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by prodmerc 11y ago
Well, what's the alternative? "Yeah, these guys have some impressive technology and ideas that can revolutionize our world. But they killed a lot of people, so we're gonna just kill them" Very rarely those who take the a
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I don't get this fascination with hunting down the truth behind a single person. He died, whether then or 20 years later, case closed. I find more interesting the that ex-Nazis worked on some of the most important discoveries and inven
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I really wanna know the logic behind that decision. They probably thought ARM was not worth it? Despite it being used successfully in Pocket PCs?
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Huh, that's really interesting. Truly land (and sea) mobile nuclear power plants - I wonder why they gave up on them? Seems like an awesome idea for powering remote locations, for sure. Maybe they were deemed unsafe for military operat
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Intel played with ARM for a while, then gave up on it for some reason. Really not sure why, their PXA processor series was really good...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Not to mention Intel had quite a successful line of ARM CPUs back in the day - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale Which makes articles like this one: http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-
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by prodmerc 11y ago
You mean like the Toshiba 4S? Most countries have designs for awesome stuff (at least on paper), which is never implemented for various reasons.
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Yeah, so that may not be possible. I have a HP laptop with a Windows 7 license key under the battery and I can only install Windows 7 from HP recovery disks. Of course, I opted to say "fuck you" and torrented a Win7 installation d
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Yeah, this is what I don't get. People do drugs, skydive, go sailing and do 150 MPH on motorcycles for fun, but they can lose their shit if 1 in 100 dies going anywhere in space... I guess it will change with time...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
But there's no craving to use it, like with alcohol for example. I can choose not to drink it, not to buy it, I don't feel compelled to do that.
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Well, OK, I just recently learned they're an mostly Islamic country who love their gun culture. An odd combination for any "European" country, yet they're technically in Southern Europe. Nothing against it, really, but t
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Is caffeine really addicting? I mean, I can quit it any time, but I feel like shit. I can choose not to drink it, I don't get any cravings, but I just feel tired and get headaches more frequently. So I choose to drink coffee. But it&#x
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by prodmerc 11y ago
They're about as European as the Albanians lol
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by prodmerc 11y ago
It's probably other countries that bring overall EU GDP down? Germany needs to export more Germans :-D
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Eh, no, it sounds more like a middleman scheme...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
With the immigration crisis and the Paris attacks, it seems that people completely forgot the atrocities that these nutjobs commit in their own home countries. Perhaps it doesn't really matter to most westerners, but we shouldn't
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by prodmerc 11y ago
| hybrid consumer desktops, surely this should translate directly into their server processing products. You mean their APUs? They're taking the worst of both worlds (AMD CPUs and integrated graphics) and selling them as a package. The
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Westerners eat raw vegetables, Asians prefer them cooked (even fruits)...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I doubt it, the ruling families are a-ok, and since they're absolutely worshiped, I doubt they give a damn...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Didn't they switch to Kimograms? His grandpapi invented the unit, I believe.
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by prodmerc 11y ago
You are severely underestimating the need for people to interact. People love to have subordinates (i.e. someone to boss around), and people love to be subordinates (i.e. have someone tell them what to do). Being free to do what you want is
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by prodmerc 11y ago
The iPad Pro is an overpriced tablet for all the people who bought overpriced MacBook Pros. I think Apple still knows their target audience :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Yes. The rare moments where my mind stays quiet and there isn't a garbled mess of audiovisual thoughts are bliss. Most of the time it's painful hell, which I sometimes drown with various drugs. So, screw this new research, wanderi
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by prodmerc 11y ago
I'm not very knowledgeable in this topic, but I think it's changed a lot. The way food is processed changes the way we're absorbing it. Today's bread, milk, cheese, veggies, fruits are a bit different than 50 years ago -
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by prodmerc 11y ago
But he was in his 90's. Really, the only way to test if it worked is to make him relive his life without vitamin C :-)
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Some did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov%E2%80%93Ribbentrop_Pac...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Note, I'm not talking about Russia, the current somewhat democratic country, but the USSR. The oil and gas trade is good for both sides. It's not like Russia is some benevolent country that provides for others, they sell resources
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by prodmerc 11y ago
First a totalitarian state, then a corrupt shithole that brought everyone around down with it. Same difference...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavian states and Hungary all welcomed the Nazis at first, hoping to get rid of the soviets. Of course they realized they were just as bad or worse (also Germany and USSR had a secret pact)...
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by prodmerc 11y ago
We're all incredibly lucky that the soviet union folded into dust, instead of surviving like the Chinese communist party. People were welcoming Nazis as liberators back in the day, which should say a bit about how bad the soviets were.

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