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by lainga 8y ago
What's the difference between OS X and OSX Yosemite?
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by lainga 8y ago
I would have to guess because open protocols lead to implementations which trade speed for interoperability, which is OK for e-mail, but not for realtime applications.
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by lainga 8y ago
A comment on the article - These guys were in constant off duty fights with US Marines of the 4th Regiment, USMC who were permanently assigned to similar duty in China. Several months before Pearl Harbor the “China Marines” were removed fr
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by lainga 8y ago
Boeing Cleans Up Burning Debris And Aircraft Parts from Recent Crash (in a Publicity Sense)
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by lainga 8y ago
Do you mean "Chinese influence" like you got the apartment because of guanxi? Or like the situation in Vancouver now is influenced by what you saw in Shenzhen?
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by lainga 8y ago
Precisely. Many of my peers reacted to the news of Amazon coming to Vancouver with "yeah, but at Vancouver salaries".
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by lainga 8y ago
At some level, that's also what glider pilots do to take off from mountains.
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by lainga 8y ago
My understanding of the latest-gen Pdox games is that parts of the AI are shared at the level of the Clausewitz engine, and that Clausewitz in turn was developed for EU3 , but designed as an extremely general engine for 2D games, not even
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by lainga 8y ago
How does that fit into games like Dwarf Fortress where "fun" is in losing? Does winning count as achieving whatever goals the players set for themselves before reaching game-over?
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by lainga 8y ago
Do you think there is a class of players who don't want to feel clever for outsmarting a predictable AI?
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by lainga 8y ago
East Asia is China, the Koreas, Taiwan, and Japan. South Asia is the Indian subcontinent, and sometimes Afghanistan and Myanmar. SE Asia encompasses everything inbetween - so Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and maybe-Papua
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by lainga 8y ago
Off topic, what led you to snag "the_economist" for BuildZoom?
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by lainga 8y ago
Increasing capacity in the next 20-30 years. I didn't mean right now.
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by lainga 8y ago
IMO the world is heading towards a hot war where each side is confident in their ballistic defence capabilities against nuclear attack. We have to hope it isn't overconfidence.
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by lainga 8y ago
For me, it's: "L-A-I-N-G. Laing." (looking once over vaguely yellow skin) "alright, Mr. Liang." The two spellings come from entirely different cultures! Same with "Lee" (as in Robert E. and Bruce).
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by lainga 8y ago
Really neat! Because it doesn't rely on the video image data this would work for podcasts with subtitles (if they exist), right?
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by lainga 8y ago
Radio Yerevan was asked: "Is it correct that Grigori Grigorievich Grigoriev won a luxury car at the All-Union Championship in Moscow?" Radio Yerevan answered: "In principle, yes. But first of all it was not Grigori Grigori
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by lainga 8y ago
Perhaps he's referring to the MITM attack from Die Hard II ...?
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by lainga 8y ago
Yes, including several people who worked on game engines and whom I have frequently cursed out...
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by lainga 8y ago
The same applies to Wiktionaries - compared to English, the French Wiktionary is elegantly and spaciously structured, the German version telegraphic and dense on information.
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by lainga 8y ago
Well, please, don't do that, or assume bad faith, it's counter-guidelines. On the actual topic at hand, even assuming this technology finds its way into the hands of police forces (racism or not), what's the use case? People
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by lainga 8y ago
Well, I'm not sure why you're bringing up their legality. Are you talking about the Geneva Conventions? with respect to the blinding lights?
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by lainga 8y ago
As much as I am tempted to, I don't think it's right to equate diversity of appearance and diversity of experience, either. One is just a proxy for the other.
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by lainga 8y ago
Oh lord, the stickers. I felt an interview with a local startup turn south when I pulled my Thinkpad out and was asked "where are the stickers?".
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by lainga 8y ago
I think you could also compact them loosely into a sort of aggregate and fill gabions with it
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by lainga 8y ago
Well, it's cliched, but since nobody has mentioned it: "But old clothes are beastly," continued the untiring whisper. "We always throw away old clothes. Ending is better than mending, ending is better than mending, endi
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by lainga 8y ago
>then... I'm not sure, could we make do with chariots and chariot archers? Would civilisation develop as normal, but more slowly in rough terrain?
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by lainga 8y ago
Their surveillance efforts have reached roughly the same order of magnitude as the Stasi, and (as others point out) with far less effort.
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by lainga 8y ago
That's roughly 10% of the population (23M). At its peak, the Stasi in the DDR had files on about 30% of the East German population.
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by lainga 8y ago
Can the AI just stagger lunchtimes?

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