dwringer

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by dwringer 10y ago
I agree. Also, both with video games and with sports, it is possible to use the challenge as an opportunity for self development. At the very least, learning to play the games without getting repetitive stress injuries would be a mild phys
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by dwringer 10y ago
Prestige ... points?
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by dwringer 10y ago
A harmless example of technology with potentially devastating potential, that it's hard to imagine is not being used to such ends as we speak.
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by dwringer 10y ago
If you were always first done and aced your tests, but think you had no idea what you were doing, then think how everyone else must have felt.
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by dwringer 10y ago
Depends on whether the person is wanted in another country and whether the governments of the two have extradition treaties that would apply. Many do.
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by dwringer 10y ago
That is only analogous if that person were facilitating the transport of these medications to a country in which they were not legal.
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by dwringer 10y ago
Care to elaborate? How can people discuss facts when they have contradictory definitions of the words being used in an attempt to communicate?
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by dwringer 10y ago
Strange theories here. I'm not sure why the expectation of SI units applying to a discrete quantity like bits/bytes holds.
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by dwringer 10y ago
First, I can't imagine Lucas was confused between the two words. Second, in reply to your point, midichlorians were not used to judge someone's suitability for ruling, and even if they had been that would be a societal attribute
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by dwringer 10y ago
I find some implications of this chilling, while on the other hand the potential for humanity is possibly vast. The only thing I really like is the idea of a meter that gives me instant feedback of the "toxicity level" of a post
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by dwringer 10y ago
I like how you contradicted the main point of your second sentence in the third sentence.
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by dwringer 10y ago
I think that's an inaccurate assessment. If someone at such a show holds a minority viewpoint and doesn't want to be the only person clapping, that is up to them. I have never seen a contemporary domestic example of the attitude
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by dwringer 10y ago
A statement of fact is only read as such when the reader and writer agree on the terminology used. That might lead to more interesting studies.
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by dwringer 10y ago
It's just a black circle with splotches on it.
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by dwringer 10y ago
Perhaps it would be more informative to speculate on the reasons why Python would be displaced by any new language, rather than why any given language might displace Python.
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by dwringer 10y ago
And if it isn't?
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by dwringer 10y ago
The difference in DOF is more of a minor technicality than a "Your 1500 dollar lens performs like a 350 dollar one!" though. OP is correct that you are exaggerating, though OP was definitely wrong to ignore the difference.
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by dwringer 10y ago
Heh, I would imagine they just found fellow aristocrats who had seen the puzzle questions before and whose groupthinking conformity was a perfect match for the companies.
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by dwringer 10y ago
That's no more meaningful than saying "I haven't seen a particle behave in 25 years that wasn't based exactly on the laws of physics"
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by dwringer 10y ago
I have seen at least one set of studies where yogis in a deep state of meditation are asked to focus their consciousness on an active particle detection experiment, and the results seem to indicate some anomalies directly correlated with th