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by mxfh 10y ago
Say it's expired early for not paying fees. Still hard to know what the actual legal state is. The site lists them by filing grant date plus 20 years, which is on the safer option when compared to premature expirations which might be f
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The (dis)information mercenaries now controlling Trump’s databases(medium.com)
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The Creation of Inequality: Myths of Potential and Ability(dannydorling.org)
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Earth's shadow(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mxfh 10y ago
Concerning Chernobyl, maybe humans societies adopt a new threshold against thyroid type cancers, but it's still not considered safe for humans. Hiroshima is not the reference for later generation nuclear bombs, which were magnitudes ab
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by mxfh 10y ago
Maybe the only larger swaths of lands not carpet bombed with nuclear payloads are arid areas, devoid of any current human population. After the nuclear fallout these would be the only areas where sustained human life would be possible. Even
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by mxfh 10y ago
Single use PETs are not that much worse or even better, for larger bottles according to this Swiss study: https://www.newsd.admin.ch/newsd/message/attachments/36446.p... [EN: p25ff]
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by mxfh 10y ago
Beer bottles are doing fine, but pretty much everything else (bottled water, soft drinks) went away to be replaced by single use. You can still do a beer Club Mate diet by exclusively using returnables.
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by mxfh 10y ago
This also the story of failure and counterproductive incentives of the so called Mehrwegquote , multiple use deposit bottles, which used to be above 70% in the 90s and is now as low as 40% and was scrapped altogether as an environmental p
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Lip Reading Sentences in the Wild(arxiv.org)
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by mxfh 10y ago
So will they have weighing scales to walk over? And also register eaten candy bars and toilet visits?
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by mxfh 10y ago
If they were trained on normal shopper, how long does it take for the first exploits to appear, like some ML-equivalent of tag switching. Like I heard from HEB Central Market employee, that they had a hard time with their bulk self-portio
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Redraw the States(kevinhayeswilson.com)
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City Style Transfer(opendot.github.io)
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Graphics Deep Dive: Cascaded Voxel Cone Tracing in the Tomorrow Children(gamasutra.com)
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We planned for Brexit at Football Manager. So why did no one else?(theguardian.com)
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by mxfh 10y ago
Wordament is quite competetive fun. For a while this was the only multiplayer game on Windows Phone. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wordament/id580935508
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Inverse-Foley Animation: Synchronizing rigid-body motions to sound(cs.cornell.edu)
1 points by mxfh 10y ago|0 comments
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by mxfh 10y ago
Let's tone it done a bit and say it's a preference. With SMIL including the animation as SVG elements just feels more right and complete (like allowing animations along a path) to me.
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by mxfh 10y ago
You could create stroke-width-ratios by applying SVG transformations to each path element, or groups of it. Then you have to compensate for the introduced transformation in the stroke path geometry itself. Example: http://codepen
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by mxfh 10y ago
I kind of hate mixing SVG with CSS. Somewhat relieved learn that SVG SMIL animations are staying in Chrome, for now: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/5o0...
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by mxfh 10y ago
One could even extrapolate from this, that for emotional health it's good thing to postpone teaching that skills to as late as possible, or until Adobe VoCo ruins it for all.
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by mxfh 10y ago
Quite sad to see that this level of inclusionism is only tolerated in some niches of wikipedia at large. Just have a look at @deletedWiki for the chances missed: https://twitter.com/search?q=list%20from%3Adeletedwiki
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by mxfh 10y ago
As it's true for all media in general, never leave your kids alone with youtube, especially if only clicking on recommendations, even with toy videos. Things get really weird, really fast after some iterations. Every small, in itself h
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Never mind the algorithms [role of click farms, exploited labor in US-election](casilli.fr)
1 points by mxfh 10y ago|1 comments
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When Truth Falls Apart(theawl.com)
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by mxfh 10y ago
At least in Germany the whole AfD-Pegida-komplex had significant backing and media support from foreign sources, namely Russia and Switzerland. It's the "when they go low, we go high" fallacy that will cost more elections to
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by mxfh 10y ago
This is not a book burning, this a library catalog burning.
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by mxfh 10y ago
The mail dump was basically a free for all corpus to plug any preconceived narrative up to hamfistedly made up conspiracy you could grep out of this. The rest is more of the normal mode of operation of any human organization: "Laws, li
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by mxfh 10y ago
Unseen Diplomacy was one of my most fun experiences so far. http://store.steampowered.com/app/429830

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