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by peter303 8y ago
This article is not correct. I was using email in 1974 and experienced similar issues.
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by peter303 8y ago
An analysis of great VR suggests it needs approximately a peta-op of computing power for sufficient temporal and spatial resolution and motion tracking. Merely a factor of a hundred over current systems and achievable in 6-7 years according
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by peter303 8y ago
And his surname is not Patels. :-) The Patel clan own a lot of the Mom and Pop hotels in the US.
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by peter303 8y ago
Wrong. Plagues still occur unfortunately in the developing world as the Gates Foundation has been gloriously struggling against. And even in the developed world as AIDS and flu epidemics have shown. Even more insidious is that microbes have
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by peter303 8y ago
As a middle age person myself I find it interesting that names from my grandparents generation are back in fashion again after practically unheard of in my generation. No one one wants an odd-sounding name. Hence why the lyrics to Johnny Ca
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by peter303 8y ago
I have thought it irironic that some people worry about high voltage transmission lines in their, yet carry a high intensity electromagnetic radiation source next to their privates most of the day- cellphone in their pants pocket. Neither s
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by peter303 8y ago
I refrain from making crazy people jokes when I realized that as many as a quarter of certain subpopolutions, e.g. middle age US women, may be on psychoactive drugs for one condition or another. Pretty good chance of hurting soneones feelin
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by peter303 8y ago
Did the Stanford grad include that his and other grad students time is worth at least $100 an hour on the open market, i.e. what a Stanford CS grad would make in Silicon Valley (cest moi)?
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by peter303 8y ago
Choose a non-Earth-centric time standard. People speculate how a space-faring society would be able to synchronize time and location under relativistic physics. The answer is an intergalactic GPS using far away qusar locations and frequenci
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by peter303 8y ago
A proper programmed petaflop computer should be able to handle this.
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by peter303 8y ago
My professor requires the software, data and makefiles to reproduce any figure in a published paper. Then the figure would be erased with software reproducing it. The motivation was kind of selfish. The professor would update his textbooks
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by peter303 8y ago
I thought the federal government did that via 20th century COBOL software few understand.
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by peter303 8y ago
Life is too short to wallow in self-pity. Give yourself more credit.
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by peter303 8y ago
I have been asking around if anyone has seen tariff effects yet. So far very little. I have noticed that can soda pop prices have increased about ten cents a can after being stable most of this century. An acquaintance who owns a family far
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by peter303 8y ago
Linkedin verses common resume wisdom: In the US the conventional wisdom is you are never supposed to put a self photo in a resume (though that is common in other countries). However in Linkedin you cant achieve top status without a professi
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by peter303 8y ago
Similar story from months ago https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/technology/cryptocurrency...
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by peter303 8y ago
And I thought itvwas Cape Cod.
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by peter303 8y ago
The Arnold Carnegie of India. Mr Carnegie funded hundreds of public libraries around the USA in the 1800s. He was a rags to riches 19th century steel billionaire in modern valuations.I have read dozens of testimonials of how small town midd
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by peter303 8y ago
My college ID card was the SSN. They did not have instant online credit like today.
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by peter303 8y ago
They used to say never put a picture on a US resume (common in some countries). But a picture is considered essential on LinkedIn to increase the search status. Go figure.
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by peter303 8y ago
From the article title I thought this article would be why FORTRAN, LISP, and COBOL still survive after over 60 years of use. First, these computer languages started with a lot of good ideas and evolved to incorporate ideas from subsequent
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by peter303 8y ago
Humans have been creating virtual realities since telling stories around campfires hundreds of millennia ago. I can become entraced in an oral story as well as print novel or movie. Many cultures have had long oral books of myths or religio
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by peter303 8y ago
Paleomagnetism measurement of the magnetic field direction in a rock gives the latitude of a the rock when it formed. The magnetic fields are horizontal at the equator and vertical at the poles, thereby giving latitude of the rock when is c
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by peter303 8y ago
The preminent hypothesis for the end of the dinosaurs before the Alverezes found the meteoric Iridium layer 40 years ago was large volcanos in India poisoned the planets ecosystem. Some geologists hold that dino extinction was caused by mul
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by peter303 8y ago
Not only that, but grass has a special kind of photosynthesis that can survive in a lower CO2 atmosphere than other kinds of plants. Believe it or not, one of the long term hazards for life is too little CO2 for photosynthesis, below 100 pp
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by peter303 8y ago
I recall Jet.com (now owned by Walmart) tried to meet to meet or beat Amazon prices without the efficiencies of Amazon. So it was burning through VC capital losing money on most sales. I dont know if the model have changed under Walmart.
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by peter303 8y ago
At age 62 you can receive 45% the equity of your house as a lump sum or annuity and not have to pay it back while you own the house. This is called a reverse mortgage. The lender recovers costs fromthe sale of your house after you sell the
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by peter303 8y ago
The age to which you can still work has probably increased about ten years to 75-80 since social security began 85 years ago. However there is still a period near the end of your life where you are unable to work.
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by peter303 8y ago
Medicare covers US residents who have paid ten years of FICA taxes. You dont have to be a citizen, but have to receive care in the US to be covered. I believe those who didnt pay enough FICA tax can still buy in at full price which is about
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by peter303 8y ago
Medicare only pays 80% of health care costs. The remaining 20% can be devasting to your finances. Thats why people buy, or some pension plans provide, supplemental health insurance at about $300 a month. (On top of $160 for medicare + drug

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