vaduz

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by vaduz 5y ago
> > 3 tons of space junk, a punch that will carve out a crater big enough to fit several semitractor-trailers > These are likely US tons, so 2722kg. Earlier reports put the mass at explicitly "4 metric tons" [0][1], so it
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by vaduz 5y ago
5040 knots, aka nautical miles per hour. Because if you are using miles, use the only ones that matter (in aerospace).
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by vaduz 5y ago
> Or are we seriously going to say slavery isn't a problem as long as as it isn't in our own backyard? So slavery in the 1800's was a problem but we can live with the fruits of modern day forced labor since we want our che
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by vaduz 5y ago
That's assuming it does not issue ATA Secure Erase to the drive - whilst WD drives of the era were using absolutely atrocious controllers for the most part, it would be enough to thwart testdisk.
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by vaduz 6y ago
It is pretty hard to imagine any particular set of conditions short of total planetary surface destruction that would make all extremophiles go extinct - and as long there is enough of them, they will start spreading again. Any particular
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by vaduz 6y ago
> On other hand Earth is just tiny thing in solar system, which is tiny thing in galaxy which is small thing around general area which is tiny thing in great scale of things... Don't go down that route - down that route lies the Tot
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by vaduz 6y ago
We would do better with methane (100-year GWP 25), or even better with nitrous oxide - with added bonus that both N2 and O2 to produce it can be taken straight out of atmosphere (100-year GWP 298), though they would not last very long.
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by vaduz 6y ago
Requires strange matter to exist in the first place, and currently the evidence does not support the hypothesis.
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by vaduz 6y ago
The lawsuits regarding unregistered copyright are and were expressly forbidden under Copyright Act of 1976 - 17 U.S.C. 411 [0] (with the specific exception for the case where all procedures were met, but registrations has been refused), b
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by vaduz 6y ago
To add to this, in the US, registering is also necessary to sue for infringement (since the 2019 Fourth Estate ruling in SCOTUS) and it determines if the statutory damages apply or not - registration must come before infringement. It&#x2
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by vaduz 6y ago
Even if you had plenty of DNA material, going with multiple labs comes with a risk that one of them comes with a "no match" result - and that is something that is supposed to be disclosed to defense as potential exculpatory eviden
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by vaduz 6y ago
> It's the same in France and I think most of EU as the highest french court ruled that forced arbitration was against EU law. For consumers or businesses? Not being nitpicky here: I am not familiar with the French ruling, so I woul
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by vaduz 6y ago
.eu is classified as a ccTLD [0], not gTLD by IANA, so for the purpose of this discussion it is one - and the registrar for it (EURid) requires ciitzenship of one of the member states to hold .eu domain. EU citizens living the UK can have
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by vaduz 6y ago
> .io isn't a gTLD at all, it's a ccTLD belonging to British Indian Ocean Territory (which I find to be bullshit, since those islands have no permanent inhabitants). That's not strictly true - British Indian Ocean Territor
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by vaduz 6y ago
Speed of beamforming tracking is not the problem - what is a problem is the lack of compensation for movement of the base station (and necessary hardware for it) which is quite evident when people test it in motion [0] - which is quite unde
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by vaduz 6y ago
Where did they demonstrate it? Latest news was that they filed for a license [0] to install 5 user terminals on up to 5 Gulfstream planes - application that is still pending. [0] https://fcc.report/ELS/Space-Exploration
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by vaduz 6y ago
Reproducible builds do not help to determine if the version you download via the Play Store (or, for those on enterprise devices, any pre-installed corporate stores) is the same as you build - Play Store presents no real means to verify tha
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by vaduz 6y ago
Under current laws, city council of Florence does not have extraordinary power of pardon and clemency - President of the Republic of Italy does. The declaration you linked is symbolic only - and the Italian sources [0] indicate the plan thi
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by vaduz 6y ago
Holy Roman Empire is not a factor - Dante was found guilty and exiled under the laws of the Republic of Florence. Ultimately Italy has jurisdiction as the successor state of Florence -> Tuscany -> Sardinia -> Italy after 1861...
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by vaduz 6y ago
And it would have been avoided entirely if HN simply used relative font measures (em/rem) and allowed the user just set the damn base font size in the browser settings.
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by vaduz 6y ago
Which means that they have indeed cheapened out with a recent refresh - which is a shame. I have the cable I describe on the headphones I am quite literally wearing on my head at this very moment (HD 600) and identical ones were present in
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by vaduz 6y ago
That 6.3mm / 1/4" plug is 3.5mm + converter (you just pull it apart comes apart into two pieces), at least on 5xx and 6xx range. It's not even screwed on, just a tight friction fit. Unless, that is, Sennheiser decided to
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by vaduz 6y ago
Grados seem to suffer around their strain relief in multiple places - not just the plug, but also the earpiece. I have a set of 325s where, after the cable has failed yet again, I am wondering if it is actually worth it to repair them or ju
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by vaduz 6y ago
Given their construction, anyone claiming to have set of plastic-fantastic Grados (SR60, SR80) they have actually used since that period and that never needed a repair or replacement of significant portions of the phone would be straining c
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by vaduz 6y ago
Nord Stream and Yamal both transport pressurized natural gas (at 100 to 120 atm). LNG is not really suitable for long pipelines.
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by vaduz 6y ago
Total capacity of the completed Nord Stream 1 (~55 bcma, billion cubic metres per year) and Yamal-Europe (~33 bcma) is barely sufficient to cover the German demand (~88.7 bcma in 2019), assuming no sales to Poland or Austria and other co
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by vaduz 6y ago
Great idea! It means that the company gets to do the tracking as much as it wants as long as it shares some of these profits with the government, and as a bonus gets to enjoy a reasonably confidence that any initiative to futher enhance pri
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by vaduz 6y ago
The card is anonymous, but loading it with money is not, at least not in practice - most machines I've encountered only accept Maestro/VPay (which is an improvement over PIN, as they are marginally available in other countries, bu
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by vaduz 6y ago
I can give you a personal counter-example: my oven requires the time to be set to run - without it, neither the fan nor any of the two heating elements turns on. It's an old Bosch HBN202S
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by vaduz 6y ago
Maybe not yet, but neither did we arrive at the current state where e.g. London has an estimated 691k registered CCTV cameras [0] (and many hundreds of thousands more unregistered, as you don't need to register ones that point only a

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