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by kirrent 10y ago
I should assume keel hauling would have to be a false memory. It was never very common in the British Navy and abolished far before then. However, I believe it's referenced to as a comparison to the brutality of flogging around the fle
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by kirrent 10y ago
Not only that, his numerous scenes where Jack is writing dispatches, the pains he takes, and the politics of those dispatches made many of these seem almost absurdly familiar in tone having read the series.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Brownsville isn't a case of them being distracted but just underestimating the degree of soil surcharging needed. Crewed dragon is unfinished but hasn't missed any of NASA's deadlines so far. I do wish that Falcon Heavy would
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by kirrent 10y ago
You do. The interesting thing about paracetamol is that toxicity arises at only about 3 times the maximum daily recommended dose. For a drug which is perceived as so safe it's common for someone to continue downing them when they'
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by kirrent 10y ago
Add a meal and a PPI and I couldn't agree more.
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by kirrent 10y ago
I don't particularly disagree with anything you said but even a privacy intruding clock can be right twice a day. The article is merely a pretty conventional discussion of the public interest vs what the public is interested in and wha
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by kirrent 10y ago
You mean they're people? In any case, doctors are healthier than the general population on average across a lot of measures. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/08/is-your-do...
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by kirrent 10y ago
A quote from an interview between two doctors discussing hypochondriac patients: "For anyone who thinks we're denigrating hypochondriacs or lack sympathy, I had cancer 5 times as a medical student."
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by kirrent 10y ago
Damn, and here I was already jealous that NOAA provides free charts for the US coast. http://www.charts.noaa.gov/InteractiveCatalog/nrnc.shtml
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by kirrent 10y ago
Oh cool, so I can be even more blase than I am.
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by kirrent 10y ago
What's wrong with lead in solder? I wash my hands after soldering every time and I can't imagine how I'm really exposed otherwise. Professionals who solder long periods every day are far more likely to have adverse health out
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by kirrent 10y ago
No implementation for the MSP430 as it stands, but I can't see why not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9CClinux
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by kirrent 10y ago
Yeah, I play Elite Dangerous, Chronos, blaze rush, and Assetto Corsa. I don't try and play every little thing like I used to want to. It's only the really well done games that I find super compelling, but those games are so compel
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by kirrent 10y ago
There's plenty of places to put money that's not in a savings account. Personally, I only keep a couple of months living money in savings and have everything else in one of Vanguard's funds. Pretty darn diverse with far bette
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by kirrent 10y ago
The first and second development kits, sure, but the consumer version was developed after the acquisition.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Exactly. Kids spend less time being taught cursive than they do attending music class in primary school. Far less. It's a pretty useful skill so I think it's certainly worthy of that basic investment.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Oh sure, using a proper room set up with a Vive is something else entirely. I just wouldn't necessarily have thought of touch not being launched as a technical difference but rather one of availability. Tomahto Tomayto I guess.
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by kirrent 10y ago
I'd prefer to ask the Xbox 360 which needed over a billion dollars to fix red ringed consoles and change their process. Without those deep pockets, the Xbox platform would have died, including the xbox one.
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by kirrent 10y ago
Lost on the technical front? It may not have hand tracked controllers yet but everyone I know who's used both prefers the rift as an HMD because of slightly higher perceived quality of image and greater comfort. While I acknowledge mys
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by kirrent 10y ago
Put pocketing occurs to me as a simple prank that doesn't hurt anyone. It's all about making someone part of the joke, rather than the butt of the joke. https://youtu.be/Nv2j2PDPa_k?t=104
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by kirrent 10y ago
Oh, I see now. Yeah, you're right. From our outside frames of references we'll never see anything cross the event horizon, instead matter approaches the event horizon asymptotically slowly. In our exterior frame of reference/
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by kirrent 10y ago
"Some physicists have suggested that such experiments could test whether a superposition of two states could survive in a person's sensory system, and perhaps be perceived in the brain." This sentence surprises me. I would ha
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by kirrent 10y ago
An alternative criticism to the other comment. I actually don't really know what your sentences are trying to say. When you say, 'Black holes don't exist (time dilation prevents them from forming in a finite time)'. Do y
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by kirrent 10y ago
In most jurisdictions you can't really patent the use of an abstract mathematical formula on a computer with no gain, but that's something the law has only caught up to in the last decade. The patent is most likely invalid in the
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by kirrent 10y ago
As someone with pretty bad RA, it'd be nice if they could do that. Unfortunately, the ultimate causes behind RA are pretty obscure at the moment. While they don't work particularly well for me, cytokine inhibitors such as abatacep
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by kirrent 10y ago
CoPilot? Someone who can completely take over for you when you're feeling tired. Compared to an Autopilot which requires pilot or skipper supervision I think copilot would be a far worse term if it weren't for the fact that the na
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by kirrent 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. Autopilots of any kind have always required supervision. Tesla doesn't call its car self driving and there are many warnings that it isn't. Ultimately, the system would be called Boris and people would
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by kirrent 10y ago
No doubt, but both groups need to supervise their Autopilots because autopilots of any kind have always been supervised. That's the point the grandparent is making.
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by kirrent 10y ago
As a physics grad that curve fitting section was hard to read. Only very low degree polynomial fits can ever be used, through some coincidence with the underlying trend, for extrapolation. A polynomial fit is a simple and easy method to fit
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by kirrent 10y ago
You're right, that is a pretty generous scheme as far as a regular loan goes, but not necessarily as far as a student loans go worldwide. As an Australian my student loan debt repayment is paid as an extra levy on my taxes based on my

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