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by qwerta 12y ago
Kind of makes sense. I do not know anyone actually using it on Linux, there are much better alternatives. Only problematic part was PDF Forms, now probably obsolete.
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by qwerta 12y ago
One day all NSA data will leak and appear on Internet as gigantic zetabyte torrent....
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by qwerta 12y ago
Why is he using Github than? There is bitbucket (btw very nice), google code and zilion other hosting solutions.
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by qwerta 12y ago
ZIP code is also used in astronomy: http://healpix.sourceforge.net/
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by qwerta 12y ago
I disagree. My grandfathers Wartburg from soviet era takes 7 to 10 liters on 100 kms. Most modern cars have around 5 liters on super-economy mode. Sure they are much heavier and saver, but overall fuel consumption is not much improved. You
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by qwerta 12y ago
And what I am suppose to write? I have friends there, and it is practically in my backyard.
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by qwerta 12y ago
This just sucks. Ukraine used to be very nice and safe country for backpacking. Now it will turn into Somalia.
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by qwerta 12y ago
There is interesting picture of hyperloop in article: http://breakthrough.turing.com/images/elements/A26.jpg I wonder, why not just build regular bullet train? 380 miles seems like ideal distance. 1:30 minutes (ce
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> Airplane tickets are much more expensive than a car trip In Europe it is opposite, thanks to petrol taxes and road tools, flight is often cheaper than car, and always cheaper than train.
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by qwerta 12y ago
I got more solutions: 1) Ship your own lock-down hardware (tablet) to customers, so they can visit your website 2) Install booths around country which will show your website. No cameras or phones allowed inside!
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by qwerta 12y ago
Place nobody wants to be longer than 10 minutes.
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by qwerta 12y ago
He was probably misquoted. Or perhaps they need artificial star on very black background to get best contrast. Good reading on subject: http://www.astrophoto.net/calibration.php
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by qwerta 12y ago
North Korea is far ahead at this front. If they succeed at Finland I would fund start-up to help owners to bring their cars from other EU countries. In EU you can stay with your car in other country up to 6 months, before it is subject to l
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by qwerta 12y ago
We researched dark coating for astronomical telescope. 0.00035 albedo is pretty impressive. It does not reflect any light, nothing human eye could focus on, so it is impossible to judge distance and details. It is practically invisible and
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by qwerta 12y ago
Hm, my solar charger with the same output has 250 grams. Cook-kit 400 grams.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Very nice idea!
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Exporting virtual build machine as part of release is good practice anyway.
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This thing can photograph the whole sky in a few days in much better quality: > VISTA is a 4-m class wide field survey telescope for the southern hemisphere, equipped with a near infrared camera (1.65 degree diameter field of view http:
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by qwerta 12y ago
Go and travel, I would say. Do not change places too often, it hurts productivity, 1 month is ok.
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by qwerta 12y ago
> Pre-20th century, the music world in the West resembled the art world today. If you listened to professional music, were informed about the genre and attended performances, you were part of an elite class. Bullshit. There were massive
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by qwerta 12y ago
I think we should define 'being lonely' better. At age of internet, computer games and social network it is very relative. Perhaps better term is 'distraction free environment'.
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Great, I hope they will not get prosecuted for 'kidnapping' government property.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Why you just do not use different email client?
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Nice, but they should use different name and logo. I do not think this is real Ubuntu project.
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Yes, trolls, you are right!
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> Extinct Humans Passed High-Altitude Gene to Tibetans Extinct? Hmmm. Get over it we are partly neanderthals, denisovans and so on.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Kind of similar how barbarians count in Terry Pratchett books. They only know three numbers: one, two and many. And counting is done like this: one, two, many, many one, many two, many many, many many one.....
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> Tor users know through high-profile Yeah sure. Just install Firefox privacy extension and you are running Tor. Or your children can do it for you.
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But US companies are target to NSA survailence and data disclosure, so they can not comply with EU regulations by definition.
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Europe has similar law (personal data should not leave Europe), but it is not as widely enforced. Edit: since I am getting down voted let me explain. > The EU Data Protection Directive requires that personal data a company collects can n

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