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Markoff
2,757karma·3,266submissions·December 31, 2016
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I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.
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well Australia at least shares some cultural values with Europe, while certain genocidal Asian participant...
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For people like me first time hearing aout blue zones: "Belgian demographer Michel Poulain and Italian physician Giovanni Pes coined the term “blue zone” in the early 2000s to refer to the conver…
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It's robot from 1990 and no, there is no video of the robot actually walking.
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less than a month ago: Cognizant could be heading toward one of the biggest tech layoffs of the year, following cuts at companies like Amazon and Oracle. Reports suggest the IT services firm may reduc…
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Swedish source SWT: https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/fhms-nya-uppmaning-till-f... DeepL translation: Public Health Agency on Screen Time: New Advice for Parents On Monday,…
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better be safe than sorry I don't think screen free kids won't miss anything by not watching Bluey for 20 mins, OTOH not so great parents will keep pushing those 20 mins further and further …
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works fine for me via HN, though I am not surfing the internet without adblock (uBlock Origin), I guess people who browse HN without adblock deserve it...
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I wonder what would they do to Malaysian firemen travelling with work devices. :-) Bomba means Firemen in Malay. https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/fire-engine-photos.com/43... …
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You mean TCL owned "Sony" Launches Bravia 9 II and Bravia 7 II with 'True RGB' why go extra steps and not buy directly from TCL or LG (though they are shutting down soon as well an…
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there are no pure Sony TVs for decade(s), they use third party panels with extra steps
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yeah, but Argentina has extradition treaty with US, he would stand better chance in Bolivia or Ecuador if it has to be America
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seems it would be easier just to have them at boarding gate for all passing passengers
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I believe this is more of a thing for fully loaded private jets. related:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RkP4TJ5jj94 https://youtube.com/watch?v=wa76cbc7dzQ …
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what about forest fires not started by fireworks? we have forest fires every year in summer and we do fireworks in Europe (as in most of the world) only on NYE, so great idea, we should ban forests, t…
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yeah it's funny, actually in poor Bulgaria pretty much every apartment has AC, so AC is certainly not anything to brag about, even the poorest people have it clothes dryers are just plain stupid …
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got it - for you quality of life = house full of useless things for other people it's usually - lots of green, clean air, museums, cultural events, activities, accessible healthcare, accessible e…
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people are expensive compared to robotic Zamboni, good business idea though
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plenty of people in Prague living on that income without car, I would really like to see how is suburban America quality of life incredibly higher than Prague LOL enjoy your museums, hospitals, free s…
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25000€ a year is basically Czech average salary I would really like to hear how is quality of life in suburban America incredibly higher ROFL owning a car certainly isn't tied to income, quite th…
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1. once a year is quite often? 2. while on vacation last year I saw huge column of snooker and crazy sound only to find out two electric cars were burning at charging station right in next street, I w…
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what's the point in posting scan (?) of paper online instead of just publishing it normal way, so people can adjust font and actually read it? especially since you are anyway at computer and post…
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Yup, I was interested what he has to say, but when I saw the scan I've lost my interest.
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So you are telling me cooling down or heating bigger volume of air takes same amount of energy/money than smaller volume?
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I don't think quality of work actually improved that much, people like to bash these commie buildings, but when you look at new buildings it's not really much better. Now you have competitiv…
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Yup, I wonder if Israelis visiting Germany avoid highways.
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I am not sure whether you talk about those fireworks for few minutes/hours or these quite common rocket explosions + EV fires... Personally I don't even own a car, so don't go on me wit…
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I always clean up after myself, often even just to be sure water it, I became fan of fireworks just recently after Czech gov basically banned them because "think of the animals", yeah, big c…