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by iliis 15y ago
A really cool idea, but as others have mentioned a tiny bit impractical with only a few dozen minutes of flight time. However, there are actually serious attempts to adress these issues: Cellphone providers are looking into blimps as antenn
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by iliis 15y ago
A lot of meteorites would be necessary for this to happen. Of course depending on how big and widespread the evidence would be. Some "well-directed" hits, and our footprints and scientific things would be gone. If they had a bigger base, th
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by iliis 15y ago
Cool! We have a professor at my university who leads a project where students go to schools and teach the kids logo. (I just started with them, and so far it's a lot of fun and also quite a challenge.) May I ask, what sort of programs you w
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by iliis 15y ago
Yes, I think that this an important point. I learned programming with QBASIC which had a manual included. I learned a lot just by trying to figure out all these commands. Another thing that may greatly help is auto-completion. Type some ran
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by iliis 15y ago
<story> I think I was 11 or so when I went to a summer camp with my new laptop (an old thing that I got for free on the fleamarket). The idea was to play games on it - unfortunately it hadn't any on it. One of the parents there then
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by iliis 15y ago
Wow, I just tested this on an age old HTC Hero (Android 2.3) and it runs a lot smoother than most native apps. It even loads much faster. While it may not be the next Battlefield, I'm impressed. I never gave HTML5-games much of a chance for
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by iliis 15y ago
It actually already exists ;) http://mech-warfare.com/ Altough you can't play from home, but all the players have only the cameras of their bot to look around. So far they play with electric airsoft pistols and each bot (which has to be a
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by iliis 15y ago
The discussion is here: http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3569746
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by iliis 15y ago
Yes, bicycles are quite efficient. Not only compared to cars, but interestingly also to animals. While a normal human is quite bad at converting food into motion, the system bicycle+human is comparable to some of the most efficient animals.
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by iliis 15y ago
320x240/(1024*768)=0.10416666 which is about 10%. So we got ten times more pixel (and another factor 4-8 for more colors). Compared to a thousend times more cycles (and big factor for pipelining, dedicated graphic hardware, etc.). So, I thi
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Can neutrons disappear into another universe?(arxiv.org)
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by iliis 15y ago
Yes, I does happen. It did to me and it did to others. I think you are right as well: A lot of things in life need planning and good execution. But there's another very important ingredient: opportunities. You go to a bar to meet new people
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by iliis 15y ago
Oh, trains are pretty fundamental and changed a lot. But a device so small it fits into your pocket, let's you communicate in real time with almost everybody, takes pictures and even movies (and sends them around the world), precisely calcu
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by iliis 15y ago
ADDENDUM: The tables: A: Boy A: Boy M T W T F S S M T W T F S S B M . 1 . . . . . B M . 1 . . . . . T 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 T . 1 . . . . . B
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by iliis 15y ago
Ah, sorry, I misunderstood your question. You are asking, why the information "one is born on Tuesday" says anything about the gender or birthday of the other, right? More specificaly, this: > Let us first assume that it is the older c
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by iliis 15y ago
They are independent, but you get information about both ("One of them is a boy."), therefore p=1/3. If you say "the older is a boy" then you have a statement about one son and no information whatsoever about the younger one, therefore p=
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by iliis 15y ago
Somewhat OT, but maybe worth mentioning: I was one of those who went around and said "Meh, no big deal, just another earthquake in Japan". When I first heard about the quake [1], it was basically just the automatic report and some twitter n
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by iliis 15y ago
Nice idea. I may have use for that. Does it work internationally? I'm in Europe :/ Another important thing: > All passwords are hashed with SHA256 before storage SHA256 is NOT suitable to hash passwords. In this case it's rather unimp
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by iliis 15y ago
This gave me one of the best "the world is awesome"-feelings. Seeing how much we discovered, how much we know, seeing humans being humans, living their life. And at the same time knowing that we are only a drop in the ocean of the universe.
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by iliis 15y ago
Nah, my Chrome crashes ^^ (Version 15.0.874.106 on 64bit Fedora)
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by iliis 15y ago
Yes, No. 8 has certainly an error. At least the version I got first, if I load the page now I get a different set of cubes. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/rH5kW
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by iliis 15y ago
> In Europe the state owned mapping organisations do the mapping and claim full copyright on the maps & data. This is true here in Switzerland. You have to pay quite a bit for our maps. I think it's a good thing actually, because
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by iliis 15y ago
It is also why they have a tamper-evident hologram. You essentialy have to destroy your bill in order to spend it.
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by iliis 15y ago
> if you gave someone the coin, it still doesn't confer ownership It does because the coin has the private key. Maybe it's better to think of it as a key to a (public) safe. The key represents the right to open this safe. So, by givin
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by iliis 15y ago
I played quite a bit with the Meissner and the Flux pinning effect. But I was never able to change a flux pinning "on the fly". You always had to reheat the superconductor to something over the transition temperature and then cool it down a
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by iliis 15y ago
Yes, that's definitely the cause here. The iPhone 4 Picture is much darker, meaning it was made with a higher shutter speed and therefore is much shaper when holding it by hand. If you have a good camera lying around you can try it out by p
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by iliis 15y ago
Hmm, I never heard that, but thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense. Thanks :)
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by iliis 15y ago
1) The intersection of three spheres results in two possible points. One of which is most likely somewhere in space or deep below ground. So 3 satellites are actually enough in theory . Altough you get a [much] higher precision with more s
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by iliis 15y ago
I can asssure you, the new ones will be quite comfortable as well ;) Granted, they might not have couches as seats but they are very spacious and bright. I like them quite a lot... (They are in use since a few years already here in Switzerl
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by iliis 15y ago
Yes, inventables.com has some really cool stuff, but they are sometimes too expensive. For example, the "Super absorbent polymer spheres" [1] are also available from ThinkGeek for a lot less [2] (And you'll probably get them elsewhere even

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