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by mandelken 7y ago
> In 2005, conservators received the scroll in a Parker Pen box on a bed of cotton. Surprisingly light on details of its origin. Part of the US war loot from Peshawar perhaps?
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by mandelken 7y ago
Huawei is not owned by a communist party. Even google will tell you that much..
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by mandelken 7y ago
You can not make a bomb with fusion materials alone. Hydronuclear bombs use fission materials (uranium, plutonium) to start the fusion reaction. However, maybe a fusion reactor may be used for fission bomb research, but I'm not sure ho
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by mandelken 8y ago
Kim Dotcom is facing extradition to US (where he has never been) over copyright charges, so definitely "extraditable" as you say. Luckily for her there are no US drone strikes in Kazakhstan...
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by mandelken 8y ago
> Sci-Hub is not a legal alternative Depends on where you live. In my country it is perfectly legal for scientific or teaching purposes. And any article with a Belgian author has to be freely available by law max 3-6 months after publica
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by mandelken 8y ago
Using electricity to heat water is a waste of a high quality (i.e. low entropy) energy source. Carefully tuning when to use electrical water heaters and calling this energy storage is not quite right. There are much better ways to heat wat
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by mandelken 8y ago
They are not suspending the Schengen treaty, obviously. The treaty explicitly allows for temporary border controls. Crossing the border to offload migrants on the other hand is obviously illegal.
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by mandelken 8y ago
> Though the rule was far from universally respected, 20th century journalism's code of ethics prohibited financial considerations from influencing news coverage. This is a fairytale. Chomsky and Herman wrote Manufacturing Consent 3
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by mandelken 8y ago
> the US gov't hasn't been kidnapping many booksellers in the past decade. Are you serious or just trolling? The US has intervened more than any other country over the last decade. As we speak unmanned US drones are killing and
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by mandelken 8y ago
You are mistaken, freedom of expression in Hong Kong is on par with what you have in US or Europe. From my own experience, the media is even more independent than in Europe/US and definitely less of a police state than some parts in t
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by mandelken 8y ago
Or move to Belgium/Germany where university education costs less than a thousand per year.. And you may enjoy a proper beer as a student.. Afterwards universal health insurance and unionized labour.. All debt free.. Cheers!
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BDS: how a controversial nonviolent movement transformed Israel-Palestian debate(theguardian.com)
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by mandelken 9y ago
Taxi's don't scale in an urban environment. Their use is exactly for night or irregular use. Go to Mumbai, Jakarta, or any low income country and you'll find yourself stuck for hours in a cheap taxi. We need regulation becaus
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by mandelken 9y ago
only 10 years too late..
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by mandelken 10y ago
>Can you link to information on this? This blog post is a good starting point on the current shortcomings and design solutions of dataframes in Julia: http://julialang.org/blog/2016/10/StructuredQueries
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by mandelken 10y ago
This article misses one crucial point: leverage. People can afford to buy a property many times their current savings with a mortgage based on their income, because the government in effect guaranties the credit risk in the US or subsidies
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by mandelken 11y ago
I bought the first Zenbook UX31 when it came out and last year bought a retina MBP. The zenbook was at the time half the price for the comparable mac air and I enjoyed it very much the first year, but since then I had it repaired 3 times c
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by mandelken 11y ago
Is there a fundamental problem with mesh? Why couldn't that work in combination with something like maidsafe? Just thinking out loud here.
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by mandelken 11y ago
At the last Belgian Julia meetup there were 2 local companies present (10+ employees) that do all their development in Julia: http://www.tangent.works/ http://www.dynactionize.com/ I understand Blackrock ha
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by mandelken 11y ago
Funny they don't mention the hydra, an amazing little creature, almost(?) immortal: http://www.wired.com/2015/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-hyd...
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by mandelken 11y ago
Listen to Press on the naming of the algorithm, seems like Metropolis just put his name on the paper: https://youtu.be/4gNpgSPal_8?t=938