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by martinko 10y ago
The bottom line is that it would be economic suicide to leave the single market, and both sides of the debate know this. If they do leave the EU it will mainly be a proforma move and their single market status will be affected less, if at a
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by martinko 10y ago
Indeed the most likely scenario appears to be the 'Norwegian model', where the UK in essence remains in the single market and thus will have to follow European regulations but will have a much smaller say when it comes to the futu
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by martinko 10y ago
> Personally I'd not touch this with a 3-meter bargepole, because I live in a country where people use copyright and trademark law to take people to court, yet it's an interesting project. You feel using it would open you up to
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by martinko 10y ago
Im not really well versed in energy generation - do you have an estimate how many solar panels would be needed to power one supercharger at full capacity?
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by martinko 10y ago
Surprising lack of penis pics, given my experience with chat roulette.
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by martinko 10y ago
Eh. Is solar really currently a viable alternative that can power superchargers?
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by martinko 10y ago
Another thing to consider is how much you general abstract thinking and intelligence is expanded by learning math - Qualities that are valued.
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by martinko 10y ago
Subreddits that are interesting in some way have a tendency of growing and thereby losing quality. I suppose that the fact that HN is a different site with barriers to access (slight) would limit new users to those who are really interested
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by martinko 10y ago
Despite Musk's positioning on the topic it really feels like a bailout of his other investments. Does anyone have information regarding the time of the shareholder vote on the merger? Given that Musk and co. will abstain, there might b
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by martinko 10y ago
Yeah, this is what 5g 'promises' to solve (I've heard about applications in Singapore and NY), despite the fact that no one has actually defined what 5g is.
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by martinko 10y ago
> And the rest of the world could soon behave a lot more like the Finns do. The core issue here is the lack of fiber-connected base stations. The vast majority of them globally are connected with microwave connections that will not be ab
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by martinko 10y ago
I would expect this to also work on networks that the attacker does not have access to. He only needs to observe signal changes, not the actual signal, so wifi encryption should not be a factor.
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by martinko 10y ago
What a joke: "find a strategy for the players to determine the colours of their hats based on the hats they see and what the other players do" I interpreted it in the same way as you did - communication on any level is not allowed
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by martinko 10y ago
Time well wasted was not wasted.
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by martinko 10y ago
> I plan to bid a couple dozen BTC or so I will really be surprised if anyone actually bids any significant amount. Come on, an open-ended auction where they keep all bids? The overly-russian phrasing? Just screams legitimacy.
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by martinko 10y ago
> For six days, one group ate low-carb, the other low-fat. Both were strictly forced to eat the same number of calories. The result? The low-carb group did not lose more weight. They can't be serious. Six days? A really 'repres
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by martinko 10y ago
> Verizon launched its 4G LTE network in the US covering 93% of the population it needed about 30,000 towers, each one of which had to have a fiber connection I'm curious whether this is true. Base stations are usually connected to
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by martinko 10y ago
Last time they sold 30k at once. 2k is really nothing, they will probably get close to market price.
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by martinko 10y ago
"Note from Robert Krulwich: I see that this column has offended a whole bunch of you. Yes, as many of you point out, my viewpoint was white, male (and hung up on fame and power) and many of you have serious, and totally legitimate argu
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by martinko 10y ago
I see Microsoft is tending to the most pertinent weaknesses of their products.
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by martinko 10y ago
I find it charming and human
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by martinko 10y ago
I want them to mask my weak technical skills.
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by martinko 10y ago
>Now the same game has been played again with people believing that someone can write code to replace our currency system and if they get in early enough, they'll be kings or queens. Is that all you see? Decentralized currencies, et
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by martinko 10y ago
So much for confidence in future smart contracts in ethereum. You have invested in an experimental 'organization' that is defined by the contract that is its code. The code supersedes any other interpretation of the contract. You
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by martinko 11y ago
Just switched to uBlock because of this article, thanks.
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by martinko 11y ago
Yes.
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by martinko 11y ago
Interesting to note that the MP4 stops playing when off-screen, while BPG does not. Also, I too find the BPG quality worse.
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by martinko 11y ago
The dynamic is not one in which when miners win, users lose. The issue is that users want more transactions per second and therefore want bigger blocks to be created, however, when miners create larger blocks, they have a hard(er) time prop
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by martinko 11y ago
It does just double it. The problem with increasing it more is propagation speeds around the planet (this needs to be as fast as possible or another miner may get the block reward), especially if the miner is sitting in china.
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by martinko 11y ago
Saying the game is a bigger ripoff after odds change without discussing changes to expected values and then going on to say: > people don't understand odds Is quite ironic.

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