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by daenz 14y ago
> The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 That's a very narrow victory though.
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by daenz 14y ago
It's the fuzziness that these backscatter machines bring in that's the problem. Is it really a search if you're bouncing invisible light through an object and measuring latencies? Does the concept of a search fundamentally mean "discoveri
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by daenz 14y ago
This article was very confusing. They go on to praise the great developers, and how much companies need them, etc, but then they end with this: >If after you interview a candidate you find that you aren’t completely sure about them, do
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by daenz 14y ago
Good read. I wish this kind of thing was taught and discussed in schools, but it seems like that would be "breaking the 4th wall"
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by daenz 14y ago
Sounds like the rules of the game are a problem. The desire to stay "in power" outweighs the desire to actually represent constituents accurately.
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by daenz 14y ago
I think the first step to a new currency is to create the groundwork to experiment with a new currency. In other words, if you can create a network of independent people and organizations who are willing to do some of their not-so-importan
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by daenz 14y ago
In theory, couldn't one gain of demurrage be that the fees could be proportional to the amount of money being "secured" (stored)? Inflation is across-the-board, but demurrage could be more targetted.
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by daenz 14y ago
This is what I thought of too when I read the wikipedia page for "Demurrage". Here's what's referenced there: > The major central banks' post-WWII policy of steady monetary inflation as proposed by Keynes was influenced by Gesell's ide
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by daenz 14y ago
> No FUCK OFF, hacker news is better than... It's also better than screaming obscenities at eachother.
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by daenz 14y ago
Sitting on a thin wallet day after day can screw up your spine alignment. Wearing a CPAP oxygen mask (for sleep apnea) night after night can shift the alignment of your teeth. If there's any weight to Google Glass at all, I imagine wearin
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by daenz 14y ago
It seems that "The Front Page of the Internet" only includes some of the internet.
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by daenz 14y ago
Ok, so here's the poll created by PG 1.5 years ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2445039 If you have a submission that's earlier than that, then I'm wrong.
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by daenz 14y ago
If we're not a community, why not remove the ability to comment altogether?
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by daenz 14y ago
I remember that that discussion was initiated by pg, so it was an implicitly "ok" thing to discuss. Double standard?
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by daenz 14y ago
Whenever you give some people more power than others, in any form, abuses of that power will eventually happen. Police, prison guards, bosses, government officials, parents, website moderators, etc, etc, etc. The system becomes dysfunct
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Ask HN: Quadrotor-based sky advertisements
4 points by daenz 14y ago|5 comments
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by daenz 14y ago
There's a fantastic intro to modern game cheating and cheat detection here, for anyone interested: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/02/extravagant-cheatin...
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by daenz 14y ago
But scary headlines that link to the article: Free
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by daenz 14y ago
Cameo by Gabe Newell http://i.imgur.com/6vDza.png , who is swordsmithing a crowbar :) Neal: "Hey is that about ready?" Gabe: "These things, they take time..."
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by daenz 14y ago
I'm not aware of any photographer-centric photorealistic 3d apps, but that sounds like a potential niche business! Might be worth exploring.
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by daenz 14y ago
Definitely true. We draw our experience on lights from the real world, so the closer an engine is to the real world, the faster the artists can prototype and test lighting setups.
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by daenz 14y ago
Achieving a specific mood or "feel" for an environment requires someone who is very sensitive to lighting, color, and architecture, and who has knowledge of techniques to achieve certain looks. For example, if you want an ominous feel to a
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by daenz 14y ago
Overall I think there is some truth in is message, but the answer to one extreme is not another extreme...it's no extremes. Everyone is unique and special, just not as unique as our egos like to make us think. We're also all very similar
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by daenz 14y ago
You might be providing a service to people who would like to know what part of the chain broke. If hosting company A fails all the time, and that's visible to me as a technical user of service A, I would avoid hosting company A for anythin
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by daenz 14y ago
> Honestly, gaming "on the desktop" is a shrinking market. Source?
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by daenz 14y ago
A little, sure. As a side note, Psychonauts is one of the few games Yahtzee actually gave an overall awesome review: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation...
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by daenz 14y ago
> where there is no disconnecting from the web of surveillance. When you look at what has happened with mobile phone cameras and police brutality, it seems that this kind of tech does more active good than it does passive harm.
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by daenz 14y ago
So you're saying they would create the model assets, and then do physical calculations on each component of the model, then bake those weights into the model? It sounds somewhat plausible. My gut tells me they manually place soft body join
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by daenz 14y ago
> In the truck model looks like each piece of the car is modeled individually and might be a lot harder for the artists to make models. And wonder how are materials calculated, some things in the model bend in different ways. If I had t
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by daenz 14y ago
> I don't think the 4-day week makes sense. Once everyone switches to 4 days, what then? 3 days? You could say the same about lowering prices: "why should I lower my prices to $X, what's next, $X-1?" If it gives you a competitive advan

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