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by arnarbi 13y ago
Secrecy of votes is the foundation of the system. Just imagine how many people would be willing to sell their vote if they could prove it to a third party.
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by arnarbi 13y ago
If somebody cared enough to be willing to give $9000 for said virtual spaceship, then yes you could consider that money lost.
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by arnarbi 13y ago
All of you links but the last one are to committee comments on bills, not the bills themselves. Here are some bills discussed in the past days: http://www.althingi.is/altext/142/s/0067.html http://
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by arnarbi 13y ago
In Iceland, citizenship can only be granted by passing a new law in the parliament. Normally citizenships are granted in batches with similar bills, after the receivers pass the normal qualifying process carried out by the immigration autho
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by arnarbi 13y ago
Icelander here. Hold on to the praise for the moment. The bill may not even be discussed before the parliament is adjourned for summer holidays later tonight. So far it is not even on the agenda: http://www.althingi.is/cache
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by arnarbi 13y ago
The symbol means "Place of interest" in all of the Nordic countries, not a campground. It would typically point to a museum or some heritage site. Here's some information about the sybmology: http://www.seiyaku.com
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by arnarbi 13y ago
I think it looks even cooler because of its simplicity.
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by arnarbi 13y ago
It doesn't seem to be streaming stuff, just loads a list of keywords at the beginning. The rest is fluff.
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by arnarbi 13y ago
It's titled as a "static site generator", which I think is clear enough.
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by arnarbi 13y ago
Amazing. If we ever find stars orbiting like that, I might start believing in intelligent design. Imagine living on a planet in the 7-butterfly pattern. Twice a year (or whatever) you'd see the other planets heading straight for you as you
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I find it best to keep virtual envs completely away from the project (I use http://virtualenvwrapper.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ which puts them by default in ~/.virtualenvs). A virtualenv is completely machine-specific. If your project is
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Thank you, my thoughts exactly. I much prefer someone to criticize my work, rather than sitting quiet just because they can't think of improvements. After all, I'm probably much more likely to come up with a solution than they are, and the
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Thanks, yes I realized my lack of suggestions for improvements after writing my comment. I simply didn't have any (it was also quite late), as I think there are some fundamental choices in that system that are not beneficial. My "low-level
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Thanks for that link, that is very interesting indeed. Being able to read the intervals more easily is certainly valuable, especially if you are playing on a chromatic keyboard. However, I do like the fact that accidentals in traditional no
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by arnarbi 14y ago
> target audience This is a very valid point. Certainly the learning process for children can be improved a lot. Really, a lot . But I think it is important to integrate it with the actual notation from the beginning, as otherwise you
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I play mainly clarinet (which is written Bb transposed), and the transposition thing is not a problem at all. It's the relative intervals that matter anyways. I don't feel it creates a barrier when communicating with others in the orchestr
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Thanks, turns out I totally misunderstood those at first - and edited my comment in the meantime. Sorry about that.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Yes, I realized I misunderstood those, and edited my comment a bit.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I'm very skeptical that this is an improvement (but kudos for thinking outside the box). Here's something that was intended as constructive criticism, but maybe ended up more as just criticism: Removing the key signature is not a good ide
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Oh, I know I shouldn't. But when you are used to having the light at the near end, you don't look as far ahead for it. Of course, I learned my lesson and don't expect the system to adapt to me.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Many countries in Europe have them on both sides. Not having the one on the near side is my biggest problem when driving in the US, it has happened that I have to slam down on the brakes because I'm already 10 meters away from the intersect
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Strange that you can see it is deliberately inflammatory but not self-aware/tongue-in-cheek.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Between 1-5% of the population doesn't have stereo-vision (I'm one of them, maybe so are you). The most common reason is that the eyes were misaligned when we were children, so the brain learned to use only one of them at a time. http://en
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Exactly. The insane thing is to use tab characters to indent code.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I've lived in Sweden and Iceland, both of which have pre-filled tax returns to be submitted either on paper or electronically. Sweden is particularly easy, all I have to do is to verify the numbers and then send an SMS with a personal code
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by arnarbi 14y ago
This new material is 0.16 kg/m3, presumably if it's filled with vacuum.. Helium is 0.17 kg/m3 at 20°C and hydrogen is 0.09 kg/m3. At the same time, air is 1.2 kg/m3. So, the volume of each needed to lift 80kg (which would have to include th
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Strap one on your back and you can swim in the atmosphere like a diver in water. Although it would have to be over 66 cubic meters for an 80kg person in 20°C air. If it is spherical, it would be c.a. 5 m in diameter.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
Same here. Speed demands full attention and gets me into flow, where all that matters is the immediate sensory input and reacting to it.
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by arnarbi 14y ago
f.asyncMap (item) -> foo item , (error, result) -> # do something with result The readability of that is terrible. I (and most people) can easily figure out how to make myself understood to the parser, tha
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by arnarbi 14y ago
I agree, and I don't want to simplify CS, but rather JS. The thing that bothers me about CoffeeScript is the call syntax without parenthesis but with commas - which seems to me the main source of "surprises". The main benefit of it however

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