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by a-priori 15y ago
Yup, that's pretty much it. The important part is the last bit: they claimed that there was a partnership between Google and Mocality, and used that lie to extract payment from Mocality's clients.
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by a-priori 15y ago
Alternate hypothesis: skyscrapers take a long enough time to build, are built frequently enough, and recessions/crashes happen often enough, that it's inevitable that there would be a few skyscrapers built during most recessions. In order t
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by a-priori 15y ago
When the internet to you is a search engine, Facebook and typing URLs into the IE6 address bar, I'm sure SOPA seems mostly harmless. The problem is that describes a large segment of the general population as well.
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In my country (Norway) you'd immediately get arrested and charged if you fired a live cannon outside a big millitary shooting range. They did fire this in a "big military shooting range". The problem is that it didn't stay confined to the
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by a-priori 15y ago
Equivalently, a few months ago someone online pointed out that you get about 1000 months to live. For some reason that gives me a huge sense of urgency.
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by a-priori 15y ago
There is a huge and growing body of knowledge around porn-induced ED in 20-somethings, among other myriad ways it negatively impacts the health and productivity of individuals and relationships. Source?
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by a-priori 15y ago
Attractive only. If I remember my electrostatics, the rationale is that if the surface becomes positively charged, the positive charges in your finger will move away from the surface, leaving only the negative charges near the surface. Thos
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by a-priori 15y ago
I don't know what the original comment was, but yes, this hook runs on your local machine. If you want a similar script to run on a server when people push to it, you want to use an update hook on the server. More information about hooks:
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by a-priori 15y ago
And waste the energy you used (via a furnace or air conditioner) to create that temperature gradient in the first place?
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by a-priori 15y ago
'Manage' comes from the Latin manus for 'hand' Edit to add: 'Man' either started in Old English as man or mon , or came from Old High German man . In either case it meant 'human being'. It seems to have become male-only more recently.
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by a-priori 15y ago
Yes, I'm highly skeptical that they are selling the 16GB model with only a $3 (1.5%) profit margin...
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by a-priori 15y ago
If I'm not mistaken, this is the first non-eInk device that Kobo has released. They've switched to an AFFS+ screen, an LCD technology, which means that they're sacrificing battery life (they claim 7 hours, compared to weeks or months on the
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by a-priori 15y ago
Transportation and storage of hydrogen is a problem too. Most metals become brittle when they're exposed to hydrogen. This is one of the big hinderances to using hydrogen as a fuel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_embrittlement
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by a-priori 15y ago
Maybe I'm overly trusting, but I just ask someone who has line-of-sight, "excuse me, would you mind watching my stuff for a minute?". I figure that the odds of picking the one person who would steal things is very low, and people see it as
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by a-priori 15y ago
Brains of different people are not in a one to one correspondence, they do not have the same number of cells and even if they had, it is not known if the same information will get encoded in the exact same cell. This is true, of course, b
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by a-priori 15y ago
Yes, I think it would. I don't have a reference right now, but I remember reading a study a few years ago about how they detected V1 (primary visual cortex) activity during dreaming very similar to that when awake.
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by a-priori 15y ago
But then you have to deal with parallax from nearby objects on the ground. That would limit its usefulness in hilly, mountainous or urban environments.
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by a-priori 15y ago
Only if you assume that there's a one-to-one correspondence between transistors and processing power. That is, it doesn't take into account improved microarchitecture (e.g. speculative execution, pipelines and cache management) that more ef
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W3C Internationalization: Personal names around the world(w3.org)
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by a-priori 15y ago
If it works, why do all the online banks use two-factor authentication these days? I don't know about where you are, but even if I show up at my bank branch in person, they do two-factor authentication (card + PIN).
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by a-priori 15y ago
If there were a "Panic button", would pilots actually use it? In the case they mentioned, it sounds like the pilot was quite confident that pitching the nose up further would get him out of the stall. Who knows what his reasons were for doi
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by a-priori 15y ago
Water has a very complicated phase diagram. I'm not sure how high a pressure water at a core of a planetoid of that size would be, but if it's above 100GPa then it would certainly be solid (Ice X or XI). Below that pressure, it would depend
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by a-priori 15y ago
(Disclaimer: I used to be an intern on the BBP) Here's the rationale for the Blue Brain Project and Human Brain Project (and I guess for this, but I'm not familiar with this work): We understand a lot about how the brain works at the low-le
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by a-priori 15y ago
Kevin Rose used to work for PayPal? His Wikipedia page doesn't mention this.
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by a-priori 15y ago
I sort of understand how deoptimization works in general but I'm not sure how the JVM can use those methods to detect when a constant changes. Say you have code like the following: GRAVITY = 9.81 def g_force(mass): GRAVITY * mass
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by a-priori 15y ago
The difference is that with eminent domain you must be compensated at a fair market rate. In this case, the property is simply seized.
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by a-priori 15y ago
I, for one, didn't know before reading this that the temperature gradient is so large, about 25C/km. Being someone who, if I had to guess, has never been more than a hundred metres underground or so, I assumed it was about an order of magni
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by a-priori 15y ago
As a Venturer Scout, about a decade ago, I got my advanced amateur radio license and, for a while, started working on Morse code. Never did get the 5wpm Morse qualification, and I forget the code now.
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by a-priori 15y ago
That $10k number surprises me too. I did the reverse a few years ago, going from Canada to Switzerland to work on a research project. It cost me about $200 for the work visa, and no legal fees. I don't see why a) Canada would be more expens
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by a-priori 15y ago
Sort of. This is from memory, but here's how I remember that experiment working: In that experiment, they showed that, for some value of n , rod cells consistently activated in response n photons, and did not activate in response to (n-1)

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