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by yason 13y ago
I wonder if there are constructions that also utilize the absorbed heat, i.e. energy that isn't caught by the solar cells. You could at least heat up the household water with that energy, or possibly use it to generate additional elect
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by yason 13y ago
The shitty truth begins to appear when you've — way too many times, might I add — read the old code, thinking it makes sense and then feeling the pain of naivete shifting out as the code eventually turns out to make no sense. Then begi
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by yason 13y ago
BI isn't so much of a radically new idea because nearly all if not each and every (at least non-developing) country in the world already does provide some sort of welfare and/or unemployment benefits. Currently this is generally d
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by yason 13y ago
That's how I learned English. Not in school but because I was programming and my native language was lagging a couple of decades behind when it came to programming materials and books. And once you use it for programming, it's log
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by yason 13y ago
Uh, is it that common, really? Where do the companies they get his number? I don't live in the UK but I get maybe one unsolicited call per year. I don't know why really: I'm not on any do not call lists or anything. When I ge
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by yason 13y ago
Simply increasing taxes will educate the decision makers about the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve eventually. Taxing spending on harmful things is better than to tax work and activities because what you tax
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by yason 13y ago
In Finland, neighbouring Sweden, we also have more different containers for different trash than you'd care for. It takes time to learn all that and when you've finally sorted out all your trash properly to different bins, you sit
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by yason 13y ago
The complement of procrastination is wild passion. One who's capable of procrastinating with one sort of things is exactly the type of guy who's capable of getting some other things done if only he does things that call him on a
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by yason 13y ago
The same pattern has occurred since the steam engine: someone patents an invention, development is stalled while others wait for a couple of decades, and upon the expiration date all progress is unleashed forward. Who still thinks that pate
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by yason 13y ago
Uh, I might sound like a clichy old grumper but is this really any news since the 90's which is when Microsoft found the internet? It's practically been the operative description of Microsoft for decades that they're intere
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Why Can’t Offline-Borns Tell Difference Between Voluntary And Forced Actions?(falkvinge.net)
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by yason 13y ago
However, this isn't a bicycle problem: it's an urban planning problem. If you design for cars (multi-lane high-speed roads), this is what you get. Unfortunately, riders and pedestrians will suffer for now. Hint: Mount a retractabl
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by yason 13y ago
What's left to thwart the MAFIAA we need a protocol to serve anonymous/unknown data, with plausible deniability. Like this: "I'll store this blob of data on my computer and upload it to anyone who asks for it as long as
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by yason 13y ago
The standard Python workaround to the GIL is multiprocessing. Multiprocessing is basically a library which spins up a distributed system running locally - it forks your process, and runs workers in the forks. The parent process then commun
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by yason 13y ago
I've been wondering if there's any reason to actually keep the original OEM modified operating system instead of replacing it with a vanilla Android installation. I haven't found any but it seems that there are now compelling
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by yason 13y ago
I was one of the calm and orderly boys in school. However, this was because merely being at school where I didn't want to be made me mostly lethargic. I didn't have any energy left to make a scene as I was busy counting hours unti
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by yason 13y ago
I caught myself wondering why climbing the bridge has to be illegal . You can't practically damage the bridge. You will mostly just hurt yourself if something happens. Theoretically the worst that could happen is you could fall onto a
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by yason 13y ago
It's not about porn, it's about addiction. If your psyche needs an addiction you will find one. It could be tobacco, porn, alcohol, or shopping, but nevertheless you will find your outlet for your addictive behaviour. Different ad
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by yason 13y ago
Progressive taxation that starts from negative tax rate and goes upwards from there as more income is generate by working more is quite reasonable. You always get something but most people want slightly more or much more, so they can choo
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by yason 13y ago
How about explaining your insights in ten sentences or so in this thread instead of just linking to some video that only few people would actually go watch just like that?
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by yason 13y ago
That's just a browser problem: for such static graphics it shouldn't matter what the original image format is. The browser will generate an internal bitmap for each decoded PNG image, and uses that for blitting/compositing. A
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by yason 13y ago
Note that it's also hacker mentality to always seek for greater leverage and spend some extra time so that you can squash a million flies at once. It's not a bad mentality but it's not the only one. To change the world it&#x2
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by yason 13y ago
Is this hacker related at all or is it that hackers end up with (loads of) this sort of information more often? If I had in my possession delicate information about government, military, or public sector misbehaviour I would need a really,
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by yason 13y ago
In the end it's not the frequencies nor number of cores but performance per watt that matters. Most computers run on batteries these days, and those that don't drain ever more expensive electricity from the wall socket and at the
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by yason 13y ago
I mostly just read the updates from my Close Friends list. At some point I had to sort out my friends to acquaintances, friends, and close friends, and that has sort of fixed the glitch for me.
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by yason 13y ago
Who says city planning isn't a big deal?
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by yason 13y ago
I think it's interesting for that reason though, because it doesn't say as much about his actual lifestyle as it does what he thinks about other people. But that's part of what makes his lifestyle his. I don't think you can have a lifesty
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by yason 13y ago
It is not a problem if his friends don't object to borrowing him a phone, nor is it Stallman's responsibility to carry a phone so that his friends don't even have to not object. If someone doesn't like him asking for a phone or lunch or wha
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by yason 13y ago
There's still no substitute for cash when you need true anonymity. How long till cash is made illegal?
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by yason 13y ago
It's easy to win negotiations if either: - you have leverage and the other party needs you more than you need him or: - you can make the other party think you have leverage and the other party needs you more than you need him

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