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721.
by waps 13y ago
Are you really unable to see the problem is not "the banking class" and a few politicians. The problem is thousands of developers making much more than normal people, and a way too big fraction of them wanting to live right smack
722.
by waps 13y ago
Your comment makes no sense at all. First : who said anything about genocide ? Plus what have "the five pillars" or any short summary to do with what the whole does or does not do. I just read the five principles of testing cars,
723.
by waps 13y ago
> misrepresents your views by making up something that you didn't say and putting your name on it then you should be able to have a say about whether or not that thing is disseminated around the world Really ? We're talking abo
724.
by waps 13y ago
Here's what it means : http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2453867,00.asp Until this spring, windows phone will have very much lacking hardware support. Lacking low-cost platforms especially. And I would disagree
725.
by waps 13y ago
> The Nokia X range will run the Andrcusoid Open Source Project (AOSP) operating system, but without Google's stack on top of it. Instead, it'll have a Nokia store, Microsoft services, and a custom front-end. Classic microsoft
726.
by waps 13y ago
The article even contains an explanation why TCP does not, and NEVER should, include forward error correction : > Our simple re-sending mechanism just didn’t perform well enough under these conditions. It was quite common for a re-sent p
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by waps 13y ago
Uhuh. Now here's the question though : which problem is easier, and will be solved first. Because the second problem solved will be stillborn. a) make humans immortal b) make a non-human conscious being that's immortal I would arg
728.
by waps 13y ago
A lid seems a pretty primitive solution plus it wouldn't help against feedback on the fish's position itself. Furthermore it would obstruct the vision of the camera. If you're designing a craft if possible you want to avoid t
729.
by waps 13y ago
If you lived in Europe you'd see an obvious truth : people are blamed for what their grandparents did, if it's about WWII and nazis. Forget about joining the military, politics, judicial system or police. Well police is a special
730.
by waps 13y ago
Just stating the obvious here, but "Rule #1" obviously doesn't apply to service provider networks, who are specifically built so other people's equipment can be connected on almost every point. Customers on the access la
731.
by waps 13y ago
I think this is a pipe dream. Cheapest android cellphone is only $35 [1]. That is only possible because they're leftover stock of a phone that was produced using leftover stock of an ex-android phone chipset. [1] http://dx.c
732.
by waps 13y ago
FB after-hours price now down a little over 2%.
733.
by waps 13y ago
And people still wonder why climate change faces such fierce opposition. At this point I'd expect large amounts of people to refuse to budge with childish arguments. And the people who pull this crap deserve it. Sadly typical for UK go
734.
by waps 13y ago
GWT is by far my favorite way of writing javascript. It's work to get it working, but it's ironclad, has client-server RPC built in, and works on pretty much any browser out there.
735.
by waps 13y ago
Size is poison, true. Not nearly as much as, say, dynamic typing. At that point you start having the exact same code mean different things at different times. Plus those analysis tools you have for java do help with complexity. That always
736.
by waps 13y ago
Why not look at companies that had something like that ? Take the railway companies in Europe versus everyone else. The railway (ie. "socialist") optical lines : 1) use ancient infrastructure on SDH (on direct current, meaning the
737.
by waps 13y ago
That's illegal according to the contracts you have to agree to in order to accept credit cards or paypal. That's why almost nobody is doing that.
738.
by waps 13y ago
> Yes, you can! As I said earlier, sufficiently above the sun's north pole, you would see a classic Newtonian orbit, because of the choice of reference frame. No you would not. Here I assume a correct reference frame : the start poi
739.
by waps 13y ago
Initially, they were. Then they became important to protect Europe from the Soviets. I would argue that to some extent they're still fulfilling that function. But please make no mistake. The extreme right is still popular in Germany an
740.
by waps 13y ago
For the Chinese government this argument may hold some water. I do think that for the Chinese people this is very much a negative though. When choosing whether you want the American government to have some monitoring power over you or the C
741.
by waps 13y ago
In one of our courses on copyright law I heard this from the professor teaching that class : "While yes, there are a lot of exceptions to contract law, I would like to state that only a fool signs a contract he thinks to be unenforceab
742.
by waps 13y ago
Exactly. And guess which of those groups is the larger one ? I think the real problem with CEO positions is that of bad actors. A certain Nokia CEO would could be a good example. Took nokia from bad into disaster and then sold the company t
743.
by waps 13y ago
Interesting article. I disagree in methodology with the article on several fronts however. It basically boils down to them selecting IPCC predictions after the fact, and even after cherry picking what they compare with, they still adjust th
744.
by waps 13y ago
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that we have no idea what effect the policies have. They could be good, BUT they can also have bad results. I mean bad beyond just the economic implications. Since the climate system has been working a
745.
by waps 13y ago
Which is exactly the point. Whether the earth rotates depends on your frame of reference. You can pick one where it is, you can pick one where it isn't. Neither is "true". So saying the earth orbits the sun is a choice : it i
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by waps 13y ago
In other news : 3 in 4 hacker news readers don't know the earth doesn't orbit the sun at all. That is an impression created by the fact that the space around the sun moves as a result of gravity. This results in that the location
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by waps 13y ago
You don't believe in evolution then ? I'm pretty sure it says that 1) populations will grow far above reasonable levels and extremely far above sustainable levels. 2) this WILL get resolved.
748.
by waps 13y ago
At 5 Gbps order size, if you're paying more than $0.9/Mbps you're getting screwed.
749.
by waps 13y ago
I wonder if torrent/p2p would be a viable business model for Netflix. Think about it : they have a massive install base inside comcast where they can run programs and on most such programs they can run code, and store data. Solution se
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by waps 13y ago
Nope. I just worked for this person's department at one point, and this proposal scares the hell out of me.

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