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by antimagic 13y ago
Exactly. The only reason that I use private messaging on Facebook is when I don't want to spam my friends. I do not use private messaging out of concern for privacy.
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by antimagic 13y ago
No, it really isn't. If you are using Facebook or Twitter with anything other than an expectation that the information is public (in the sense that US law enforcement can look in), then frankly you deserve everything you get. These a
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by antimagic 13y ago
The author does know that the US has never promised to pay back debts in US dollars in anything other than US dollars, right? There never was any promise to pay back with "real" money (as if such a thing exists!) At any rate the US is in n
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by antimagic 13y ago
I was going to argue with you about your comments about Javascript and callback hell, because a while back I figured out a nice, efficient pattern that pretty much removed it as an issue for me. But then I remembered reading somewhere that
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by antimagic 13y ago
Hmmm, I wonder about the reliability of the information, or perhaps reliability is not the right word, maybe completeness would be better. I don't know who Garann is, and I don't use Javascript templating, and yet just by playing with the o
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by antimagic 13y ago
Nuh-uh. I had this as my address for a while: 5 Division Australian Defence Force Academy Department of Defence Canberra ACT 2600 Or another one: Officer's Mess RAAF Williamtown Newcastle, NSW Both military of cours
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by antimagic 13y ago
It's not really a fair comparison - much of a game's work is pushing pixels, and today's systems have an order of magnitude more pixels to push (1080p = 2MegaPixels, 640 x 480 = 300 000 pixels). Today's game written in Javascript will also
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by antimagic 13y ago
I buy toys for my parents too - but they are completely hooked on the iPad / AppleTV combination. It appears to be the simplicity / flexibility sweet spot for them. They just needed to get used to switching the source of the TV. Honest que
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by antimagic 13y ago
AIBO was a big missed opportunity. The unit cost was too high, and the software not advanced enough. But those things can't have been having a huge effect on their R&D budget. They could have kept the same mechanical design, but incre
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by antimagic 13y ago
Yes, exactly. I would be much happier if Sony, Samsung et al focused on making screens with low-latency, better sound, better image treatment etc instead of trying to hook me up to YouTube with a poorly designed widget that I would never t
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by antimagic 13y ago
It's been a while since I read the book, but I thought the modulation scheme was a form of QAM, which was new at the time. The book certainly emphasizes that it took the interceptors quite some time to realise what they were seeing. Still
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by antimagic 13y ago
There's a good book out - http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-breaki... The book talks about Tutte and Flowers and how they went about building the world's first true computer. It includes schematics and algorithms and
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by antimagic 13y ago
Well, the deflection system would still be a single point of failure for the human species. Colonising another planet of the solar system would reduce SPOFs to events affecting the entire solar system - the sun becoming a red giant, a neig
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by antimagic 13y ago
Although Eclipse makes a pretty good attempt at doing just that!
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by antimagic 13y ago
Let's use your equation with k = 20, alpha = 0.5 and beta = 0.1. This gives the probability of a person being assaulted as => 1 - pow(1 - alpha, kbeta(1 - alpha)) => 1 - pow(0.5, 20 * 0.1 * 0.5) => 1 - pow(0.5, 1) => 0.5 Th
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by antimagic 14y ago
No, not what the GP said. Simply put, women are overly cautious when evaluating men because they know that they are not very well protected by the law (in as much as the threat of punishment acts as a deterrent, an idea for which the jur