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by rtb 11y ago
How would you return to breathing normal air after having your lungs flooded with this liquid?
92.
by rtb 11y ago
Using water, air and large amounts of heat. (Where does that heat come from? Many possibilities, but currently from fossil fuels.)
93.
by rtb 11y ago
That's the power of Virtual Reality
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by rtb 11y ago
> there's other established terms for what that means Please could you expand on this?
95.
by rtb 11y ago
I think you mean "copied", not "stole". Bild am Sonntag can continue to use their layouts.
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by rtb 11y ago
Sewn, i.e. stiches in his arm.
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by rtb 12y ago
I look forward to your enlightening anecdote based debunking of other sayings, such as that time you made a great broth despite too many cooks, or that time a gathering didn't get merrier with more people.
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by rtb 12y ago
Mainly because they are creative / productive, whereas gaming is passive / consuming.
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by rtb 12y ago
So what would fix this for you? Same 7 fields, but longer?
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by rtb 12y ago
Nice find. That site explains the situation clearly: the vans exist, but don't do any "detecting". Instead they spend their time parking them in prominent places to perpetuate this myth. http://www.bbctvlicence.com
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by rtb 12y ago
They do "exist", in the literal sense of the word. You can see a picture of one on the wikipedia page about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni... However, they have never been us
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by rtb 12y ago
"Detector vans" are a myth. There is no reliable evidence that they exist. The BBC likes to perpetuate this myth for obvious reasons. EDIT: sorry, I mean there is no reliable evidence that they are actually used for enforcement. S
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by rtb 12y ago
Interesting. I don't think that would be possible - the technique shown here relies on a mirror to get interferometry between the two light paths. I can't see how interferometry would be available to soaring birds (between its two
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by rtb 12y ago
The point is that "unintended consequences" are much more likely with complex systems. When you wield an axe, the consequences are fairly direct. When you leave home for the 101st time after buying a Roomba, you are still responsi
105.
by rtb 12y ago
Permission to "view and fork" is not the same as permission to copy and paste into a proprietary software product (i.e. this may not be legit for use by "enterprise" developers)
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by rtb 12y ago
People are listening, but they disagree with you. The build quality is good as well as the performance. It is made of plastic because that is tough and soft (see previous comments about banging into things). You seem to be saying it should
107.
by rtb 12y ago
For some reason, it upsets me that he refers to spent / empty / used batteries as "bad", as if they were faulty.
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by rtb 12y ago
It seems like you are asking why eugenics has been rejected as unethical. If so, Wikipedia has some starting info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics#Ethics
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by rtb 12y ago
Derren Brown (a hypnotist / mentalist) explains this phenomenon very well: http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/derren-browns-guide-t...
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by rtb 12y ago
Sorry, you're right -- RyanAir's headline price is actually achievable these days (if you manage to get past all the Dark UX practices, some of which were called out as examples in the OP). I was thinking of a few years ago, befor
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by rtb 12y ago
> I meant why there are no companies with marketing messages that would amount to "we're not going to fuck you over like the Other Company We Can't Name". Probably because they can't name them in the ads, which w
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by rtb 12y ago
Huh? There are loads. I can think of several companies that I buy things from because I know I won't get messed with even if the headline price might appear a little higher than their competitors (think EasyJet v.s. RyanAir).
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by rtb 12y ago
> Again, PRISM isn't mass surveillance (as it needs specific selectors) I don't agree with this assertion. If recording as much as possible that everyone does via a computer is not mass surveillance, then what would be? That is
114.
by rtb 12y ago
Yes. There is no other way to get all three cases correct. (If this is a burden on your users, you should consider ways to drop this requirement.)
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by rtb 12y ago
"at Scale"? oh the irony
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by rtb 12y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines would seem to apply.
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by rtb 12y ago
James Watt also spent much of his time and energy fighting patent battles in a hope to prevent others from entering the market. Who knows what further innovations he could have pursued if he hadn't been derailed by that greed. It looks
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by rtb 13y ago
It is both! In search results it is an information-dense bible of programming knowledge. If you click on the feed of newly asked questions, it is filled to the brim with idiots with barely any understanding of programming whatsoever. The m
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by rtb 13y ago
% changes between related items (later versions of the same OS or software package etc)
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by rtb 13y ago
> Quite frankly, I'd much rather professional diplomats play these sorts of games, and we get to live in relative peace, than the outright carnage, war and bloodshet that characterised the thousands of years before this. Huh? So the

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