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by markvdb 13y ago
Boron treated paper. One popular EU make is Isofloc. When building new, you may also want to consider straw bale construction. https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Straw_Bale_Construction is slowly improving.
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by markvdb 13y ago
Network effects.
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by markvdb 13y ago
UK tabloid? Check! Anti-EU sentiment? Check! Vague accusations? Check! UK conservative MEP's heroicly fighting wind mills? Check! A conversation about the (vague) subject area might interesting. The article most certainly isn't...
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by markvdb 13y ago
You say "I'm surprised more strategy hasn't come to play until Arthur." This might have something to do with the selection of players by the show organisers. If your goal as a show organiser is to get as many spectators
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by markvdb 13y ago
New private browser window, or delete economist.com cookies. In firefox with the pentadactyl plugin for vim-like keybindings: "<Esc>:cookies economist.com clear" .
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by markvdb 13y ago
Hm, indeed... http://www.yachana.org/teaching/resources/interventions.html
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by markvdb 13y ago
I imagine that nature/nurture research on geneticly similar populations with very different cultures could be incredibly interesting. Say North and South Korea. Not without any difficulties of course...
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by markvdb 13y ago
You really want to see Jacques Tati's "Jour de fête". It's the 14th of July, French national holiday, late 1940s. There is the traditional village fair and party. The village mailman gets inspired by a combination of alc
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by markvdb 13y ago
Rather calculate the diesel powered truck doing 80% of the distance to delivery place, and the drones flying the last 20% of the distance from the truck.
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by markvdb 13y ago
Battery density is not that much of a problem. Supply from warehouse to moving warehouse vehicle (truck?) to multiple delivery vehicles (drones). Parallellise and automate the last mile.
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by markvdb 13y ago
Riga, Latvia. Cheap. Very good internet connectivity. Our simple 25m² office: 80€ including heating, electricity and high speed internet. Little bureaucracy. Safe. Contrary to what people seem to think, low corruption. Low taxes, especially
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by markvdb 13y ago
Congratulations on your work. We do quite a bit of CNC work. Our main product is CC BY-SA. I think you'd be surprised how much customers appreciate that, and how much they are willing to work with us. So I agree with phreeza. Licensing
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by markvdb 13y ago
While I agree that liability is important, it becomes less of an issue with treatment so much cheaper, especially for issues that do not threaten your ability to travel. If something goes wrong, you can still go for the 80% cheaper correcti
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by markvdb 13y ago
Some possible reasons: * The hospital system in Belgium is 99% either state or non-profit owned. Less sticky fingers. Less luxury. * Infrastructure (buildings, tools, ...). The infrastructure is extremely heavily state subsidised. * Medical
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by markvdb 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljK1MoLJ_Dg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAcert.org
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by markvdb 13y ago
e-volo.com
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by markvdb 13y ago
Is there a public list of FOIA requests? In other words, can I check if my neighbour has filed a FOIA request?
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by markvdb 13y ago
For a broader sample base, you just widen your category a tiny little bit to Edward Snowden, Jeremy Hammond, Aaron Swartz, Bradley Manning and Jacob Appelbaum.
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by markvdb 13y ago
It could very well be that no US government agencies are spying on Americans. Think outsourcing the "grunt work" to foreign partners or subsidiaries. The CIA rendition flights to Jordan are a good example.
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by markvdb 13y ago
The Guardian (.uk), Der Spiegel (.de), Le Monde (.fr), La repubblica (.it), The Mail and Guardian (.za). Quite a few well respected news media outside the US are less dependent on the parties involved. Or you could just read The Onion of co
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by markvdb 13y ago
Safely driving over 1300km (edit: SF to Seattle) without stopping is impossible. http://drowsydriving.org/about/facts-and-stats/ Please adjust your driving behavior.
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by markvdb 13y ago
How can a Bermuda google subsidiary be the owner of the intellectual rights? Where do these funds come from? I guess the biggest loophole, even more than the double Irish, is non-existing or very lenient transfer pricing rules...
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by markvdb 13y ago
You might want to have a look at: * Taxodus, http://taxodus.net (tax avoidance game) * Tax Free Tour, http://youtu.be/d4o13isDdfY (tax avoidance documentary by VPRO, a Dutch public broadcasting organisation)
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by markvdb 13y ago
Hi! You want to look at the Canon PowerShot A810. That is what we currently ship our kits with at http://diybookscanner.eu .
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by markvdb 14y ago
I'll bite. Nuclear as commercially implemented today is uninsurable. Even without insurance, a nuclear power plant is an extremely complex, capital intensive machine. The technology may be perfectly sound, with scientists able to control it
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by markvdb 14y ago
No need to experiment. Anthropologists and historians have taken a closer look at this and pierced through the barter economy myth. You might want to read the relevant chapters of David Graeber's book "Debt: the first 5000 years".