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Explosive Packages Found at Heathrow, Waterloo and London City Airport(bbc.co.uk)
18 points by pirocks 8y ago|5 comments
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by pirocks 8y ago
> 1J of energy is 1J of energy. If the sun just hits the desert floor, it’ll heat up the earth immediately. If you collect the energy and convert (some of) it to electricity, whatever’s converted successfully won’t heat up the planet imm
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Google AI refuses to share dataset fields(reddit.com)
4 points by pirocks 8y ago|0 comments
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by pirocks 8y ago
I'm still seeing these on the underground.
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by pirocks 8y ago
I go to a university that uses office 365 for email/document sharing etc. I have friends who go to universities that use the equivalent Google products. I went to a high school that used Google classroom for a variety of assignments.
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IBM’s Watson is now offering career coaching to hourly employees(qz.com)
1 points by pirocks 8y ago|0 comments
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by pirocks 8y ago
Seems down for me: https://web.archive.org/web/20180821173206/http://timdettmer...
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by pirocks 8y ago
What about LinkedIn. You could argue they are needed for career purposes.
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by pirocks 8y ago
Why not do this in the ocean? Lifting and raising blocks from the sea floor provides far more potential energy, since the ocean is deeper, than any crane is tall.
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by pirocks 8y ago
Afaik, the default camera app on most android installs can recognize/read qr codes.
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by pirocks 8y ago
I'm curious to see how this will turn out particularly on controversial news articles. Most news site comment sections have a majority liberal/conservative audience, which curses minority viewpoints to be heavily downvoted. But sh
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by pirocks 8y ago
The hn link didn't work for me. This one did: https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-epa-and-the-penta...
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by pirocks 8y ago
AFAIK intellij/idea is open source: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin
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Anthony Kennedy: US Supreme Court Judge to Retire(bbc.co.uk)
13 points by pirocks 8y ago|1 comments
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by pirocks 8y ago
>The bigger problem is American’s terrible spending habits not lack of real income. Maybe terrible spending habits cause no lack of real income, and if everybody became responsible the economy would tank.
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Klout is out–social media mojo-ranking service to shutter(arstechnica.com)
3 points by pirocks 8y ago|0 comments
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Class Action Reveals Widespread Overpricing Scheme of DRAM(marketwatch.com)
18 points by pirocks 8y ago|8 comments
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by pirocks 8y ago
Anecdotally as a recent high school student I recall taking numerous standardized reading tests with less than accurate science passages.
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by pirocks 9y ago
I've noticed that the Google weather app seems to know where I am even with location, data, and WiFi turned off.
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by pirocks 9y ago
This is the theme of a few episodes of Doctor who. Characters marked there skin with a pen/sharpy, every time they saw an alien. The aliens automagically wiped the memory of anyone who saw them.
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by pirocks 9y ago
I believe this already exists. http://tldr.guru/
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by pirocks 9y ago
That's interesting, because I have an adblocker(ublock origin) and it works fine.
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Facebook broke German privacy laws, court rules(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by pirocks 9y ago|0 comments
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by pirocks 9y ago
To be fair telegram is probably better than snapchat as a messenger.
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by pirocks 9y ago
Where the room is Taiwan, and the people in the room are the earthquakes in Taiwan.
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by pirocks 9y ago
Odds of two people in a room having the same birthday?
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Facebook invents new unit of time called a flick(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by pirocks 9y ago|0 comments
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by pirocks 9y ago
I don't think that a switch from mostly MS to mostly chromeos would be a good thing. Chromeos forces everyone into google products far more than windows forces everyone into ms products.
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(2013)The Creepiest Social Network(interactually.com)
2 points by pirocks 9y ago|0 comments
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Making a Compile-Time Brainfuck Compiler in D(theartofmachinery.com)
1 points by pirocks 9y ago|0 comments

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