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by light3 16y ago
In other news carrier pigeons are now used as the preferred detonation device for terrorists.
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by light3 16y ago
It's very similar to craiglist actually, theres many sites that advertise privately rented houses and shared rooms, e.g http://gumtree.com.au
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by light3 16y ago
It said in the article that they tested this on plants.. what happens when the fruit grow does the coating expand?
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by light3 16y ago
Now all that is needed is something that automatically flips pages :)
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by light3 16y ago
Anybody got any good sources of material to read?
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by light3 16y ago
There was something cool you could do in older version of counterstrike, you can tweak the ex_interp parameter from 1.0 to something lower like 0.5, in this way you have to aim 'behind' where the person was and hit. The advantage of this is
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by light3 16y ago
Sure, when everybody has connections of 20-40ms this prediction is not much of a feature. But back in the days when everybody were on modem connections with 120ms latency, this was important. It means you don't have to physically aim 'in fr
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by light3 16y ago
Write novels or do something related to history?
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by light3 16y ago
I would through in some red meat too for the protein
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by light3 16y ago
That's an awfully long article to say his dying and written a book on his 'new found' way of investing.
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by light3 16y ago
I always thought of the 'different result' as meaning improvement, and the action in repetition as being suboptimal. Thereby no matter how much you practice you will be at best improving sub-optimally. This makes particular sense when you'r
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by light3 16y ago
Sure he probably goes through more material per day than 99.99999% of the population, but whether he remembers or understands is another matter.
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'Crazy as me' by SlayerS_`BoxeR`, Starcraft progamer's autobiography(boxerbiography.blogspot.com)
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by light3 16y ago
There's an American warcraft3 player who does around 120apm(as I recall) called Axslav and he was quite good, not a top pro but good enough to beat other pros with good strategy. On the side note you can actually see how pros are micro-ing
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by light3 16y ago
I think the right gear has a lot to do with it, a good mouse/mousepad and keyboard can be the difference between night and day. I had a lot of stress with my old mouse because the movements were not precise, that and the right mouse button
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by light3 16y ago
There should be a third column with Battle.net 1 and all ticks.
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by light3 16y ago
Of course what you say is true, value or worth is subjective - something that you think is worth only the cost of production may be worth a lot more to someone else. Everybody has their own value metric, but funnily if you want to buy or se
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by light3 16y ago
I think they refer to market value or in this case market capitalisation, which is well defined as share price * # of shares. Both prices you listed are just the asking prices, the true market value will be somewhere between the bid and ask
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by light3 16y ago
Suppose if two people starts changing the same sentence at the same time, and there is latency of say 1 minute - then after 1 minute the result will be a jumbled up sentence?
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by light3 16y ago
It might run under wine, I know warcraft 3 did :P
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by light3 16y ago
>Okay, my mother worked as a child sweatshop laborer in Taiwan in the 60s, before the country bootstrapped itself out of abject, agrarian poverty, and I take issue with this. It's a straw man; her family was extremely poor, but not in d
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by light3 17y ago
So how well can you type on these things, is it possible to do some coding?
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by light3 17y ago
The second item is a 4.8" $100 'ipad killer': http://www.androidtablets.net/forum/android-tablet-news/65-1...
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by light3 17y ago
We'll have to wait for the sentence to be handed down, if any jail time / execution is handed, that would really be interesting!
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by light3 17y ago
>westerners bullying China has been pounded by the CCP for the past 60 years so its very easy to troll that line to great success. Actually it was 'trolled' long before the CCP came in to power by revolutionaries, and most likely citize
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by light3 17y ago
Interestingly, Stern Hu pleaded guilty to bribery recently: http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/Stern-Hu-...
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by light3 17y ago
>Why should 'laws' decreed anywhere be respected? Punishments! >Should laws that are counter to one's values be respected? From the individual's point of view, they will have a unique risk-vs-reward threshold value for each 'law', a
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by light3 17y ago
'Walnuts are also an excellent source of omega-3 fatty acids': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnuts
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by light3 17y ago
>Certainly his philosophy was no better than junior-high-school grade. He was well read and educated, you may disagree with his philosophy, but to say it was 'junior-high-school' grade would be incorrect. From wiki: 'Mao was a prolific
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by light3 17y ago
'Not to mention the whole thing reeked of plasticy cheapness.' Aren't Apple keyboards plastic too?

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