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cubano
10y ago
We need phones that are basically indestructible and last 3 full days on one charge.
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cubano
10y ago
There seems to be a huge push against using any type of nuero-tech to build "ultimate" lie detectors, which I often find puzzling.
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cubano
10y ago
Here is the same project, done in PHP in less then 5 minutes... $split_by_whitespace = explode(file_get_contents('exaample.txt')," "); $circular = array(); for ($i=0;$i<count($split_by_whitespace);$i++) { a
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cubano
10y ago
> A friend of mine is a big advocate of space habitats. Apparently they are far superior to Mars... Interesting...did he work at NASA working with real space habitats? I was a summer hire at NASA many moons ago in the medical/habit
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10y ago
> Sooner or later, the application, whether it's one I wrote or not, WILL break. And of course there is the corollary...that it almost surely will be rewritten if its something that is truly useful to the business and its bottom li
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cubano
10y ago
You know, I'll probably be bammed for saying this, but reading through this very well-made tutorial gave me the opposite reaction. I am glad I learned and still use PHP and not RoR. IMHO, there are way too many black-boxes and unnecess
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cubano
10y ago
Milo's ban was perhaps the best thing that could have ever happened to him, and while I agree he didn't deserve it, serendipity often works in odd backhand ways.
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cubano
10y ago
I'm 50yo and am still learning new shit everyday...just a month ago I bit the bullet and learned enough javasc...excuse me ECMAScript, to be pretty damn dangerous :) Over the past weekend I learned docker and am now running containers
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10y ago
So absolutely true. It's refreshing to hear someone discuss this in the same terms I do, as almost everyone I talk to about how production has become the music and how Ableton or ProTools is the instrument looks at me like I'
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cubano
10y ago
It wouldn't be very hard to collect existing data points and come up with a rough approximation, would it? I would think enough data now exists to allow such an analysis to have some idea of those numbers.
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10y ago
The price will hit a ceiling at the exact time demand = supply, and not a moment before. A worldwide markets for these homes now exists, which means the number of people who both want and can afford them is huge, and therefore the price wil
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10y ago
Yes, you are definitely in the right path but don't you sometimes notice that "get-this-stuff-working-by-tomorrow" productivity is dinged by always having to be doing such deep and ordered design, as well as working out all t
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cubano
10y ago
It's also an absolutely wonderful blame for people so inclined to inform on others.
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10y ago
> The universe didn't care for creating some property called "intelligence". On the face of it, I would have to disagree. It would seem to me that's exactly what the universe selected for, among many other things o
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cubano
10y ago
Arbitrage has been around since the very beginnings of modern banking and provides a very important function to allow markets to accurately adjust to proper price signals.
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cubano
10y ago
That constraint alone makes the AI approx. 92.3% more wise then most humans.
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cubano
10y ago
I would personally use the word "placeholders" rather then "cliches" and think most pros find them useful at times as they convey the proper temporary meaning of their use.
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cubano
10y ago
And why wouldn't this happen again? All the people and corporations whom profited dearly from the 2007 scam got off completely scot-free and were made then whole on the backs of the US taxpayers (actually, their grand or great-grandkid
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10y ago
Ok fair enough and a great link...but here is the twist to this. That page describes Xanax as a schedule 4, and yet I have been charged not once but twice with felony possession of Alprazolam and was adjudicated guilty both times, so perhap
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10y ago
"...flunitrazepam, ketamine, or any other Schedule I or Schedule II CDS is a Class 6 felony." http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/criminal-defe...
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10y ago
Back in my raver days, when this was still doable, one of my boys started driving to Mexico and buying K there and bringing it back in cheap water bottles to get by the border DEA. One day he shows up at the club and says, "hey, check
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10y ago
No..in fact hell no. Ketamine is schedule 1 or 2 I believe everywhere in the US, so that is definitely a felony.
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10y ago
It's interesting how no one is discussing how the governments massive subsidy of the solar and wind power industries are completely distorting the market for these "prices", so studies like these are pretty much nonsense. Of
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10y ago
I am enjoying the spectacle and irony of the crypto-currency media being "hacked" by someone who barely understands the basics of the very thing that underpins the system itself. One of the very few things that Bitcoin meaningful
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10y ago
Germany is a complex and rather unique blend between both systems, and frankly wasn't really that diverse until rather recently with Merkel's high-volume immigration policies. The US has a plenty of "safety-net socialism"
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10y ago
I wouldn't even attempt to justify this in a market-based economy...earning as much as you can to take care of yourself and your family and shelter them from the vagaries of life is kinda the point, right? Actors acting in their in
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10y ago
Sure, and who cares how much they, their children, and their children s children have to suffer during that time, right? Bullshit. Maduro is destroying the proud people of that country with his Marxism that is turning him and his cronies in
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10y ago
I've read this article twice now, and both times the same thought struck me. How much, really, are his "insights" much different from Plato's Allegory of Cave philosophy? Plato has Socrates describe a gathering of peopl
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10y ago
They actually went 17-0 and won the Super Bowl.
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10y ago
I'm just kinda glad that my old-school, been-burned-100-times, cynical self, who also saw red flags galore into the original narrative, wasn't completely nuts. It's a pretty solid takedown of all the issues in ShapeShift&#x
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