Pitarou

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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   Yup. For a moment, I thought he'd made synthonol (that's one for Star Trek fans), but your explanation makes much more sense. Here's the background: UK drugs law places drugs on 3 levels of illegality. Class 1 (e.g. heroin):
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   What is Operations Research, and why is it related to this puzzle. I found the puzzle easy enough. It's just a matter of calculating how many moves are needed from square 11, then square 10, and so on. The chutes complicate matters a l
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   I was pleasantly surprised. An article about innovation that's actually ... good!
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   I don't claim we can entirely eliminate it, but we can (and do) make it a helluva lot harder than it might be if we took a laissez faire attitude. I think that has a real effect on children's lives.
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   And I was bullied at school. That's why I spend my day browsing child-beating websites. But seriously, I have to disagree. I'm aware of the absurdities that arise from populist demonisation of paedophiles. (E.g. the 17-year-old
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   If they were that good, Snowden would have never exfiltrated all that data in the first place. Judging from this report, they seem to have a misplaced faith in the ability of the almighty polygraph to root out insiders. I quote: If you&#x2
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   I'm enjoying this.
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   "Good luck with that." is all I'm saying.
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   by Pitarou 13y ago

   Roubles? Wouldn't dollars be better?
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    So I guess you're not going to say thank you.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Get real. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexander_Litvinen... http://edition.cnn.com/2013/07/02/world/americas/bolivia-pre... I see no shots being fired.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Interesting point. Which side do you think the Caped Crusader would take?
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out but, to be clear, this fund is to feed the lawyers, not Mr Snowden.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    He may have to, but it will be a desperate move. Think about the risks involved. The US government: - spends billions on illicit surveillance tech - officially sanctions kidnapping ("extraordinary rendition") as a tool of securit
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Thanks for that insightful perspective.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Re: Yahoo!, I guess you must be in the A group and I must be in the B group, because on my browser they look very different. About a year ago, yahoo.com and yahoo.co.jp looked rather different. Yahoo! Japan's portal was astonishingly c
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Will it ninja-proof my home? Because we have a real ninja problem in my neighbourhood. Anything that can keep them under control gets my vote. (Sorry. I'm just sick of this ninja-meme. I'm sure it's a wonderful product, and a
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    This is an interesting case. A new programming language is a frail thing, and can only grow and prosper if it finds an unoccupied niche. Japan was the perfect environment for Ruby to develop until it was ready to take on the world. It&#x27
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    That's a side-effect of having fewer phonemes. But with 2000+ characters to choose from, written text can be very dense.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    A few more points: - Compared to English, Japanese text can cram more information into an easily-skimmable space, but typing is slower, so cluttered, link-rich interfaces have an advantage. This may well explain why Yahoo! Japan's port
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Hard cheese is fine. If MSG is the culprit (and I still think it probably is), it's the industrially produced kind. I don't know why, but I can assure you I'm not making up those headaches.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    TL;DR British financial institutions would like Bitcoin to go away. Any UK based Bitcoin exchange will be taxed out of existence. I really admire Tom Gullen for going the extra mile to get answers from those in power.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    It beats fizzbuzz, but "write an implementation of Warshall's and Euclid's algorithms" isn't exactly l33t Ninja skillz. I'd be much more impressed by a candidate who could figure out for themselves which algori
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    anonymous named? We really need to refactor our terminology. :)
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Thanks for pointing that out. So "synthetic" is the wrong word. Maybe "industrially produced"? Anyway, if it's made by bacteria, that suggests that it's enantiopure, so there goes one of my hypotheses about the
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Here's what I know: 1. I occasionally get symptoms often associated with MSG. Terrible headache, confusion, nasal drip, nausea, and so on. It can put me out of action for about 12 hours. 2. I invariably get these symptoms about 24 hour
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Says Yahoo!?!?
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Use your imagination! The conditions that cause the fires seem to be narrow and well-defined enough that a clever workaround is possible. Maybe add an extra layer of sacrificial armour? Or move some cells away from the vulnerable region.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    I took "similar accidents" to mean "collisions with road debris", because that's what triggered both Tesla fires reported in the US.
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    by Pitarou 13y ago

    Are you suggesting that Leafs and Volts never collide with road debris?