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by guizzy 12y ago
Seems like a misguided attempt to break engineering the same way social sciences were largely broken; by embedding left-wing politics at their core so that their assumptions are not scrutinized and by substituting sound scientific method wi
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by guizzy 12y ago
Purpose. If the police can prove or otherwise convince a judge that the purpose of that metal tube is to serve as a gun barrel, then it's a gun barrel. Circumstances would go a long way in these cases. Say, if the barrel is mounted on
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by guizzy 12y ago
A computer would only win by playing out pre-proved positions (joseki) against an amateur who has studied them positions without understanding them. As for infinite games, they don't really happen much; in rulesets that make it possibl
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by guizzy 12y ago
Not only do they benefit from public goods, but it's a market where the barrier to entry is so high that competition cannot happen efficiently. Now before our american libertarian friends come frothing at the mouth, the barriers to ent
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by guizzy 13y ago
It's rather poorly documented, though.
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by guizzy 13y ago
You won't BELIEVE what this vagrant philosopher said to the king of Macedon!
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by guizzy 13y ago
Project Nike... Somehow, "Just Do It" doesn't strike me as a reassuring slogan to associate to nuclear weapons.
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by guizzy 13y ago
You aren't the first to think about this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPMvMfehGiw
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by guizzy 13y ago
Well... http://hackaday.com/2013/11/07/3d-printing-with-metal-at-hom...
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by guizzy 13y ago
I guess that's why the link is to another news source; no one would believe it if it was announced by their website.
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by guizzy 13y ago
Any plans for other platforms? Android? Windows 8?
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by guizzy 13y ago
That's a constant with life advice: it's useless not because it's wrong, but because you won't believe it's right until you've experienced it.
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by guizzy 13y ago
Google has come very far making webapps more and more like desktop applications. http://www.google.com/intl/fr/chrome/webstore/apps-gtd.html
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by guizzy 13y ago
Shhh... Mods are asleep...
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by guizzy 13y ago
The problem is that it's self-reinforcing pattern. People are being monitored, which puts more stress on them, which leads to inferior results. So bosses think "the poor results show that these people are lazy, we need to keep bet
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by guizzy 13y ago
While I agree that many are blowing this out of proportion, there are data analysis tools that can transform a few isolated data points into a complete profile quite quickly.
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by guizzy 13y ago
Nokia wasn't an idea. It was a group of people, it was factories, carrier relationships and a whole lot of patents. It can't just be remade.
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by guizzy 13y ago
That might be why Microsoft brought back the start button in 8.1 They might have been afraid that if they left this prime piece of desktop real estate, Google might take it.
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by guizzy 13y ago
Of course once I went up it was obvious that it was where I needed to go, but I needed a tutorial to tell me there even was another way but down. The guy by the bonfire does mention something of the sort, but I thought he was referring to
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by guizzy 13y ago
Some learn to like bad design. One of my friend was arguing with me that it was bad design that you could change your skills easily in Diablo 3; that the permanence with which you could fuck up your character in Diablo 2 was better. Now the
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by guizzy 13y ago
Indeed. The OP's link praises the way the game branches at the very beginning and teaches you to go up first, but the way up was not nearly as obvious to me as it seems to have been for him. I had to use a walkthrough. Most RPGs, when
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by guizzy 13y ago
I've got a great way to do that, no law necessary! Stop having state secrets that 'principled' people will want to leak!
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by guizzy 13y ago
This is an absurd claim. We've had dry dog food for a long while now; we totally understand enough about nutrition to create complete diet replacements. Humans are more complex, but not orders of magnitude so. The only reason there isn
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by guizzy 13y ago
And then it safely lands in enemy territory, so they can reuse it!
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by guizzy 13y ago
There's rebuildable atomizers or DIY liquid then. At its most basic, an ecig is made of two devices: a battery and an atomiser. The heating element in the atomiser, a coil of resistance wire wrapped around some sort of wick, is consuma
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by guizzy 13y ago
To be clear; most liquids are not really odorless, but the odor is not inherent to ecig vapor. It's the odor of the flavoring used, so fruit-flavored liquid will smell like fruit-flavored air freshener.
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by guizzy 13y ago
It depends on the liquid, really. There's no inherent smell to ecigs; it's all in the flavoring. So if someone is vaping peach flavored liquid, it will smell like peaches. If it's tobacco flavored, it will smell like tobacco.
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by guizzy 13y ago
It's not odorless, but most of the liquids have pleasant smells.
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by guizzy 13y ago
These studies found trace amounts only. The same could be said of water. These studies were also done on early liquid made in China, not on the domestic, small batch liquid most of the vaping community now use.
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by guizzy 13y ago
The liquids are usually made of: propylene glycol (a food safe additive), glycerine, nicotine and flavoring (the same kind used in food). Nicotine, while not completely benign, is not exactly deadly stuff at the concentrations used in ecigs

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