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by smackfu 11y ago
A lot of sites use some kind of geo IP lookup to only show the Euro cookie prompt to European users, which is probably what you were running into, and why it didn't show to other people.
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by smackfu 11y ago
When it comes in for a landing, SpaceX seems to be using the engine gimballing a lot. The disadvantage of not being able to hover is that you don't get a second chance if things aren't looking good. https://www.youtube
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by smackfu 11y ago
Isn't Blue Origin aiming at space tourism? No orbit, you just go up on a rocket, get weightless, see the curve of the earth and the blackness of space through big windows, then land 10 minutes later. They just did a perfect demonstra
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by smackfu 11y ago
If a site's terms of service said that access with IE was not allowed, and someone used IE to access the site, could the site sue Microsoft? What about if IE was installed by someone else, are they interfering with the site's cont
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by smackfu 11y ago
Maybe because they could temporarily blind another firefighter if there was a gap in the smoke.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Two of the categories are interesting choices: Fruit / Vegetable beer: this is kind of a catch-all category, so I wouldn't be surprised if the data was a bit of a mess. Like you can have pumpkin beers mixed in with strawberry bee
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by smackfu 11y ago
>Mythbusters more or less proved the consumer models are basically harmless to humans and couldn't break the skin. They only "proved" it couldn't break the skin. They didn't prove it was harmless... if one slams
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by smackfu 11y ago
Also, I would guess a lot of Glacier users are probably just slotting it in place of some other system that doesn't have the same pricing model.
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by smackfu 11y ago
>SpaceX and ULA aren't sports teams The reality is that a lot of people treat them exactly that way. They are on team SpaceX, and they root for them and against ULA, who is seen as the establishment who gets ahead using politics an
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by smackfu 11y ago
>But the fact remains Windows is still the easiest target of any OS. How is that a fact?
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by smackfu 11y ago
You don't use iTunes Match or Apple Music, so you aren't really abusing it.
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by smackfu 11y ago
That only works if Lyft/Uber get the money from the credit cards very quickly.
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by smackfu 11y ago
As you would expect for a dedicated forum, it is very pro-SpaceX and anti-ULA.
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by smackfu 11y ago
France is a pretty big country. If you are in Nice, you are a nine hour drive from Paris. It would seem a bit silly to ask if you were okay, and not someone in Belgium who is much, much closer.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Cheap tablets have terrible lo-rez screens, which usually is not great for whatever re-purposing you are thinking of.
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by smackfu 11y ago
My bad then. That caption on the article I linked is pretty misleading.
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by smackfu 11y ago
So the security issue is that they are too secure?
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by smackfu 11y ago
No, it was definitely a fire: http://www.naroomanewsonline.com.au/story/1345250/ship-spott...
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by smackfu 11y ago
Beyond what the other comments said, that was the title of the very first diagram he made like this, and he was probably just trying to pick a punchy title.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Practically, I haven't had a problem. I remember there was an article I wanted to read, I go to my list of favorited tweets, and I find it. Dedicated read-it-later services just end up being a list of articles I haven't read and
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by smackfu 11y ago
Usually it's because it has some impact on you. Like blocking your driveway, taking up all the parking, or leaving trash.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Interesting that the Pixel can tell it's a bad cable. Makes me wonder if it will still charge from it.
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by smackfu 11y ago
I admire anyone who puts their learning process out in public to help other people.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Funny that they didn't even update the Google logo on that page.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Even Pantone at the basic level has coated and uncoated.
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's a bit of a balancing act between "magical" and "proper". Like it would be very easy to just have a third party control the electro-magnet via a remote control, and it would work perfectly in all situations as
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by smackfu 11y ago
If you are a person-of-color, and the taxi picks you up, that driver isn't one of the racist ones.
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by smackfu 11y ago
If you own an apartment in Manhattan and a house somewhere else, and have a car at the somewhere else (which is very common), would that count as a Manhattanite owning a car?
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by smackfu 11y ago
Construction in 1933 didn't have to care about the environment or the workers, and those add tremendous expense.
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by smackfu 11y ago
The Chrome blog post says: "Switching an HTTP site to HTTPS can initially result in mixed content, which is undesirable in the long term but important for debugging the migration. During this process the site may not be fully secured,

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