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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
What seems weird about this is that he did very little of actual 'beating Kickstarters to the market'. If you read the article, he is just selling things that are already listed on alibaba(so it's the chinese manufacturers wh
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Thats certainly true. Usually, these cases are done with money transfers in Europe, which is not really reversible (on the other hand, this is where many people use Paypal, which also gives you the money-back feature of a CC).
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
But then, it is not that easy to defraud the EC cards, since you need the physical card to make a payment with them (in addition to a PIN that is usually needed to authorize the payment).
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
While you may or may not agree with his opinion or the way he worded it, a personal attack on him is really unwarranted (besides, I don't even get what's that bad about his job description?!). I think we can all agree that it is n
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Your link explicitly mentions that the equipment found in this specific vessel is probably not the original one: Speaking of equipment, it was obvious the submarine was stripped of any useful electronic equipment, such as navigation or com
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Okay, that is of course true :) So replace "it is an inherently hard problem" by "it is most likely an inherently hard problem".
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
It is deterministic, but you still need to keep track of a field that covers your whole configuration space (basically you need all the information contained in a function R^n->C for n degrees of freedom). Keeping track this high-dimensi
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Hi, thanks for replying. I think the idea of a distributedly mirrored wikipedia is great, so thanks for this project (even if some users seem to encounter high cpu load using it). So, do I understand correctly that each page (that has been
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Ok, that's not too unreasonable (especially if you need to download an extension anyways). If you make delta updates available for changed pages, this should actually be reasonably small once you have done the initial download.
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Thanks for actually looking into the mentioned problems instead of going on a tangent about climate change ;) CacheP2P seems to solve the problem by including a list of sha1 hashes for all files that are distributed through P2P. Speculation
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Let's reformulate it then: topics where some actors have a strong incentive (monetary or emotional) to manipulate other peoples opinion.
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
I understand that this is an early implementation. Nevertheless, I have a question: how does it make sure the site you receive is actually the a) correct one (someone could distribute incorrect pages e.g. about controversial topics like Nor
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
At least in europe there was an LTE version that had an SD-card slot, an actual compass and gyroscope and the eponymous LTE support. My girlfriend still uses it and is a really nice phone (except for the, by now, ridiculously bad camera).
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
You can get very similar functionality for git with "magit", which is an emacs package for managing git. That said: Partially commiting files is indeed very handy and it would be great if it was available to more people.
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Not to sound too snobby (I would have notrecognized the Newton-Raphson method is by its name either), but I think it is at least plausible to figure out the method on the spot. If you either know how the first order of a Taylor series looks
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Well, it still serves the purpose of emphasizing the foreground. It does, however, not look like the depth of field you would expect from a 'real camera'. But I don't see it as 'ruining' photos. It's just a too
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
I think using arch as its basis would clash too much with their target audience. I have not tried Antergos or Manjaro, but at least arch itself is often rather high-maintenance due to its rolling release nature. I think someone looking for
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
As long as not all the memory is actually used, you can pretend that there is 20GB though. Once you actually need to map more than there is, you would need to stop the virtual machine. If you read e.g. the Bostrom 2003 paper, you will see t
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
So in the longer run, either the drivers will have to work for less than they are willing to or the customers have to pay more than they are willing to. Or Uber has to keep paying the tab.
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
If a company is investing in production facilities, building up a supply chain or R&D, I can completely understand how losing money is a solid strategy. It is basically taking a loan to invest in being a better company in the future. On
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
But only if they are fully occupied > 90% of all time (which is IMHO not really feasible).
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
If I understood correctly, the decision not to use an RTG was also due to its weight. That said, it seems there is not much know-how about RTGs at ESA, which is most likely also influenced by political reasons.
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by oceanofsolaris 10y ago
Actually, the last paragraph of the linked wikipedia article mentions the organo-phosphate theory (it somewhat labels it as conspiracy-theory, but it mentions it). The talk page actually mentions a kind of rebuttal to the organo-phosphate t
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by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
This is rather impressive. Similarly to the cited work http://tinyclouds.org/colorize/ , it does however seem to have a slight bias towards brownish colors (giving many images a sepia look). One thing very noticeable in
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by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
It's simply a misspelled version of "manifold", isn't it? And if you replace it by "manifold", the sentence makes perfect sense.
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by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
To be honest, I don't even see the point of setting a separate passphrase for your PGP on a machine you own if it adds any hassle for you [1]. I don't see why you PGP key should be so different from every other password you use. S
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by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
I have to say that this sounds very reasonable (and certainly a lot better than sending your plain text contacts). Does anyone know what kind of solution Signal is using nowadays? The linked article is not very recent and they might have ch
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by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
As far as I can see this is quite similar to the 'sharded bloom filter' discussed in the submitted link. This approach is dismissed in the document as > In the end, this strategy seems to provide very little at the cost of fair
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by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
The desktop app also works with chromium. But then, you need to have the mobile app installed to use the desktop app... Look, I don't think that Signal is that great against targeted attacks. The fact that you have to install it on a n
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by oceanofsolaris 11y ago
This looks rather nice and neatly displays an aspect of ant colonies that is hard to see otherwise. When done for research, I think that this is awesome. Have a look at the concrete pouring of a leafcutter ant colony (which is huge and has

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