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by nzp 13y ago
Nice tip (not sure it works, but worth a try), but why not post a direct link to Youtube video? The linked site is a PITA with NoScript and Ghostery.
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by nzp 13y ago
It most certainly is not an accurate reading of physics. What is simultaneous in relation to deep space objects is just a function of their distance from us. Any movement we make is completely negligible, because at those scales the Earth
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This may sound like a cliche, but the discovery is the reward. Everything else is just icing on the cake, may make your life more comfortable, may make you feel appreciated, but it's optional. I mean, your question actually says &quo
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by nzp 13y ago
I'm guessing he means the exchange offices have to have a license for doing the exchange business. Not residents or businesses.
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by nzp 13y ago
Thanks!
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> How does Minnesota's system work for me as a member of the public? I can walk all over my neighborhood feeling perfectly safe, and even my children can freely go out in public, walking for a radius of a mile or biking for a radius
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by nzp 13y ago
Yes, but then we are arguing about truisms, so what's the point the naysayers want to make? I don't mean you specifically, but on several threads on this page there are people arguing that: "oh, this is so much money wasted,
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by nzp 13y ago
How many schools could be built on a US DoD's Iraq war budget (just an example)? And how many lives would be spared if in fact that money went into building of schools? I think there are issues in our world today infinitely better su
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by nzp 13y ago
> Gold is not all that useful by itself, so launching a bunch of gold into space would not be throwing wealth away the way launching an expensive and fancy satellite is. At the point of launch the satellite would be even less valuable (i
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We already have that: http://www.scholarpedia.org
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> ... And that opens the door to other quantum phenomenon such as teleportation. That last paragraph implies that if we could observe wave-like quantum phenomena in classical objects, we might also see other quantum effects. Fair enough,
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by nzp 13y ago
> worrydream.com is basically impossible to scroll on Chrome on Windows. I was so confused by this and abraxasz's remark about original design. Not scrolling in Chrome on Windows? What? Why would it not scroll, and what's so
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by nzp 13y ago
An interesting read, some actually novel empirical data, although the title is a bit link-baity. I can't help but wonder if this is a learned response in most cultures, i.e. where clothes play a significant social role. One doesn&#x27
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by nzp 13y ago
I agree for geeks, but not for "normal" people.
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It's less effective for sure, but depending on your situation it might be good enough. On email systems I maintain the only filtering I set up is AV with Clamav. One reason for this is my huge dislike for solutions that statistical f
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by nzp 13y ago
Disregarding for a moment that a state can not be communist (one defining characteristic of communism being absence of state), only socialist, North Korea has long disassociated itself from communism. Since the 90s at least there has bee
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by nzp 13y ago
There are two other, though not as complex: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata
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Programmable 6,000-Part Drawing Boy Automaton Built 240 Years Ago(thisiscolossal.com)
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by nzp 13y ago
I recently switched to Ubuntu from FreeBSD because of driver support problems (i.e. not willingly) and here's my take: * Unity: I don't see what the big deal is. Granted, it's a subjective thing. As someone who generally di
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by nzp 13y ago
I've used FreeBSD as my desktop for a long time and would continue using it if it supported the hardware in my new home machine (no drivers for this particular WiFi USB adapter, and not that great support for Intel graphics[1], unfortu
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by nzp 13y ago
Oh, no, no, maybe I didn't come through clear -- I completely understand and agree with what you're saying here. My remark was more along the lines of: even IF electronic signatures had the physical feature of not being easy to m
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by nzp 13y ago
I agree with this, but you can't dismiss the dissimilarity of these electronic "signatures" with the actual thing. Not being able to easily move the physical signature still doesn't prevent forgery. In case of disputes
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by nzp 13y ago
Having cancer tends to negatively affect one's quality of life. ;) But it's an interesting question--quality of life vs. lifespan. Imagine if there was no possibility of prolonging human lifespan, but instead we had the means to
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by nzp 13y ago
Anarchists? I'm sorry, but how about learning what that word actually means?
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by nzp 13y ago
I don't think this is shaming. First of all, people who would genuinely feel ashamed if caught in this situation have such a punishing super-ego that they would be extremely unlikely to engage in cheating in the first place. Second
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by nzp 13y ago
I don't know about this (and I see this idea expressed in other comments)... Something about that just seems wrong to me. What DistroKid is doing is showing good will to users who for whatever reason decide to game the system. It&#x2
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by nzp 13y ago
Tcsh does just that by default (at least on FreeBSD).
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Exactly. There seems to exist a strange, crazy fetishization of the WWW, as if it's by its nature unquestionably superior to other delivery methods. Even morally superior in some sense (i.e. if you make a native application instead o
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by nzp 13y ago
I haven't done enough C to need it, but it's a relatively common C idiom (not sure about PHP though). It's usually used with a goto jump (label inside if (0)) to clean up after an error. That way during normal execution the
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by nzp 13y ago
> When the Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner made his great leap from space last year... It's a long way to space from where he jumped. The Karman line is at 100 km altitude.

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