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Voronoi Diagrams(ams.org)
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The article is interesting in that it quotes Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem saying: "Bitcoin is not electronic money… At present its eventual impact on the real economy seems negligible…Bitcoin is not a financial product as
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>Every study on the subject has consistently found that giving creates a sense of happiness and fulfillment. Willful giving. You cannot force charity, people will resent it as they will resent anything else you force them to do. As oth
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"Construction is the most hazardous job. It is more dangerous than mining and agriculture." Interesting if true. I had no idea.
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I was watching that video and expecting an explanation along the lines of "If I tap the c-pad, then b really fast at just the right time" and being met with an explanation that shows an intricate working knowledge of the game....i
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I'm not sure that mandatory required charity is anything more than asking for trouble. People should give, people should help, but they should do it willingly. If you force them to do it, they will resent both the charity and you. T
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This was a good perspective on Google Glass. It is the first blog I've read about Glass that doesn't come off as pretentious. It actually sounded rather down to earth and was, consequently, a very useful review of the technology
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
If I get in a self driving car, I am still trusting my life to each driver on the road, but now I am also trusting the software of the car. In an ideal world I would not mind self driving vehicles nearly so much if everyone had one. Advoca
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I agree. The first large accident involving a self driving car will pose a real challenge to its adoption. I also agree with you about trusting my life to a disgruntled software/firmware engineer: I'd rather not. I know people l
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The images of the 'super ball' look like something straight out of Sci-Fi. This is pretty cool stuff.
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I'm not so sure of that. >Nurikan says he keeps Rinko (his virtual girlfriend) a secret from his wife, and hopes he never has to choose between them. It may be a fear of rejection for many, but it seems there are other contributing
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This game is kind of fun. I would feel bad cheating it.
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Thank you so much HackerNews. I was waiting for this article. Its really great, easy to read, and smooth.
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>The T.S.A. has emphasized its goal of giving 25 percent of all passengers lighter screening by the end of next year, meaning they can keep their shoes and jackets on, wait in separate lines and leave laptop computers in their bags. But
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Hopefully, it will now.
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From what I can gather, it seems FlexyCore generates more efficient, architecture specific assembly code at build time. This is where the performance gains come from. A little deeper reading shows that it does this through the Dalvik VM, t
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>What if censorship happens in USA? Then people who who use a Google proxy to bypass it get picked up by the FBI. It's not like Google doesn't give the government data hand over fist.
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If they need more money, they can try issuing it in different colors next i.e. Soylent: Blue, red, yellow, green.
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The respect scale portion is interesting. It mentions class, race, and religion as reasons why people may not show respect to others. I think if we add political views to that, our country has bottomed out on the 'respect scale'
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Slightly off topic: This title made me think of a scene from Futurama. http://futuramarama.tumblr.com/post/92077790/ooh-whats-this-... On topic: His solution was pretty smart. One of those elegant solutions that
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I think this is interesting because it matches my user experience with Google products in a very inverted way. Google search has gotten worse and worse lately, forcing me on to other search engines with worse UIs just so that I can get use
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I am surprised that no one has mentioned the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis[0]. It's incredible, the effect that language can have on the mind. Given that they can communicate in whistles and hums, I'd also be interested in a study abou
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I'm definitely a lark, but I've yet to determine my unladen flight speed vs. my flight speed when carrying a coconut. It seems most of those tests have been performed on swallows.
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by JonSkeptic 13y ago
Seeing how it turned out, I'd say he was rather unlucky that he got Miss Teen USA's computer. Little bastard could use some jail time.
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Exactly. Crowd funding is an ideal source of capital for con artists. "We are a team of Nigerian Bankers, and with your donations we will raise enough money to give you double what you contribute!" "We are a team of scientis
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>btw would this work for laptops? wouldn't the signal be a bit different? Yes, and that's the major problem with its practicality. The researchers had to make use of a long training period on one specific keyboard (I don'
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While interesting, I don't view it as having much of an impact. Page 6 states that there was a significant training period for their machine learning algorithm that involved sending the bluetooth from the keyboard through the phone to
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My problem with self driving cars is not actually with self driving cars. I trust that our technology can reliably enable a vehicle to drive me around without my intervention. That's fine. There are two things I do not trust: I do no
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The author gives off a sense of both entitlement and arrogance that permeates the post. It was a major turn off and I would not recommend this writing style to anyone trying to win people over. Then again it may not be arrogance so much as

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