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721.
by restalis 12y ago
The electronic voting has its advantages and given the context of the discussion about trust and security, your laugh is related to the means of ensuring such security, not to the idea of electronic voting. The means should and can be treat
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by restalis 12y ago
Manned maintenance of Hubble proved to be unfeasible from an economical point of view. It would have been cheaper to just crash command to the old and broken telescope satellite and then send another one instead.
723.
by restalis 12y ago
You're right. Add there the fact that ISS serves also as a ground for international cooperation. There is therefore both an economical reason and a political one involved.
724.
by restalis 12y ago
This could be it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8885075
725.
by restalis 12y ago
I caught it playing with over 130 live watchers for a few minutes half an hour ago, until it stopped streaming and crashed.
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by restalis 12y ago
"I suspect he's used to developing in Windows, likely with visual studio, and in comparison, Linux can feel quite archaic. And in that context, maintaining Linux build systems can seem quite painful, likely the primary reason it&#
727.
by restalis 12y ago
With or without Unicode's own meddling, characters may still look the same. Think of non-Latin alphabets that have letters defined in an identical fashion to those in Latin alphabet. Heck, even without other alphabets, the Latin letter
728.
by restalis 12y ago
Well, in the real world the same user meets a lot of similar dilemmas, like acquainting himself with people with the same name or encountering cars of the same model and color (and what happens then is that one starts to pay more attention
729.
by restalis 12y ago
That's just a problem with the application (and it just happens for that problem to be hidden by a case-insensitive file-system). For a solution, if you can't bend your application to your will, bend yourself to it and rename your
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Plans for increasing electric car motorway charging stations in Germany(reuters.com)
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by restalis 12y ago
"How did they conquer without leaving a standing army? If they were so brutal then those left behind would revolt, eventually." From the "Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia"¹ about cities which opposed resistance: 1. Otrar -
732.
by restalis 12y ago
The Mongol invasion, although destructive for probably all civilizations of the time, had definitively a positive effect to the survival of eastern romance culture. In the dark ages the amount of migrating population was so great that for q
733.
by restalis 12y ago
Cartage was a colony of Phoenicians (before it become a thing of its own), so not European in any case.
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by restalis 12y ago
I heard about something called "parental rights" - is it something that depends on the individuals having "the material time to parent their own children" or is it me understanding things wrongly?
735.
by restalis 12y ago
"has essentially brain washed its citizens into hating the south" I've been to DPRK a few years ago, and as far I could see, their state propaganda is not aimed at southern ordinary citizens, but on the government of South Ko
736.
by restalis 12y ago
Nitpick: The East Germany had indeed 16 million people at the reunification, but the West was far over 24 million! I don't know where you took your figures from, but Wikipedia says over 63 million: http://en.wikipedia.org&#x
737.
by restalis 12y ago
"What's the message? If you see a problem, you will go fix it, nobody stops you, you can actually make a change, don't waste your time complaining."¹ When it's about public space, isn't it actually your place t
738.
by restalis 12y ago
"You make a good argument, but you forget one thing - app compatibility. There are two dominant platforms, and they're both based on ARM." Android can be compiled for x86 (and in fact there are even gadgets deployed with it o
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by restalis 12y ago
This thing will be sought when it will become a commodity, unlike a premium as it is now. Also, I think the "intelligent" factor in things has yet to mature, as it can not yet anticipate all the new ways of usage that the infusion
740.
by restalis 12y ago
"int myfunc(float x, y, z, r, g, b, a);" This got me thinking of the old C ways: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/efx873ys.aspx
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by restalis 12y ago
Actually, I would understand cave drawings better than cuneiform writing, so I disagree on the level of universality involved in each. (edit) Just to give you a sample of each: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuneiform#med
742.
by restalis 12y ago
"I don't use the magnetic strip (only chip) and I don't without pin." The same here, but then I encounter more and more places where they offer you to type your pin only in an open and insecure manner. This sadly makes t
743.
by restalis 12y ago
Your referenced article says "I won’t analyse economic data or history" and focuses just on his personal identity as a descendant of Galician father and Catalan mother. Well, that's convenient! Does he deliberately avoids que
744.
by restalis 12y ago
I accidentally clicked twice on "Continue" and there wasn't any mean to go back to read the missed comment. This slide-show player wants to be clean and simple and ends up with holes in functionality.
745.
by restalis 12y ago
My 2¢: 1. Life is about the continuous cycle of our human species development and where we fit in that as individuals. 2. A religion as a system of beliefs is not so much to be true as to fulfill a purpose. The purpose (and the religion) ca
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by restalis 12y ago
Isn't the push strategy an expensive one? Maybe not all of the dependencies are needed right away, why bother with dispatching a new value though all of them? ...and more, considering that distinct dependency updates may require diff
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by restalis 12y ago
It's an interesting idea, but even for the narrow use-case of looking at a display it does not replace for everyone the need of wearing glasses/lenses. This kind of display may only "fix" something that affects both eyes
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by restalis 12y ago
Nitpick: the example was '1984.01.01' whereas the ISO format is from 1988. The ante-ISO form of representing dates may therefore be intentional, as a game design detail.
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by restalis 12y ago
I feel a little bit of cargo-cult in the article. The fact that someone spends money to go in some crammed place depends on a number of factors like the touristic quality of that place (which is mostly related to its history), on how's
750.
by restalis 12y ago
You can find 4 cores in a trivial computer these days (8 cores with hyperthreading). This means you can have 8 processes without context switching at all, and also suggests that if you don't use multiple processes, you can only reach

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