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by novaRom 8y ago
> NASA's yearly budget of 16 billion EUR vs. Germany's public broadcasting budget of 8 billion EUR Please note, every household in Germany pays a special tax, so called "GEZ TV tax" which is approximately 250 USD per
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by novaRom 8y ago
Venus is not as cold and unprotected as Mars: - Very dense rich atmosphere, carbon dioxide 96.5% - The pressure at its surface is equivalent to that at a depth of nearly 1 km under Earth's oceans; while it is 20 times less dense than f
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by novaRom 8y ago
I found accidentally many of my digestive problems gone just after I stopped consuming milk-based products for a week. I wonder now how and why our diet has evolved in that way.
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by novaRom 8y ago
> which is set to only notify when something drops more than 5% for what purpose? If you go long, you don't have to worry about any disturbance on the market. 5% per day or 5% per hour? Is there any difference if your stock will dro
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by novaRom 8y ago
- geopolitical tensions - natural catastrophes
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by novaRom 8y ago
Is it possible that self replication was ignited at the time of heavy bombardment? It's really strange how origin of Life on Earth is correlated with this time. One possibility might be that our planet was covered with ice at this time
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by novaRom 8y ago
This chip looks for me like a simple fuse. This is not for spying, but rather a doomsday switch. If activated, it will short the circuit destroying full system operations. I don't even think it contains any sophisticated digital logic
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by novaRom 8y ago
Supermicro underperforms, especially Nvidia continues to win their traditional area of business. There is a small chance Nvidia will acquire Supermicro, but right now Supermicro is still too expensive for a company in decline.
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by novaRom 8y ago
It might be plausible this chip is not for spying, but rather a doomsday switch. It works like a switch which disables the whole system working correctly if enabled by a simple signal. There are many critical paths on the board which can be
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by novaRom 8y ago
>> and possibly higher intelligence I heard that a lot of times from mostly uneducated people. All nations have equal level of intelligence. The difference might be access to education, environment, common wealth, and social inequalit
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by novaRom 8y ago
The board is Nano Pi NEO. It costs $15 and contains quad-core Cortex A7 along with two USB (2.0) ports and 100 Mbit Ethernet. It is about 25% of size of RaspberryPi. By the way, the same Chinese company now offers a much more powerful board
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by novaRom 8y ago
I lived and worked in different places of the world (Bay area, MA, middle east, Japan). For me, Europe is simply the best environment if you have a family and you care about your freedom, privacy, and comfort. Decisions made by EU authoriti
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by novaRom 8y ago
Python (official cpython)
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by novaRom 8y ago
I've stopped accepting iOS/OSX seriously after those iCloud celebs leaks and especially after 'empty string' root prompt bug. How anyone can still trust this black box concept.
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by novaRom 8y ago
The problem with Apple is that their iOS products older than 2-3 years are becoming quickly unusable. I have some old iPads and I cannot install anything necessary like Firefox because their iOS is too old and there is no update available (
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by novaRom 8y ago
Amazon knows way more about its users than Google and Facebook. It is easy to deduce a lot of information from my purchase history, my reviews, my 'helpful' clicks, my address, etc. I can switch to DDG, Telegram, and Yahoo Mail,
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by novaRom 8y ago
DDG is getting better with time. I completely switched to DDG about 2 years ago. I tried Google search recently and found its results are less relevant and presented in an awkward form where I cannot copy result's URL (searched for a t
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Ask HN: Why/how Pornhub is free?
2 points by novaRom 8y ago|2 comments
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by novaRom 8y ago
Visiting San Francisco and San Jose every year, I don't see many improvements. US is for cars right now how it looks like. Uber, Light Train, renting a car, but no options to just take a bike from hotel to a conference site.
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by novaRom 8y ago
I can speak for myself. I live in Germany and building something new is very expensive here. I have some friends who tried this path and most of them have absolutely bad experience. If you don't have enough time and expertise, it is ve
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by novaRom 8y ago
There is a significant increase in overall productivity in last few years. Expectations of continuing growth are pushing market higher. Better automation of many processes, faster unlimited access to any information, connectivity. The first
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by novaRom 8y ago
For me, the value of Spotify is much higher than Netflix, because it gives me access to the best music while former contains a small collection of mostly shitty TV shows. I cancelled Netflix few years ago and never regret it. There are much
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by novaRom 8y ago
Keywords: VLSI, CMOS, MOSFET You can find many good books, especially from 80th-90th
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by novaRom 8y ago
can you find a link to this HN post please?
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by novaRom 8y ago
Search terms about human rights, democracy, religion and peaceful protests will be among the words blacklisted in the search engine app This is disgusting! I am not using Google Search anymore because of Firefox+DDG, but where are alternati
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by novaRom 8y ago
I regularly fly on intercontinental lines over the Atlantic. Sometimes a strong turbulence happens while we are somewhere in the middle over the ocean. I usually afraid there's no emergency airport thousands of miles around us literall
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by novaRom 8y ago
Firefox asks now wether to start playing.
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by novaRom 8y ago
FPGAs are very good to learn digital logic design, but dev tools are terrible. They are not open source, binaries may fail to work on any Linux due to failing binary dependencies, closed file formats, inefficiently long synthesis, vendor-sp
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Firefox on MacOS: insane battery drain(kamshin.com)
5 points by novaRom 8y ago|0 comments
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by novaRom 8y ago
I guess it is dangerous in regard to driving ability and misuse. You need an approval from a doctor.

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