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by nroets 7y ago
Websites should use ReCAPTCHA, but set a cookie that includes sufficient (pseudo) random numbers. Keep a copy on your server. As long as a browser provides a cookie that is present on your server, there is no need for another ReCAPTCHA. If
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by nroets 7y ago
I agree with you, but hopefully he will do a follow-up and tell us what happens next. I guess he is hoping someone start using this project and asks him to expand or customize it.
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by nroets 7y ago
"Why (does) the Boeing flight computer needs pitot tube input at all ?" If there is a strong tailwind, the plane needs a much higher ground speed to avoid stalls. If these accidents prove anything, it's that we need a compute
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by nroets 7y ago
I share you sentiment. But I believe his website is an expression of free speech and should not be suppressed. Perhaps I will use throw away accounts more frequently in future or just post less regularly.
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by nroets 7y ago
"per capita carbon footprints increase in proportion to income." If this statement is unconditionally true, no one will be willing make the necessary sacrifices to prevent climate change. If the rich show that they are willing to
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by nroets 7y ago
I gave my raw observations last night. Maybe they sound naive. But I think that, after many years of growth at any cost, China is cleaning up their act. It may be years before it results in cleaner water flowing into the sea.
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by nroets 7y ago
The export of waste is not the real problem. Your reference says it adds "12 percent to the plastic waste China generates domestically every year". Clearly China has the logistics to put it's own waste into properly designed
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by nroets 7y ago
GDP per emission is really a bad measure. It implies that the Earth's atmosphere is owned by the producers of goods. Emission per capita is much more fair. China has come a long long way. Fertility is much lower. They are investing hea
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by nroets 7y ago
Plastic does not need to be curtailed at source. As long as it ends up in well engineered landfills, there's no problem.
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by nroets 7y ago
I've cycled 5,000 km this year in China and what I saw is at odds with this report: There are cleaners in all public areas. What they collect must surely go to landfills. Although I've seen some garbage dumps on the sides of lakes
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by nroets 7y ago
Ipfs.jes.xxx is not blocked and I could read what I wanted. But sometimes it gives 504 Gateway Timeout errors. GitHub is working. Cloud fare ipfs and ipfs.io are both blocked. Many Chinese here in Shenzhen use VPNs to access YouTube and Fac
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by nroets 7y ago
And I just tried. i It's blocked
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by nroets 7y ago
I'm in China for a few months. I search for the topic with Bing. If Wikipedia is one of the top results, Bing will embed most of the article.
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by nroets 7y ago
My guess is that in this case many of the sites copied content from other sites i.e. substantial copyright infringement. That is illegal.
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by nroets 7y ago
Huawei is using the standard mobile phone playbook: They have a lot of carriers pushing their phones. They spend a lot on TV marketing. They opened flagship stores in big malls. They got celebrities such as Scarlett Johansson to promote the
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by nroets 8y ago
It's called adverse selection: A lot talented students happen to have one or more wealthy family member (s) who will either lend or donate the money to them. So commercial lenders receive a disproportionate number of applications from
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by nroets 8y ago
Obviously price per gigabyte isn't the only parameter. Things like latency, uptime and maximum throughput should also be specified. Densities in rural areas are lower, so the reasonable price per gigabyte will be higher. Ideally wholes
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by nroets 8y ago
It just seems to me quite wasteful that there are so much telco infrastructure is duplicated (redundant): For example digging along the same street more than once to lay fiber. Or have cellular towers from different companies next to each o
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by nroets 8y ago
IMHO net neutrality and zero rating are just the tip of the regulatory iceberg. The really hard work of the regulator is to ensure that telcos don't abuse their access to spectrum and other resources. IMHO the best way to do this is to
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by nroets 8y ago
http://cycleblaze.com/journals/burgers I met hundreds of people and most of them were so generous with food, accommodation etc. Some even tried to give me money.
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by nroets 8y ago
The VAT income of the state is the same regardless of where the product was manufactured. So it's not like a tariff at all.
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by nroets 8y ago
Taxing and social services aren't the only way that redistribution occurs. When people are rich enough, they become lazy tourists. Then they travel to poor countries and spend money in restaurants, hotels etc. Similarly, hard working i
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by nroets 8y ago
Last year I spent 5 months cycling through the US. Walmart was the one place I could consistently find healthy food such as fruit at low prices. Many other retailers have specials prices on fruit that only apply to loyalty cards holders. Ob
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by nroets 8y ago
Your function returns 32 bit values, which is far from minimal. CHM92 can generate a minimal function i.e. the numbers are all between 0 and 441. Furthermore, if you have a function for each keyword, you can create a CHM92 function that ret
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by nroets 8y ago
In many US states, companies can fire employees without cause. That's very friendly to small businesses. (I based in South Africa, but traveled the world. So I'm fairly neutral)
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by nroets 8y ago
This is why I like about X11/Motif and mwm. We wrote an application in 1992 for HP/UX. Since then we ported to Red Hat Linux, GCC and 64 bit. Most of the changes were bug fixes because we didn't read the C standard when we st
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by nroets 8y ago
One would not expect The Netherlands to export so much in the presence of "high trade barriers". But I strongly suspect that trade barriers between European Union Members to be very low. Low transport costs also helped The Netherl
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by nroets 8y ago
We (South Africa) are not (yet) bankrupt. Bell Pottinger cannot be blamed for our problems. The problem is pure and simple that the state is spending too much money on civil servants and inefficient state owned companies.
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by nroets 8y ago
With "fact checked", you grabbed my attention. But if words like "great vampire squid" appear in the lede, then the author is surely biased.
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by nroets 8y ago
I may be the only one, but I do think most companies don't use my data for evil purposes. For example, if a search engine can track me on the web, they can deduce which web page answered my query. Then they put that page near the top o

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