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by T-hawk 12y ago
Only up to the limits of Google being able to track you anyway. There's IP address, user agent, and any other HTTP header information your browser leaks.
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by T-hawk 12y ago
This actually has the same physical interpretation, right? If you took 500ml volume of beer and stretched it out to 1 km long, the stretched form would be 0.5 mm^2 in cross-section.
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by T-hawk 12y ago
The data comes in faster than 60 fps. A camera sensor doesn't capture the entire frame instantly every 1/60 second. It progressively scans through the frame over some measurable fraction of that 1/60 second. This is that q
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by T-hawk 12y ago
This is correct, that Bitcoin currently has a lot of friction for corporate use in exchanging in and out of fiat currencies. But the longer term vision is for Bitcoin to replace other currencies. Let's project this ten years into t
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by T-hawk 12y ago
As with most user-friendly browser innovations, it was Opera that did it first. I was using it as early as 2001 for its ability to easily turn off annoying Flash content unless specifically requested. It wasn't quite as simple as clic
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by T-hawk 12y ago
It's fine if that combined PTO is a healthy number like 25 days. It's sleazy if a company promises three weeks vacation trying to look generous when that three weeks is really combined vacation+sick+personal.
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Kickstarter backers are not customers. They are speculators. There may be shame in failing one's customers, but not speculators. Kickstarter backers know (or should) that any backed venture can fail.
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by T-hawk 12y ago
There is a parallel in the end game: Military advancements. Civilization lets you research new technology for significantly more effective military units, to ease the mop-up phase. The equivalent military advancement in chess is queening
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by T-hawk 12y ago
2048 isn't always beatable by the best known bot. I don't know if anyone has proven either way whether 2048 is guaranteed solvable by a perfect bot for all possible random spawns. At the least, no one has found a counterexampl
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by T-hawk 12y ago
That's still the same problem, isn't it? You still have to track down where the empty list originated, just as the null value in C. I'm not a Haskeller, but do the language and tools make that easier than in other ecosystems
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Tell him he's looking at selection bias. The immigrants he sees here represent a very small fraction of those who have tried to enter the US. Those are the few that succeeded in either satisfying or dodging the process, not the bulk
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by T-hawk 12y ago
TI-99 fans subthread here! Pleasantly surprised to see my favorite here and with several upvotes. It always gets overlooked in comparison to the Commodores, Apples, Ataris, and the various UK favorites. but the TI-99 was where I typed in
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by T-hawk 12y ago
The headline is rather link-baity. There's nothing wrong with the spacecraft or its planned Pluto visit. The "crisis" is that we haven't found any Kuiper belt object feasible for the spacecraft to visit after Pluto, wh
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Thank the invisible hand of capitalism for that one. The NYC subway started as multiple private companies, who had to compete to offer customers good service, which included express trains. A century later, transportation is de facto a cen
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Yup, that's the one. "Sickly cows" was the key phrase and you're still on the first page of Google results for it. Link (wow, a 6 digit HN item number): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=472985 I di
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by T-hawk 12y ago
I've wanted to share this story for a while and now is as good a place as any. I found Hacker News from you via the Motley Fool. You wrote a long post on the Fool and mentioned it was copied from another internet forum. I picked a p
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Stated more clearly, fast lanes and slow lanes are the same thing. If they both use the same scarce bandwidth resource, then whoever didn't pay for the fast lane by definition ends up in the slower lane. Prioritizing fast lane traffi
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Sure, these are not mutually exclusive. Fire burns upward, heat rises. Water floods downwards. They won't cancel each other.
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by T-hawk 12y ago
There's two bubbles for Wordpress. Wordpress. org has a bubble very near the center, north-northeast of Google and west of Facebook. It's much nearer the center since that's where all the linking and blogging happens. Out i
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Quartz does the same thing in Opera 12 for me. (Hooray, I'm not the last Opera 12 holdout on the planet.) Turning off Javascript for the site makes it readable normally, though.
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by T-hawk 12y ago
Your math is two digits off. Using Grace Hopper's "one nanosecond is one foot", one cycle at 10 GHz is 1/10 of a foot or 3 cm. That's 30,000 microns not 300. But yes, the speed of light limitation on signal propag
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by T-hawk 12y ago
I've got a small clipboard-sized whiteboard with a fine point marker. Eraseability helps a lot over pen and paper.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Then it's bad, misleading, imprecise writing to say invariably . A single counterexample does disprove it, by the definition of the word. If the writer didn't want the argument blown up like that, he should have looked among th
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Good observations, but let's also review what this does accomplish. The train system is reliant on mechanical linkage and line-of-sight, so can serve only a limited audience. While the Pi-powered version scales, making the toilet sta
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Yes. MTG even caved to the pressure by removing Demon and Devil cards from the game for quite a few years. Pokemon's opposition was less religious, but still there, some complainers even likened it to promoting slavery in how a traine
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The full episode is on ABC's site, probably up for another week or two. http://abc.go.com/shows/shark-tank/episode-guide/season-05/5...
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by T-hawk 13y ago
This has been around forever, since at least Windows 2000. The power button signals the OS through ACPI to shut down correctly. It wasn't always reliable on all hardware and BIOSes, and didn't always default to that behavior unt
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by T-hawk 13y ago
That's pretty much what the article said. When an entrepreneur fudges facts about cash flow or profitability, they tend to start believing that fudged reality and thus start reacting incorrectly to the real one.
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by T-hawk 13y ago
What makes AI difficult in these games is pattern recognition of higher level strategic abstractions. A human player can recognize that placing a Go stone or a Terran command center projects some power in regions around that spot. The hum
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Yes, you've got the right answer. Forget material and point comparisons which don't really port between the games. The winning percentage conferred by the handicap is what matters. Four stones in Go sounds like a lot less than f

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