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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Definitely needs some work on the audio mix, I found the dialogue quite hard to hear over the cliché Requiem for a Dream-esque music.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Agreed. I know it's trendy to show data in this method, but it's impossible to compare like-for-like. One ends up just looking at the numerical value. A simple bar graph would have been much better.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Obligatory XKCD. This was all new to me. http://xkcd.com/1053/
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Great link.. This is really interesting. Reminds me of one of the original Matrix Essays about it's symbolism, religious imagery, chance, subtle references to philosophy, etc. There are too many Matrix essays now for me to find it agai
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I'm sure selling on Sub-Prime mortgages was a completely legal 'smarter strategy' at one stage too.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Not sure why I was down-voted on this. I should have made it clearer in my post but I wasn't suggesting replacing diesel engines with Sail power, just augmenting it in the same manner as the SkySails (see response from jk4930 and markd
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
>Cargo ships are also the most carbon efficient means of transporting goods. Only due to their scale, there seem to be very little 'carbon reducing' technologies employed in the shipping trade. I don't know why some sort o
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
That's because Facebook is the current home of the duckface crowd. Were the same people to start using Google+, you might see more duckfaces in your news feed! Having said that, I am more confident Google would address the problem and
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
IRC is not simple for the average Joe. WhatsApp is. Not quite sure how blogs come into this. Have they had their time? They seem to be more popular (and simpler) than ever.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Orange and T-Mobile give you 1Gb of data when you top-up £10. Other carriers do similar things.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
You sound like you disagree with their conclusions? Or do you just not like the Guardian? Either way, it would be more interesting to discuss your own opinions
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I don't know what country you're from, but in most of Europe and the US (or anywhere infact!) why would you not have a data plan for your phone? It's quite difficult to find a phone plan without some form of data included, ev
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Personally that would be a big negative for me. I like to go to different places than my friends. Yes it's irrational, but I find it boring talking about something we both know; "Did you stay at the.. oh yeh, of course you did. Th
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
When this happens I like to play a little game. If I think the company has loads of money (Apple, Shell), I click the sponsored link and help fill the coffers at Google. Otherwise, I click the search result and save the poor struggling comp
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Well Image Hashing is distinct from normal MD5 hashing as the hash does consider similarity of colour, etc. so it's not purely binary. A Google search produced a library called pHash.org that might do something similar.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Here's an idea... Develop a bot to trawl NSFW sites and hash each image (combined with the 'skin detecting' algorithms detailed previously). Then compare the user uploaded image hash with those in the NSFW database. This tech
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Source?.... or any hints as to what the article was called. Sounds interesting.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I know just what you mean. Often, when meeting people for the first time, there is so much else going on to take in and remember (their company/job/what I'm going to ask them/what they're asking me/the name of
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Yes I agree going to MIT may feel like more pressure but perhaps (forgive me if I'm wrong, I obviously don't know your personal background) you, and your like minded friends, were from more modest means (i.e; not millionaires) and
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
The fact that not all students will make it is not the point of the article. It's designed to address the underlying sense of entitlement students at the World's best universities can have. As these places can be so hard to get in
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
"not the 2013 one nobody plays" Haha, so true. But ironically on the 2013 one you can actually build a massive solar farm that will look just like that.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
'Why the name "Ghost"?' I'm speculating wildly here, but maybe because the blogging platform becomes invisible, like a ghost. A similar approach to LaTeX for word processing. And also perhaps because of the writing
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I completely agree (see my comment along similar lines). The online/offline debate has diverted far too much attention away from other, more important aspects of the game (at least to players) that badly missed the mark. I'm certa
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
I didn't fancy running it on clunky Vista and my copy of Windows 7 was still the Beta version, so not legal anymore. I actually thought I'd go and buy Windows 7 but no.... you can't buy Windows 7 anymore, so I had to settle f
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
The ability to play offline is far down the list of improvements they could make to this game. For a start, the inability to create any meaningful regions means players just end up building a few specialised 'neighbourhoods' separ
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Has anyone used the 23andMe service? I'd like to know how accurate the results are. Can they say you definitely carry a gene for diabetes or lactose intolerance, for example, or do they just say you're at a higher chance of develo
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
There are considerably more cars on the Left GIF though. I guess if the number of cars in both lanes and in both GIFs was equal, the average speed of cars in the right GIF would be lower such that flow (throughput) would be the same.
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
A good example to prove the OP. Your Second Life article probably has some interesting things to say, I wouldn't know, I didn't read it. Instead I clicked the link, scrolled and scrolled and before I'd even got to the bottom
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
This is exactly right, for me at least. Sometimes its easy to know what is required, and probably guess at how long it will take (15mins or 1 day), usually because you've seen other people do it this quick. But if you don't know h
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by _mulder_ 13y ago
Yes true, it occured to me after writing the death star was massive.. and Discovery One perhaps a bit small?

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