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by tajen 9y ago
Yeah it would seem like frequent small earthquakes are way better than rare devastating ones, so it would even be better to provoke them rather than wait like in SF and Vancouver... If only, it helps rehearsing the response, convincing taxp
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by tajen 9y ago
> Hydro is so bad that California doesn't let large projects count in the Renewable 10 cubic kilometers of water: It's the worldwide-recognized ratio under which hydro is considered renewable, and above which the ecosystem dest
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by tajen 9y ago
Wouldn't just tax on petrol solve that? In Europe petrol at the pump is twice the price of the refined barrel. If you look carefully, this has a complete impact on the way EU cities are architectured (way above history). Plus, taxing p
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by tajen 9y ago
I even tried coining the term "volkswagening" ( v. t. to both bypass a law and deceive the inspection) in forums, at work or on 9Gag (no shame - any media is a media), hoping to make the shame last a little longer, but it didn&#x2
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by tajen 9y ago
I love your description because each word designates both problems and solutions. History books will go further and further: "WWI was triggered by an assassination in Sarajevo", "WWII was born in the black Thursday", and
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by tajen 9y ago
In the 90's I landed in the cockpit, I was 13. In 2017, US is on my no-fly list...
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by tajen 9y ago
I disagree with all the hope of a naive programmer: It's awesome that closed-source UIs get replicated as open-source and become a commodity. Paid software is great, I don't mind that, but software that you don't own doesn&
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by tajen 9y ago
> 25-30$ a pop As a sidenote, some financial companies named "forex" are specialized in international payments. I use currenciesdirect.com, they don't take a commission and their exchange rate is within 2% of the Google ra
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by tajen 9y ago
This is wrong on so many levels, I suppose you mostly understand it, but here are the counter arguments: > Written for longevity OSS is much better at longevity than proprietary. Even if the authors all die without will, it is possible t
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by tajen 9y ago
Our best glimpse of hope for climate change would be if Trump, the sceptic amongst the sceptics, changed its mind. "I thought it was bullshit, but I've decided after further information that America will not survive without conv
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by tajen 9y ago
The only credible way to trust that NSA had stopped wiretapping would be a drastic enough reduction of its finances (and no transfer to FBI/CIA for that purpose).
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by tajen 9y ago
And in Atlassian's license, section 12: "You will not publicly disseminate information regarding the performance of the Products.". Enables trust a lot... https://www.atlassian.com/legal/customer-agreemen
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by tajen 9y ago
The concept was invented years ago with Reveal.JS. What's wrong with it? http://lab.hakim.se/reveal-js
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by tajen 9y ago
-No- YES! Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14117082 (sorry I was on mobile for my earlier comment) If NYT is paywalled: http://wncn.com/2017/04/17/dr-campbell-can-1-hour-of-runni
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by tajen 9y ago
Compound studies find that 1hr of sports = 7hrs of additional life (up to 7hrs a week).
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by tajen 9y ago
QR codes. Show them on a screen to invalidate them every time they're used.
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by tajen 9y ago
Can you ask them? Make the user take a pic of the store, then check the EXIF for the timestamp. The pic should be very easy to shape-compare with other submissions of the same store (hardware doesn't move much, as opposed to faces), an
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by tajen 9y ago
Live Photos pose another problem for me – peer mockery. Here how it goes: — Press on the pic and it moves. It's magic. It even starts half a second before the press. — OMG it looks like journals in Harry Potter!!! Send the Gif to me! —
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by tajen 10y ago
Do you have a "reading mode" on your browser? It's a ~new invention for those who intend to read anything from the mobile web, despite the jounals' contempt for their audiences.
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by tajen 10y ago
I'm realizing you're right. If we want to change humanity, Linux is quite a good way to start. Not all OSS is created equal, though. It's not by switching any end-user commercial product to GPL that we'll make an impact.
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by tajen 10y ago
> careful ... bidding wars Why not? Yes prices can become high, but isn't that the work of the researcher? If the company doesn't want to have to purchase expensive bounties, they can either reduce the exposure (less legacy cod
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by tajen 10y ago
How do we measure the average concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, given all the disparity and local extremums?
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by tajen 10y ago
It depends whether you're myopic or the opposite. Things are blurred for me (myopia) on the red side of the spectrum, but blue is sharp; Other people have sharp reds and blurred blues.
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by tajen 10y ago
...I'm worried of how much incentive there is to become a black hat. Either you risk prison... either earn a lot of bitcoin.
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by tajen 10y ago
Not to diminish the terrible situation of the victims, but looking at maps and pictures [1], it seems to me like a very unstable land: It dried over time, diving under the average sea level, and it's been kept free of water only by hum
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by tajen 10y ago
- I have many non-techy friends in their 20ies who don't post pictures or personal stuff to Facebook because "someone told them it's dangerous". They can't articulate the logic around this danger, that is the most s
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by tajen 10y ago
This is awesome, they're just Twitter lookalikes! but better, with federation, this is just what we needed, awesome! ...but as a company, I can't do advertising, should I complain?
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by tajen 10y ago
I actually wonder why we still have pilots on board in 2017.
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by tajen 10y ago
I remember an Air Crash Investigation where the investigators were surprised to hear that the two pilots sounded completely drunk on the black box. It wasn't alcohol, it was the lack of sleep – the guys had just flown halfway across th
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by tajen 10y ago
Urban Dictionary comes to the rescue: "Mk1 Eyeballs: Unaided vision. Commonly used by military internet know it alls to confuse people in an argument." I don't know whether MkII is an upgrade to aided vision or just a new ver

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