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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah that's the way I see it going too. Anything where you can just kinda sit there and not worry about moving much other than your head and arms is probably a great match. So virtual work apps, VR tourism, VR concerts and sport, rac
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah I just saw this snippet on reddit: https://imgur.com/topic/Gaming/swpjI58 That does actually look like a great use for VR in gaming. Stationary character, mobile viewpoint.
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by adwf 10y ago
Not to be too much of a downer, but I still think the main problem with VR isn't the technicality, but the practicality. We had the exact same problems with motion controls. They might momentarily enjoy the novelty of a motion game, b
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by adwf 10y ago
Can we get an Audio warning on this? Never a nice surprise when something autoplays.
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by adwf 10y ago
I was thinking much the same. 90% of these errors don't even exist in some other languages.
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by adwf 10y ago
After Brexit, I'm very tempted to move in the opposite direction. If the Spanish consulting firms can be undercut to that extent, there's a potentially lucrative market. Unfortunately I only know French and German, but I could le
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by adwf 10y ago
Relax, the whole thing is a joke, including my comment above.
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by adwf 10y ago
To use your own argument, 2*pi is far, far more common to encounter in physics/maths ie. real world examples, therefore minimizing friction would be using Tau ;)
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by adwf 10y ago
I'm guessing he means helping inflate the housing bubble as a means of pumping our GDP. The UK may be one of the fastest recovering economies since the recession, but a lot of the growth is in housing. And if you don't happen to
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by adwf 10y ago
The commissioner is appointed by the PM, so you vote for him every general election. The idea that the EU is undemocratic is absurd. It's doubly absurd considering we still have a House of Lords... The reason people feel they don&#x2
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by adwf 10y ago
Another possibility is that we might have to hold an early general election now that Cameron has resigned. If the Conservatives lose, it's possible that the referendum loses it's legitimacy. Very slim chance though, seeing as it
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by adwf 10y ago
Well supposedly, cyanide gas smells like bitter almonds, so maybe that's the relation you're tasting? (I say supposedly, because it's the kind of thing I've never desired to test...)
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by adwf 10y ago
The odd thing is that after all the years of being staunchly British, Gibraltar might well accept. They were 95% in favour of the EU. Having that border heavily restricted will be a nightmare for them.
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by adwf 10y ago
Yep, not Britain's finest hour at the moment. Scotland have already begun the process for a 2nd independence referendum and will probably win it this time. Northern Ireland are likely to follow. In 5 years time we'll just be tal
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by adwf 10y ago
Yes, people forget that he'd already had two MPs jump ship to UKIP. If he hadn't promised a referendum the party would've split down the middle. What I don't get, and didn't get with the Scots referendum either, is
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by adwf 10y ago
It's also a condition of the Ireland peace agreement that we keep it open. No EU, no peace. We'd have to renegotiate the deal, amongst all the others... And if we leave it open? All the migrants will just flood through NI. The
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by adwf 10y ago
The problem with the Brexit campaign is that they just don't trust any experts: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/16/eu-referendum-lea... If people don't listen to evidence, then how can
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by adwf 10y ago
Yeah I've heard similar things about said Japanese manufacturers. One of the big reasons they are regionally headquartered in the UK is because it is part of the EU. Given that cars make up a sizable fraction (~10% I think) of our ec
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by adwf 10y ago
Very much so. It's turned into the UKs very own replica of the US primaries, with much the same arguments. I guarantee if we had a land border with Europe, someone on the leave campaign would be talking about building a wall :D
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by adwf 10y ago
How old is 8th grade? I'm just curious to compare it to the UK school system where the subjects aren't broken up so rigidly. I only learnt Maths, not Algebra 1/Calc 1, etc.
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by adwf 10y ago
Good thing Jesus wasn't in Western Europe ;) Good point though, upvote nonetheless.
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by adwf 10y ago
If you think about it logically for the era, it's incredibly unlikely that Jesus was actually unmarried. The typical age for marriage all the way up until the 20th century was somewhere between puberty and 20. Jesus didn't start
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by adwf 10y ago
Ouch. Never a pleasant thing to do. I just hope they made the cut deep enough. A common mistake is to cut enough to just get back to break even, when what you really need in that situation is to get back to a decent level of profitabili
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by adwf 10y ago
Whether you believe he is doing a good thing because it's a good thing, or just because he wants to be seen doing a good thing, it doesn't change the fact that the good thing is being done. Tax deductibility does indeed incentiv
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by adwf 10y ago
Yep - this is the kind of thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XydeHaqxBbg It's almost impossible to imagine that someone could bribe that many people to influence an election in the UK. There are 650 seats with ove
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by adwf 10y ago
You can still hack open source though. Some of the highest profile security projects like openssl get hacked. Sometimes it just takes a simple misconfiguration to get hacked, like with Debian a few years ago. The point is, computers provi
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by adwf 10y ago
It's still a 3-point of failure versus a thousand in a paper vote. I've seen the British election many times, there are hundreds of people in the counting hall for every district. They count, then they shuffle the ballots around
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by adwf 10y ago
Not really. Whilst paper voting fraud is definitely possible - maybe even easier than online fraud - in an election, paper ballots are distributed across an entire country. They require "hacking" 1000's of people in order to
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by adwf 10y ago
The biggest problem with online/computerised voting is that it is a single point of attack for malicious actors. Even the best software security gets broken from time to time, online voting would allow zero-day attacks on elections
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by adwf 10y ago
I was going to say much the same. Completely uninstalled the FB app the other day as it was driving me up the wall. The messenger app will probably not be far behind. I don't even use the website anymore as it's so clunky. FB a

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