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by Rexxar 6y ago
It's tectonic plates ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics ). You can currently see continent splitting in Island and in Africa : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Rift
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by Rexxar 6y ago
> only 20000 are produced per year. They start selling it this year. How such a number could bring anything to the discussion ? We don't know if it will be 0 next year (if it's failure) or 200000 (if it's a success).
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by Rexxar 6y ago
10 years ago pdf was not properly supported in browsers and there was a lot of complaints on each pdf submissions. This was probably seen as a good idea to fix this problem at the time.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
> If it's so powerful, why did it not take over the rest of the world. Time. For going from 1/10 000 000 to 25% of the population in 300 generations (7500 years), you need to have a gene that give you 5% more offsprings at each
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by Rexxar 6y ago
With the same logic we should add 1850 Million more Russians. The number will keep them warn in the tundra.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
> Paris has famously powerful unions It's more an image than a reality. And in the case of construction workers, it's completely false.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
"1. It is hard to get ahead without cutting corners here and there." One can think that it's true and be proud to not to do it.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
For Channel tunnel, you are comparing a 50km tunnel under the sea to a 2km bridge in a bay ?
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by Rexxar 6y ago
I would have expected that the recalibration have big impact in middle of continent and no impact near coasts but strangely it's not the case. How coastline altitude could have been incorrectly calibrated before ?
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by Rexxar 6y ago
I don't know what he means exactly but the main consequence is that the Franc CFA is pegged to the Euro. It has a big impact but I wouldn't call this "managing their economy".
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NetLogo: A multi-agent programmable modeling environment(ccl.northwestern.edu)
60 points by Rexxar 6y ago|10 comments
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The Several Million Dollar Bug (2014)(jacquesmattheij.com)
1 points by Rexxar 6y ago|0 comments
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by Rexxar 6y ago
My first thought when I saw the name : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Shadoks
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by Rexxar 6y ago
It's probably financially ok if you run it in winter when you have to heat your home.
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Diligence, Patience, and Humility(oreilly.com)
1 points by Rexxar 6y ago|0 comments
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by Rexxar 6y ago
> the better an engineer gets, the better they are at shooting down every idea Are they really better or just more confident with time ?
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Better geometry through graph theory (2018)(ideolalia.com)
8 points by Rexxar 6y ago|0 comments
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by Rexxar 6y ago
You just have to use forward declaration headers in you headers. For your two examples : -> flat_map: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_67_0/boost/container/contai... -> optional: https:/
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by Rexxar 6y ago
In this particular case it seems justified as the framework was part of a bigger project. So probably the majority of the commit history would not be relevant to the project in its current state.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
It could be a strategy to make people less careful : send one or two "obvious" fake phishing email and then the real one a little later when they are confident they can avoid phishing.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
Exhaustive enumeration is a proof even if it's not very satisfying :-). For example, a big part of the Four colour theorem is a big enumeration of all configurations.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
It's a self-fulfilling prophecy. Don't fall in this trap.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
Some companies can use this as a proxy to protect themself against variation of a product they need. For example an airline can use this to protect itself against price variation of kerosene once they have sold a ticket. As kerosene is not
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by Rexxar 6y ago
There is no reason to submit to abusive people because we know in advance they will react in bad way. Pragmatism has some limits and tracking everybody is out of limit even if it makes some types of business more difficult.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
> If your answer is "the entire world is stupid," I have never say that and it's not correct to suggest it. Lots of people are abusing other people with tracking and they have a financial interest to say that the la
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by Rexxar 6y ago
I don't see why. People don't need laws to do insane things. Everybody can do insane things and respect the law. Law is not a magical thing that force everybody to act rationally and sanely.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
The law itself is perfectly sane. The problem is that everybody try to apply it in the worst possible way. Let's imagine a world where a government force car builder to add speed limiter to cars. The car builders all decides to just cu
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by Rexxar 6y ago
The main difference with Java is that all of this is done at compilation time. It change a lot of things imho.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
The flight has not been cancelled, it's just an air pocket.
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by Rexxar 6y ago
> Why not just refund and let them enroll after the lockout? Because if everybody does this for everything at the same time the economy will collapse. Thing that can be solve later with a little negotiation should be solved later to caus

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