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by nroets 10y ago
Why usage of tools, as opposed to carrying resources ?
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by nroets 10y ago
Google cares a lot about user privacy. If only a few percent of their users change their default search engine from Google to DuckDuckGo, they will loose a lot of revenue.
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by nroets 10y ago
Great theory. Except that outside the US people who are FB friends tell each other "I want to chat, give me your number so I can add you on WhatsApp". Outside the US, WhatsApp is winning because of network effects.
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by nroets 10y ago
The audience is used to longer load times. www.facebook.com does not have a server in Africa (I live in South Africa and my ping time to FB is 200 ms more than my ping time to Google.)
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by nroets 10y ago
To add to that: Apartheid ended in large part due to economic sanctions by the US (and other governments).
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by nroets 10y ago
Most people will find leaving the grid very inconvenient, whatever the saving. Here in South Africa, rolling blackouts caused chaos. Yet very few people left the grid.
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by nroets 10y ago
In some countries, law enforcement can get a list of devices (IMEI numbers) the sim was used in. Then ask of a list of sims used in that device and a list calls and texts made to / from any of those sims. So, one slip up and the sim wi
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by nroets 11y ago
When South Africa (where I live), violated trade rules and put up barriers to US chicken imports, the US retaliated with barriers to the importation of some SA goods into the US. Eventually, SA gave in and removed the barriers. IMHO Free tr
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by nroets 11y ago
If STUN does not work, it tries TURN. If TURN does not work, you're not connected to the Internet. https://www.webrtc-experiment.com/docs/STUN-or-TURN.html
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by nroets 11y ago
The reason why so many woman find Clooney or DiCaprio so attractive is not their looks. It's things like being the center of attention.
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by nroets 11y ago
Yes, get a property mogul as your chief executive! I suspect that Donald Trump will be available early next year.
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by nroets 11y ago
You can solve much more problems from Project Euler using a DFS variation of the Sieve of Euler. It is a depth first search of all the numbers less than n. It visits every number exactly once. When it visits a number, the prime factorizatio
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by nroets 11y ago
Thank you for answering the security question Mr. Stavros. I'll accept "Bee" as your dog's name. To which offshore bank did you say you wanted to transfer the money ?
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by nroets 11y ago
In the past, Microsoft has provided a lot of free stuff, provided you have a valid Windows license. Browsers, video players, development tools etc.
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by nroets 11y ago
Theoretically, a attacker can transmit an amplified message 300 m in 1 microsecond. So the car must limit the RTT to only a few dozen nanoseconds. This is fairly easy with modern electronics.
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by nroets 11y ago
A good example of an exorbitant fine is MTN's fine in Nigeria. It's really scaring investors away.
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by nroets 11y ago
I mostly agree with you. It is however a serious flaw of the jury system. Forensic science is NOT in the terrible state that the OP makes it out to be.
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by nroets 11y ago
"If Europe opens the gates to Muslims, Europe will became a Muslim territory". There are many caveats to this. For example, the US absorbs so many immigrants of different religions that it's guaranteed to stay secular. "
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by nroets 11y ago
Let's say the tree lobster on Lord Howe is replaced by rats and cats. Then Lord Howe lost one specie and gained 2, for a net gain of one specie. So local biodiversity increased. The planet lost one specie, so global biodiversity decrea
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by nroets 11y ago
Over the last 2 decades, technology has secured many products from common criminals. Think of Internet banking or the authentication provided by mobile phone SIM cards. Yet cars theft is still surprisingly common. Why is that ?
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by nroets 11y ago
Currently, the Kariba dam is the one most likely to fail: http://citizen.co.za/820414/kariba-dam-a-ticking-time-bomb/
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by nroets 11y ago
I think Mr. Li would consider Bic a good pen. "crappy pen(s) ... leak ink". There are lot of unbranded pens in the market that stop working even before the ink inside them are used up. On the other hand, Bic has better pens becaus
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by nroets 11y ago
Some meditation teachers concentrate on Buddhist teachings that's not part of mindfullness. They believe those teachings to be more important than mindfullness. If the experimentors ask one of those teachers to teach the patients to me
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by nroets 11y ago
Say the initial clan consisted of 25 couples, aged 1, 2, 3, ... to 25 years old. And people die after 25 years. And each couple between 18 and 25 years have one baby per year. Then the population will quadruple in less than 25 years. That&#
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by nroets 11y ago
Now let's apply the same result to demographics: Suppose there was a small clan in the year zero and their culture and technology allowed their population to grow at an average annual rate of 2%. Then the earth would be overpopulated l
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by nroets 11y ago
The savviest San Francisco net geek is too valuable to be looking for easter eggs. Or bugs in OpenSSL for that matter.
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by nroets 11y ago
IIRC all the efficient solar cells we currently have contains some rare materials. Once a particular solar technology reaches grid parity, the demand for the relevant rare material will increase, placing a floor under the price of that sola
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by nroets 11y ago
It was the first time I heard of GNU software. For the next 3 years, my only perception was that it was insecure.
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by nroets 11y ago
I also live in South Africa. Our mobile networks are in pretty good shape: * Anyone can buy a prepaid SIM from any supermarket and access the Internet within 10 or 20 minutes. Last time I visited France, it took me 4 days to achieve a simil
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by nroets 12y ago
KeeLoq was widely used back then. Careless users make it theoretically vulnerable to replay attacks, but it's rarely exploited. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeeLoq

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