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931.
by zymhan 10y ago
And it solved all their problems! Because the whole thing stopped working.
932.
by zymhan 10y ago
Yeah, I'm interested in how just the Continental US would rank.
933.
by zymhan 10y ago
Polandball comics have been on the Portugal-is-a-rectangle trail for a while now: https://www.reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/300b86/portugal...
934.
by zymhan 10y ago
Yes, it should be. I was disappointed not to see any new information about it.
935.
by zymhan 10y ago
Aside from what the others said, the PATRIOT ACT (it's all an acronym) was based on an older bill that was not passed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Counterterrorism_Act_o... http://www.wnyc.org
936.
by zymhan 10y ago
It would be pretty unprecedented for the coup members to shoot down the sitting president's plane. They would almost certainly just prevent him from landing, or allow him to land and arrest him immediately.
937.
by zymhan 10y ago
> What is Erdogan trying to do In his convoluted thinking, he's trying to stop the spread of an anti-establishment political organization that has infiltrated all levels of the Turkish military and civil service. Or, you know, they&
938.
by zymhan 10y ago
They barely were to begin with, and they are highly unlikely to continue in the current atmosphere.
939.
by zymhan 10y ago
Starting? That was clear when they purged the first few thousand.
940.
by zymhan 10y ago
Turkey's civil service is not going to be in good shape after this purge. It seems hard to run a modern society in a very precarious neighborhood with undermanned services and not risk your own citizens getting angry or outsiders using
941.
by zymhan 10y ago
And yet we still have people who don't think Moore's law will cause us to reach the end of MOSFET at some point.
942.
by zymhan 10y ago
The pension plan owns and operates the old facility? That's just weird.
943.
by zymhan 10y ago
Is Beats Radio not a competitor to terrestrial radio? They both aim to provide the same service. They both pay fees to the same record labels. Far, far more people are more familiar with FM radio than TuneIn.
944.
by zymhan 10y ago
How does this address the issue of, say, one type of fish being sold as another?
945.
by zymhan 10y ago
Also > It is in fact possible to remove Rhino horns safely eithout killing the animal. What do you do with the Rhino once it's horn is gone? Are you going to raise it it's whole life to produce a few horns?
946.
by zymhan 10y ago
What do you do with a Rhino that has no horn? It can't survive in the wild, and it has no economic value to justify keeping it on a farm.
947.
by zymhan 10y ago
Well, okay, that's a trade off we as a society have decided to make. Many orphaned elephants send their condolences for your piano.
948.
by zymhan 10y ago
> people thousands of miles away You read the part about the wildlife officials in African countries that support the ban, right?
949.
by zymhan 10y ago
> my phone caches my calendars The word you're looking for is "synchronizes". This has existed for decades, now.
950.
by zymhan 10y ago
I sync my Google calendar to my devices, so if it goes belly up, I can open a new account somewhere else and start using that with little issue. I do think it's a bad idea to rely 100% on something business critical hosted by someone e
951.
by zymhan 10y ago
Yes, RAM is meant to be consumed, but I still find it incredibly hard to believe that my browser NEEDS multiple gigabytes of memory. Regardless of how much I have to spare.
952.
by zymhan 10y ago
The entire point of the article is that you should invest long term, and that long term will always pay off over a long enough time frame.
953.
by zymhan 10y ago
I think your analogy is better than GPs, as you actually framed the issue in terms of proportional consumption.
954.
by zymhan 10y ago
Maybe if you're trying to make a point about spy agencies, you should learn what they're called first.
955.
by zymhan 10y ago
Can you actually extract a significant amount of Helium from atmospheric air? I was under the impression that it was far more likely to escape into space because it's so much lighter than the other gasses in our atmosphere.
956.
by zymhan 10y ago
Potable water is not expensive everywhere. Also, laying a second, redundant network of water pipes so that we can flush with "gray water" would be ridiculously costly. In buildings that can recycle their own water, gray water syst
957.
by zymhan 10y ago
Part of it is because the US government directed the reserve to sell Helium off to pay it's debt. We were using Helium decades ago though, I'm not sure why the price has always been cheap enough to justify using it as a party favo
958.
by zymhan 10y ago
I hope that by the time I'm succumbing to the effects of aging, we'll have techniques with tools like CRISPR to make it easier.
959.
by zymhan 10y ago
While a worthy cause, Firefox would be utterly broken if Comodo was no longer a trusted CA.
960.
by zymhan 10y ago
There are well founded reasons for financial regulation. Predatory lending, money laundering, scams, terrorism funding, etc.

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