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MasterPI
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Comment #34251963
I would compare (most) modern development to repairing a car engine. You don't need to know the concepts of material engineering or thermodynamics to be able to repair it. You just…
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Comment #32255165
> It's also difficult (impossible) to curb demand for housing if housing is far and away the best investment you can possibly make, both in the short, medium, and long-term. With t…
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Comment #22370395
3Blue1Brown is among the supporters on Patreon which I think is another big recognition for the work of the creator(s). https://github.com/explorableexplanations/explorableexplanat…
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Comment #22325521
The use of formal methods in NASA proves that they are useful and that the software industry should give it much more importance in my opinion. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?N=0…
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Comment #20103168
I doubt the world would have been able to enjoy such a technological progress in general without oil to even have computers and be able to post comments on here for example. Not de…
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Comment #17247266
I think this had more to do with the Iron Curtain than poverty.
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Comment #17245004
I think it has to do with the humidity of the air.
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Comment #17119361
Exaclty. I just made a similar comment down below saying that some people choose a car with their heart not their head.
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Comment #17119312
It's not all just status. There are people that appreciate the handling and the performance they get driving a BMW. I bought a second hand BMW because I wanted a car that I'd enjoy…
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Comment #16481739
:) Please specify when you talk about small diesels. Non of that 0-40 acceleration is true for the 535 I mentioned in my previous comment.
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Comment #16473553
> pervasive pea soup of diesel smog How do you know it's smog caused by diesel? LA has suffered (don't know how is it today) for years from smog and the majority of the vehicles th…
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Comment #16473084
> they smell And petrol cars don't smell? > slow to accelerate I think you've never driven a big modern engine diesel car. I have driven this BMW 535d[0] and believe me this monste…
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Comment #15977556
Honest question: Wasn´t the original idea of cryptocurrencies to be able to do exactly that? Small transactions for the web.
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Comment #15930976
Similar to this is the PlainTasks plug-in for Sublime.
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Comment #14636462
A guy selling hardware firewall and security products describes how hostile the web is... I'm not saying this is not true but at the end this articles looks more like a product ad …
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Comment #13264069
I was referring to how the system works here in Europe. I suppose there is no much of a difference in the US. On each step in the chain (credit card, POS, bank entity, etc.) you ha…
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Comment #13263833
It takes considerably more time than simply swiping because chip payment transactions ivolve much more communications between the card the POS terminal, the bank entity, payment pr…