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by mamon 8y ago
My guess would be much simpler: older parents == worse genes. It is already proved that some disorders happen more often to children of parent aged 35+ (Down syndrome for instance)
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by mamon 8y ago
Oh, I tried that, but you know what? Out of almost a 1000 photos I have on my iPhone only 97 showed up, ready to be copied - the ones that I took with the iPhone camera. Those uploaded with iTunes were inaccessible. That’s when I decided to
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by mamon 8y ago
I recently tried to copy a bunch of photo albums FROM iPhone TO PC. Apple makes that difficult, because iTunes only supports synching data in the opposite direction. Also, it would happily offer to delete your photos from phone and replacin
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by mamon 8y ago
The plan is obvious, but the real question is: can they succeed? Russian economic power is negligible but if China stops accepting payments in USD for all the stuff they export then that could do a lot of damage.
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by mamon 8y ago
Yes, this case kind of proves that they implemented disk encryption correctly :) If MBP weren't such overpriced garbage recently (fckuing Touchbar, fcuking AMD GPUs, fcuking overheating, throttling CPUs) this could convince me to buy o
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by mamon 8y ago
In case of Formula 1 racing rules exists to force more innovation. For example, the trend of the past few years is to limit engine capacity and reduce fuel consumption. So the rules say your engine must go down from 3 liters to 2.4 liters c
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by mamon 8y ago
Evidence only exists if conspirators are sloppy. Intelligence agencies are usually excellent in covering their tracks, so for example many conspiracies from WW II only become known after MI6 declassified their documents after 50 years grace
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by mamon 8y ago
Obesity comes from the type of food you eat, not just quantity. Humans are the only species that invented glucose-fructose syrup and other highly processed foods. Feed that to any wild animal an they will become obese as well.
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by mamon 8y ago
Usually people only complain about one shift: the one that makes your night sleep shorter. The other one is nice :)
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by mamon 8y ago
There's another issue here: many companies, when finding themselves in need of a proficient Eiffel programmer will just take one of their good programmers in other languages and ask: Would you like to learn Eiffel? And programmers usua
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by mamon 8y ago
But there's also a matter of probablity: Hanlon's Razor simply captures the fact that stupidity is much easier to come by than malice. So if you have to assume something, assume more probable thing.
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by mamon 8y ago
Ironically, it was Steve Jobs' pep talk to new executives that went something like: "The difference between a janitor and executive is that VPs are not allowed to have excuses". So trying to share the blame with Intel is just
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by mamon 8y ago
There's a simple solution for the lack of DDR4LP: end the "thinner and lighter" insanity and provide normal DDR4 with a decent battery capacity by making the laptop 2mm thicker and 0.5 pound heavier.
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by mamon 8y ago
Clearing user state is one of the reasons I prefer reboots - it helps keep my desktop clean and tidy. I cannot imagine the mess that would arise if my session lived months. I use shutdown as a shortcut for "close all application I don&
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by mamon 8y ago
Also worth mentioning: Błędów Desert in Poland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%82%C4%99d%C3%B3w_Desert
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by mamon 8y ago
It seems that Intel already is in the Big Trouble at 10nm, so 3nm seems even more unrealistic goal.
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by mamon 8y ago
Yours is equally naive, but understandable viewpoint :) If anything, America's role is destabilising (see attacking Iraq on false pretenses that destabilized Middle East and helped ISIS rise to power). The same goes for other wars wag
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by mamon 8y ago
Offtopic: after declining GDPR consents I was redirected to text only version of the page: https://text.npr.org/
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by mamon 8y ago
Regarding pressure/road damage: Polish roads in particular are marked with grooves created by heavy trucks. And we know for sure that it's because of trucks because it only happens on the rightmost lane, where they typically drive
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by mamon 8y ago
What if it's the other way around: what if the feeling of everything being interconnected is an illusion? When Cartesius said his famous "Cogito ergo sum" that's pretty much what it meant - you can be sure that your mind
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by mamon 8y ago
In other words: Java? :)
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by mamon 8y ago
"Football" is a very specific term, which means "game played with foot (feet)". The fact that some moron called another game "American footbal" when they should have called it "American rugby" does no
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by mamon 8y ago
But it is still possible to prepare police officers for such situations. Don't know about US but in my country police officers: a) are never alone, always a pair of them on patrol b) are supposed to be trained in combat to reasonable s
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by mamon 8y ago
Rather, warranty that comes with mandatory technical inspections at authorized repair shops that cost you fortune, original spare parts that cost you another fortune, not to mention things like upgrading maps in your built in navigation sys
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by mamon 8y ago
That our brains are more complex that hydrogen atom is a fact, but that does not invalidate scientific method. It simply means that we need much more time, more research, more data and more complex theories to understand brain than we need
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by mamon 8y ago
The reason why English clubs are not successfull internationally is proably because their own league is so demanding, that they simply save their strength for national competition, ignoring Champions League altogether. And this even makes f
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by mamon 8y ago
English Premier League is the best league in the world, so why would any English player want to play elsewhere? Regarding different playing styles: Premier League has a lot of players and managers from all around the world, so there is no s
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by mamon 8y ago
She was the worst possible candidate of Democrats. Maybe even some time in future we'll learn that Russians helped her win that primary in order to give Trump easiest opponent to beat :)
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by mamon 8y ago
Managing SV startup seems to be very similar to running kindergarden. But maybe we those "rockstar" employees simply show us that the human brain power is not unlimited: In order to fit awesome coding skills in you have to sacrifi
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by mamon 8y ago
And the new url is not working (site being unavailable or something), thank you very much.

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