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by nmc 2y ago
Direct PDF download: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/cart/download.cgi?record_i...
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by nmc 2y ago
You cannot make the cost-efficiency argument without acknowledging all the costs which aviation and automotive travel externalize: air and water pollution, damage to wildlife, global warming, lack of walking/cycling infrastructure, ris
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by nmc 2y ago
Bollards are good at preventing the inconsiderate from parking on the sidewalk. For fewer people to be killed by cars, however, you want transportation infrastructure which does not rely on having fast metal boxes in close proximity to pede
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by nmc 3y ago
The investigation partly relies on notes seized from the defendants which mention various privacy tools: GrapheneOS, LineageOS, Signal, Silence, Jitsi, OnionShare, F-Droid, Tor, RiseupVPN, Orbot, uBlock Origin… According to investigators: &
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Google removes ‘Slavery Simulator’ game from store(cnn.com)
1 points by nmc 3y ago|0 comments
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by nmc 4y ago
Students in France protested multiple times at least partly against Parcoursup, the government software where high school students enter their choices for higher education and get selected by universities. https://www.rfi.fr&#x2F
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Paris speed limit falls to 30km/h(bbc.com)
28 points by nmc 5y ago|54 comments
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by nmc 5y ago
See the first item in this post: https://auntymuriel.com/2012/12/23/asterix-in-translation-th... Was: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22678816
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by nmc 6y ago
Wow that is amazing! His proposal for "IPv4+" is... I have no words. Thanks for the laugh.
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by nmc 6y ago
As soon as you start having you own server/network rooms, yes. You will have to monitor your HVAC systems, your fire extinguisher systems, your alarm systems (for smoke and water leak detection), your electrical systems... You will nee
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by nmc 6y ago
FYI, your webserver sets the ContentType header based on the file extension, which is probably not what you want. For example: http://textfiles.com/100/black.box gave me "application/vnd.previewsystems.box&qu
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by nmc 7y ago
There are a few guidelines about titles: > Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. > If the title includes the name of the site, please take
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by nmc 7y ago
Took me a while to figure out why I was not able to pull MMS over WiFi anymore! (My "hack" was to have a SIM from a country where RCS/Chat is enabled, but actually using it in a country where RCS is not yet supported.)
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Google doesn’t want you using RCS in unsupported regions(androidauthority.com)
10 points by nmc 7y ago|7 comments
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by nmc 7y ago
You want dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled set to false
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by nmc 7y ago
https://archive.is/2f9pz
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by nmc 7y ago
Non-clickbait: "History of the invention of the black box (in-flight recorder)"
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by nmc 7y ago
Excellent! Just one thing: on a touchscreen interface with Firefox, zooming out works well but zooming in is sometimes jittery or not registering at all. (Panning and rotating work fine.)
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by nmc 7y ago
Article was updated: > Mr. Baig, 18, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with manslaughter.
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by nmc 7y ago
What is this title? The page is named "PHP Sucks" and the heading also says "PHP Sucks".
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by nmc 7y ago
> Umar Baig barreled through a red light at a terrifying speed and T-boned an S.U.V., sending it flying across the street into José Alzorriz, a cyclist,(...) killing him instantly. > Mr. Baig, 18, has not been charged. > Running a
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by nmc 7y ago
The Memo [PDF] itself: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/6278613/The-Weigh...
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by nmc 7y ago
Reuters news flash: https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKCN1V50DQ (has picture!)
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by nmc 7y ago
No No No There Is No Vulnerability In VLC From the bug tracker: > Issue is too old libebml in Ubuntu 18.04: libebml 1.3.6 fixes this issue. End of story: VLC is not vulnerable, whether this is 3.0.7.1 or even 3.0.4. The issue is in a 3rd
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by nmc 7y ago
Title feels clickbaity because it is missing "(Legally)" between "Can" and "Dispose" dang (admin) or lecarore (submitter) could you please edit?
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by nmc 7y ago
TL;DR After being jettisoned, the Service Module remained dangerously close to the Command Module during re-entry, so there was a risk that the two could have collided
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by nmc 7y ago
Why would they storm a mine where poor people work in hazardous and exhausting conditions? Do they not know that the company owning the mine is headquartered in Essen, where the top-level managers responsible for this actually work? (The co
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by nmc 7y ago
Awesome website! I have two remarks about the speed units displayed on the dashboard: • Why is the Mach number showed while out of the atmosphere? It depends on the local speed of sound which is not really definable there • Why is the speed
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by nmc 7y ago
The page is setting the CSS user-select properties to "none". You can unset it using you browser's dev tools. See https://www.w3schools.com/cssreF/css3_pr_user-select.asp
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by nmc 7y ago
Classic urban legend. > Views of the Eiffel Tower taken by private individuals for private use do not require prior agreement. However, professionals must contact our teams, who will inform them of the conditions of use governing images.

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