drak0n1c

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by drak0n1c 12y ago
I don't see why that's an argument against. If they are going to plow their money into a city it's better if it's into 1 or 2 units in a dense skyscraper rather than buying entire mid and low rise buildings. Residential
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by drak0n1c 12y ago
Deist - the latest physics makes the universe reek of being a programmer's hackjob. An impossibly narrow hard coded Dark energy constant, holographic principle (need I say more?), probabilistic phenomena coming together to create an il
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by drak0n1c 12y ago
McDonalds is hip shiny and clean in Japan. For young people it's not unusual to go to McDonalds for a date, or to study. KFC is even classier than McDonalds in Tokyo.
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by drak0n1c 12y ago
Forcing developed nations with relatively decent educational systems to lower reproduction rates is not the answer. We need more problem solvers on Earth, not less. Malthus has consistently been proven wrong - http://en.wikipedia
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by drak0n1c 12y ago
That scene was obviously not trying to be rigidly scientific. Either he died and what followed was his death dream, or the hyper advanced civilization that can control gravity manipulated the black hole so he could survive. Technology looks
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by drak0n1c 12y ago
It will be crammed into around 10 hrs. Take each season of Game of Thrones, for example.
1057.
by drak0n1c 12y ago
With someone else staring at the screen seeing every letter as I type it there have been cases where I become paralyzed and my mind goes blank on problems that I could have easily solved on my own (without resorting to Stack Overflow, of co
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by drak0n1c 12y ago
I too need melodic/funk/trance music to get started, but sometime after entering flow I realize that whatever playlist I started with ended a long time ago and I've been coding to silence ever since. If there are a lot of noi
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by drak0n1c 12y ago
Some use of "coding" is simply for text and syllable brevity. Also thanks to its relatively new household term status, it doesn't carry as much of the pre-internet 80s/90s imagery of nocturnal bearded men doing arcane sy
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
Walmart's online furniture offerings are starting to outcompete Ikea's low end when it comes to price and quality. And you can choose between free delivery or in-store pickup. I just bought furniture essentials (dining set, dresse
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
This guy uses the bidet before wiping? Whenever I'm in Japan I wipe before bidet, that way at least the initial blast of water doesn't spread too much gunk.
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
Services like this could benefit from eye-tracking. It would be ideal if it would pause whenever you look away from the red focus point. Samsung phones already have eye-tracking API.
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
Australia has extensive VAT taxes, tariffs on top of that, and byzantine regulations that dissuade foreign firms from entering the market (they apply to digital products too). When firms finally do they have to pass the legal costs and taxe
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
He claims that the ads are making him $50,000 a day, which adds up to a few million dollars before the game dies. Totally fine for a solo dev in Vietnam. Sure the ads could be optimized, but given the game's simple pick-up-and-drop vir
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
Higher education in the US is largely self-regulated via the accreditation process. The government has minimal oversight of that self-regulation, mostly through the GI bill. Self-regulation doesn't mean they collude in a bad way (thoug
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
Consumers care if one business does better than the other because of two reasons, pride and long-term self-interest. 1) Everyone prefers to be on the winning or "proven-right" side. It's hard to be happy with your otherwise d
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
Most likely the automated system that determines who to send college/back-to-school oriented mailings to failed in a bad way.
1068.
by drak0n1c 13y ago
In Tokyo, trucks are only allowed to unload during the nighttime. The Japanese attitude toward government regulation (and staying up late for social obligations, etc) is quite different, for better or for worse.
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
I wonder if the already amazing 110 degree FOV could be bumped up even more with curved, wider eye-displays that wrap around to the wearer's temples? Such a setup might benefit not only peripheral vision but also 3D perspective. Are th
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by drak0n1c 13y ago
Plenty of Fish Hacked - Chris Russo explains how he did it 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do market research