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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Wow, Doctor Who is actually a fantastic comparison I had never thought of before.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Ah, interesting, thank you. I always thought that it should be home, but heard it more often as hone, so I figured there must be some etymological history I was unaware of. Apparently I just had a bad sample set.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
This is pretty irrelevant to the actual conversation but, it's honing isn't it? Have I been saying it wrong this whole time?
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I'm pretty sure this is just a joke in response to this: http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/21/investing/vw-emissions-cheat...
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Yeah, Amazon's naming conventions are insane. I feel like it's a good reflection of the industry's apparent love of producing jargon. At least with this one they kept it to a name that is already reasonably well used?
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Landfills, specifically, are built to be as isolated from the environment as possible[1], will generally kills most anything inside and reduces the rate of decomposition. Admittedly, that is being a bit pedantic, the question would still se
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
According to the link it can do a quarter mile in 10.9 secs, so I suppose it depends on what size/type of track you're talking about. Though obviously it wouldn't be able to sustain this for an incredibly long time, I imagine
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
> go ahead and believe these studies conducted by people you don't know By that logic, the majority of people would hardly be able to believe a single scientific fact. According to my own physical experience and reasoning independen
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Do you mean the Model X dos 0-60 in 2.8/2.2 seconds?
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I don't entirely understand the logic here, you're afraid your ability to use X will be taken away, so you choose not to use X altogether? Isn't that sort of self-defeating? Is it more of a concern about not being able to fla
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
You may have only played the Xbox version, which did have a strict constraint on the map size. The PC version, IIRC, has no such restriction aside from perhaps memory and/or maximum possible values. The Far Lands referred to are actual
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
A concern about a rapid increase in EV usage that I see a lot is of having the infrastructure to cope with the increased electricity usage. To that end, wouldn't this be creating even more of a problem? While 75% efficiency (I assume t
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Thank you! I've been looking for this since the first time I found it I don't even remember how long ago! I found it really interesting.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
From my understanding the oh-my-fish project has been around for a while and likely has some size of following. So the problem I see is the members of the organization using that existing notoriety to gain credit for the work the Wahoo crea
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I've had so many ideas for studies about the impact of fonts I wish I'd pursued. A psych professor of mine was interested in them and did at least one study that I know of[1], but information on speed and legibility would be fasci
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Except that there aren't any legal moves for the white king, he's caught between the black square bishop and rook on 7th rank.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
As Jobu points out from Wikipedia: he second proliferation resistant feature comes from the fact that LFTRs produce very little plutonium, around 15 kg per gigawatt-year of electricity ... This plutonium is also mostly Pu-238. According t
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Fair enough, and in other cases I could see this as being an issue (particularly with smaller businesses perhaps where employees may identify more strongly with their company and its success), but in this case I just don't see it happe
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I highly doubt it. Why would they take the risk in giving themselves a worse reputation? What would they stand to gain financially anyway? It's interesting that we seem to naturally assume that the business reaction would be congruent
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I don't know, I recognize that this is purely anecdotal but I still feel like more people are familiar with things like the Tesla coil, I mean there was even a fairly popular hair band named after him. In my experience advances in the
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Probably singing to the choir, but Founders at Work [1] has a great interview with Wozniak that gives an interesting glimpse into some stories about Jobs in the early days of Apple. In true Woz fashion it also focuses a lot on the hardware
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Really? I feel like most people outside of CS/Mathematics have little to no idea who Alan Turing is. Tesla, on the other hand, has a seemingly large cult following due to the strange, almost mythological details of his life and inventi
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
The page mentions Phil King as if that is a name I should be familiar with. This game was just before my time, is this some industry big-shot I should know about but missed?
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Agreed. My guess is they didn't really do anything different internally. Aside from speaking subjectively about stuff like its particular timbre which may be affected by the type of wood used, but wouldn't be that insightful to ju
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
That took me a few seconds, well played.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I'm sure you could find a few people in the U.S. that would consider the U.N. a foreign terrorist organisation.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Cool, I hadn't found any browsers that worked well with it mobily and Messenger has become the lowest common denominator for group messaging, among my friends at least, particularly for Android, I've just resigned to using it. I&#
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
The odd thing about the example of Messenger is that as two separate apps they seem highly coupled. AFAIK you need to sign in with a valid Facebook account to use Messenger, so you're already very likely to have the normal app at that
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
On the whole I agree, but I also think that the business person's decisions/consequences case only works out if you are fairly optimistic and fully believe in the trickle down theory. That is, anecdotally it seems if an exec makes
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
My assumption is that's just their default message. I've seen videos removed for similar reasons as well as essentially being pornography and as I recall the message is always the same unless it's a copyright issue.

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