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by pharke 12y ago
The intellectual property debate would beg to differ.
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coldtea, you just got served.
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by pharke 12y ago
Loved the video, after pledging I'm excited to read all three volumes since I've just been skirting NN, GA, and ML for a while now. DRM free and examples in multiple languages are a big selling point. Hope to see the whole serie
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by pharke 12y ago
> ...galaxies that are more than approximately 4.5 gigaparsecs away from us are expanding away from us faster than light. We can still see such objects because the Universe in the past was expanding more slowly than it is today, so the a
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by pharke 12y ago
> Remember that inequality was huge way before the industrial revolution. You know how feudalism worked, right? A few dozen filthy-rich noble families + 99% of population in abject misery, was the rule for most of Europe in the best part
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by pharke 12y ago
> The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association has already launched challenges... ... over alleged surveillance of groups opposed to the construction of the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline in B.C. Anti-Canada activity if you do, a
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by pharke 12y ago
I think someone flipping burgers at McDonalds would trade waking up thinking about work for waking up and thinking about how they'll feed their children any day of the week. Also, the concept of being able to sustain your current lifes
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by pharke 12y ago
Just for future reference, there are some extremely large differences between the social programs, how they are funded and administered, their scope and their availability in the countries you mentioned and among the countries that are memb
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by pharke 12y ago
The point I took away from the article seemed to be emphasized by these two statements that she made: >And honestly, I wouldn’t even mind the degradations of my work life so much if the privileged and powerful were honest about it. If th
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by pharke 12y ago
If you pause at 9 seconds in and check out the rig they're using to film the feed where the virtual objects are visible, it looks as though they are using the same lenses that are on the goggles to display the virtual objects in front
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by pharke 12y ago
He could have chosen pentominoes instead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino
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by pharke 12y ago
A few things: 1) Why limit yourself to 4x7? The 1988 NES version of Tetris is 10 units wide. 2) There isn't any malicious design, you simply get 1 of each shape (one of the L pieces in the author's photo is reflected, should be t
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by pharke 12y ago
You shouldn't believe everything you read on the internet, some people are just out for their own crazy agendas. You're correct that the science has been there for quite some time and astronomers have been lobbying and popularizin
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by pharke 12y ago
Nice selective quoting, how about the whole thing? "But of those unhappy ones who were ensnared by Melkor little is known of a certainty. For who of the living has descended into the pits of Utumno, or has explored the darkness of the
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by pharke 12y ago
It originally derives from the Latin Orcus "Hell"[1] but if you refer to Tolkien's own dictionaries it is cast as an Elvish word meaning "monster", generally the same meaning it had in Old English, and used in place
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by pharke 12y ago
Related: You can also donate your spare CPU/GPU cycles to similar projects with http://folding.stanford.edu/ Someone's even trying to make the points awarded for time spent folding into a basis for a crypto curren
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by pharke 12y ago
Some interesting opinions here, but I can't agree with his speculation that you could build a floating habitat from wood and cotton cloth. He also seems to have gotten the concentrations of C02 and N mixed up as he believes the latter
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by pharke 12y ago
I wonder if these numbers could be improved by considering an oxygen-helium atmosphere rather than an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere. I'm not sure how feasible this would be in a large enclosed space, my initial concern would be the devel
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by pharke 12y ago
Mostly from sources regarding hot air balloon flight and I don't in any way claim to be qualified in this area but: Normal Air Mixture, Dry at sea level (1013.25 hPa) and 20 degrees Celsius: 1.205 kg/m3 Normal Air Mixture, Dry at
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by pharke 13y ago
You should finish both books rather than go by the superficial text in those comics. Huxley lays out a society founded upon consumerism and, implicitly, a rampantly free market. Orwell's notion of the future seems to assume that the