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by po 10y ago
Totally not a simulation and more of a particle-themed game is Particulars. [1] It is a game with a story but it stays true to the underlying science of combining quarks and other fundamental particles. I found it to be pretty fun but since
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Also good is the linked-to JunoCam explainer [1] which includes a nice map showing the orbits and explains what we could expect to see in terms of imaging data coming from the mission and when. Hint: images are not the main reason they sent
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Thoughts on Swift Playgrounds(speirs.org)
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To obscure a person’s identity, the company said it will inject a small amount of "noise," or randomness, to what the user does — so each little interaction, on its own, is meaningless This seems like a system-level implementati
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Here’s how Apple plans to protect privacy and still compete on AI(recode.net)
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I suspect that you're making a bit of a mistake yourself in your calculations here if we want to get an understanding of if it's "more accidents" or "access to help when the accident happens" that is more impor
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by po 10y ago
Didn't know it was in question, added a link to snopes. > Blaming people because of bystanders effect is poor form. My point, perhaps poorly made, was also that the larger societal incentives are to blame. Many people respond as we
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by po 10y ago
It's worse than that, the incentives are such that it's better to kill than maim: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2... (although this is apparently in question: http:&#x2
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by po 10y ago
My thought was that this stems from the idea that while the clipboard may be a legitimate and secure way to transfer across programs from a password manager to the password field, it is also an OS-wide shared space. After you tab away to th
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Germany had so much renewable energy it had to pay people to use electricity(qz.com)
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by po 11y ago
Huh.. this paper introduces a technique that works the way I originally had understood CRISPR/Cas9 to work based on my casual reading of the technology. So that's pretty good news and I should apply my previous excitement about it
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by po 11y ago
I was thinking that Prions remind me of biological Ice-nine and sure enough there's a mention of it in the wikipedia article for Ice-nine: Ice-nine has been used as a model to explain the infective mechanism of mis-folded proteins cal
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by po 11y ago
> The Model 3 will come with standard rear-wheel drive, with an option for dual-motor all-wheel drive. It better be fully autonomous if you've ever seen how rear-wheel drive performs in a north-eastern snowstorm. Sure, there's
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SNES Super Mario World Turned into Flappy Bird, by Code Injection(gamasutra.com)
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FWIW, the American Citizens Abroad have a short list of places to file complaints about being ditched by a bank. Not sure if it actually does anything but a lot of times these government committees and groups are pretty insulated from the r
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by po 11y ago
Apple is required to have backdoors, at least on iPhones sold in foreign countries, isn't it? I don't believe this is the case. Even if the SE were completely secure, a rogue update of iOS could intercept the fingerprint or pas
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by po 11y ago
I had this happen to me... I accidentally allowed a pool to fill up to capacity and couldn't do anything with it because deleting files wouldn't free space due to snapshots and the commands to delete snapshots wouldn't work.
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My understanding is that the iPhone 5C is not _simple_ to brute force as sold from the store. The FBI is asking Apple to weaken the software in this particular one enough for them to be able to brute-force by creating custom software that w
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by po 11y ago
Not mechanical, so much lower resolution... but you might have recently seen the History of Japan video being linked around... the guy who did that, Bill Wurtz also did this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBI-nZTUgf8 Ther
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by po 11y ago
See also: Mr. Babe, Japan's men's magazine for chubby guys. http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2015/11/13/lifestyle/japans... I will also say that both my wife nor I can find clothes that fi
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Bull's-eye Moons image from Cassini(nasa.gov)
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China Defends Controversial Anti-Terror Law(thediplomat.com)
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by po 11y ago
I don't understand how a methane/oxygen reaction, once ignited, cannot travel through a metal cage… I'm sure it works but the "absorb the heat that caused the explosions" explanation doesn't make sense to me. D
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Mr Beard said Blackberry did not support "backdoors" that would grant open access to customers' information and had never complied with such a request anywhere in the world. I'm kind of confused by this. I mean we&#x27
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More links for you: * Europe - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2015/06/05... * A distorted map from Japan - http://chaudron.blogspot.jp/2009/04/kohei-sugi
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by po 11y ago
The article mentions that it's not a wood-framed building, I think implying that it's a true layered (multi-wythe) brick construction: My analysis doesn't even address brick problems associated with the switch from multi-wyt
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#ICANHAZPDF Access to Academic Papers on Twitter(theatlantic.com)
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I would have said "available"... just not the forever part.
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Reminds me of these Japanese stair-climbing hand-trucks that you see delivery people using to get supplies into the shops in the subway stations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCEglW9e5EQ
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by po 11y ago
Part of the problem is that there is no longer a woman in the token booth.

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