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kaibee
7y ago
One major difference between VR and AR content is that VR can do blacks. Current AR is limited to overlaying more light onto a piece of your visual field. It has no way to make any spot more dark. This is fine for VR, since there should
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7y ago
> The entire US left Uh, no. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-saudi-security/obama-... It is the populist left and populist right.
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7y ago
> the desire for open borders and "Abolish[ing] ICE" are very real among liberals in America. Yes, abolishing ICE will take us back to the pre-borders time of... checks notes March 1st, 2003.
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> Do you actually believe that the punishment for illegal immigration is death? Are you suggesting that being forced to return to Mexico is equivalent to being sent to a gas chamber? Sounds racist. What an insult to Mexico! Except that t
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7y ago
> American GDP grew faster in the 1800s under the gold standard (avg. 4%+) than any time after the creation of the federal reserve. Yes... during industrialization. Basically all countries experience rapid GDP growth during their indust
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7y ago
I suppose if you're comparing 2018 to 2008, then sure. But that seems cherry-picked, since it looks like shootings were more common before then. Then you also have to consider that the population has been growing, so per-capita shoot
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7y ago
> But the reality is that schools are a lot more dangerous than they were just 10 years ago. Do you have a source for this?
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7y ago
> cancer progresses much faster in summer than in winter This sounds fascinating. Do you have a source? Btw, I love f.lux and have been using it since probably like 2010, possibly earlier. Its basically the first thing I install on any
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kaibee
7y ago
I think this is a somewhat recent (6-7~ years ish?) development. In the early 2000's, money was much more important than it is now.
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It is completely ludicrous to not offer a way to cancel your subscription online in 2019.
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7y ago
We did get consumer VR though.
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7y ago
Otoh, its also the part of the market that has demonstrated that they have a lot of disposable income and an interest in the hobby.
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7y ago
Where are you storing the mats also? I can't imagine that they'd be small, even rolled up.
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kaibee
7y ago
Is there some reason you're not interested in building it yourself? Though to answer your question, I don't think you can go wrong with https://system76.com/desktops
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7y ago
The term limit on the Presidency was a mistake.
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7y ago
> Total world reserves of beryllium ore are greater than 400,000 tonnes.[27] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beryllium Seems like there's just not enough demand yet.
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7y ago
No, its the irrational level of fear.
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7y ago
> This is a good way to present the issue to anyone who identifies as a free-market capitalist. Free markets require a level playing field to work properly. If people were ideologically consistent in their views, yes. However, look at th
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7y ago
> (you work at a company that amasses your user's data and uses it in all sorts of morally questionable ways, but where you draw the line is when your employer engages in business dealings with other morally questionable firms? Real
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> Big tech companies are able to try 100 things out instead of 1 because they can rely on their stable revenue streams to pay the bills. I’m not sure how it would be a boon to innovation but am open to learning why you think that. Is App
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> That's the thing, there is NO transition point. There's just two of you. SO, if there are two of your consciousness with the same thoughts, experiences, and the whole shabang up until the second one is made and the first dies
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7y ago
AMD is currently using TSMC for their new line of CPUS. I think this gives AMD a huge advantage over Intel, as they can always just go to whoever has the best foundry.
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Instead of providing your real email: https://www.guerrillamail.com/ Second, I entered that I have a US Citizenship and #1 country where I'm 100% likely to get a work visa, was the United States. Not exactly a revelat
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7y ago
> It depends what we want to optimize for, but I think most people would agree that we want to avoid having a very large number of absolutely discontent voters. So I think a system which either makes the least hated candidate win (even i
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7y ago
> pissing it all away
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> There is a solid track record of inheritors of massive wealth pissing it all away in a generation or two so you don't have to worry too much about it. I don't think wasting billions of dollars is any better.
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I wouldn't be too sure of that. > Five individual logic cells were functionally disconnected from the rest— with no pathways that would allow them to influence the output— yet when the researcher disabled any one of them the chip lo
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I think there is a reasonably balance to be found somewhere between not being able to give your friend 5$ and being able to make everyone even tangentially related to you into billionaires that do nothing but collect and spend the interest
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I think you're missing the point of that article a bit.
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> Some citizens will argue that net neutrality will kill internet services that's subsidized by advertising. For example free access to Facebook. But NN has absolutely nothing to do with that.
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