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by jbattle 11y ago
They are almost certainly new trees - the originals having been cut down in the decades after the battle. I'm not sure when the programs started, but I know a lot of the battlefields have been intentionally restoring tree lines to the
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by jbattle 11y ago
that's pretty wild - the game shipped it's own custom mouse driver?
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by jbattle 11y ago
before that it was the threat of nuclear war, ecological collapse, and economic stagnation. before that it was the draft, violent racial injustice, and a nearly complete collapse of legitimacy of national leadership. Idealistic youts have
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by jbattle 11y ago
I'm guessing because the records aren't all digital and there's some clerical work needed to either digitize them or maybe do some redaction or editing to make them suitable for release (e.g. I'd hope they would strip ou
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by jbattle 12y ago
To give totally unsolicited advice - 3 years is easy - it doesn't get really hard for another 5 years. Don't stress about it but also don't take it for granted that your communication will always be as great as it is now (wi
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by jbattle 12y ago
If you haven't read it already, Tuchman's The March of Folly continues the same theme, but as the consequences of the limits of humans and our institutions played out in a few other historical settings. Not as good as Guns of Aug
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by jbattle 12y ago
The animation on wiki seems broken, but the gift wrapping algorithm is easy to understand and implement and gives good results (though different from what is presented here)... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_wrapping
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by jbattle 12y ago
Michigan (lower peninsula)? Seems to have a lot of undeveloped (forested) land. But I haven't done any actual research so may be badly wrong. Also if CA agriculture becomes less productive & more expensive then many other parts o
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by jbattle 12y ago
it's a little older and more for tablets than phones, but Frozen Synapse is well regarded
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by jbattle 12y ago
Do you know how much 'state' DeepMind is tracking? Is it just choosing the best action given perceptions at the moment, or does it have some level of memory to work from? I wonder how DeepMind would do at path-finding in a maze
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by jbattle 12y ago
That would be true if it were a freely oscillating system, but since the tide is 'powered' by the moon I'd think the tidal cycle should keep going until the moon stops orbiting. (though I'm not 100% sure I understand ho
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by jbattle 12y ago
Some of the branded kits are better than others. The lego star wars kits give you very reusable pieces. The kits that focus on characters + backgrounds/buildings seem to be the worst in terms of useless pieces
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by jbattle 12y ago
Do you happen to know if there are there realistic risks of permanent desertification of the great plains? (like what happened to the sahara) Or does that involve changes of a more dramatic sort than 'less rain'?
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by jbattle 12y ago
Another angle to sales that I'd love to hear more about is how sales affect multiplayer games through their communities. When I'm considering purchasing an multiplayer game that has been out for a while I'll try to get a sen
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by jbattle 12y ago
I don't know anything about Slack's design so maybe you are correct and there is some really special sauce powering their success. HOWEVER - it does not strike me as remarkable that they are able to quickly iterate on a product
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by jbattle 12y ago
You could invert it and consider on which front the Germans suffered the most losses - clearly the Germans suffered the majority of their casualties fighting the Russians. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_
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by jbattle 12y ago
My uncle was a police commander and some of these donations actually became onerous. The one I remember him mentioning were gas masks. As I remember the force was required to have them and while they were given the masks through some gran
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by jbattle 12y ago
I might suffer from a lack of imagination - but prior to direct reading of thoughts from our brains - I don't see how "VR" will be any faster than input mechanisms we are already very familiar with. Think about a perfect VR
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by jbattle 12y ago
Success in the way you describe it has nothing to do with evolution. To choose someone at random - Sarah Palin is almost twice as successful as Gates or Einstein (she's had 5 children - those two only 3 each). Unless people with AS &#
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by jbattle 12y ago
There's not big challenge here - just don't buy AAA games. It seems to me that a lot of people think the old Microprose's and Id's were the AAA of their day and the nature of AAA games has mutated from something simple,
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by jbattle 12y ago
That sounds suspiciously like spontaneous generation - what is the actual theory?
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by jbattle 12y ago
Is that true even if you normalize subsidies between the different forms of production/transportation/use?
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by jbattle 12y ago
An interesting idea although you run the risk of making 'low-income life' seem like an interesting puzzle and one that once-solved is pretty easy actually. Your idea reminded me of a project someone built several years ago to give
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by jbattle 12y ago
The angle to take would be that this system, being much simpler than our current network of welfare & social security systems - would require a vastly smaller government to administer it.
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by jbattle 12y ago
I thought the mandate of heaven 'theory' was similar to the divine right to rule in european political science. The emperor (of China) has the right to rule given by some supernatural force. This right is assumed to be in force
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by jbattle 12y ago
If you look back one year, they had a similar spike last summer.
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by jbattle 12y ago
It seems far more plausible people are picking up behavioral norms than being emotionally influenced. If none of your friends ever complain on facebook, are you going to be the one "grump"? I didnt read the study admittedly but t
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by jbattle 12y ago
I've played face to face and by email. They are really different games but playing by email is really quite fun. The tempo is different and the games take on an epic quality. A typical play by email game will lasts 3-6 months and ca
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by jbattle 12y ago
That sounds really amazing. Have you thought through the details of the rendezvous & docking? Is that as hard as it sounds? I imagine the mothership would need to be travelling what 25 mph? 20? Or is the absolute horizontal speed n
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by jbattle 12y ago
How does the cost work out vs. colo when you consider capitalization?

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