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by electricblue 9y ago
You want to be born there because they are relatively small groups born on top of huge reserves of oil. Not really applicable or relevant to the economy in the US.
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by electricblue 9y ago
I feel like there's a very simple explanation the article either ignores or doesn't see: Kids were allowed to bring them to school for a while (till they became a distraction)...that's really all you need for a neat toy to be
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by electricblue 11y ago
The problem isn't supply. We have more than enough supply as you said. The problem is transportation. There just isn't a technology that's cheap and light enough to make shipping food to the food poor countries around the wor
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by electricblue 11y ago
Surely not, heaven forfend.
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by electricblue 11y ago
It's generally better for your whole country if your citizens are employed doing high wage, productive labor rather than having their jobs poached by foreigners who get paid very little send much of their wealth back to their home coun
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by electricblue 11y ago
The US isn't run by an autocracy so there are competing interests in the government. It doesn't make sense to claim they are being controlled by the government, because they wouldn't agree with each other on what should be sa
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by electricblue 11y ago
The only way we have any idea of the psychology of North Koreans is from highly imperfect anecdotal accounts from defectors. From those the question of how authentic these displays are is complicated. One example of a starving boy singing &
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by electricblue 11y ago
I think people did assume that because from what little experience Americans have with NK, much of the customs we would consider voluntary (bowing before statues, etc) are compulsory even for western visitors. It's not much of a leap t
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by electricblue 11y ago
I recently did this with a Pi B+ using emulation station and the only thing I really feel is missing is a good search function within each emulator and across all the emulators. I have two iBuffalo SNES controllers and they work out of the
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by electricblue 11y ago
The studio ghibli movie, Whisper of the Heart has a plot point that revolves around this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_of_the_Heart
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by electricblue 11y ago
$77 million doesn't sound like that much for a site the size of Wikipedia
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by electricblue 11y ago
Yeah I was just looking for something like this for my Pi 2 so thanks!
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by electricblue 11y ago
I've used retropie but if I still gotta use HDMI TV I'd rather the console be hidden behind the TV. Just my personal preference though.
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by electricblue 11y ago
I don't really see a use for this but I agree with your ending point about computers being snuck into all sorts of things for little or no cost is very exciting.
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by electricblue 11y ago
Any reason why these regions in particular? Seems very rando. Maybe focus on areas with problems teaching math?
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by electricblue 11y ago
Still not sure who this is for and why they would want to use it. Google is at its best when they are fixing problems in a novel way, not trying to ape everyone else
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by electricblue 11y ago
There is a balancing act that every successful game has to perform between gameplay and motivation. Without gameplay, games are dull passive experiences (see David Cage) with no pull to keep the player engaged. Without motivation gameplay f
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by electricblue 11y ago
Less people needing welfare? I'm sorry, can't think of anything atm.
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by electricblue 11y ago
Do you have any proof that rape makes a significant contribution to population growth or just grasping at straws?
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by electricblue 11y ago
Vasectomy is currently the only permanent sterilization procedure without serious health risks. Barring some strange shift in cultural attitudes where fertile males suddenly become irresistible to every female on earth it should do fine unt
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by electricblue 11y ago
Seems fairly easy to me. Pay 18 year old boys $10k to get a vasectomy. Watch birth rates plummet. Captialism gives us systematic inequality, we should use it to fix more problems
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by electricblue 11y ago
GIS Manager here. The reason silos happen in the GIS world is because of trust. Every organization has different priorities and standards when it comes to data. The accuracy you need for your building footprints might be (and probably is) u
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by electricblue 11y ago
Probably because it's prohibitively expensive compared with just building a larger building next to the road and it's aesthetically pleasing to have space between buildings and humans like sunlight.
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by electricblue 11y ago
particular small areas with extremely high pop density might improve if cars were banned but for the most part adding separate bike paths that don't interact with roads much is the way to go. The sloped apartments seem dangerous and st
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by electricblue 11y ago
Makes a lot of sense, you have easy access to customers whenever a flight gets cancelled and with enough soundproofing the experience could be good for everyone.
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by electricblue 11y ago
I'm thinking about going with KeePass. I don't want to deal with this again with 1Password if/when they get bought.
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by electricblue 11y ago
Tech journalists will only write an article if they can grind their favorite axe a bit more.
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by electricblue 11y ago
"we didn't know" is curiously not an excuse you can use in any other facet of human life except to exculpate rich people
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by electricblue 11y ago
Seems like a massive amount of effort just to be a dick. They get all the info they could ever want from customer loyalty cards, this is a redundant and frankly useless waste of money.
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by electricblue 11y ago
This article is a bit alarmist. I agree that government entities using this technology as a tool of oppression is definitely bad & going to happen somewhere but I'm not worried about the shop clerk knowing my political affiliation

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