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nvdk··on Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape
fixed, ty!
nvdk··on Giant sequoias are a rapidly growing feature of the UK landscape
So about 65 trees needed per resident, that might still be doable? edit: nope, of course being a large tree it also needs a lot of land.
nvdk··on A link between low interest rates and low crime (2016)
to all the quick replies below, the article actually goes a bit in the possible causation and how higher interest rates might relate to higher financial stress in society and how that relates to crime rates.
nvdk··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
At maximum 200 downloads and an expiration of 7 days I don't think anyone will bother to be honest.
nvdk··on Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service
I've been using send.firefox.com for months and so far the only downside was the 1 day expiration. Very glad you can now opt for 7 days.
nvdk··on When a Therapist Puts Buddhism into Practice
are you familiar with blendle.com ? It's how I tend to consume news these days. I don't get why most news sites don't allow me to pay per article. Very happy blendle exists, just wish more outlets would partner with them.
nvdk··on Berlin police find radioactive iodine on playing cards
This is pretty standard in Western Europe, it's about the same in Belgium, the Netherlands and France at least
nvdk··on Grid Garden – A game for learning CSS grid
Ugh does not seem to use feature detection, but some other ugly browser detection scheme :/

edit: scratch that I was confusing css grid for flexbox, my browser does not support css grid yet.

nvdk··on Why Space Elevators Could Be the Future of Space Travel
Well we can already build them on the moon or mars, but there's not much use to do that at this point. The physics of a space elevator our completely understood, it's "just" finding a strong enough material to build the tether. A star trek transporter is still far out of reach.
nvdk··on MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions
it is a quite common term, though I agree a good editor would expand the acronym once. For the lazy reader: massive open online course.
nvdk··on Reality Check: Have Leave campaigners changed their minds?
The "eurocrats" are elected, there are elections for the eu parlement every 5 years. The 28 (soon 27) members of the european comission are proposed by the member states (eg their elected leaders) and approved by the european parlement. And finally the council of europe is made up of elected national ministers (per domain).

With regard to the rules: you would still have to comply to most of these rules to be part of the single market (which most leave proponents want to be). Studies from WTO and IMF have shown that not going that route (eg trading under WTO rules) would impact UK severely (up to 9% of the GPD). See for example https://www.imf.org/external/np/ms/2016/051316.htm

nvdk··on VPAID ads destroy performance and are still served by major ad networks
they just call it "native advertising" now :)
nvdk··on How and Why to Log Your Bash History
You can so the same with tab . Eg foo/(asterisk)bar<tab><tab>
nvdk··on How work has gotten better
Most successful FOSS projects are backed by companies who have employees work on them. I would love to see some statistics on pure "hobby FOSS" vs "commercial FOSS" and their deliverables.

Based on my own experience I would say most hobby FOSS projects ship a lot less frequently than the commercial FOSS projects.

nvdk··on People (understandably) hate to register
agreed, tablet + phone is quite common for example
nvdk··on Online JSON editor
I recommend using the following link, which should agree with the github TOS: http://cdn.rawgit.com/jdorn/json-editor/master/examples/css_...
nvdk··on Chrome: From NSS to OpenSSL
every belgian citizen is issued a pkcs e-id, not supporting it means they all need another browser to do their taxes and log in to healthcare websites...
nvdk··on Academic Torrents
to clarify: torrents are marked "edu" if the user has a .edu address, this makes those torrents stand out. The majority of non us universities do not offer *.edu addresses to their staff and students.
nvdk··on Academic Torrents
this seems to be very focused on US academics, at least that is what impression I'm given by labeling ".edu" addresses. It gives a feeling that these torrents/datasets are of better quality. I'm also missing a catalog on this tracker, some basic taxonomy would be most welcome...
nvdk··on CSS animated loading indicators
I believe all of them actually use more bandwidth then a gif, so why use this exactly?
nvdk··on Darpa Initiative Will Focus on Advancing Deep Brain Stimulation
Or worse, disabled because of a DMCA request