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by sho 8y ago
What I was trying to get across in my comment is that the military, in general, does not care in the slightest about those "points". They will not release anything unless specifically and explicitly forced to and needless to say t
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by sho 8y ago
> I'd go with Bangkok as my personal #1 food city in Asia I honestly debated that. BKK is fantastic food-wise but it lacks viet, korean and northern China. Don't get me wrong, it's great. I live there! I'm sticking wi
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by sho 8y ago
Just to add a useless comment to this three day old thread - I have been conducting an ad hoc, opportunistic global calamari survey and I remain convinced, until conflicting evidence emerges, that Golden Century on Sussex St has the best fr
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by sho 8y ago
> not to mention the exorbitant prices Sydney is generally cheaper than Singapore in my opinion. What you get for $2.50 at a hawker centre is absolute junk. Ingredients have costs, and most of it is imported from AU anyway. Any price adv
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by sho 8y ago
> I wonder how much information, if any, is withheld by military organizations in various countries. Ooh, I can answer that. All of it, unless forced to disclose by political factors. There is no upside to the military to releasing anyth
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by sho 8y ago
> If you want to experience the entirety of Asian cuisine in only one stop, make that stop Singapore I have to disagree with that. Genuinely good vietnamese, thai or even japanese food is pretty hard to find in singapore, and believe me
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by sho 8y ago
You beat me to it. While this looks like some fairly cool automation, the very first step is to create a bloody server .
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by sho 8y ago
And it says right in the article: > One might believe this means, for example, that it is a blend of various extra virgin oils from several regions .. which I agree with. That would certainly be my first thought, especially after the wor
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by sho 8y ago
I've had a member of the second group, describing himself as a "certified white hat hacker", sign up for a small SAAS product I'm involved with, mess around a bit and then file a slew of "urgent vulnerability report
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by sho 8y ago
I'm sure they have improved greatly, which is wonderful, but it's still India, as you admit yourself: > Corruption is indeed rampant Are you seriously claiming you couldn't get a fake record in India for USD$1m? or even US
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by sho 8y ago
I've seen a number of videos on youtube of reversers been opened, if not fully spooled up, off the ground. It's not common but it does happen, especially in high cross-wind or otherwise iffy landings. Here's the first video I
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by sho 8y ago
> Organized crime isn't "the mob." It's any criminal enterprise Then you need to stop using the term "organized crime" because it has a pretty specific meaning. If it's "any criminal enterprise&quo
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by sho 8y ago
Oh come on. The mob doesn't bother with fake Swatches. What ridiculous hyperbole. Next you'll be suggesting buying a fake watch is supporting terrorism! I would suggest that anyone buying a $50 "rolex" is not, in fact, b
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by sho 8y ago
> "Counterfeiting costs the watchmaking industry billions each year." I take this with the same giant heaping of salt that I'd take with claims that the record industry loses billions per year because of mp3s, or movie com
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by sho 8y ago
If your packages are really being opened as often as you say then you are likely on some sort of list. Having received "thousands" (!) of packages from Asia might have something to do with it - that is well into what most people w
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by sho 8y ago
Sorry snarky was the wrong word. But I'm on the same boat!
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by sho 8y ago
This comment is kinda snarky and borderline facetious but man, I can't help but agree. After 10 years hanging around this site if there's anything I've learned it's that I am nowhere fucking near "max geekiness&quot
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by sho 8y ago
The technology's only really been perfected in the last 10 or 20 years, well below the normal replacement cycle for this kind of heavy infrastructure. Give it time - it's inevitable.
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by sho 8y ago
What? There are dozens of installations worldwide with many more on the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_automated_urban_metro_... If you are talking about intercity trains instead of metro systems - although
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by sho 8y ago
What's also interesting is how a casus belli can evolve after a war, when the facts finally become clear. Consider America's entry into World War II. Ask a modern American, or anyone really, what the justification for entering
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by sho 8y ago
> a determined effort to make a degree unnecessary for respectable middle class careers This would be welcome, frankly. There are so many careers for which a degree requirement is a gatekeeper, nothing else. Hell, many jobs advertise a
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by sho 8y ago
Well, I suppose I would sometimes as well, but that's to do with airline seating choices more than anything else. Emirates has 10-across economy in its 777s - no thanks! Whereas Cathay stuck with 9, which is way better. Meanwhile a Qan
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by sho 8y ago
> Most modern jets are worse in key ways than the 767. More freaks and rattles during take off and landing What a weird comment. Probably the reason you think modern aircraft have more "creaks and rattles" than older ones is th
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by sho 8y ago
> worlds apart beyond the superficial syntax similarities I never understood this argument. That "superficial" syntax is what I have to stare at, reading and writing, for 8 hours a day. That I actually enjoy doing so is therefo
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by sho 8y ago
Me too actually. I flirted with programming around uni-time and after - PHP, java, friggin' ada - and just couldn't see myself enjoying it so I went into network management instead. 10 years later I was thoroughly sick of that,
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by sho 8y ago
> Ruby isn't the most beautiful language out there Huh, I sure think it is. I wonder what the author thinks the competition might be? Ruby has its issues for sure, but aesthetics ain't one of them - far and away my favourite ou
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by sho 8y ago
I actually think you're being too kind. Extraordinary claims made without evidence can be dismissed without evidence, and reliable sources online don't "seem" to disagree - they quite unambiguously say the exact opposite
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by sho 8y ago
> Have any evidence such a program has ever existed? It was an argumentum ad absurdum to demonstrate that with sufficient disincentives to cheating, the "Cobra Effect" might be effectively countered - in reply to your questio
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by sho 8y ago
Oh, you've gone and personally asked every single one of them, have you? What a ludicrous generalization. Not only do I personally know Indians who own iPhones and Macbooks for exactly the same reason I do - we like them better - but y

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