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by vacri 9y ago
Also, imagine how many ants you'd have to milk to get just one liter of this stuff! cough
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by vacri 9y ago
Humans can detect both low CO2 and low O2, it's just that the CO2 'drive' is both stronger and happens faster.
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by vacri 9y ago
Does Chicago hire people-pushers? Plenty of videos available https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=japan+train+pus...
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by vacri 9y ago
That's a hell of a lot of infrastructure just to link two end-points at opposite ends of the continent. Any train going that route is not going to be an express, and more stops significantly affect average speed.
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by vacri 9y ago
As an example of how low it is, Russia's GDP is barely more than Australia's and is below Canada's. How the mighty have fallen.
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by vacri 9y ago
Japan also has a ridiculously high appetite for rail transport. It's so high that they employ pushers to squish the public into the trains. http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170613-striking-photos-sh... &qu
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by vacri 9y ago
The law existed before the property was bought. And regardless of your opinions about the morality of the law, for same-sex marriage, the law was being enforced before it was repealed. This law isn't being enforced.
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by vacri 9y ago
"Dear diary. I have just sent the 537th messenger confirming that we are attacking together tomorrow morning at 9. I'm just waiting on confirmation." You have that confirmation of agreement in the third round of messages. Rec
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by vacri 9y ago
How bizarre that this article is flagged.
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by vacri 9y ago
There comes a point in the chain where both sides have got the initial message, and confirmation that the other side has confirmed the message. message 1 -> attack! message 2 -> sure! message 3 -> I got your sure! At this point, ge
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by vacri 9y ago
> Trump is more constrained in the US than he would be as a leader elsewhere. O_o In a parliamentary system, when the leader loses the backing of their own party, they're no longer leader. And you don't have to wait four year
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by vacri 9y ago
The US has a free press. The current president is a governmental incompetant, and is using the office to enrich his family. The latest story is that even the major personalities in his own party are telling him publicly to shape up, admonis
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by vacri 9y ago
> Textbook whataboutism. Nope. I was ridiculing the idea of categorising an entire nation as all being of the one mind. You need better textbooks. > The most patriotic thing is to believe your country's form of government is
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by vacri 9y ago
Main points, like talking about all 1.3B people as if they are of the one mind? 1.3B brainwashed chinese, unlike the 300M free-thinking americans, none of whom buy into any sort of blind nationalism, amirite? Also, how does 'extreme na
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by vacri 9y ago
> Thus it quickly becomes evident that no matter how many rounds of confirmation are made, there is no way to guarantee the second requirement that each general be sure the other has agreed to the attack plan. This isn't true. The
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by vacri 9y ago
Do a google image search for 'nail house'. Clearly there's sufficient property rights for individuals to hold onto their houses to that degree.
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by vacri 9y ago
That's some serious hair-splitting. "They don't set rules, they just amend bills"...
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by vacri 9y ago
If you're a salaried employee, you effectively have a standing contract where you're billing for 40.
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by vacri 9y ago
> On HN people talk often enough about how if you have a worker who gets their job done in 30 hours instead of the company's usual 40-60 hours, you should give them 30-100% more responsibility, but much more rarely "and 30-100
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by vacri 9y ago
If the author is an employee, it's pretty clearly unethical to withhold information from the company. The real question is not whether or not it's unethical, but whether the author is okay with behaving unethically.
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by vacri 9y ago
> We need to take into account that Facebook not only has double the users but also more data created per person - photos, videos, live streams etc. Plus it now hosts Instagram. So let’s double the number. ... but apparently no efficie
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by vacri 9y ago
> The real question isn't "can FB be hosted on AWS?", it's "why isn't FB competing with AWS?" A naive guess would be that providing services for users you don't control is harder than for users y
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by vacri 9y ago
You might want to add in networking components as well. Throw in (OS) packaging as well (not all services are put into containers...). I'd change 'automation' to 'config management', since the former concept is also
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by vacri 9y ago
Friends don't let friends configure Nagios...
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by vacri 9y ago
Next you'll be telling me that the US won the Vietnam war. I mean, the politicians failed and the military failed, but the plan would have worked if they could have seen it through. Therefore the war worked.
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by vacri 9y ago
If something fails for lack of maintenance, it doesn't work. It's kind've self-evident.
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by vacri 9y ago
$10/day for lunch x 240 working days is $2400. For someone on a high wage, that's nothing. It's certainly not make-or-break in terms of holidays. Plus you don't spend your own time preparing your own lunch, and you get t
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by vacri 9y ago
The world is full of people who were unable to maintain a diet. If you can't maintain a diet, then that diet doesn't work.
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by vacri 9y ago
If you want to get that level of pedantic with films as the article does, then few will survive. 'Suspension of disbelief' is a thing for a reason; a movie maker is after immersion, not strict accuracy. It only needs to be histori
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by vacri 9y ago
> The USPS inspector general’s office estimated that the USPS lost $79 million in fiscal year 2013 delivering this foreign treaty mail. $79M is governmental chickenfeed, given how much this service improves the quality of life of its c

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