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by sentenza 13y ago
Wait a minute. Increased decentralization of power generation _does_ make large network improvements neccessary. This does (in the case of Australia) not have anything to do with load, but with locality and network resilience. The tradition
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The most high-profile case is Enercon[1], but in general it is a problem that most companies won't admit to it publically (even though everybody, all of a sudden, is talking about it now). Maybe most telling is that the German governme
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His trial was a farce and highly publicized in Germany at the time. Germany is also trying to get Timochenko out of Ukraine, even though (from the point of view of some Ukranians I spoke to) she cheated the country in negotiating some contr
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Well good luck, 'Adam Wong'. Don't forget to use separate browsers, so you don't accidentally do something with one account that you should have done with the other.
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The US has really dropped the ball here. We, here in Germany, have a mainstream political party whose leaders are blindly americophile. The last and current government are dominated by that party. From the beginning of the crisis, these peo
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What you say makes sense. Now that I think of it, most of the pain that has been described to me can be attributed to the misguided notion of a professor that _everything_ must run on apple machines. What was also notable is that most of th
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But compiling something major are just the baby steps. What if you have to run something over a distributed cluster? Or if it relies on dozens of libraries that were written for *nixes, without consideration for the quirks of Apple? What if
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Some of the other commenters seem to underestimate the extreme shift, caused by the NSA scandal, in how the US is perceived in some parts of Europe (and I guess Brasil). NSA surveillance (and hacking!) is pevasive of all that is digital. Th
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IMO, what gets people raging against bitcoin (me included), is that it has "that smell". By this I mean a certain likeness to many other speculative schemes that came before. I remember reading somewhere that Groucho Marx had lost
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Should the door in the location of your choosing have a guard? Two questions, same answer.
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Marrying and having children before you are "ready" can adversely affect the children. And, let's face it: Many young marriages are particularly bad matches due to the inexperience of the people involved. In any case: I didn&
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I really would like to know how much of the current bitcoin supply was mined by stealing electricity from a public university. And I don't mean hacked boxens but people (mostly PhD students) working there, running some unused machine f
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Non-commercial license. What a shame. In parts of the European Union, the CC-NC provision essentially amounts to a complete uselessness of the document, because of the weird definitions of the word "commercial". For instance, here
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There is a difference between measuring efficiency and having a mechanical monkey on your shoulder that screams at you every 15 seconds.
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Yes, but his point was that the pensions which will be payed out to those workers are so small that they are essentially working their way into poverty.
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Does this mean that Google is now a military supplier? They explicitly state that they would continue selling under existing contracts but that they "did not plan to move toward becoming a military contractor on its own." To me, t
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For some of us, that's a horrible deal though. The average price for electricity here in Germany is 0.264€/kWh.
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Sorry to drag out old slashdot nomenclature, but what you are saying is: 1. Use cryptocurrency 2. Fire 10% of bank employees 3. ??? 4. Profit! I am no expert on banking, but I'd be really surprised if 10% of banking employees were doin
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No. They would be sued for forcing merchants to let Google and others use their copyrighted material using the threat of banning them from the store. But that is only relevant if they are one of the dominant players. The reasoning is that t
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And that's why I'll be cheering the EU regulators that will sue Google into the ground should their shoppy-thingy ever gain the marketshare of Amazon or Google search.
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It might be possible to use a greenscreen, though. You do your photoshoot with a greenscreen in the background/part of the background, then digitally replace the grenscreen with your logo. Since your logo and the product are mixed at t
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What's most troubling is that it will most likely used for passive consumption, not unsupervised play. My kid is quite sharp, but she couldn't use the computer mouse before 3 and touch screens before 2 years of age. Assuming that
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This is not serious analysis. It is The Economist. Let's say I have changed my opinion on that particular publication since subscribing a few years ago.
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You are never leaving the american sector[1]. [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bi...
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It is sensible to have regulation. But his suggestion is so completely asinine, it even directly hurts Google! If this ever gains any traction, the question will arise why drones in the sky should be unavailable to private individuals but d
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But indeed the workers producing Zyklon B in large quantities had very strong indicators available regarding what was going on. Think about it: You produce this poison gas for years and then, suddenly, a large part of the production pipelin
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Ah, that explains it. It would be interesting to know what mechanisms Coinbase et al use to avoid balance sheet fallout by sudden downward fluctuations.
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These fluctuations, however, show that Bitcoin cannot fulfill one of the central functions of currency: Exchange for goods. How many of these multi-dozen-percent downward fluctuations will it take before those storeowners and shops that tak
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Hm. The NSA is different from all your other examples, though. Finance, social gaming, ads and pretty much everything else is or can be regulated by the rule of law. Intelligence agencies cannot. There is no precedent of a surveillance soci
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I have to disagree. Resorting to "keep it legal" removes any moral obligation. There are ethical decisions to be made, some easy, some not so. Should IBM not have worked on Computers? No. Should IBM not have sold to Nazi Germa

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