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by div 12y ago
The article doesn't claim 0 people know what's in Coke. It claims 0 people know how to make a can of Coke, from start to finish, i.e. from mining your own raw materials to make aluminium to extracting the cocaine from the coca lea
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Why is burying yourself not such a great plan?(rpg.stackexchange.com)
4 points by div 12y ago|0 comments
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by div 12y ago
Describing ant colonies as entities with a personality instantly reminded me of the dialogues between the anteater and the ant hill in Godel Escher Bach. In it, Hofstadter likens an ant colony to the human brain, and ants to neurons in an a
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by div 12y ago
I didn't downvote, but your comment is not pertinent. The post to which I replied ironically stated that this is "a great victory for science", to which I responded that these people are not really participating in science (b
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by div 12y ago
The other side is not being completely blackballed, they just get less airtime. Also, some of the dissenters on this particular issue have a vested economic interest in their dissent, and are not really looking for truth.
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by div 12y ago
These people do not participate in science.
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by div 12y ago
Putting them in the same group as other conspiracy theorists is putting them where they belong.
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by div 12y ago
Odd. I've been involved in a few government bidding processes in Europe, and detailing past projects was always a major part of what we'd get graded on.
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by div 12y ago
My girlfriend does everything on her iPhone 5c. From the occasional glances, she's mostly doing one of these: 1. Playing a game 2. Browsing on online clothing shops, both mobile websites and native apps 3. Keeping up with friends and c
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by div 13y ago
Wikipedia has a good writeup of the Millenium Challenge 2002 wargames, where a large fleet was basically destroyed by assymetrical guerilla tactics (small boats, low tech communication): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil
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by div 13y ago
Email is the French / German / Dutch word for enamel. Of course the pronounciation is very different.
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by div 13y ago
Agreed, I really don't like physical technical books. If an epub was available, I would have spent the time writing this comment by filling out my credit card details in stead.
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Two college students have invented a better cardboard box(knowmore.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by div 13y ago|0 comments
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by div 13y ago
As luck would have it, I just bought and read "Writing Idiomatic Python" earlier today. It's a quick read and seems to be a nice shortcut to avoid a few newbie pitfalls (I'm a Python newbie myself).
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by div 13y ago
There's no reason for a self-driving car to prioritise adhering to the speed limit over avoiding a collision though. Any sufficiently advanced self-driving AI will try to avoid being rear-ended like that. Even better, when a collision
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by div 13y ago
Great slidedeck. Most of the comments here seem to be missing the point that step 1 of 'the plan' is to make hardware more accessible. With that background, complaining about javascript is a very "No wireless. Less space than
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by div 13y ago
Well, you'll have a Tessel microcontroller with an array of pluggable sensors, each with their own little node module to drive them over http. Slides 45 to 51 illustrate the idea.
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by div 13y ago
I have a spare Pi laying around, and I'm hopeful at least. According to the SteamOS page there's a streaming mode where you basically do the processing on your Desktop / Server, and SteamOS just takes care of input and stream
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by div 13y ago
Correct, what I'm wondering about is how this popup will drive people to realize that "hey, I can upgrade to a new version of iOS". iOS already has a pretty fast adoption rate for new versions, I wonder if this will make it e
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by div 13y ago
That's something you've always had to worry about though. You can't force a user to upgrade, so your best bet is to handle those issues server-side.
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by div 13y ago
This is great for customers. I wonder if and how having that popup appear will affect people upgrading to the latest and greatest.
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by div 13y ago
iOS7 beta automatically updated my Google Authenticator. The 'updated app' indicator is taunting me.
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by div 13y ago
You're missing a few zeroes ;)
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by div 13y ago
Does women being allowed to vote make anything better if you're a man ? If this could become a viable alternative to regular meat, it has the capability of reducing a massive amount of suffering.
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by div 13y ago
In a pinch, Windows will do, but your best option is probably to find a nice Linux distro and get comfortable with that. It will allow you to follow along with the command line, and when the time comes, it's an easy switch to a Mac.
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by div 13y ago
If that's the case, it sounds like you're either not charging enough, or don't have enough work lined up. Striking out on your own means you take on more risk in exchange for a LOT more potential upside.
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by div 13y ago
False dichotomy. It's perfectly possible to sponge up knowledge from Sr. Engineers, while picking up different bits of knowledge from people who are in different roles altogether.
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by div 13y ago
I have a D-Link Boxee, and it just got less and less stable over time. I switched to XBMC (openelec) on a Raspberry Pi a while back and haven't looked back. As a bonus, XBMC interfaces with your TV's remote over hdmi, so you won&#
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by div 13y ago
Cablegate pretty much confirmed the (until then assumed) storage of US nuclear weapons in Kleine Brogel, Belgium.
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The future of digital payments(baekdal.com)
1 points by div 13y ago|0 comments

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