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1950 called. They want their worldview back.

> Today Switzerland is part of EU No, it is not. [1] [1] http://europa.eu/about-eu/countries/member-countries/index_e...

I'm really crossing my fingers for Jolla in particular, and Sailfish/Mer in general, to succeed. It's becoming clear that Android's currently debatable status as free software is h…

> It uses X. That itself is outdated before I start talking about out of date design principles. All major window managers and desktop enivornments use X today. Some, such as KDE, …

Why 16? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_minimum_d...

I think that's what einhverfr had in mind when he asked what happens when the PV cells get covered in snow.

Someone else suggested that they're probably used by diagnostic tools.

It's a link to a scribd version of the PDF. Try clicking.

Are you sure you haven't visited webpages that tell your browser to send requests to your local router lately?

The point is that certain large prime numbers (of certain forms) are curated and published in a catalogue because they are notable (in and of themselves). The process you dismiss a…

Sure, but all the adversary needs is for the user to visit a webpage that makes his/her browser contact the router (i.e. from within the LAN). If the adversary has to take into acc…

> Man-made climate warning is most likely a hoax that fuels a multi-billion-dollar industry and is used, among other things, to erect protectionist barriers against Chinese and Ind…

What do you feel that this adds to the discussion? Seriously - if you want to express yourself, please do so in a way that adds to the conversation. (I realize that this very comme…

I don't think anybody has suggested introducing the basic income amount of a country with that from the country with (one of) the world's highest costs of living. $33.6k is, at lea…

> One of the main questions about something like this is about who would do boring, low-paid work with this sort of basic income. My (probably wrong) impression was that hardly any…

It doesn't matter. He's counting the number of times a continuous curve C on the surface of the Earth crosses other continuous curves (state boundaries). A crossing is a property o…

I doubt that any airport anywhere uses neutron scanners (whatever those may be).

> The problem isn't a lack of jobs, it's the draining of capital flow that happen when the monetary system dries up. Whether you believe that to be unfairness or just some players …

Respectfully, I think you're missing the point. It's not about any one person being interesting enough. The fifth amendment gives the (American) people a right not to incriminate t…

"You still don't seem to have much general idea of what the court's about", said the painter, who had stretched his legs wide apart and was tapping loudly on the floor with the tip…

This thread seems like a valid place to ask a long-standing question of mine. Are there any projects aiming for a hardware security token with the following properties? 1) Open har…

You mean finite, not discrete :-)

> In Norway if you want to log in to your bank you need a friggin Java Applet. Not with Skandiabanken. Their only special requirement is a phone for doing two-factor authentication…