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by grkvlt 9y ago
You could use it as a basis for an AR type 'virtual pirate' game, where you navigate your pirate vessel around the worlds oceans, trying to track and board actual ships. You would get points based on the types of cargo they contai
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Surely 1a) Someone is buying a nominal amount of tickets and actually is lucky, is also an option? Yes, statistics says that on average they must spend >> some amount to have some chance of winning, there is still the fact that no
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by grkvlt 9y ago
People often claim this, but I've never really found it to be the case. Faster processors and more memory let me run the same software much faster, or better software the same speed as the old, in general. So, perhaps you are seeing th
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by grkvlt 9y ago
And with critical systems where the downside of any mistake is high cost, in life or money, it helps reduce risk if people only watch a small number of data points, which they can concentrate on fully. So, similar to your navy example, I ha
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by grkvlt 9y ago
why should it be a problem? in the UK, methadone is normally dispensed from a regular pharmacy, just like any other prescription you might get from your doctor. I wonder if what you are seeing is that the clinic has been placed in a neighbo
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I believe at the time in the UK not just homosexuality (cf. Alan Turing) but also depictions of it were illegal, so this was a way to have gay characters without the BBC directors or censors realising.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I think APACHE-2.0 is probably the best for end users in terms of acceptability in enterprises etc. A lot of places have issues with the virality of GPL licensing.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> Claude Shannon [...] theme park An information theory rollercoaster, the haunted house of entropy, that sort of thing?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> no outside-of-store advertising plays a part here and in-store advertisement I typically ignore Having read about the psychology of these things, I suspect you are more influenced than you would like. Even simple stuff like putting a m
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> It is difficult to put on and uncomfortable once you do; one online review conjectures that a person would need square wrists to wear it. Lack of square wrists, I would assume, then?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> And actually most of the C and C++ bugs beside the bad logical implementation which would be a fault of a person who write the code is the problem with not dealocated memory or pointers that point to a wrong part of memory and make pro
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> Where letters could be long, too? New, or do. Ran other! I see what you mean...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
OK, I understand your point, if it's restricted to web adverts. But even then, I don't think the mere presence of an advert would ever be enough to stop me buying a product I otherwise wanted. I guess it's all just part of yo
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> adverts count as negative points towards the product > i use adverts to tell me what not to buy These sorts of attitudes seem odd. What products do thses people buy, since pretty much everything being sold in the west is advertise
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by grkvlt 9y ago
I love the yellowjacket description: > hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Actually, I took apart a similar device, a single-use e-cigarette battery, and it turns out to be identical to the rechargeable version, except on the tiny PCB inside the chip for handling the charging from USB was absent. The battery was
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Not really that deep at all, it turns out you can fire off nuclear bombs above about 80km up and they are essentially harmless to life, causing only electrical (i.e. EMP) effects.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Someone who saves a huge amount on their car insurance because they own such a vehicle (and therefore should never be subjecting the insurance company to claims caused by their impaired driving) I assume?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
To be honest, that sounds awesome! I'd love to be able to see and hear supercars without even having to leave my house...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
So, it turns out there are people who enjoy different things than you do. No need to insult them because of that.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
This always confused me - people talk about an exponential explosion, but the rate of change of e^x is e^x, so there is no actual 'knee' in the curve with a huge speedup afterwards...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Looks like he chose only games where the players had ELO rating > 2000
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by grkvlt 9y ago
And, the 'secret' environment variable to disable it is actually printed in the text of the last (installation successful) dialog of the install wizard, at least on OSX for the 2.0.0 preview...
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Yes, it has been published. See Inmarsat's post on their reasoning, based on AAIB data at [0] and the WIki page [1] also has a good summary. The peer reviewed paper [2] by Inmarsat is also available from the Journal of Navigation. 0.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
From that LockMart page on their compact fusion reactor: > ENERGY CREATED THROUGH FUSION IS 3-4 TIMES MORE POWERFUL THAN THE ENERGY RELEASED BY FISSION I'm not entirely sure how to parse that...?
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by grkvlt 9y ago
"It's one of those irregular verbs [...] I have an independent mind, You are eccentric, He is round the twist." (from Yes, Minister)
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by grkvlt 9y ago
You're right, it's been a long time since I used a rotary-dial phone (or even a keypad phone that used pulse dialing...) and information like this gets dropped off the stack of 'useful things to know' eventually ;(
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by grkvlt 9y ago
Yes, in e.g. the UK, perhaps, where 1 was two pulses (although they would be more likely to dial 000, I would think) but not in NZ, for the reason given in the comment you replied to.
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by grkvlt 9y ago
> Albert Einstein. Do we blame him for Hiroshima, Nagasaki, the Cold War, and the tens of thousands of live nuclear warheads? Well, no. He had nothing to do with any of those things, except for signing a letter that someone else wrote, t
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by grkvlt 9y ago
As I understand it, the initial m is silent, so no 'implicit vowel' is required, the 'mn' is pronounced like 'n', e.g. 'new-mon-ik'. The other word you mention (actually spelled 'chthonic')

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