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patrickg_zill
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Comment #19819238
Sounds like something a person without such a hat, would say...
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Comment #19817433
It's called "spring". In Alberta there is a weather phenomenon known as the "chinook" that causes rapid melting of snow and ice. The CBC is a propaganda outlet of the Canadian gove…
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Comment #19796751
Were these companies also banned from future contracting?
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Comment #19788227
If it is a $50 product at retail, then you should be able to point to watches that retail at $50 that have the same features. Please do so... I would put it roughly at ~$150 Costco…
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Comment #19786120
Is there perhaps another country you feel loyalty to already, however? (Just a guess, but the only person I know in real life with sentiments almost identical to what you have post…
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Comment #19780385
If I felt that Microsoft was delivering high quality software and was a meritocracy I would cut them a lot of slack, no matter what opinions they espoused and who they favored or e…
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Comment #19780326
You recently joined... any chance you have heard anything about a guy named James Damore?
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Comment #19773684
There is however some government action in terms of government ad spending on these platforms, and the many, many billions of dollars in tax incentives/abatements that have been ha…
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Comment #19771398
Housing is not affordable in many areas of the United States, after you adjust for local wages.
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Comment #19765473
Nothing changes until people start to go to jail.
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Comment #19760730
Are you sure about that? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/world/asia/japan-fukushim...
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Comment #19758858
That seems to be premature since, while I respect Nader for many things, his own article points out that the investigations have not yet been completed.
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Comment #19758469
You can do an image search on your favorite search engine and look for someone like Donna Brazile, who has been in politics for a long time and understands appearing on TV. Then yo…
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Comment #19755302
Take a raking kind of light, and shine it on a beige to brown colored wall, so that the light will be stronger on one side and gradually fade in intensity (that is, less reflected …
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Comment #19754806
Not only that but they would change the behavior of a chip between revisions, so drivers for one revision, if they didn't take into account the changes, would suddenly stop working…
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Comment #19754190
I am looking into doing some small projects for those I work with... Am seriously considering going to either text only (as in you have to ssh to a Linux server and run the app) or…
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Comment #19748078
So basically if you printed a strange design on one of those T-shirts that can be printed on all over, you could fool the AI in most cases... the same way that "Dazzle" camouflage …
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Comment #19744249
They (combined non-military intelligence agencies) have a budget of $50 Billion USD per year. Would that be enough?
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Comment #19734148
Somehow this seems like a homecoming... Facebook was funded in part by the CIA's In-Q-Tel investment arm. See e.g. https://dailyreckoning.com/revealed-facebooks-cia-connection...
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Comment #19727892
You referring to the annoying and condescending out of touch white males, that built civilization and technology?
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Comment #19725746
Different for sure, but amazing that a $3-5 ESP8266 can output VGA (monochrome) with hardly any additional hardware: https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=564673.0
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Comment #19718694
There are zoning laws in many, many parts of the country that prohibit housing under a certain size, usually about 700 square feet, which is enough for 2 bedrooms and 1.5 baths.
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Comment #19718555
Everything you say is accurate, but, grad students have to start somewhere. If they can make a 65nm version that runs at say 500Mhz, that would be better. Remember that "real work"…