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by vvillena 8y ago
Spaceflight is wasteful because it is designed to be. The same military purposes you talk about is what causes companies like ULA to exist. The space shuttle ended up being an industrial jobs program that resulted in huge costs for every la
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by vvillena 8y ago
This made me remember the awesome MoodBar [1] plugin. I suppose the current flat design trend doesn't allow for such a busy-looking feature. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodbar
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Nonsense. Fedora is the testing bed for the whole Red Hat ecosystem.
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The article states two different issues at play. I agree with you on the first one: everyone can license their project however they want. It is your code after all. The second issue is a bit more complicated, and I can't agree with you
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by vvillena 8y ago
They don't, because you do. That's sales tax at work. Taxes are usually paid each time money moves hands.
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When you use AWS you're subjected to AWS pricing and AWS servers. A more open network where everyone can offer computing power has the potential to reduce the lock-in effect that all the big cloud vendors force upon their customers. Th
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by vvillena 8y ago
There's a reason why health insurance companies do the amount of lobbying they do.
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Here's a relevant quote from a nice article [1]: """ When you are estimating tasks that are done over and over, you can look to your historical execution time for insights. We average chopping X logs per hour. If I hand
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by vvillena 8y ago
I really like the basic idea of being able to choose a town or region where an alloted part of one's taxes will go. I live outside my hometown for business reasons, so I'm paying taxes on the most well-funded region in my country.
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by vvillena 8y ago
The different national identities within Europe are not going anywhere. Broken English is already the common language of Europe, but the regional language and culture every part has won't disappear. A little traveling is enough to conf
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by vvillena 8y ago
Nothing special will happen. Smoked weed is and will be a niche drug, since not many people like to smoke, and we all know how terrible it is for the mouth, the throat, and the lungs. Creative cannabis usage (oils, edibles...) will find a p
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by vvillena 8y ago
Portugal decriminalized all drugs a few years ago, with tremendous success from a health and crime perspective. Decriminalization and state-sponsored addiction programs were key in controlling a drug epidemic there. It would be a solution f
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by vvillena 8y ago
One of the ways you can land a Soyuz is basically an uncontrolled crash land. It is so dependable compared to any other spaceship that I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes an emergency return capsule, after it stops being the main spa
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by vvillena 8y ago
The kind of wood used here does not burn like normal timber. Its treatment gives it strength and fire resistance. There are some large scale tests that need to be done yet, in order to better understand how a fire would behave in a midsized
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by vvillena 8y ago
In our case, we developed a CRUD API that allowed different kinds of users to access some data. Rails works great for this. Meanwhile, we had another service that interacted with an Ethereum blockchain, and things get so complex there that
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Meanwhile, they were able to win market rate so fast that it took a while for competitors to show up.
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by vvillena 8y ago
In the other side, I've done both things (webdev with Scala/Play/Circe/Akka, webdev with Rails) and the Rails stack was so fast to develop with that we could leave just one person to do that job, while the rest kept deve
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by vvillena 8y ago
JavaFX is difficult to use under OpenJDK. I think it has become a library on Java 11, so at least that's a step in the right direction.
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How is this possible? I have an app that runs in the JVM which is also bundled with a JRE in some platforms. Does this mean that I cannot freely distribute it anymore?
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by vvillena 8y ago
Spaniard here. CET is perfectly fine. Time is just a convention, and sharing a timezone is better.
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It might be an old critic, but Google truly makes an effort to keep it current. They're simply an unreliable company.
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by vvillena 8y ago
The plane is constantly breaking the sound barrier. The boom is what you hear and feel when the shockwave reaches you.
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by vvillena 8y ago
The way you say it, it sounds like Concorde was unsafe, and by extension, all supersonic planes are. Almost every plane out there has had at least one bad accident. And every single time measures are taken so that type of accident doesn&#x2
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by vvillena 8y ago
But a Roomba works when you're not home. I have a Roborock S50 and I tell it to clean when I go to work. When I come back, the floor is clean.
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by vvillena 8y ago
What then? Do I have to maintain my own RSS aggregator server so I can read my feeds on multiple devices? Or do I have to restrict myself to a single device?
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by vvillena 8y ago
If you use an RSS aggregator like Feedly, Newsblur, The Old Reader, or Inoreader, it's safe to assume and expect they will track you. It's shitty and there is (was?) no real alternative.
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by vvillena 8y ago
Electric cars tend to use lots of light plastic because there's less need to dampen noise and vibrations, due to the lack of a combustion engine. Plastic is lighter. I suppose bikes are the same. I think the good-looking, premium elect
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Not every country is like this, there are lots of countries with lots of overcapacity built into their electricity network. Regarding charging points, there's no need to have a quick charge point for personal use. An electric car can b
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Titanfall 2 has one of the best single-player campaign in recent shooters. You are highly mobile and it's possible (and expected) to parkour your way across multiplayer maps. Warframe is different, it's focused on PvE (although th
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by vvillena 8y ago
Venezuela's oil was discovered in the early 20th century. Norway's oil was discovered in the mid-late 20th century, at a time when the oil countries started fighting for control over their natural resources. The power structures c

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