Carioca

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by Carioca 9y ago
Most metals are crystalline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous_metal
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by Carioca 9y ago
I still miss voar.io (now offline, apparently)
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by Carioca 9y ago
Original thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676
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by Carioca 9y ago
Blackbody radiation emits photons in an uniform distribution, so the wavelength can be any real in the range.
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by Carioca 9y ago
Also in Brazil's "99", Uber's biggest competitor over here.
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by Carioca 9y ago
Probably things that deal with explosives. He may have had a video on making nitroglycerin.
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by Carioca 9y ago
It appears Mahdi hasn't updated the site with it, so here's the link to the game on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/415170/Engare/
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by Carioca 9y ago
Minorities are usually defined in terms of power rather than sheer numbers.
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by Carioca 9y ago
Check out https://rocket.chat/ for a FOSS alternative to Slack
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by Carioca 10y ago
Different countries have wildly different tax strategies. Sales tax, property tax, corporate tax are some avenues that may make up the difference here. Belgium in particular IIRC draws a large portion of its tax revenue from income taxes
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by Carioca 10y ago
Isn't that the company James Gosling went off to?
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by Carioca 12y ago
You have laptop batteries in your SSD listings
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by Carioca 12y ago
Probably using a framework (Django, for instance) that doesn't have a default 404 path.
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by Carioca 12y ago
Coincidentally, the Africanized honey bee fiasco started in Brazil.
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by Carioca 12y ago
There have been laws in place for that in Brazil for more than a decade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_in_Brazil#Drug_patents
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by Carioca 12y ago
Also, apparently internet banking and ecommerce in South Korea relies heavily on ActiveX http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/due-to-secu...
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by Carioca 13y ago
But this battle was in China where isk x real money prices are different, apparently the PLEX (the only formally recognized way of turning real money into isk) is a lot more expensive in-game over there, thereby depressing the real-money va
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by Carioca 13y ago
Here's an interesting analysis: http://www.metafilter.com/126704/with-numbers-like-these-why...
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by Carioca 13y ago
Sorry, but you're mostly wrong on both counts. Only Norway has a substantial amount of natural reserves in the Scandinavian countries, with Denmark a distant second. Also, the healthcare system you talk about is the Swiss, the Scandina
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by Carioca 13y ago
Don't know about probably_wrong, but I learned that the americas are divided into South, Central and North, with Mexico usually in Central America. Got it in geography class in Brazil.
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by Carioca 13y ago
> "taking measures to protect public health by promoting access to medicines for all" actually means "break the patent". We did just that here in Brazil in the 90s with some AIDS drugs: https://en.wikipedia
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by Carioca 13y ago
The last part changed. I just renewed a .ato.br domain and had the option of up to ten years with a progressive discount.
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by Carioca 14y ago
1/5 in decimal is 0.00110011... repeating in binary, therefore not exactly representable, therefore it could lead to errors. Not big errors, but enough that smart people would prefer not to use it for money.
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by Carioca 14y ago
The site is actually behaving differently from SASS, see my self-reply: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539760 (I was writing it when you replied.
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by Carioca 14y ago
Found a site[1] that compiles SASS online. Correct results: 1. darken(#deadbe, 20) => #c16484 2. saturate(#deadbe, 57) => #ff8cb4 3. adjust_hue(#deadbe, 302) => #cfadde All of these are much more reasonable results for these fun
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by Carioca 14y ago
Is this really how SASS deals with colour? I tried inputting #DEADBE (a slightly violet shade of pink). Here are the results: 1. darken 10: #c09f62 (light brown) 2. saturate 57 (max): #ffd68a, a light, slightly golden yellow 3. adjust_hue 3
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by Carioca 14y ago
Really cool, though it might be a little dangerous to use as an actual map in the London Underground.
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by Carioca 14y ago
Well, in their defense, the Samwers' incubator is called Rocket Internet, so it's more like they're copying themselves. http://www.rocket-internet.de/
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by Carioca 14y ago
Guess who implemented Groupon outside of the US? The Samwer brothers. They created CityDeals, that merged with Groupon. One of the brothers has been in charge (unofficially, I think) of Groupon's international operations ever since. Edit: A