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by dragop 11y ago
Geolocation is another reason ncr is useful, when using VPNs.
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by dragop 11y ago
I'm pretty much in the same situation - problem is just adding /ncr to the URL is easy to remember, especially when not on your own computer, ?gfe_rd=cr&gws_rd=cr doesn't exactly stick in the mind! I'm also increasin
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Tell HN: Google seems to have changed ncr (no country redirect)
120 points by dragop 11y ago|32 comments
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by dragop 11y ago
There's a nice model of a gyro monorail shown in the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGYXJjRfgTM I may be possible to do the same with Lego Mindstorms - certainly you can make self-balancing two-wheel robot
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by dragop 11y ago
No evidence was found of wrong-doing at the Climate Research Unit. The only result was it provided a source of comments to be taken out of context by climate sceptics. Which is exactly what Lamar Smith is hoping to achieve here.
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by dragop 11y ago
> The above graph is the source data for the famous "Hockey Stick" graph. The one below it is similar data taken from another location (IIRC one was taken in Arizona, the other California). Why they chose to use one and not bot
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by dragop 11y ago
You can find NOAA's current climate model here, with source code, compile scripts, and sample data: http://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/cm2-5-and-flor However, as mrow84 points out, you will need a supercomputer, unless you have
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by dragop 11y ago
> That means it has to treat the globe as a grid of 18 mile cubes Although this is made somewhat easier in that the vertical component is done in pressure "levels", somewhat simplifying the equations to be solved. However that
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by dragop 11y ago
The title suggests this is unusual, but it's not really. The simplest way to look at a glacier's changes over time is mass balance. A glacier accumulates mass, principally from snowfall in winter, which compacts into ice and flows
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by dragop 11y ago
The web interface login page recently changed so first you type in your username, then have to switch to the mouse to click "next", then type in your password. (Perhaps not as bad as one website I know that disables tabbing betwee
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by dragop 11y ago
The distance between New York and Washington DC is about 225 miles and takes just over 4 hours by car. Assuming a dedicated high speed rail line based on highway distances, at the best TGV speeds[1] (173mph, includes start and stop, not jus
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by dragop 11y ago
Now corrected.
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by dragop 11y ago
Given the subject, would it be amiss to point out that the title as written here is missing a comma?
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by dragop 11y ago
It's Stefan Rahmstorf, Professor of Ocean Physics at the Potsdam Institute.
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by dragop 12y ago
I missed that discussion, thanks, although this link is a better read than the bloomberg article. To add to this post though, there is an interview with one of the researchers (Lewis) on the BBC World Service Science in Action. Podcast is h
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by dragop 12y ago
That's a little unfair to later generals as the nature of warfare has changed. No longer is the general the king, emperor, consul, tribal leader, etc. One of Hitler's mistakes* was to believe he was a good general. Stalin at least
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by dragop 12y ago
Wellington couldn't come to Blücher's aid as Napoleon blocked him with his left wing under Ney at Quatre Bras. Your argument seems to be coming from the historical revisionism that Hofschröer puts forward, about how Waterloo was s
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by dragop 12y ago
Khalid ibn al-Walid Some others, often overlooked from a Western viewpoint, would be Subutai, Timur the Lame (Tamerlane), Belisarius, Zhukov, and Suleiman I. There are more. Arguably Marius and Sulla were the equal, if not better than, Caes
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by dragop 12y ago
Strictly speaking that should be association football, although everyone calls it football outside the US of course. "Football" existed before, but simplifying somewhat, just about all the modern games of football derive from rule
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by dragop 12y ago
When you say "translations" I assume you mean just the admin. But does Wagtail support multilingual websites (nothing seems to be in the docs)?
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by dragop 12y ago
It's a problem of how fast. If the Earth's climate slowly changed over thousands of years, we could probably adapt. Fast climatic changes would be a problem as the biosphere would take time to adapt. For example, remove all the ic
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by dragop 12y ago
In the current ice age, the cycle between glacials and inter-glacials is primarily driven by variations in the Earth's orbit, and therefore the distribution of incoming solar radiation over the Earth's surface by season and latitu