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There's a blast from the past. At 16 years old I created Multi-Ripper with a friend, using AsmOne, and smartly included my phone-number in the mods it converted. My parents really appreciated random strangers calling years later.

One factor is that the price of gas is about $1.6/L (~$6/gallon), while electricity still is very cheap. Most people also don't generally need to drive all that far, so a shorter-range electric car is perfect for daily driving. There are TONS of Nissan Leafs out here in the suburbs where I live. In 2018 the Nissan Leaf was the most sold car in Norway.

Buying an electric car in Norway also gives you much more than just tax savings (but they do have a lot of those). You don't have to pay road tolls, you can use the highway lane reserved for taxis and busses, you can park and charge for free in government provided parking spaces, you have 50% off tickets for ferries, cheaper mandatory yearly road insurance, and some shopping centres previously had free charging while you shop.

The right to drive in the bus-lanes was changed to only with at least one passenger during rush-hour, as they became so clogged that busses were stuck in traffic as well. The free road toll will be changed to 50% off this year, and the exemption from sales-tax is up for review in 2020. The free charging on government provided parking will be limited to 4 hours this year, and a fee per hour will be introduced. You can still park for free though, but those spots with charging stations are too popular.

There absolutely are PEDs that increase your maximum ability when it comes to endurance sports, like EPO. A reporter tried microdosing EPO (https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-32983932) and experienced a 7% increase in maximum performance in 7 weeks.

All countries in NATO have promised to spend 2% of GDP by 2024, yes.

According to Michael E. Mann, in 2100 it's +4.5C with no action, +3.5C with just the Paris Accord, and +1.8C with ratcheting up. (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DBQpulkWAAE2mrc.jpg)

You can watch a timelapse of the whole inauguration at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdantUf5tXg which shows that the image shared was correct.

I'm guessing he was referring to the Macedonian teenagers from https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became...

They do - http://store.steampowered.com/curators/recommendedcurators/

Sorry? That article doesn't contain your quote and has no information that was given off the record as far as I can see?

Claiming that an interview done by NYT vs something leaked to the media requires the same protocol is also quite a stretch.

Anyways, the quote you include is from something completely different and not about the 'locker room' talk : http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/02/trumps-off-...

From the facebook statement about the percent fake news, they state

  Of all the content on Facebook, more than 99 percent of what people see is authentic. 

which isn't the same as 1% of the news items being fake, since they don't specify how much of the content is news.

http://graphics.wsj.com/blue-feed-red-feed/ is a good demonstration of this effect. Quite eyeopening.

Are you talking about the nimble navigator thingie he tried running on reddit/The_Donald?

I've only seen these sites being accused of being leftist, so shouldn't there be a market for a right-leaning one?

How is asking for permission to use off the record statements in an article creating fake news?

It's a reference to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKH6PAoUuD0 (swearing and loud noices) and they've adopted it as an internal name for themselves.

A paper called Precomputed Real-Time Texture Synthesis with Markovian Generative Adversarial Networks (http://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04382) uses a different approach with similar results and runs about 500 times faster giving 0.25M pixel images at 25Hz. It also seems to result in less randomness from frame to frame https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRD8LpPvdHI

Code at https://github.com/chuanli11/MGANs

All know motors for race bikes rotate the cranks when engaged, and his are stationary. You can also see another example here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7TWDNhWDlY#t=41

Something like https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style which applies the style from one image to another.

Mythbusters had a go at testing plane boarding time and customer statisfaction: http://mythbustersresults.com/airplane-boarding

Trusted devices/wifi networks in Android feels smooth too. As long as my phone is close to my smartwatch or home network it's unlocked already.

Isn't the Pebble using E-Paper and not E-Ink? Wikipedia says the original Pebble used an 144×168 pixel Sharp Memory LCD (http://www.sharpmemorylcd.com/1-26-inch-memory-lcd.html)

Don't you mean caller pays? Otherwise I could make someone else spend money just by calling them.

Remember that it's currently not possible to actually buy apps a lot of places in the world.

Android has a pretty high market share here in Norway, but we can only use free apps. I have no idea what's taking Google so long. Anyone know the percentage of Android phones that can actually buy apps?

One great reason for me to get a Kindle is that my kids are completely uninterested in it. If I try to read something on the iPad while they're awake, they jump all over me until I let them play games on it.

It's never bothered me. After a short while you learn to start turning the page a bit before you're done reading the current page, and the actual page turn happens just as you're ready for it.

Or you could just install glTail - http://www.fudgie.org which I wrote to do exactly this, with multiple parsers and OpenGL display.

Might want to have a look at glTail for that purpose as well. It also helps with showing management why you need that shiny new server. :-)

Norway here as well.

Several companies offer this here in Norway.

We used to live in a building with 140 apartments, and it shocked me that we had to work for close to 6 months to find more than 10 people interested in getting a true 1Gbps link installed. The rates would end up being cheaper than the ADSL/cable people already had, but still no go.

Originally, we were supposed to bring on board more than 20 people, but the company installing the link felt so bad for us that they went ahead with the few we managed to find anyways.

And then we moved to get out of the city. Back to unstable and horrible cable. Bleh.

Way back in 2000, when we launched Planetarion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarion), we used C++ with a custom webframework, and CORBA for communicating with the database.

At our peak late in 2002, we served about 320 million dynamic webpages a month using three desktop Pentium 3's for webservers, and a dual CPU P3 for the database. No caching, as that wasn't needed.

Blazing fast, and not all that difficult to work with once the basic framework was solid and in place.