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slaxman

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    Comment #11875494

    You want the front of the car to absrob the energy. When it crumples, it absorbs the energry and lesser energy is transferred to the passengers. The Engine is tough and will not cr…

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    Comment #11751973

    'No pictures of the "shuttle." Strange.' The picture clearly shows a 'winged' rocket as described in the article. "The episode has the smell of government propaganda." Not sure fro…

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    Comment #11751958

    From the article: "Scientists at ISRO believe that they could reduce the cost by as much as 10 times if reusable technology succeeds, bringing it down to $2,000 per kg." Wow! That'…

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    Comment #11532413

    Hex runs on Heroku. I wonder how many dynos it uses. Any ideas?

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    Comment #11379130

    There is major difference with being depressed and having clinical depression. I have been fighting the latter for the last few years and I can vouch for there being no cause. Exam…

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    Comment #11203137

    Sorry. Ameteur question here. What does this do? Is it like a serverless service like AWS lambda?

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    Comment #11194371

    > On top of that requiring a percentage to be produced locally is just asking for trouble in a country with as much corruption is India. Not sure that I understand the reasoning be…

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    Comment #11116753

    Wow! I am extremely surprised to see this. If this device actually works, it will do a lot to push internet connectivity in India.

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    Comment #11059396

    1/ Telecom marketing is absolutely central to this discussion. It is THE way that free basics in sold on the street. Even the world bank has said free basics breaks net neutrality …

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    Comment #11058628

    Wow! This comment is really far away from reality. 1/ There are no studies that show correlation between free basics and increase in internet penetration. In fact, Reliance Telecom…

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    Comment #10944256

    As someone from a developing country, it really shocks me to read stuff like this about the US. Mainly because we kind of look up to their justice system to be better than ours. Ye…

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    Comment #10856252

    It's not common sense. A good example is the vast number of open source projects that are never used. Or free books that are never read. Also, I would like to remind you that, it's…

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    Comment #10855870

    Two points to this argument: 1. what about farmer details. If you want to personalise info for farmers, you will need to register them and capture info. W/o encryption, fb has acce…

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    Comment #10855851

    Once you reach a certain scale of users, percentage growth don't matter because it's hard to hit big absolute numbers. In whichever way you look at it, 52Mn is a freakishly huge nu…

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    Comment #10855777

    Few points here: 1. It's not really internet. It's a set of 100 sites that includes a real estate portal and a personal blog. If you are talking about connecting the unconnected wi…

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    Comment #10655899

    Does CodeAnywhere support Elixir? I am writing a book on Phoenix. It would be good to use a cloud editor in the book.

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    Comment #10539089

    Fantasy Noob here. How does it work? Also how are you able to give prizes when registration is free?

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    Comment #10490997

    This reply along with the libel on the OP's profile tells me that there's a culture of naming & shaming on LiveCoding.

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    Comment #10490950

    Near the bottom on the imgur link: ``` I think it is just a complete misunderstanding you have ``` I might be wrong. But this is almost border line delusional!

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    Comment #10490911

    Wow! This is the worst excuse for not completing the task that you have promised. It doesn't matter whether she had videos or not, it doesn't matter if anyone visited her profile o…