mikro2nd

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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   Mobile electric fencing is your friend, here. No need for guns.
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   "a Holly Grail of every aspiring software developer" You have to be kidding me . Speaking as a Software Developer, there's no inducement on Earth you could offer me to work for the shitfactory that is Facebook. The company i
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   See also the (old) movie, "The Mouse that Roared". Follows exactly that theme. Peter Sellers playing about four different roles.
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   I think that, "what happens if nobody has a standing army?" is an interesting question. What I don't understand is why you think that "someone has to play cop"...?
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   I was thinking more along the lines of "Oil is Rat Poison" say a third of competing oil barons .
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   So Apartheid. Separation was precisely the core of South Africa's Apartheid policy; the word "Apartheid" literally means "apartness" or "segregation".
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   It would be helpful to us non-US persons if you'd explain what signal you're proxying with "Montgomery, Alabama". As it is this means nothing to a large number of people reading your comment.
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   Thank you for clarifying this!
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   by mikro2nd 5y ago

   So... I dunno... Just ignore the whole BAT/Rewards nonsense? I use none of that shit, though I do use Brave for a (very) few things that require a Chrome-like browser (i.e. Won't work in Firefox with my battery of plugins). I do
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Curious: how can they detect whether you're torrenting commercial media if you've enabled Bittorrent protocol encryption? Surely all they can see then is the outer (envelope) of the packets...?
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    What is the sort of lifetime (ball-park) that one might expect before neutron saturation of the reactor walls becomes a serious concern and the reactor has to be scrapped?
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    They do think that we want personalised ads, though, and tracking cookies are just the tech-at-hand that is the least-cost way to do that.
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    To be clear, it was already "Google Listening Post" before I learned of this opt-out thing. The 5GHz network is/was "Facebook Listening Post _nomap" I find it absurd that we have to put this guff into our own netw
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    TrackMeNot(trackmenot.io)

    1 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    So my network just became "Google Listening Post _nomap"...
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    Is humanity smarter than a protozoan?(grist.org)

    1 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    So what if they were? If you're ill, you're ill and should not have to go in to work. Sometimes ill-timed shit happens. Only in the US you can get fired for it. My mind boggles at the concept of "retroactive" firing... w
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    404
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    No favourites, really. To me they're "just transport" and cars bore me to tears, but the most comfortable drive I can recall was a Honda (model long since forgotten).
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    From their website ( https://iho.int/ ): " IHO works to ensure that all the world's seas, oceans and navigable waters are surveyed and charted, thereby supporting safety of navigation and the protection of the marin
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Well, (SF writerly hat ON): We can also, presumably, start to worry about what other organisms -- viruses (viri?) -- are living in the permfrost that is busy thawing due to global warming . In the other direction, we can contemplate the fa
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Funny you should mention that the "Interests" thing... I just happened to take a look, earlier today, at what Twitter thinks I'm interested in, and... it's laughable . I mean, seriously deranged . If this is the state
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    What if the black hole at the center of the Milky Way is a mass of dark matter?(phys.org)

    2 points by mikro2nd 5y ago|0 comments
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Well, schedule is a priority up to the point where it's a 737-MAX on the tarmac... ;)
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    I've always understood that airframe/airliner construction is quite orthogonal to engine choice. (I am very far from knowledgable on the subject!) A given airframe will, afaik, be available with choices of different engines from d
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    Perhaps because it's in the process of becoming a triopoly as Chinese investment in airliner production ramps up?
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    I think it's an interesting idea, worth chasing for a while, at least. I would, however, like to see more than 2 headlines per page. (i.e. I found the large-blocks annoying in that I couldn't get a decent overview quickly.) It wou
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    I've been advocating Hydrogen for energy storage/transport for decades, but I don't think it works for planes. Specific energy (energy per kg) is against it, I'm afraid. It's not the H2 that weighs much, but it&#x27
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    I suspect that the only way for long-distance, heavy-lift aviation (and military aviation) to continue operating in a political/economic climate that demands CO2 reduction/elimination will be via biodiesel. Batteries ain't go
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    by mikro2nd 5y ago

    And if I have no credit card? (I have no credit card. I approach 6 decades in age.)