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Which is why they also have different colors. You just pick the right color. Same way with color coded money in most non-US countries, you just pick a note based on color.
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They should do an Adobe and put 2/3 letters inside a box, maybe also color coded https://i.imgur.com/e4BJrne.png
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Come on, do you think hooking a robot to the keyboard is the hard part? Do you want 5 fingers too? And if watching the screen, do you want it to have bad eyes like we do too (good resolution only in the center)?
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The next AI will always be much better (see AlphaGo progression). Humans, not so much, as in all top-level competitions, human abilities improve minimally at the top, because we have millions of humans competing against each other until the
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https://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/bananas_en : European citizens are major banana consumers, making the European Union (EU) the world’s biggest importer of bananas from Latin America (nearly 70%) and African, Caribbean a
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France canceled the delivery of two completed ships built for Russia, a $1.5 billion contract, because of Crimea.
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Do you think bananas sold in Europe are grown locally? Compared to all the stuff flown around, one extra shipment is a drop in the bucket.
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I bet Sahara is pretty constant all the time :) EDIT: Spoke too soon: https://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/climate-weather/videos/sno...
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The US never quite supported Ukraine the way they support Taiwan, they will be forced to have an response. US will surely impose tough sanctions on China, which would be much more disastrous to them than the sanctions US imposed on Russia a
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For once jam Wireless/GSM. This will prevent remote controlling and will require some sort of self-guidance system (neural net, pre-programmed route). You can also take any drone down. There are various solutions, from hawks (as in bir
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> However, firefighters near the scene are disputing the government's version of events. > And three officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident was actually a gas tank explosion inside an apartment. > Smok
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You are right. Which is why they don't allow you to withdraw the profits until all contracts are settled: > When a close-order is executed and filled, the corresponding futures position is then closed. The unrealized profits and los
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No they wouldn't have gone out of business. Futures is a zero-sum game, for every dollar lost there is another one won. In the worst case, they would have taken all the profits from the other traders and used them to offset this losing
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About the same time with "drone" and "crypto". Language is defined by usage, not by what you think is correct.
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Could be much worse: https://www.boredpanda.com/worst-logo-fails-ever/
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Using your logic this is already happening, the vast majority of money in the world is just records in computers.
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When you are telling someone how to change his behavior, what to think, you are "educating" him or "opening his eyes". You are also a good person spreading the truth. But when your opponent in ideology does that, he is &
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Your average mom & pop can't handle TOTP 2FA, they will inevitably need to reset it when changing phones.
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> I think it's fair to say he had a point about people running out of things to say to each other Reddit, Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Whatsapp even HN disagree.
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Obligatory quote from the same author made in 1998: > The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in ‘Metcalfe’s law’ — which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square o
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How do you determine a review is bullshit? Do you only flag reviews for items you've bought?
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One of the last things not automated at Amazon fulfillment centers is identifying and picking up the item from the shelf brought by the robots which contain it.
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Brain waves were fine-tuned over many thousands years of evolution. Stuff which modifies them greatly as this study seems to show probably has some sort of side effects. Otherwise nature would have boosted them already.
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Against the evil maid you are supposed to use SecureBoot together with full disk encryption and TPM. If someone disables SecureBoot, then the encryption keys become inaccessible and you will notice that something is wrong. I don't quit
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It's simple. When SecureBoot is done by Microsoft, it's a terrible thing that destroys all freedoms. All hardware with it should be boycotted. When it's done by Apple, it's a nice security feature, what's your probl
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The issue seems to be "prevent fraudulent and manipulative acts and practices" in the spot markets. Is stop hunting considered a manipulative practice? Because it's happening every day in bitcoin markets. But stop hunting als
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> Economists often say the value of money is roughly logarithmic as it goes up, which would mean that both of those two people would lose exactly the same utility. Your conclusion contradicts the first part of your statement. https:
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Investing 17% when you are worth 65 mil is different than when you are worth 65 k. If you fail, you'll have just one vacation house in Miami instead of two. I could live with that.
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> Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss won $65 million from the Facebook lawsuit, and invested $11 million of their payout into Bitcoin in 2013, amassing one of the largest portfolios of Bitcoin in the world — 1 percent of the entire currency’s
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For those who don't follow, there is another set of ETFs still under active proposal by an ETF specialist company.
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