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by pinaceae 10y ago
so, this method is great for the outliers, kids like hawking or tony hawk - kids that are driven by themselves, don't need no guidance, help, discipline. there is a reason asian kids outperform others, and it's not montessori. and
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Oh anecdotes. Use Bluetooth home spekaers, headphones and car radio all the time against my iPhone 6S - works really well. What I do though is manually connect when I want this particular device to be connected (say my headphones in the gym
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by pinaceae 10y ago
how do you build roads without central planning?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Morgan Stanley is moving 2000 employees/jobs to Dublin and Frankfurt, away from London. Announced today.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
That is NOT what the German media is reporting: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/fracking-was-steht... It is a compromise, not a ban. Certain tests will be allowed, until those are concluded there will be
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by pinaceae 10y ago
oh these poor, poor chinese knock-offs that get harrassed, harrassed! by apple lawyers. now where is the iphone produced again? it's a chinese phone sans the IP (designed by apple in cali).
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Same for me, because there is a fundamental flaw in the product: It sucks at being a watch. I can check my Casio without flicking my wrist. I can even take it off and place it next to my keyboard and keep track of the time. Not possible on
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by pinaceae 10y ago
what about trucks, heavy machinery and motorcycles? battery tech is not there for all of those. range/power/density work against batteries in those. current models all suck.
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Qlik Announces Agreement to Be Acquired by Thoma Bravo for $30.50 per Share(qlik.com)
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by pinaceae 10y ago
But doesn't mighty Google have an obvious lead in AI and Machine Learning over all the other tech companies?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
PaaS and SaaS are here to stay. Whole industries are moving systems into SaaS solutions - the overhead of running data centers, OSes plus dealing with software upgrades is just too much. What is happening right now that the market is shakin
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by pinaceae 10y ago
no. you tested with a lot of externalities keeping life exciting. the real stress is being together through the daily, normal grind. in particular kids. where traveling for 6months through SA becomes unattainable - but you still remember th
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by pinaceae 10y ago
and before that Russia occupied Poland together with Prussia and Austria, wiping out Polish statehood altogether for 123 years. Russification, heard of it? the 1920 war was a result of that, Poles trying to reclaim territories in Ukraine -
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by pinaceae 10y ago
who gave the orders? who was in charge? was it the kremlin or the marsians?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
The occupying Red Army did not force anyone? People were DYING trying to get away from this shit and here you are, spouting this nonsense. Humans were shot trying to cross over a wall built in the middle of Europe. The Red Army PURGED the P
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Poland? Czechoslovakia? What the fuck is going on here at HN? Is this Bizarro World?
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Russia occupied half of Europe, against the will of the countries occupied, for nearly 50 years. Stop re-writing history.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
If the cost of labor is gone, another cost comes into focus - cost of transportation, including the time it takes to ship. Example: Zara produces in Spain as high fashion items have a very short shelf life, whereas a container with skirts t
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Salesforce instance NA14 has been down for more than 12 hours now(trust.salesforce.com)
2 points by pinaceae 10y ago|0 comments
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Peter Thiel: "Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into
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Former Tor developer created malware for the FBI to hack Tor users(dailydot.com)
14 points by pinaceae 10y ago|1 comments
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by pinaceae 10y ago
the moment you impose ANY different limit than age on voting rights it will get abused. gender, race, social status will all get used against people. by giving voting rights to everyone you keep the system in check, you cannot ignore certai
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by pinaceae 10y ago
big grain of salt with this one. mr. voss has only ever worked for one company, maxed out as head of IT, team of 35. so his sample size is rather limited.
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by pinaceae 10y ago
I use it all the time for Live Preview in Photos. The Harry Potter effect in photos is awesome. The only consistent use case though, completely useless beyond. Photos shows a little icon to indicate that a long press will do something. It i
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Why not operate trucks like drones? Why does the driver need to sit in the vehicle all the time? Have rotating drivers, no need for rest times of the machine enforced by the limitations of the human body operating it. You can then gradual
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by pinaceae 10y ago
This piece reminds me of the UNA-bomber pamphlets. The formatting is the best part of it :)
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by pinaceae 10y ago
no, those are old laws. mind you, you also get in a lot of trouble for promoting nazism ("wiederbetätigung"). see here, austria, 5 convictions for up to 22 months: http://diepresse.com/home/panorama/oeste
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by pinaceae 10y ago
Nuclear is a prime example for Black Swan instances. All fine until it blows - but when it blows, the catastrophe is really big. If a windmill fails catastrophically, the area around it does not become uninhabitable for at least decades.
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by pinaceae 11y ago
A Hungarian team mounted two MIG21 jet engines on a Russian tank chassis and sprayed water through them. Concept was called "Big Wind". Here it is in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7Ss3BMrscE
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by pinaceae 11y ago
BART now designates high-cost areas. You can see it in the tri-valley, the new Whole Foods in Dublin is a good indicator. Now they want to build an IKEA next to it. Poorer, non-tech people are getting pushed out to Tracy and made-from-scrat

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