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by hanoz 9y ago
Aha! Thanks.
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by hanoz 9y ago
I see you can track its current position here: http://www.thehumanitystar.com/#tracker but a flyby predictor is notable by its absence, I wonder why that should be?
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Kitty Perry and the copyright lessons for seven-year-olds(bbc.co.uk)
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by hanoz 9y ago
> I'm kind of glad to hear that to be honest... Whaaat! Come on. Surely you'd gladly take the disappointment of missed opportunity for the absolute earth shattering wonder of proof that we are not alone.
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by hanoz 9y ago
It's not supposed to be "due to curvature". It's blindness to curvature, due to the colours.
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by hanoz 9y ago
Amazon Polly has a good selection of natural sounding voices.
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by hanoz 9y ago
Travelling backwards in time is not possible, it's obviously not possible, and it's a wonder that the idea gets given such credence in educated circles, apart from it being a nice thought and a diverting intellectual exercise.
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by hanoz 9y ago
What was it that made them think it was water rather than grain flows in the first place, on this dry grainy planet?
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by hanoz 9y ago
In my part of the UK the system is that the guard closes every door except the one he's leaning out of, typically around 5 to 10 minutes after the scheduled departure time. Someone then looms in to view at the other end of the platform
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by hanoz 9y ago
You assumed right. The cat's whiskers were named after the whiskwhiskwhisk whiskers.
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by hanoz 9y ago
Like animal whiskers still look.
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by hanoz 9y ago
The problem the the "it's the supply and demand stupid" justification for high house prices is that it ignores the fact that on what's supposed to be the demand side we have a massive oversupply of borrowed-into-existenc
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by hanoz 9y ago
Hacker News readers may be amused to hear of this modern twist on proceedings - burning an effigy of the local broadband provider: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-41876557
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by hanoz 9y ago
Speaking for my small city corner of the European Union, inexpensive housing is decidedly not a feature.
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by hanoz 9y ago
Didn't most of us get in to this mathsy line of work precisely because we didn't need to memorise a load of stuff and could just work things out from first principles as and when required?
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by hanoz 9y ago
"Good god, it's just a word" works marvelously when applied to words which offended our parents' and grandparents' ears, but good luck with that defense when you've offended the current generation's sensib
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by hanoz 9y ago
Buy companies you're an enthusiastic customer of. To my mind this is your only chance of getting an edge over the efficient market and its heavyweight players.
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by hanoz 9y ago
They may be happier, but they are fewer. What good is mean happiness versus sum happiness in the grand scheme of things?
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by hanoz 9y ago
If a server can be likened to an avocado, this enables people to expose its insides by removing the hardened outer layer, then trash the kernel and mash the rest to a pulp?
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by hanoz 9y ago
Non sociable has always been a valid, and in my experience the primary, meaning of the word antisocial. The sociopathic definition has come to prominence relatively recently, hand in hand with its adoption as a favoured euphemism in the aut
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by hanoz 9y ago
I'm amazed the trend in obviously too dazzling headlights has been allowed to get this far. I recently heard some industry expert defending them on the BBC saying, without a hint of irony, that they weren't brighter, they just lo
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by hanoz 9y ago
I mean given where you would expect the shadows of floating blocks to be when illuminated from your headlights.
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by hanoz 9y ago
Yes but how well would the illusion work in headlights?
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by hanoz 9y ago
As in Hey, it looks like you're writing a letter?
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by hanoz 9y ago
Never mind the secondary effects, the idea of a rubber playground strikes me as inherently dangerous, as you can't skid to a halt like you can on concrete or grass.
656.
by hanoz 9y ago
That diagram suggests Northern Sweden to Southern Europe is 50%, not 80%, which sounds more plausible.
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by hanoz 9y ago
As one almond?
658.
by hanoz 9y ago
But how is it helpful? You need to know which is the bigger side already in order to place your alligator the right way round.
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by hanoz 9y ago
I was just about to embark on "Thinking, Fast and Slow" as my next commuting audio book. Ought I not to bother?
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by hanoz 9y ago
> I made it through an engineering degree with "the alligator eats the bigger number" mnemonics for > and <. I don't understand this at all. The bigger number is at the bigger end, that's the whole point of the

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