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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
On the other end of the spectrum, I work with lab equipment that are more than 15 years old but still work great. The software which interfaces with it is old, but still works with Windows. Would such a thing be possible with Apple, or woul
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
All images have some amount of random noise in them due to the thermal fluctuations of the sensor. With some clever techniques, I wonder if it could be possible to hide the pseudorandom encrypted message in the image to make it appear sligh
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
Not true. While some of the radio spectrum has been reserved specifically because of the lack of absorption in the atmosphere, the 1420MHz line is the famous 21cm line frequenctly measured by cosmologists to look at the epoch of reionizatio
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
There are some disturbing thoughts that arise from this. For example, what if in a thousand years from now, all information about this century is forgotten, because it was written in a digital format which can no longer be read. Or some sor
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I don't think it is appropriate to have the smartphones and tablets as a %market share competing against desktop platforms such as mac/pc. For one, while in general people either own a mac xor a pc, people in general don't own a smartphone
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I don't see how this and Kepler's laws fit together. The moon's mass is significantly different from the earth. How could the moon have the same orbit as the earth if the earth wasn't there?
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I can't speak for the ugliness, but as for the slow to react... I think the reason it feels sluggish are two reasons: The screen technology has a slow response time. This is alittle difficult to fix, due to the nature of the technology: an
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I assumed he was referring to the large recession in the early 80's. Which would be about 20 years after the 60's.
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
In his section talking about the brute force method of solving the puzzle, he seriously overestimates the number of possibilities for the whole puzzle. Example: For grid2, he lists square A2 as having 4 possibilities (1679) and A3 as having
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
Basically, there are some knowns: The universe expands according to the fried,am equation. Different percentages of matter, energy give rise to different expansion rates. Expansion history of the universe is known via looking at supernova
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
It's a good idea, and would work well, if only websites would let me choose passwords longer than 12 characters!
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I think in this situation, more arguements should be made that driving is not a privilege, it is an unfortunate necessity of modern life. What percentage of Americans could work without a car?
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I don't think the issue is that she's a wild woman from the era of grunge, but rather she was addicted to heroine and cocaine for a while.
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
Another issue people don't bring up: the weather. Living in Seattle I frequently wore mittens. With the physical buttons it would not be a problem to operate the phone, with the touchscreen there is this long ordeal of pulling off the mitte
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I don't know of a single person unable to withdraw their money from WaMu as it went under. All of WaMu's accounts were then passed on to chase, and chase honord them. If WaMu went under, the savings accounts would have been FDIC insured. No
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
Most of their targets have been US based websites, and they have probably not made a lot of good will with European leaders. I would be very surprised if there was a European country that would not extradite them.
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
My girlfriend's heart rate monitor uses a similar technology to transmit her heart rate data to her computer. It's a neat idea, but it also leaves me skeptical that such an idea would work well for purchases...
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
When I began reading the story, I was worried it would be about a NAT problem (since it involved his phone). While I'm glad this guy got his situation cleared so easily, I wonder how you would defend yourself in this situation. Police ask t
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I think if random individuals from today were to go into the past, we would mostly look pretty stupid. However, I think if a large enough group traveled into the past, we would have enough useful knowledge to wow them/revolutionize their so
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
What happens to the 8999 remaining bitcoins? Does a server somewhere think they are allocated to a person (although it doesn't have any name attached to them), effectively taking them out of the pool forever? Or are the bitcoins forgotten a
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
Homeless people in Miama have been following a similar scheme for a while now, albeit less scary and more annoying. Of course, now the city is beginning to replace the machines that print tickets, with those that electronically keep track o
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
Well, the problem isn't that Android isn't 'ours', you can still do whatever you want with it. The problem is that the hardware you buy is never really your, thereby making it more difficult to install custom android onto.
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
If my understanding is correct, Megavideo is the person streaming the video and you are the person watching the video, meaning Megavideo would be the one with the felony.
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
The chart sort of makes sense based on my limited knowledge on population growth, but two things pop out at me. 1) Can the US really continue to expect such growth over the next 100 years? I was under the impression that the fertility rate
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
As with the rest of the modern world, junk mail (advertisers) are the backbone of the USPS. Cutting down the amount of junk mail might be bad for the post office.
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
It seems plausible, but it doesn't explain some of their actions. Example: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/10/riaa-jury-finds/ Why would they seek such large damages? According to your source, they believe on some level that these l
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
As has been mentioned, there are many communities who still are only served by dialup, or slow-ish cable/dsl connections. I wonder if the telecoms are waiting to roll out fiber optics to the everybody, and potentially skipping over installi
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
I can't see the soundscan charts, but some of the later charts are inflation adjusted, are you comparing those to Nielson's possibly non-inflation numbers? Regardless, I think it's more interesting to look at the proportions from one year t
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by harshpotatoes 15y ago
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/02/press-... The White House transcript "Press Briefing by Senior Administration Officials on the Killing of Osama bin Laden" mentions that the raid happened 'earlier this afternoon' SEN
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The REAL Death Of The Music Industry(businessinsider.com)
10 points by harshpotatoes 15y ago|2 comments

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