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by cptaj 2y ago
Exactly. A travel agent works for the client, not the airline. Its their job to advice the traveler of any hidden fees.
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by cptaj 2y ago
Ignoring the reasons why this happens is just as bad as ignoring the consequences. The need for security is just as much a force of nature as the need for innovation. Unless you provide a solution for both, the cycle will keep repeating.
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by cptaj 2y ago
There's a code of ethics for a reason.
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by cptaj 2y ago
I havent done the numbers but you are probably right. Orbits are very unintuitive things. For starters they're much higher than a suborbital trajectory. You would also need to pre-target to stage in orbit and at that point you're
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by cptaj 2y ago
I really want to believe in this but I bet you the study has some major methodological flaws regarding all protests that end up in nothing. I live in venezuela, we've had millions of people on the streets multiple times and we still ge
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by cptaj 3y ago
I've been using Bravecto and Nexgard for the past 4 years and it really should be emphasized how much of a seismic shift these meds have been. I've had dogs all my life and live in a very tick-prone area. Nothing ever really worke
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by cptaj 3y ago
The thing about being a very rational person like this, is that you're very easy to manipulate.
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by cptaj 3y ago
There's a lot of FUD around the subject too. Take naysayers with the same degree of skepticism you take the optimistic folk.
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by cptaj 3y ago
I use notepad++ with 2 columns of files and around 40 tabs open.
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by cptaj 3y ago
This is a serious problem. Internet marketplaces are so big now that its really hard to even have a business without them at all. I think that after a certain size, these marketplaces should be regulated to insure due process between the pa
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by cptaj 3y ago
In Vernor Vinge's book A Deepness in the Sky, humanity is spread out around the stars with only subluminal technology. Interstellar ships are very old and mix many technologies from different systems and civilizations. They touch on th
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by cptaj 3y ago
http://www.brick4.com/
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by cptaj 3y ago
Definitely check this podcast out. There is also one episode with the creator of the piratebay Pure gold
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by cptaj 3y ago
Its a flashcart
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by cptaj 3y ago
This is some mountain kung fu master level of advice. Good job, sir
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by cptaj 3y ago
Germany is irrationally closing down their completely green nuclear plants and installing gas and coal. I don't think that was the plan. Blackballing nuclear has been the worst environmental decision our society has ever made. We would
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by cptaj 3y ago
Yeah, we require a shift in the system that kneecapped nuclear energy through pointless regulation.
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by cptaj 3y ago
Serial murders
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by cptaj 3y ago
Another amazing product is Bravecto for ticks and fleas. I've had dogs all my life in a very tropical climate. I've battled with ticks for ages. It was always a combined-arms war of attrition just to keep them in check. But then c
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by cptaj 3y ago
Its hard to explain how bad this problem is getting to people that don't live near the sea. If you're downcurrent anywhere in the world, your beaches are basically full of trash that gets replenished on a daily basis It really pis
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by cptaj 3y ago
I see why you might think that but is there really data to back it up? Making good products and respecting your customers is a great way to stay in business. I don't see why china selling tractors would change that. If anything, it wou
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by cptaj 3y ago
They're not forced, but you should have a chance to defend yourself before they unilaterally take away your livelihood. Mistakes DO happen, yknow? Also, why are they freezing funds when banks cant do that? Seems illogical.
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by cptaj 3y ago
I get your point but I think you're being too simplistic and also focusing on this particular case when I was talking about broad industry practices. Some marketplaces are so big that not participating is simply not an option. Do you
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by cptaj 3y ago
This keeps happening again and again in all online marketplaces. Be it amazon, ebay, app stores, etc. This NEEDS to be regulated. If thousands of companies make a living in your marketplace, you simply can't be allowed to take destruct
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by cptaj 3y ago
We do it for text, audio and bitmapped images. A 3D scene file format is no different, you could train a model to output a blender file format instead of a bitmap. It can learn anything you have data for. Heck, we do it with geospatial data
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by cptaj 3y ago
Probably not. But there does seem to be a clear path to it. The main issue is going to be having the right dataset. You basically need to record user actions in something like blender (ie: moving a model of a bike to the left of a scene),
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by cptaj 3y ago
You know what I consider slow load time? 3 unskippable ads before a 2 minute video.
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by cptaj 3y ago
Everyone experiences things daily without fully appreciating the patterns and insights that could be derived from it (would be exhausting if we did) The book most definitely helps tech workers.
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by cptaj 3y ago
Unless its just music
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by cptaj 3y ago
Your rights are always slowly taken away for very civilized and reasonable reasons.

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