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ssdd
8y ago
Human civilization is at least tens of thousands of years old(just considering what modern man believes) and always valued gold more than anything for both store and exchange of value. I don't see why modern civilization(which were ahe
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8y ago
Filtering research grant application based on personal/organizational beliefs is serious thing that can alter understanding of science. Highlighting these problems in application review process is important for public to understand to
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8y ago
I would call it weird! OP surely received similar advertise that led to this post. Why would someone advertise such an old tech now?
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8y ago
To me buses and truck market seems niche as compared to personal cars for companies looking to build electric tech to drive them. Number of state departments and businesses willing to pay for electric vehicle are fewer compared to electric
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8y ago
I totally agree with your core point. We definitely needs to be more responsible with how we design next generation computing chips. We need to think about power consumption especially in current world where climate change, power/resou
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8y ago
It's rare to see someone go above and beyond a benevolent hobby to build a complete solution to a people's problem.
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8y ago
Nice humor :)
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8y ago
Initial cost might be high but this cost would be slowly return as you save on electricity bills. Also, all this equipment is not perishable and you can still re-sell at good price after your retirement or sell them along with house. Its no
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8y ago
Longer school days might help kids with stressful home environment but it also poses risk to bonding b/w kids and parents especially for parents who are able to provide and are working towards holistic(moral, etc.) development of their
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8y ago
I completely agree. There are very few paid software for which we don't already have a FLOSS software that can compete with it. Linux users are normally good at finding FLOSS alternatives to paid softwares. Another thing that author ca
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8y ago
I guess what meant here is that one should never make mistake of assuming that a highly reliable system can be built. As you start to approach near 100% reliable system, you start experiencing failures that are caused by minute disturbances
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8y ago
That's great. Now next thing that needs to be solved is to make this tech available for general public use just like computers are these days. Problems that are waiting to be solved by it are very large and of huge impact.
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8y ago
Situation here is of real world which is different from software world. Real world equipment can degrade/develop faults after use so its important to inspect them before each job(especially when risk associated are very high) which is
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8y ago
Why is this data such a big deal? Didn't US should already have enough medical data of its citizens for study?
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8y ago
I believe is the latter point that's more important for China. First point is simply true for all nations that are trying to sell something.
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8y ago
Unfortunately, we live in a highly competitive/growth demanding times where companies chose to invest resources only on areas where they see good returns. This means that for-profit companies, like google, in long run would do far less
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8y ago
I believe one additional reason law enforcement don't want to get warrant is because they don't want to leave any paper trail when they track someone as that would expose the terrifying volume of phone they track.
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8y ago
Yeah, almost all the time its the inclination of an individual towards a new language that becomes the driving factor of migration rather than the actual shortcoming of current language.
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8y ago
Its mostly these minute details that gets overlooked during code reviews which leads to bigger problems. Bigger design mistakes rarely happen.
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9y ago
At least numbers looks humongous at first glance with it. :)
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9y ago
Wow! He is really want to suck as much profit as possible out of his position. No wonder people like him makes so much money.
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9y ago
Fact that they went to a great length to secure his position means that it really matters. Maybe the relationships that he has build over years with foreign nations is too valuable to lose or there is no suitable candidate to replace him.
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9y ago
Theoretically, this rule can also be gamed by taking all votes by influence of power.
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9y ago
I totally agree. One fine example is of dictators of world who became threat to people because of no checks on term.
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9y ago
There's noting special about it. This is true for all social hierarchy, plans that are important to the people at the top are implemented.
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9y ago
Satellite based broadband surely is something hard to restrict, and would be nice option for Uighers. But before we declare it as the solution to problem we need to think through any risks that it can pose. There aren't going to be man