Arbalest

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by Arbalest 8y ago
I've had a similar thought experiment before, where basically you let people of different political leanings go to their own countries with their like minded ilk. Two problems arise: 1. People tend to hold complex combinations of views
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Land isn't automatically useful/valuable. It does need to be developed. If you took the land area of a city, and then went out bush and asked how much it cost for the same area, it would be pretty much peanuts. Yet land prices in
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by Arbalest 8y ago
This headline screams non-article. I don't know how anyone who is not at least a billionare hopes to make any sweeping changes (let alone a utopia) in any context beyond a couple thousand people.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Chrome/Chromium's --user-data-dir is great for this
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by Arbalest 8y ago
What do you mean by compressed? Classical music is usually cited with regards to "compression" in the context of dynamic range compression, not data compression.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I would counter that once someone goes from a common, well engineered brand to a less common, expensive, and equally well engineered brand, they'd have a hard time going back. You only need to look at clothing brands to see this everyw
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by Arbalest 8y ago
A rare condition probably shouldn't be compared to something which can be learnt and practiced. Given how people can form strong opinions derived from what other people say, I would wager that most audiophiles do not fall into this cat
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Have to be careful with this line of thought. Are costs high because workers are paid too much, or because margins are too high on necessities that workers need?
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Even if you can tell, the question is, why fixate on it? As you say, the changes are far more subtle than getting a cheap set up. Most people do not live or commute in anechoic chambers. For myself, I'm happy to 128k opus or -v1 lame i
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I would really love a go to for this, but System76 are still bound by what Clevo makes. Lots of it just isn't that interesting. Clevo, from what I see, is a specs first company, but I think we're a bit beyond that now. I'm fi
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Kind of a shame that security houses are doing legitimate research, but the products they release just don't have the same effectiveness they used to. If sales of antivirus is dropping, where will they get their funding from? Perhaps t
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Unfortunately it does not come with 3 mPCIe slots, the one furthest to the left is an mSATA port.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Now that you've said that, I am reminded that that is coming this weekend. That especially makes the timing slimey.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I applaud this man's courage to accept the importance of conducive conduct to future entrants, despite the fact that he was affected by such a move. > "Every moment that is spent on modulating language...is a moment not spent o
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Electric auto-rickshaws. Pretty much everywhere in many cities in china where regulation bans petrol powered versions (usually two stroke and dirty as). Pedal rickshaws, mostly those without electric boost, have too much load for a single p
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I suppose I forgot how spread out the US is. Europe is just as spread out, but they have a decent train network. I'm from Australia, and our cities are a lot more centralised, that everything is either within 100km, or greater than abo
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Email is a convenient way to ignore feedback. Handwrite and mail them instead.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
You've highlighted an important point: The long tail of old technology. If I recall, for some city in Europe, it was businesses running old vehicles that were crying out for exceptions on the rules to ban the older diesel vehicles. The
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by Arbalest 8y ago
That's when car hire companies come into the mix. If you're not commuting those distances regularly, chances are you've planned the long distance in advance.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Cores without memory channels being useless: Unsuprising. Interconnect power, that was a big suprise. Would we be able to get some kind of comparison between this on die interconnect approach and multi-socket power consumption? Two things s
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I had to re-read your comment to realise that I was about to state the same thing. Didn't tweak on the meaning of ward initially.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Though they do tend to be largely useless. Like some banned books, people download them just to have them.
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I have my doubts as to whether it would be cost effective enough to filter out everything but the long chain hydrocarbon molecules (in the case of biodiesel), though ethanol based fuels might be better as they already have to be fairly well
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Biofuels has always been and should only be considered as a bridging solution. Crops use a bunch of elements that we really don't need for energy transfer but really do need for nutritious food. Phosphorous most significant among them,
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I think many people have already identified this. Considering spatial movement is dimensional movement (as time is) it isn't hard to imagine this is compensated for similarly. You're already bending space time to move around in ti
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by Arbalest 8y ago
I don't really like that we're trying to draw comparisons based on a toy app. The things which really tell you how good or bad something is comes when you start reaching the edge cases, which in complex applications is practically
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by Arbalest 8y ago
The classical solution of preventing individuals reproducing doesn't have to the the only solution. Prevent by natural reproductive methods perhaps, but at some point, we're going to be able to genetically screen individual sperm
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by Arbalest 8y ago
Just waiting for synthetic foods. Science Fiction always likes to paint a picture that such things aren't as good as the "real thing". Sure that might be true in the earlier days, but I suspect that in the end they'll be
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by Arbalest 8y ago
> 5,000 gallon subterranean tank. ...about 19,000 litres. That seems like tremendous overkill. Are you also planning on using that for home heating? If not, it seems like a very large maintenance burden for anything other than some kind
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by Arbalest 8y ago
A fair point. So either a feeling of a lack of self worth resulting in reduced assertiveness, or just being rebuffed a bunch.

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