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by nandemo 10y ago
I don't know this particular company's methodology but, in a nutshell, usually they consider a number of glide paths and then run Monte Carlo simulations for each, then choose the best performing one. The goal is to minimize the p
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by nandemo 10y ago
It feels like they edited the video and then picked a song that exactly matched the video's length.
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by nandemo 10y ago
FWIW, Carlos Ghosn managed to turn Nissan around while he was still running Renault (though he was only a Executive VP there). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Ghosn
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by nandemo 10y ago
Nitpick: emigrating means moving away for good, and relatively few people from developed countries emigrate in that sense. Perhaps you mean living abroad for study or work, being an expat or something similar. I think there are 2 big reason
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by nandemo 10y ago
I started watching S1E1 after having watched a couple of other episodes from season 2 and 3. I quit watching it halfway. Not sure what was subtle about it. Honestly if it was the first episode I'd watched, I'd probably have writte
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by nandemo 10y ago
I might be missing something, but it seems you're making some unwarranted assumption there. Stripe guarantees a $101 quote to the merchant. That is, as long as the consumer pays 1 BTC within 10 minutes, the merchant will get $101 -- es
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by nandemo 10y ago
Eh, so IC was invented and commercialized before Apollo, but Apollo was instrumental in accelerating the development of ICs. That's a far cry from "we wouldn't have cell phones without NASA"...
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by nandemo 10y ago
But cell phones aren't satellite phones. Am I missing something? Do cellular networks rely on satellites indirectly? I'm not talking about GPS, which isn't an essential feature of cell phones.
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by nandemo 10y ago
Just intonation is based on intervals that are ratios of small whole numbers. The 12-tone equal temperament scale is historically a development of just intonation (a "fork" in software terms). So it's not a coincidence that 1
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by nandemo 10y ago
> You wouldn't have a cell phone, and especially a data connection, if not for the space program. Is that so? Can you give me a source?
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by nandemo 10y ago
"Consonant" vs "dissonant" is subjective: it's a matter of perception, taste. The way you test the hypothesis "This chord is more consonant/more pleasant than that other chord" is by asking a lot of p
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by nandemo 10y ago
> Certain notes within this are close, but not exactly, on a "simple ratio". It's just coincidental that it works out pretty good. It isn't coincidental. Equal temperament was a fork of just intonation.
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by nandemo 10y ago
Agreed. Saying they're the "same note" is an oversimplification. They're "equivalent" in certain contexts, which is an important distinction. They aren't the same note: if someone plays A3 (fundamental is
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by nandemo 10y ago
You'd probably enjoy the Suzuki method.
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by nandemo 10y ago
> Modern estimates by the U.S. Geological Survey are that some 12 million ounces (370 t) of gold were removed in the first five years of the Gold Rush (worth over US$16 billion at December 2010 prices). [0] Gee, they must have sold a b
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by nandemo 10y ago
I hear you, but there's a insightful saying that explains that: "Quoting yourself is cool, as long as you're cool" -- nandemo
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by nandemo 10y ago
> I'll be working on a project I love and "learning new stuff", for nobody else's benefit or entertainment other than my own. Honestly, that might just be a less self-deprecating way of describing "I can piddle
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by nandemo 10y ago
That can't be right. Perhaps it includes people who live in a house owned by their family?
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by nandemo 10y ago
I suppose the question is better phrased as "would you give it up?". Anybody who says "I can't give it up" will probably change their mind if the tickets cost 10x more. I live over 18000 km (well over 10k miles) awa
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by nandemo 10y ago
But Sumerian was not Indo-european. It's considered a language isolate. And even if the name was from a different language that co-existed with Sumerian (like Akkadian), it was likely an Afro-Asiatic one.
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by nandemo 10y ago
Labor theory of value claims that the value of X depends only on the amount of labor required to produce X. This theory doesn't explain how gold is more valuable than iron, or how $UNICORN is more valuable then this other startup. So i
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by nandemo 10y ago
True, but Japanese companies aren't prone to ruin foreign companies they've acquired by relocating the HQ to Japan. They do so by bringing Japan into the foreign HQ, i.e. the acquiree's top execs are replaced by the acquirer&
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by nandemo 10y ago
They don't fire "assholes" though, they fire people with "adequate performance" (you need to be a "star").
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by nandemo 10y ago
Option A increases the supply of chickens, so other things being equal the price of a chicken decreases. But people (aid recipients) are better off since they can eat more chicken. Option B slightly increases the supply of money, so other t
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by nandemo 10y ago
There's no need to reconcile those sentiments. I respect and admire US achievements in technology (and music, cinema, etc), even though the US government has done and does a lot of disgusting things to non-US citizens. There's no
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by nandemo 10y ago
Bakhit's work is very interesting. > Looking at the US from abroad, it is frightening to see a nation recruiting a lot of its poor and poorly educated into the biggest war machine the world has seen Though the evidence is not 100%
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by nandemo 10y ago
A lot of Japan's economy is still cash-based. On common paydays like the 25th and (to a lesser extent) the 15th of the month you'll see long lines at the ATMs. The heist happened on the 15th. The maximum withdrawal amount in this
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by nandemo 10y ago
> I think the question of whether big business should exist is at this point no longer really an open question. Uh, that wasn't never the question, not even in 1911. It was and is about anti-competitive business practices.
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by nandemo 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification!
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by nandemo 10y ago
Here's a good overview of Japanese zoning regulations: http://urbankchoze.blogspot.jp/2014/04/japanese-zoning.html

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