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   by nobrains 7y ago

   And that's the same story of Unreal Tournament and Quake III Arena.
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   by nobrains 7y ago

   I think what they are saying is that the time lag of tides from the passing of the moon can be used as another detector of gravitational waves.
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   Dubai's Noon.com vs. Amazon.ae(wired.me)

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   by nobrains 7y ago

   For me, personally, "Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies" by Jim Collins, still stands as THE canon to read for a business book. His research based style resonates with me and makes me trust the findings much m
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   by nobrains 7y ago

   It's a-typical. Make prices lower for customers, resulting in same or more revenue for the middle man (Getty, et al.) while screwing the producers. Eventually, good photographers will leave. Getty should be compensating lower prices by
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   by nobrains 7y ago

   This will lead to people downloading potentially infected drivers from unofficial sites.
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   by nobrains 7y ago

   The DJI Spark has more flying sensors enabling it to be flown much more easily.
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   by nobrains 7y ago

   Waves
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   by nobrains 7y ago

   Redirects to pizzahut.ae for me which sucks because this page should be a corporate website not linked to a region.
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    How will they remove bias, as already mentioned in the article: "Last year, Twitter said it would not ban President Trump despite incendiary tweets, including allegations that he threatened to declare war on North Korea. However, in th
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    by nobrains 7y ago

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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Make the rotate based on mouse move in any direction (i.e. there will be no reverse rotate). Make the rotate limited to emulate the finger catch. Then its perfect.
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    He talks about "nisaab" which is the minimum amount you must own before you are auto-taxed, and that amount, based on today's rate is $342. See tweet 3 of 9: https://twitter.com/benmarrow/status/1180
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    612 grams of silver is $342 today. Those who have life-savings of $342 in bank or more, get auto-taxed. At this level, we are talking about the un-banked mostly, so they don't have accounts in the first place. In other words, nearly al
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Solution: Android One devices
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    He mentions that the height is 2,000 light years, so the deviation from the center is 55 ÷ 1000 = 5.5% (+- 0.16%)
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    There were 2 major events when this became to regular people who were interested in black holes. First was the Interstellar movie, and the second was the black hole picture by the Event Horizon telescope team. This independent simulation al
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Yes. This one. https://allthatsinteresting.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads... Even though it's taken from Wikipedia, they could have used a different one or recreated it. I was so confused while trying to de
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    "definitive sink to send all of our nuclear waste" ... where it would slingshot and return back to earth like a nuclear waste comet
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    The advertising rule should be that all font size should be the same, including the terms and conditions and small-text.
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Does anyone know of a good dedicated full-frame camera, which also has smartphone-camera features, like WiFi (to instantly transfer photos), backup photos (even if not in original quality) to google photos, remotely empty sd-card, instant s
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    In my opinion, this line is key: "One key difference, Audible says, is not being able to flip through pages, as users must wait for each line of text to be progressively generated as they’re listening." Also, it will help in incre
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    It's a problem of numbers. Population. Competition. From the article: Vodnali Shivani, 16, woke up at the crack of dawn every morning to study. She wanted to be an engineer and she would often say to her father: "Wait for five yea
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Some questions: What is a pot? When should I create multiple pots?
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Try the Xiaomi Mi A2 or A3 (if good cam is your requirement) or any android-one device in the $150 to $250 price range.
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    I got my mom an iPhone SE for $140 How is the 16gb storage holding up for her?
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Android gives customers hardware choices You dilute your argument by mentioning this point. Google does give better hardware choices. I am using a $150 android-one phone (Xiaomi A3) which has a high end comparable back and front camera.
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Can someone explain the economical incentives behind this and how it helps SoftBank and the employees? I understand what they are doing but I don't understand how it will work to succeed.
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    We will enter an era where you make a bundle subscription to all these services (Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, etc.) And then your monthly payment gets distributed by the streaming services based on the ratio of watching content fro
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    by nobrains 7y ago

    Many Islamic (not just Arab. Also Persian and others) scholars were on the right track about identifying evolution, and far from the evolution denying general populace today. See the short "history" section in this article: https