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by manarth 10y ago
"sometimes even adult porn" Which is also currently up for discussion: "UK to censor online videos of 'non-conventional' sex acts" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/n
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by manarth 10y ago
Different sites have different policies for bolting, for example, Yosemite allows drilling and bolting, as long as it's done by hand (no motorised drills) [1]. Most bolts are placed by local climbers, and it's widely recognised th
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by manarth 10y ago
The classic fender stratocaster is around $400 iirc. It's a great guitar for the price and that is by no means a high end guitar or high end fender. "$400 looks a little pricey, what about this $100 guitar? Oh, that on
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by manarth 10y ago
English seems to have an extraordinary number of euphemisms for "that room": Bathroom. Restroom. Water Closet. Loo. Bog. Khazi. John. Privy. I wonder if other languages have such an array of words for a toilet, and how much confus
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by manarth 10y ago
People don't usually have a choice about becoming homeless, but their environment will affect how they respond to their homelessness. It's a cliché that some homeless people in America will choose to travel to California or Florid
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by manarth 10y ago
I would guess that it's because the confined space of a mall makes this this efficient to staff. Firstly, there are multiple toilets within a relatively small area, so one cleaning team can service multiple toilets. Secondly, the small
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by manarth 10y ago
We don’t see any reason they would submit information that wasn’t truthful This statement seems excessively naive for a Director of Regulatory Compliance. It's one thing to suggest that in general, the companies are believed to
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by manarth 10y ago
The pedant in me wants to point out that the TLD can be uppercase, as the domain part is case-insensitive. In any case, it probably won't be too long before we get emoji TLDs, or UTF8 flags to replace the country-code :-D
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by manarth 10y ago
Imagine, instead, LA requires licensing of people who download torrents You can literally change the words *"hosts who have not registered to rent their home"* to *"people who have not registered to do X"* Whi
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by manarth 10y ago
Techcrunch must have had a pre-release version for the review…the release date is 11 November (10 November for Australia/Japan). EU pricing is reportedly €59.95.
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by manarth 10y ago
"they don't reveal all the details of achieving good power consumption in their patents" In general, that would mean the feature is not patented: the choice is usually between patent an invention (but it must be expli
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by manarth 10y ago
"I simply cannot understand why anyone would prefer these to existing wireless headphones." One example: people with a major investment in the Apple eco-system. Pair it once with your iPhone, and it's also paired with
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by manarth 10y ago
I think there are two key things here: 1. It's a new product, so sales/revenue/profit figures should effectively be relatively unchanged. 2. It's a new product that they announced with a bit of a fanfare, and has attract
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by manarth 10y ago
There are reports that the market for wired vs wireless shifted in favour of wireless back in June 2016 [1]. Perhaps Apple looked at the market, saw the direction it was going in, and chose to focus on the majority, encouraging growth in th
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by manarth 10y ago
I would expect the default to be unchanged from normal function keys, unless an app declares its custom context.
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by manarth 10y ago
As an example, in the UK, social security provided a formula that determined the "permissible rent". If I claimed housing benefit, they would look at the formula, and tell me "Your housing benefit is a maximum of £x: if your
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by manarth 10y ago
With an unmarked deck, I don't believe the technology currently exists. I would accept that at a given magnification, every card is unique (including when viewed from the side), and can be uniquely identified. But without a marked de
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by manarth 10y ago
I'm guessing many of them paid the $5k fee for the promise of a $55k job at the end of the course.
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by manarth 10y ago
That's basically the history of the APAS docking system [1], which was co-developed by American and Soviet engineers. So why isn't it universal? As usual, XKCD has a compelling explanation: https://xkcd.com/927&#x2
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by manarth 10y ago
It sounds like there are mixed opinions on that - the Chinese docking system is reportedly a clone of the Russian APAS-89/APAS-95 docking system (which is also in use on the ISS). So it's possible, but there doesn't seem to b
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by manarth 10y ago
R&D is a rational choice for many companies, and their motivation is generally economic rather than altruistic.
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by manarth 10y ago
Whilst it's frustrating for the customers whose launches are delayed, I'm sure they're accepting the delay for rational economic reasons, otherwise they would switch to an alternative supplier.
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by manarth 10y ago
And an impending catastrophe so urgent that it needed an immediate launch would be unlikely to leave Russia or China unaffected, so any breakdown in relations would be quickly put aside for the sake of [deflecting meteors/fighting alie
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by manarth 10y ago
I don't think many organisations have a genuine belief that open offices are better…but it's more palatable justification than the fact that they're cheaper.
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by manarth 10y ago
Throttled by what? Most home/consumer routers lack the capability to throttle a specific device, and most consumers wouldn't think to configure this if the capability was there. There's a good argument to say that they should
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by manarth 10y ago
you would notice everything else not working as well Assuming that my toaster didn't get owned on day 1, even as a tech-minded person, if my wifi suddenly started slowing down, I'd be considering a number of other alternat
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by manarth 10y ago
If a particular brand of toaster is constantly being hacked, the market would respond That depends whether "the market" is directly affected. If my toaster is hacked and starts getting used in a DDOS botnet - but still mak
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by manarth 10y ago
And the average IOT user is unlikely to understand the security implications and correctly configure the router.
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by manarth 10y ago
Imagine an army of fridge-hosted bitcoin miners…it'd be extraordinarily inefficient, but the bot-herders wouldn't care about the electricity bill.
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by manarth 10y ago
My main concern is these devices causing bodily harm That's a reasonable, genuine concern, and one that should require physical interlocks (not just software code) to guard against. That's a good situation for mandatory

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