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by hartror 14y ago
There is plenty of redundancy to deal with this sort of thing and they've done lots of on the fly updating of various robot probes including on 40y/o Voyager 2 which had a flipped bit in its memory.
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by hartror 14y ago
That was my thought as well as I was watching the coverage. Not surprising given there are a lot of old school engineers at NASA/JPL.
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by hartror 14y ago
Ditto Ubuntu 11.10 + Chrome 16.0.912.77
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by hartror 14y ago
Because amending a constitution is a dangerous thing that should never be done!
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by hartror 14y ago
The argument is that DDT causes at least as many deaths as malaria and loads of collateral damage in the ecosystem. There are significant advances on the horizon that look to be the solution to malaria.
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by hartror 14y ago
Yeah this is a very limited subset of what Minecraft does and arguably the implemented bits are the low hanging fruit. I wrote a "game" in my teens that covers this functionality, though in C++ not JS on a browser.
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by hartror 14y ago
"It is reported that the information might have been collected via infected USB drives." Wow this is the first time I've heard of a virus using the sneaker net to retrieve information from computers not just to distribute itself!
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by hartror 14y ago
Oooh that looks good, thanks!
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by hartror 14y ago
Did you ask why? There must be a well thought out explanation for this surely?
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by hartror 14y ago
You are confusing units and numeral systems. Pi is always Pi no matter how you count whereas c is dependent on how you measure time and space.
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by hartror 14y ago
The question isn't absurd from a lay persons point of view and the explanation falls short. What Cushman means is a number like Pi is always 3.14159265, to us or to hypothetical aliens. Whereas the speed of light can be just effectively re
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by hartror 14y ago
Piracy of course.
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by hartror 14y ago
"We pirate Game of Thrones, we use our friend's HBOGO login to watch True Blood…" Yeah I am not associating myself with that. Perhaps something like "We don't currently pay to see your content". Honestly as an Australian I don't see this ha
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by hartror 14y ago
I am not in the mood for a debate on gun control. I do agree that guns aren't a prerequisite for violet death but they do make the process significantly easier given they are designed for that purpose. Your example compares apples with oran
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by hartror 14y ago
Don't click the game boy, it is a trap. Not going to get that song out of my head for a week now.
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by hartror 14y ago
So it immediately raises the question why isn't this released? The reasons I can think of are: * Performance isn't what they want yet. * Implementation isn't what they want yet. * There are security issues they still need to fix. OR putting
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by hartror 14y ago
Reading about this in a country where there is tight gun control feels like reading about a dystopia future by Gibson or the like. It is the future, but not necessarily in a good way.
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by hartror 14y ago
The ALP (Australian Labor Party) changed the spelling of their name deliberately in 1912 order to distinguish it from the general labour movement and also to make them appear more progressive and modern by using the American spelling. More
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by hartror 14y ago
Actually it is tyre in Australia. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=tyre
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by hartror 14y ago
This is why investing in stocks is also called speculation, investors are speculating that Facebook's revenue and profit is going to grow to exceed that of Ford in a reasonable amount of time.
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by hartror 14y ago
I am sure that weight/size isn't the only parameter they're optimizing around. Likely battery life/flight range is the other primary parameter and optical & audio quality and transmission range secondary priorities they would be conside
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by hartror 14y ago
Surely in your example it is actually more economical for Texas than for Finland as the greater concentration of people makes it easier to deliver the service? Sure it would cost more but on a per head basis it should be cheaper . . .
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by hartror 14y ago
I have the definite impression I am missing something, a HN meme perhaps? "Video coming soon..." ?? Edit: Oh wait there is a video box on their main page which just shows the above text.
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by hartror 14y ago
It is interesting reading this from my perspective as I am in the Melbourne tech/startup scene and have met all these guys at various events, and have even worked with one of them. From the outside Adioso has always looked like the shining
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by hartror 14y ago
Switching costs. They already owned the old version, having paid for it and installed it in their home. The issues were a minor annoyance but the effort to find a new one and risk it being worse was far greater. However software, especially
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by hartror 14y ago
If you were using VWO why not have a single landing page with different content? Also why did you segment the traffic during the test (ignoring traffic that didn't match you criteria) instead of doing it at the analysis stage? Is this a lim
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by hartror 14y ago
The analysis here makes sense. It is likely that the redirection test tripped Google's URL cloaking detection algorithm [1]. I've not used redirects for split testing before, rather I use client or server side variations. Redirects don't ma
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by hartror 14y ago
This is a significant advantage of the farmer direct produce box enterprises that have sprung up everywhere. Because the fruits and vegetables are spending less time in storage and get to the consumer quicker they are often treated differen
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by hartror 14y ago
Just a bit of a warning from an Australian, Clive Palmer is known locally as a bit of a looney. His latest amusing embarrassment was claiming that green groups in Australia were being funded by the CIA through the Rockefeller Foundation wit
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by hartror 14y ago
I don't have any more or less dislike for HFT over more traditional trading. My biggest problem with finance is the brain drain it creates, in HFT's case a lot of great maths and computer science people get sucked into the finance black hol

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