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   by nobrains 10y ago

   The shooter and the farmer (Reference: The Three Body Problem)
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   by nobrains 10y ago

   "speed or price? A new, crowdfunded entrant in Germany’s passenger rail scene is betting on the former, offering low-price but slightly slower than average" Betting ON the former or Betting AGAINST the former?
3. 393.▲
   by nobrains 10y ago

   Innovation usually happens when there is scarcity of resources.
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   by nobrains 10y ago

   Table nightmare: http://i.imgur.com/52zh3Ki.jpg
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   by nobrains 10y ago

   I use that format to sort my picture folders. So, sorting by name sorts by date as well. Additionally, I add the month text (mmm) as well to the date, which makes it easy for me to quickly recognize the month, otherwise I mostly have to cou
6. 396.▲
   by nobrains 10y ago

   How does that compare to other existing energy generation sources today?
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   by nobrains 10y ago

   I would argue that the test was irrational: "(A) Linda is a bank teller or (B) Linda is a bank teller and is active in the feminist movement. Eighty-five percent of the subjects chose B". Many people could have assumed that being
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   by nobrains 10y ago

   In a Mercedes (at-least the Gulf countries Specifications model), the tank is really empty as soon as the needle hits 0 (Empty), unlike Japanese and American cars, where you can drive quite a bit even after the needle is below the "red
9. 399.▲
   by nobrains 10y ago

   So, its going to be HP vs. Brother now in the home printers industry.
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    by nobrains 10y ago

    The day I understood this, it was a awe moment. The realization that if we zoom in very very deep, we will not see marble-like particles, rather we will see nothing. Its only through the interaction of the excitation in these fields do our
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    by nobrains 10y ago

    How come the quality is different when looking at the GIF file and when looking at the default share link?
12. 402.▲
    by nobrains 11y ago

    http://dilbert.com/strip/1994-04-24
13. 403.▲
    by nobrains 11y ago

    That is kind of like having an open kitchen policy (or a kitchen visible via a glass wall) in a restaurant.
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    by nobrains 11y ago

    "But as the 335 versions of the pro-Islamic State Twitter account demonstrate, technology companies are dealing with a tenacious adversary." - Really? Tenacious Adversary? Because they create new accounts once old ones are closed?
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    by nobrains 11y ago

    The one to change allowed torture techniques from a whitelist to a blacklist is scary. Its even phrased to sound like a good thing "I urge you to consider my proposal to ban the use of certain harsh interrogation techniques expressly p
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    by nobrains 11y ago

    Do you think this handshake was partly due to the CEOs of both Microsoft (Satya Nadella) and Google (Sundar Pichai) having the same roots (India)?
17. 407.▲
    by nobrains 11y ago

    Its like the monster (Professor Callaghan) from Big Hero 6.
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    by nobrains 11y ago

    The answer from the post: http://strangelyconsistent.org/blog/images/all-the-4x4-mazes...
19. 409.▲
    by nobrains 11y ago

    The calendar has Sunday as the first day of the week. Interesting.
20. 410.▲
    by nobrains 11y ago

    Quantum Thoughts
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    by nobrains 12y ago

    I use this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go... (Google Earth images on new tab)
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    by nobrains 12y ago

    All men are created equal. Except Blacks. And Muslims. And non-Americans. And Native Americans.
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    by nobrains 12y ago

    There is a question in QuizUp which says "Where does 163.com take you?"
24. 414.▲
    by nobrains 12y ago

    But this time it fits perfectly.
25. 415.▲
    by nobrains 12y ago

    Or follow the crowd behavior and create an account.
26. 416.▲
    by nobrains 13y ago

    Yes. I haven't thought about laptops/desktops OSes yet, but atleast in phones I should be able to mark a WIFI connection as "treat-as-data-connection" so that the OS obeys the background data rules for the OS and the app
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    by nobrains 13y ago

    Add this as a bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){_readableOptions= {'text_font':'quote(Palatino Linotype), Palatino, quote(Book Antigua), Georgia, serif','text_font_monospace':'quote(Courier New), Couri
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    by nobrains 13y ago

    Except that, from the limelight, it probably is worth $100,000 now.
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    by nobrains 13y ago

    Like this: https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/ordering-pizza-2...
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    by nobrains 13y ago

    http://www.ted.com/talks/andreas_raptopoulos_no_roads_there_...