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by yaix 15y ago
Because wind and solar etc have a few disadvantages, especially that they are not steady, sometimes the wind is strong, sometimes none, sometimes the sun shines, sometimes it doesn't (especially during the night). And power grids don't like
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by yaix 15y ago
Don't be childish, please. I am asking you, what part of what I wrote sounds like SciFi to you. Synthetic Fuel is produced for many years already, its not SciFi but decade old technology.
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by yaix 15y ago
Currently usually from biomass or coal, see almighty wp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_fuel The factories would not being build in the few countries that currently supply the vast majority of the oil the world consumes. A number o
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by yaix 15y ago
Let's say the oil price would dive vertically. And with free electricity, you could make synthetics and synthetic oil cheaper than digging for it. For some countries this would mean ruin. (Not to mention the US, having just spend so much mo
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by yaix 15y ago
I hope he has some bodyguards. If this would be true, there are a couple of countries with lots of oil that would not really like this idea to become reality. But then, as the article says, chances of it being true are small, unfortunately.
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by yaix 15y ago
#turing_test_fail was actually kinda funny. I think people take themselves way too serious sometimes. Relax, there is really more important things in the world than getting upset about "brogrammers" or guys making silly jokes about Siri.
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by yaix 15y ago
Not if they'd also look for a Sisadmin.
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by yaix 15y ago
Things tend to look better the further you move them into the past. Nostalgia. Things just aren't anymore what they never used to be. HN was and is the same. IMHO the best place of its kind. While the article shows an interesting formula, I
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by yaix 15y ago
The highest step is 42%, but overall you pay much less. On the first 8k you pay nothing for instance, then you pay some 20% on the next 20k or so, and so on. The last step is 42% for everything above 200k or so.
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by yaix 15y ago
Last line is bs. Its not "the government". Taxes are much less. It includes all kinds of insurances included (medical, unemployment, retirement, etc.)
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by yaix 15y ago
Probably pretty soon you will be able to search +John Doe googleplus profiles.
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by yaix 15y ago
Nice, looks great on Android/FF. As expected, does not work on Android/Opera. Should the shadow expand and shrink with the movement of the legs?
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by yaix 15y ago
> eg: the "Delete Database" button is next to "Save", just as big, has no confirmation step and no undo That was common practice all over the Web for over a decade, it only stopped recently (on most sites). [Submit] [Reset] Argh!
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by yaix 15y ago
This could have adverse effects, similar to medication agains HIV/AIDS. People will get a vaccine and reduce their efforts of protection against Malaria by mosquito nets and other means. I hope that will not happen.
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by yaix 15y ago
After having used Unity for many months, I recently switch back to "Gnome classic" and when I upgrade to 11.10 it will be Xubuntu. It would be great if Canonical concentrated their resources on making the system faster, like they did until
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by yaix 15y ago
They interchange all kinds of information. Maybe we should all use Icelandic hosts.
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by yaix 15y ago
Scary news sell newspapers. This article is way to sensationalist for my taste. The one thing I find worrying is the large shift in power from people to financial corporations that has happened in the past decade.
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by yaix 15y ago
It will come sooner or later. Point your smartphone at any person in the street and know who he or she is in a second. The technology is too trivial to stop it. More important would be to now begin thinking about regulations to limit abuse
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by yaix 15y ago
That is how my netbook is configured, EncFS encrypts file names and contents before rsync sends it to a remote backup server. On the phone, you don't need to encrypt all of the file system (for better performance) but just the parts that ho
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by yaix 15y ago
FF beta on Android 100/100.
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by yaix 15y ago
India speaks mostly Indo-European languages. Chinese is a Sino-Tibetian language and much different. Most Chinese would have a hard time remembering Western names, let alone pronouncing them.
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by yaix 15y ago
Italy does not have a deficit problem, it has a political problem. And everybody knows who it is.
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by yaix 15y ago
Are all generalizations always wrong?
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by yaix 15y ago
If you start a company and then pay yourself part of the earnings, there is a risk too that the company goes bankrupt. If you specialize in an industry and get a paid job, there is a risk too that you dont find a job or get laid off. I dont
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by yaix 15y ago
What's with the headline? Samsung does not violate Apple patents, it just violates one patent. And sales are not banned, they are just to be banned (in more than a month's time), if Samsung does not make changes. But it made me click throug
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by yaix 15y ago
If you want your "college or uncollege" verbatim searched for by G, simple put a plus sign in from of it +"college or uncollege" to override the auto correction. Simple. It's more about "geeks doing a web search" vs everybody else. Especial
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by yaix 15y ago
And apart from a flawed analysis of the Japanese society, on what historical examples are you basing your "theory"? Oh, and just to have a counter example: Switzerland
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by yaix 15y ago
Even better is the paper (written 2003) linked in the comments of the article: http://www.arctic.org/~dean/tracking-without-cookies.html
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by yaix 15y ago
>> ...several pharmaceutical companies declined to pay for the research. Great! No greedy corporation to patent it and sell off the method at overpriced rates.
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by yaix 15y ago
I always supposed that G was doing that anyway. Why would they measure time-on-site only per page load? Has anybody implemented this and seen a jump in their time-on-site and bounce rate values?

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