedia
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by litoE 5y ago
They totaled the car, which was rented as well as damaging two parked cars belonging to residents in addition to several trash cans. The LAPD has a $1,000 reward for information that may lead to an arrest. https://www.foxla.com&#
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by litoE 5y ago
I don't understand where cheating fits here, unless the professor has been using the same exam questions in subsequent iterations of the same course. When I was teaching, I used to hand out copies of previous midterms and finals to my
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by litoE 5y ago
If the digits in pi start repeating then pi can be written as a fraction. But we know that pi is not rational - it cannot be written as a fraction. Therefore the digits in pi cannot repeat.
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by litoE 5y ago
You don't need a separate router. If you don't give the TV the password to your WiFi it won't be able to connect.
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Ask HN: Looking for a Backup Email Relay
9 points by litoE 5y ago|5 comments
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by litoE 5y ago
I used to use microfiber cloths, but found that the lenses would get scratched. My optometrist told me that the combination of cloths and the gritty dirt was the equivalent of using fine sandpaper on the soft plastic. She recommended using
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by litoE 5y ago
I missed some advice on the choice of saddle. The wrong saddle can be very uncomfortable on your privates.
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by litoE 5y ago
"Every child should have a dog. It teaches them about responsibility, fidelity, unconditional love and also to turn around three times before you lie down".
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by litoE 5y ago
I have a hand-held GPS receiver that was last used in Chicago in November. I just turned it on again in another part of the world but inside a reinforced concrete building, where is gets no satellite signals. It still thinks it's at th
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by litoE 5y ago
When I was in 7th grade in 1959 our punishment for misbehaviour was having to return to school on a Saturday afternoon and write out Kipling's "If" two or three hundred times in longhand.
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by litoE 5y ago
300 baud modems used frequency shift keying, meaning they generated two different sounds for 0 and 1 bits. The sound frequencies were high enough that the receiving modem didn't need a full 1/300 of a second to decide if it was ge
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by litoE 5y ago
What's the easiest way to dispose of your trash in San Francisco? Gift-wrap it and leave it on the front seat of your car!
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by litoE 5y ago
My father used mechanical tools. Every time he skinned his knuckles my vocabulary expanded.
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What’s Behind the Confidence of the Incompetent?(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by litoE 5y ago|2 comments
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by litoE 5y ago
Once you own outright a block of IP4 addresses, is there a recurring charge to allow you to keep it? And who, if anyone, gets paid.
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by litoE 5y ago
My grandfather didn't use a Podstakannik, just a glass. He had a special grip to avoid scalding his fingers: he would grasp the glass by the rim between his thumb and index. Since the tea didn't go all the way to the top and glass
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by litoE 5y ago
Very interesting. Does not dwell on the rusian custom of drinking tea in glasses rather than mugs or porcelain cups. My grandfather always complained that porcelain cups tasted like milk. Also, my grandfather (born in Ukraine in 1895), did
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by litoE 5y ago
Paul Graham proceeded to develop an open source filtering application called PopFile based on this document. I've been using Popfile since forever to filter my spam. https://getpopfile.org/
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by litoE 5y ago
They will need to triple or quadruple the capacity of the water, electrical and sewer grids that were sized for the current density. And convince people to part with their cars because street parking will become impossible.
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by litoE 5y ago
Back in grad school we would put lye, water and aluminum foil in an empty wine bottle, tie a (unused) condom around the neck of the bottle, wait for it to inflate and then light it up with a match tied to a very long stick.
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by litoE 5y ago
In the USA we call them "features".
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by litoE 5y ago
Now I'm confused. The article says at one point that ANSI "letter" is 8 1/2 inches by 12 2/3 inches and also that "letter" size is 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches without explaining the discrepancy. So whic
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by litoE 5y ago
My home network includes a router and several WiFi access points. They are managed through a browser, which means they have a built-in web server. I have them configured so they are only visible from the internal IP addresses and changed us
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by litoE 5y ago
A man walks into an auto parts store and says "Can I get a rear-view mirror for my Yugo?" The clerk thinks for a minute and then says "Seems like a fair trade to me".
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by litoE 5y ago
I had open heart surgery just about one year ago. It was done at UCLA Med Center, reputedly one of the best if not the best hospital in California, by the best cardiac surgeon west of the Mississipi. I spent a week in the hospital followed
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by litoE 5y ago
Given a, b and A the triangle is fully determined, but the solver does not compute the three missing elements c, B and C.
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by litoE 5y ago
Even if your backups are usually off-line, there must be a period of time, while you are doing a backup, that the backup system is in-line. How do you get around that?

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