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by sgift 8y ago
"All you have to do is breath. Two words: Just breath. That's all you need to know about not dying from asphyxiation. Just breath, I'll guarantee you'll not die from asphyxiation. It worked for me. It worked for James Le
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by sgift 8y ago
> Both alternatives that I mentioned, Flash and PNaCL did have open source implementations available, it is just a matter of following the links I posted. At least for Flash I remember that the OSS implementations couldn't run many
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by sgift 8y ago
Had being the correct word. History is history. It has to be evaluated and we should learn from it. Attributing all the bad things happening in Africa today to the West is not part of that. Freedom means responsibility.
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by sgift 8y ago
> But, regardless, when I checked the failure rate reported in gov stats in UK was far lower than the common wisdom held; which surprised me somewhat. Does the UK government split into VC backed and not VC-backed? I always thought that n
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by sgift 8y ago
Here, here, here! jumps around I would love to have a phone that I can open up to tablet size, so I only need one device for both jobs. Find something too big for the small screen? Open it up, continue. Taking out the tablet works (especi
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by sgift 8y ago
Not every company can be a copycat that throws polish on things and shitloads of marketing. Some have to do the hard work first.
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by sgift 8y ago
I thought the difference is that in one case you sell below market price (loss leader) and in the other below production cost. So: 1$ production cost 5$ market price Your price: 3$ -> Loss leader .50ct -> Predatory pricing
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by sgift 8y ago
> Writing memory safe programs in C++ is possible. Everything "is possible" in the sense that in theory you can do it. But if time and time again people fail to do it. Even people who invest almost heroic levels of effort (see
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by sgift 8y ago
> They didn't implement this shit. Without the EU council - the assembly of the countries - saying yes there's no new law in the EU. Therefore, saying they didn't implement this shit is wrong. If they didn't want to,
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by sgift 8y ago
> So if they had been diligently saving until 2009, then cleared out their financial buffer in 2010, they would quite reasonably be caught flat-footed in 2011? If - sure. And if they hadn't lobbied the CDU/FDP for years to take
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by sgift 8y ago
> My impression was it was a little more political and complicated than that [0]. I mean, if it was technically time to shut down the reactors then somebody obviously screwed up - but Germany isn't a great place to be citing example
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by sgift 8y ago
> "We need more CCTV cameras to stop crime" The point that the people who argue against privacy are liars which will abuse fears to try to get people on their side was missing so far. Thanks for adding it. > "We need to
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by sgift 8y ago
It depends on the country they are in. They were not so generous here in Germany, cause our government still protects VW. Prosecutors have none of it, but that takes time and so far they don't really feel the heat.
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by sgift 8y ago
> An honorable person finds a little shame in that, even when they can claim innocence. ... what? So, if someone falls for a pyramid scheme they should be ashamed of themselves? If someone gets tricked by a phone scam they should be asha
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by sgift 8y ago
I skimmed that post and it uses the classic technique of "if I have to buy something for 10$ but only eat part of it I count the amount it costs me for that day" - that only works if you have the money to buy in bulk, which is not
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by sgift 8y ago
> But he loses me on the next bit where he rules out incompetence and then jumps to org-level malice. I think he has a reasonable justification for his position (two even): - Google would have to be very incompetent for it to be incomp
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by sgift 8y ago
You think wrong. The police decides all the time to call off operations. There is a difference between dropping the charges (that one they probably wouldn't do) and stopping the 24/7 patrolling of the embassy.
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by sgift 8y ago
> Goodenough and his team aren't quite finished with the new battery. They've only created the glass-based anode. But they're working out kinks with the cathode, and soon they'll be able to make some large-scale cells
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by sgift 8y ago
Police, fire departments, emergency services, public transportation, ..
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by sgift 8y ago
The list of discontinued things that people said that about is getting longer by the day. That's kind of the point here.
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by sgift 8y ago
You seem to think that technical ability and ethics are somehow related. That's a sad misconception which leads to all kinds of bad results. There are many people with very high ability that have an ethical framework which would make t
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by sgift 8y ago
You don't need power for the whole trip. If most of it can be electrified with wire and you only have small patches which cannot (like the tunnel mentioned) current battery technology is up to the task. We will introduce that here in t
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by sgift 8y ago
Space is limited, demand is not. Physical reality trumps economic wish-thinking every time. Most of the time, the lack of space is the root problem, not some governmental boogeyman.
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by sgift 8y ago
> This is why I feel like merging Asperger's into Autism was a mistake. Merging Asperger's into Autism was the natural result of finally evaluating all of his research. This shows that he always worked with persons who are at a
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by sgift 8y ago
> I’m not arguing over affect, I’m arguing over truth claims. The article leads with the facts and then argues that despite being a poor use of money we should still pay for preventive medicine for the warm fuzzy feelings it gives us. Pa
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by sgift 8y ago
IIRC the phrase they used was "failed to meet expectations", which is very different from 'failed to recoup their investment'. The idea that you can sell a remaster for 100 a season aside the second one is a factual stat
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by sgift 8y ago
So, for the most part art was like everything else: If someone wanted it, they paid you to produce it. If you thought you could produce something people want you made it and maybe someone bought it. Or not. Same as a carpenter making a chai
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by sgift 8y ago
> Introducing this nonsense in the EU means that it will be really hard for either side to drop it, since realistically both sides would have to negotiate to drop it together. That's harder than for the US to drop it now, unilateral
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by sgift 8y ago
> I am European, however this comment makes me laugh. USA can literally crash EU in a couple of weeks, if they want to. It doesn't mean I need to live with fear, for God's sake, but just saying. That's maybe what the US be
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by sgift 8y ago
> A quick search suggests that only 20% of programmers in general are female, but 30% of Google programmers are female. I'm not certain these numbers are accurate, but if they are, female programmers are over represented at Google.

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