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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
I think if it was something patentable, they'd have both been listed as inventors. And the same goes for other achievements, like the Nobel Prize which can have three shared winners in a year, but no one says "I won 1/3 of a
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I did both, and I felt my main job as a judge wasn't really to decide the winner, but to give meaningful critique so that both teams can get better. I tried to be fair and to decide the winner based on reasonable arguments, but if the
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
We don't know much about what it does do, only what it doesn't do. Scientists have deduced its existence by measuring the speed of the expansion of the universe and determining that the mass that we can see based on the rotation o
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Baryons are types of subatomic particles. They include protons and neutrons as well as other kinds that only exist briefly in an atom smasher. In this case, they are using a generic term because they have no way of knowing whether it's
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Not the same as dark matter. This is normal matter that is just very hard to see because it is laid out in thin tendrils of dense subatomic particles that are stretched between galaxies. Dark matter is supposed to only have weak interaction
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Your opinion is BS, because you didn't RTFA, at best you skimmed it. How about the part where the woman is a heart patient who had a quadruple bypass? And you're arguing about $20 for dog food and beer, but ignoring the fact that
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
I don't think you can just pin this all on one issue. "Globalism" mainly means moving manufacturing overseas, but that's not really applicable for most rural locations. "Immigration" especially the undocumented
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Because it's going to be an interesting counterpoint to next month when the Republicans in Congress start telling us all how badly we need tax cuts for rich people. And then talk about how we should pay for it by cutting the meager ben
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
It seems like there are several issues you're having and not all of them are TDD specific. To begin with, the way you learned to program, and to approach a programming problem, is different from the approach the course is trying to tea
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
1. Yes, but they would still need to cross further into the Pacific if they wanted to reach NK without passing over Russia. The slides showed more or less the issue with the angles needed for that. 2. You may be right, I'm not an exper
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The other issue is that many of the "boom" prices are based on the spot market price, but the majority of these commodities are actually negotiated through long term contracts that have a steadier income, but much fewer highs and
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And there were a number of other societies that didn't do anything like that because they didn't need to move around as much. Especially the ones in Africa, the Middle East, and the other places that were in very fertile locations
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
I think you're right about the benefits, but wrong about most of the drawbacks. The Inuit seemed to have done pretty well in a much harsher environment than most of us have to deal with. Also, for nearly all of prehistoric times, human
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
The books had a few points to make, even if it cut some corners to make them. 1. Humans are bad at real long term (generations or more) planning. 2. Humans have been successful because of their ability to trust each other. This works okay o
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
Japan has an orbiter there already ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akatsuki_(spacecraft) ), though it had a few bumps getting into orbit on the way over. However, the environment is very hostile, which makes a rover a m
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
This is the kind of ideology over reality argument that gives academics such a bad name. You list all of these "bad" foreign policy actions without examining the context, the costs of doing nothing, or any of the "good"
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
The choice for China is to either be an insulated and isolated country with little exposure to the rest of the world, or to reach out and contribute in the conversation. I think we're already decades past the point where they can close
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
This is just silly. If the local entertainment isn't very good, then people will find something better that isn't controlled by the Chinese government or shaped the rest of the Chinese culture, which is how you get Western values
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I don't think it's about "dodging responsibility" but just an examination of the tradeoffs involved in development. The code we're developing is becoming more transitory, not less over time. How secure does a syst
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
If you're interesting in retooling your approach, you can try using a stripped down format, like Multi-markdown ( http://fletcherpenney.net/multimarkdown/features/ ) and then converting from there to LaTeX or o
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
TeX is not a web standard. It's not even compatible with how markup languages work to put information on the web. Specific problems that are not addressed either by MathML or by TeX: 1. Accessibility, especially regarding screen read
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
So you want to argue that America shouldn't exist in a just world, but what exactly would be in its place? I don't think we'd likely have a single continent spanning country ran by the many different nations that were there b
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The slides went into this in some detail and assumed the audience was familiar with the issues. Namely: 1. The Pacific nuclear deterrence is currently based in WA. This means that deployments that cross the pacific would be much longer and
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
You can compile and run your own software on the device. You can jailbreak it to get the same results. You also have access to the entire internet which should allow you to do nearly any kind of development you want to do and use the browse
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Or maybe people are just very skeptical of a claim made by a company ran by people trying to make lots of money off of this. Just as they should be skeptical of claims made by oil and coal companies that are making alot of money off the cur
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
> 100% of Nazi scientists believed that Jews were an inferior race. May I direct you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law which suggests that at this point you have likely lost this thread. Don't wor
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
That's not feasible. Even the most isolated nation-state in the world (i.e. N. Korea) has a hard time getting its high tech projects finished if all of the other countries are working against it. And they have the advantage of a fanati
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
> fossil fuels are a renewable energy on a large enough timescale No they're not, at least coal isn't because it was formed from trees and other heavy cellulose based plant matter that wasn't broken down by microbes millio
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Those wouldn't need electricity, however, if you decide to run them off of some kind of renewable bio-fuel or even just natural gas from renewable sources. The main thing is to switch them off of fossil fuels ASAP, then you can move fr
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by nikdaheratik 9y ago
It really depends on the language and what you are doing. The majority of of the field is closest to working with mathematical equations which makes sense as the people who created the languages took ideas from mathematics when designing th

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