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by dkbrk 10y ago
I do. But the content creators I watch aren't "Entertainment", they're interesting and educational and that, to me, is entertainment. I didn't discover the channels I watch based on popularity, but on what interests
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I don't know what is meant by "failed" in this context. I've been watching professional SC2 for quite a few years now. I can't speak to the size of the player base, the size of the rewards in tournaments or the numb
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Overall this is a pretty good article that avoids most of the misinformation that tends to be propagated whenever the F-35 comes up. However, calling the F-35 the "most expensive weapon ever built" is extremely misleading. This vi
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by dkbrk 10y ago
> music syncing on Android sucks I use rsync to sync to my phone. The nice thing about Android is that if you're sufficiently determined you can get any of the standard linux ecosystem tools to work.
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by dkbrk 10y ago
My system had been ALSA-only for many years, until this change forced me to install PulseAudio. About once a week the audio starts crackling and hissing, and I have to restart the Pulse server. Regardless of how old and unmaintained the ALS
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by dkbrk 10y ago
The title does not follow from Elon's actual tweet. He promised to "get the system installed and working 100 days from contract signature". He does not guarantee that such an installation would be a panacea for all "Auss
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by dkbrk 10y ago
> The main limit on specific energy(kw/kg) for this battery I believe you meant kJ/kg. kw isn't even a unit, that would be kW.
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by dkbrk 10y ago
You can with an explosively formed penetrator [0]. In fact, I don't think it would be all that difficult. Take, for example, the BLU-108 submunition [1] [2]. It deploys four independent "skeet" submunitions, each of which wei
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Out of the existing tech, no. But within a couple of years the Model S will probably transition to the new 2170 cell [0]. I belive production has already started at the Gigafactory, though the Model 3 will probably have priority. It may req
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by dkbrk 10y ago
That hasn't been unequivocably established. For example, a 2016 review article "Cardiovascular Toxicity of Nicotine: Implications for Electronic Cigarette Use" published in Trends in Cardiovascular Medicine ( http:/&#x2F
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by dkbrk 10y ago
> Because when you refactor the function/class name, it's never just one region ... the region is whatever you say it is: (mark-whole-buffer) (indent-region) Or, most likely, something like: C-x h TAB I don't thin
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I've been using the Mega Ian Knot ( http://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/megaianknot.htm ) for the past 6 months or so. It's the most secure of the knots and is visually appealing, but is somewhat tricky to tie. I&#
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I don't believe that's strictly correct. Muscles contain glycogen, Wikipedia tells me [0], at a concentration of 1-2% by mass. That shouldn't really be dietarily relevant, but you did say zero carbs. [0]: https:/&#x2F
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Linking to a dictionary definition has little relevance to such a discussion. The meaning of words depends on their context. "faith" has specific connotations when used in the context of religion, and the phrase "faith of ath
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by dkbrk 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia-class_submarine
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I would like to address this from a slightly different perspective. Energy is the great enabler. With sufficiently cheap energy this could be viable, possibly even for staple crops. In addition, cheaper energy would make available many othe
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by dkbrk 10y ago
> don't eat too much ... red meat I believe everything else you've said is correct. But the health effects of red meat and dietary saturated fats have not been unequivocally established. There are studies saying it is harmful,
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Is it spelt that way, though? X is LATIN CAPITAL LETTER X Χ is GREEK CAPITAL LETTER CHI Everywhere I have ever seen it spelt, it has been written with the Latin letter. I have never seen it spelt as "arχiv" or "arΧiv", o
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by dkbrk 10y ago
The author makes a serious mistake in calling Freedom 0 "just silly". He doesn't seem to disagree with Freedom 0, just considers it obvious and trivial ("I mean of course I can use the program as I wish"). An exam
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Actually, the solution to this sort of problem is well understood: it's a combination of Bayesian probability theory and decision theory. First, you define a Bayesian model for the system. This includes discrete propositions such as &q
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Like many others I didn't originally learn typing in a structured manner. It used to be that I only ever used the left shift key. This works adequately, but means that when holding shift the finger positions for the left hand change. I
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by dkbrk 10y ago
This is strictly worse than a prefilled epinephrine syringe, which a quick google search tells me costs about $10 [0]. In fact, Adamis recently tried to get FDA approval to sell prefilled syringes as an alternative to Epi-Pens, but it was r
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Your assertion that there would be "some clustering by random chance" is correct, however rocket failures are most definitely not described well by a Poisson distribution. The simplest reasonable model would be to assume each laun
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There was a blog post a few months ago: [0] It looks like there have been a few dead ends -- clever ideas that for one reason or another didn't pan out -- but overall, it's making solid progress. It remains, however, very experime
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I'm actually really impressed by what they're doing there, I've never heard of a government agency doing anything quite like it before. All legislation, regulations and bureaucratic procedures have negative externalities just
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Technically Soyuz can return a small amount of cargo, but it is extremely weight and volume limited. I couldn't find a precise figure, but it looks like it can return at most 50kg or so of cargo, in addition to crew. Dragon can retur
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I agree with you: deprivation of a person's liberty is, in itself, a harsh punishment, even without taking into account the details of their incarceration. However, reasons matter. If policy dictates the purpose is to punish, then that
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I think quanta magazine is fairly decent.
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by dkbrk 10y ago
I think calling a device with dimensions on the order of a millimetre 'dust-sized' is a bit of a stretch. While dust particles might adhere together to form structures at the millimetre scale, a google search for 'dust size&#
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by dkbrk 10y ago
Your linked version also doesn't mess up the units: 3.2°Kelvin is incorrect, it's 3.2 K. Kelvin is never used with the degree prefix. I could understand that in copying the quote one might have not noticed the superscripts were me

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