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by skrause 9y ago
> and then assuming you can direct that energy you need 1000 times more to shift the day by a second instead of a microsecond. Still off by a factor of 1000, a microsecond is one millionth of a second.
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by skrause 9y ago
No, with orbit altitudes of 1,110km to 1,325km we're talking about many hundreds of years: https://www.nasa.gov/news/debris_faq.html - "Debris left in orbits below 370 miles (600 km) normally fall back to Ear
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by skrause 10y ago
My bicycle commutes ends with a half-mile long ascending steep slope. It can be impossible not to arrive sweaty when you live in a hilly place, no matter how fast you go.
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by skrause 10y ago
> EU and Asian countries are ethnically homogeneous. You need to compare America to other melting pots, like Brazil and Argentina. Translation: "We need a militarized police because we have a lot of black people."
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by skrause 10y ago
There are Linux distributions which contain almost no GNU software, e.g. Alpine Linux which is built around musl libc and busybox: https://alpinelinux.org/about/
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by skrause 10y ago
So you were actually serious? I thought your first post was great satire. Poe's law strikes again...
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by skrause 10y ago
They even send you that monthly reminder when you haven't touched your Paypal account for months. It's basically advertisement you can't turn off.
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by skrause 10y ago
There are a lot of index funds (especially ETFs) domiciled in EU countries that buy US stocks. Here is a list of EU-domiciled US stock market ETFs sorted by size: https://www.justetf.com/uk/find-etf.html?groupField=none
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by skrause 10y ago
pdftotext from xpdf ( http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html ) also has the -table option which usually works better than -layout. Unfortunately the poppler-utils fork doesn't have this option.
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by skrause 10y ago
Microsoft is already doing that: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/clouds/germany/ They're using T-Systems (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) as a trustee. It's about 25% more expensiv
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by skrause 10y ago
> one can obtain a search warrant and this forces you to possibly act against your own best interest by allowing the police to search your home. In Germany you never have to actively help the police even if they come with a warrant
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by skrause 10y ago
A suborbital flight that brings you all the way across the Atlantic will have almost the same speed and energy requirements as an orbital flight. Just take a look at the typical orbit of a SpaceX second stage over the Atlantic: https:&#x2F
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by skrause 10y ago
> We as power users hate it because we want to continue to have a solid laptop and/or desktop on which to do our work. And we will. I think the people who can live with only a phone today are the same group of people who were usin
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by skrause 10y ago
> The angle of the belt doesn't change, the way a chain does, which means you can add a chain guard, as this bike does. That has nothing do to with belt vs. chain, you can easily combine a chain with a gear hub and add a chain gua
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by skrause 10y ago
In Germany AM is already completely dead, the last station shut down about a year ago.
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by skrause 10y ago
You must be from the UK. The "bubbling mud" is a property of the old DAB which also uses MP2 for the audio (an 80s technology codec). Here in Germany it's all DAB+ which has better error correction with a more robust signal (
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by skrause 10y ago
Lenovo accidentally published the product page of the new X1 Carbon which actually hasn't been announced yet. They've since realized their mistake and taken it down again, but yesterday you could read everything about the new X1 C
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by skrause 10y ago
The EU would be fine with Apple moving its money to the US and paying their fair share of taxes there. But you can't tell the US that profits are generated in Ireland while agreeing with Ireland that profits are generated in the US, ju
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by skrause 10y ago
I doubt modern trains are much more efficient, electric engines have been very efficient for a long time.
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by skrause 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233016
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by skrause 10y ago
I doubt that because defining a namedtuple just creates a new class internally: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/master/Lib/collection... Class creation the very expensive in Python, so Guido
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by skrause 10y ago
Speaking of Germany... Here in Germany your employer can only cancel already approved vacations if a real emergency happens (e.g. the company will go bankrupt if you leave) and you haven't started your trip yet. And your employer als
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by skrause 10y ago
German licenses also have an expiry date, at least since 2013. Your license without expiry date will also need to be replaced in 2033: https://www.adac.de/infotestrat/adac-im-einsatz/motorwelt/be...
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by skrause 10y ago
I don't think there is a lot of misinformation in Germany. I'm German and I simply buy manual transmissions because they are a lot cheaper and I know a lot of people who are they same. I really would prefer an automatic transmissi
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by skrause 10y ago
A single IPv6 interface can have multiple IP addresses. You can either use your global IPv6 addresses for LAN communication or additionally use a unique local address ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_local_address
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by skrause 10y ago
> Ten years ago? More like 30 years, what can you do now that you couldn't do on an Amiga in 1985? Things like streaming HD video on YouTube for hours on a single battery charge?
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by skrause 10y ago
> You'll love using your phone for navigation, until you go to Canada, where you don't have data. (Or affordable data.) In that case just use the HERE WeGo App (for iPhone: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app
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by skrause 10y ago
Personally I'm glad to see MagSafe go away if that means I can use charging ports on either sides of the laptop. Sitting on the right side of the bed with the charger connected is a huge hassle when you only have a charging port on the
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by skrause 10y ago
> But not for e.g. northern Europe. There just is too little sun, especially in the winter. Norway is already 99% on renewable energy because of hydropower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Norway
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by skrause 10y ago
At least in Germany every single house or apartment has an electric connection with a power output of at least 120A/380V (you're always connected to all 3 phases). Hooking up an 25A/380V plug shouldn't be a big deal.

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