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by markvdb 12y ago
Agreed about the extremely small attack, but one pi couldn't have done it. You'd need at least two or three. A pi will only get you to ~3Mb/s sustained ethernet. That's because ethernet is tacked onto the USB subsystem i
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by markvdb 12y ago
Why not simply use file:///home/username/websitename/index.html ?
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by markvdb 12y ago
"If 520 was accessible by Freemont, Ballard, Queen Anne, and Magnolia the area that could live on the west side and commute to the east would increase by at least 8x." Looks like the perfect reason _not_ to increase road capacity
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by markvdb 12y ago
Multiply throughput. Do it the Copenhagen way. Make it a bicycle first city. Reorganise urban planning around this. Build the infrastructure. Almost as many people commute by bicycle in greater Copenhagen as do those who cycle to work in th
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by markvdb 12y ago
Read "The overcoat", by Nikolai Gogol. Synopsis at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overcoat .
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by markvdb 12y ago
Authenticity is one of the possible criteria to judge an edition or a recording, and certainly very valuable, but not the only one. Just one example stares at you from the Wohltemperiertes Klavier itself: physical evolution of the capabilit
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by markvdb 12y ago
What happens in Belgium is the actual driver claiming it was their Polish/eastern European employee/acquaintance/... driving. This self-declared driver, gets something in return from the actual driver. The fine gets sent to P
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by markvdb 12y ago
Many Swiss would disagree with you. Turns out if you give people a lot of responsability, they'd rather use it responsibly. Could it be that representative democracy produces part of the political disinterest and lack of knowledge?
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by markvdb 12y ago
Much more recently, from around 1600 BCE, amber from the Baltic coast seems to have found its way into Egypt. http://books.google.com/books?id=NAwGLzAfyhEC&printsec=front...
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by markvdb 12y ago
The people alleged to be shoplifters might have to sign a kind of NDA as a part of this settlement...
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by markvdb 12y ago
Thank you for your answers.
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by markvdb 12y ago
The 50 years old weaver in 1800 Manchester was rare or dead. Life expectancy at birth was only around 48.5 even in 1900-1910 in England and Wales. http://www.osfi-bsif.gc.ca/Eng/Docs/DEIP_Gallop.pdf Relevance? The
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by markvdb 12y ago
According to Reporters Without Vorders, the press situation seems to be significantly better in the Baltics [1]. There was a bit more of a real change of parties in power over there I guess. Estonia in particular seems to be doing the best,
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by markvdb 12y ago
(warning: slightly off topic) How cool would it be to automate ecological construction in similar ways? Straw bales, straw clay, lime render layer, maybe even compressed earth bricks? Make that open hardware, and you have a real winner for
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by markvdb 12y ago
Hey Panagiotis! To be clear, I don't wish anyone this kind of suffering! At the same time, all you mention seem to be very similar to what the Latvians went through in 2009. I do see the difference of the enormous Greek state debt afte
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by markvdb 12y ago
The Latvians got that 5 years ago. GDP -26%, mass government layoffs, 30% paycuts for those that were left, housing prices -55%. Once the housing cost factored out (extreme heating bills, unlike at least most of southern Greece!), cost of b
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by markvdb 12y ago
The Greek _minimum_ wage is over 50% higher than my girlfriend's in EU and euro zone Latvia . How do I convince her of the need to participate in Greek debt relief?
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by markvdb 12y ago
I was deliberately using hyperbole above, stating: "Then if that fails, sue them for [...] passive biological warfare or whatever." Hyperbole, an exaggeration for dramatic effect. Clearly, endangering people's lives like this
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by markvdb 12y ago
Homeopathic party! Drink as much homeopathic agent as you can. Prosit!
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by markvdb 12y ago
The anti-vax thing is not a debate, just like the creationism thing is not a debate. It should not be treated as such. It's a question of how to deal with irresponsible acts of able-minded adults threatening childrens health. Empathy a
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by markvdb 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9007036 Not the first time I heard that comment...
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by markvdb 12y ago
And where US law has limitations, they have the Five Eyes coalition to do the work for them. "We didn't spy on them. Someone else gave us the info!" ... in an automated fashion, 3ms after "someone eles" did the dirt
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by markvdb 12y ago
They need the money to grow their global network. They can afford to fight the regulators that are in the pocket of entrenched taxi businesses in the short to medium term. In the not-so-far future, that resistance will be broken by the intr
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by markvdb 12y ago
Are you a US citizen? How would you react if supposedly close US allies were bugging the White House, the US senate and AT&T? Repeatedly? Five Eyes, Echelon, Merkel, Belgacom, ...
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by markvdb 12y ago
Wow, are tax regulations simple enough in the UK that you can reasonably do your taxes yourself for a simple Ltd? I'd love to see that in my native Belgium!
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by markvdb 12y ago
Make all schools compete for students. And if you can't pay teachers lots of money, at least give them some trust. They're in it for teaching. It works relatively well over here.
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by markvdb 12y ago
"From my experience" really goes against empirical evidence in many cases. This happens with traffic safety just as well. The Dutch have built a system that avoids several 9/11s in traffic deaths per year. Their traffic safet
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by markvdb 12y ago
Things like http://lta.reuters.com/article/idLTAL2N0PE1H520140703 . BNP Paribas is one of the biggest French banks...
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by markvdb 12y ago
Small wineries are popping up everywhere in Belgium, the beer country. A positive effect of the climate change disaster. Too bad producing nice red wine is still problematic. I can 100% recommend Chardonnay Meerdael sparkling white wine tho
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by markvdb 12y ago
Defensive cycling 101: disambiguate. Your intentions as a cyclist should be crystal clear to all other traffic participants. Make it very clear the motorist will not be able to pass you.

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