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by prvc 6y ago
Nobody is advocating the position outlined over your "fiction" heading, your "truth" section talks about only about likelihood and details like the total mass of the contaminants are irrelevant figures. As for the "
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by prvc 6y ago
Why would the people in charge of that spacecraft have decided to include such a cargo? It seems to go against all the principles of good science and conservation.
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by prvc 6y ago
x264 does indeed punch above its weight. Which has been, counterintuitively, a boon for codec freedom.
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by prvc 6y ago
Those comparisons are meaningless without also factoring in some measure of quality such as VMAF. The advantages of AV1 become clear in that case.
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by prvc 6y ago
It happens automatically for contentious threads (measured in comments).
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by prvc 6y ago
>It's strange that they picked such a poor way to justify the ban when they could have made a significantly stronger case Doing so is an advantage if you want to create a display of raw power. The poorer the justification, the bette
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Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content(torrentfreak.com)
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by prvc 6y ago
Can anyone explain why the geometric mean in particular was used for the overall results?
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by prvc 6y ago
>Always have a local backup of anything on the Internet that is important to you Also would be a nice service to others to create a backup on archive.today and archive.org, and similar sites.
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by prvc 6y ago
"Literally", in the view of those doing the skipping, not the post author, is my interpretation.
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by prvc 6y ago
There are only so many 2006-2012 vintage Thinkpads in existence, as he mentions in the last section. This certainly relevant to his "this is a hack" point, however, one should note that prices for these items used has been going u
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by prvc 6y ago
Coles was a popular Canadian bookstore chain, for those unaware.
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by prvc 6y ago
"Buying it twice" doesn't mean what he intends it to, considering he always had the intention of returning one.
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"False balance" is irrelevant to Russell's point above. He would be the first to explain that the average of two false statements is not necessarily true. The referenced "inference as to what really happened" does n
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by prvc 6y ago
Such a strange comment to make. I do not believe anyone disputes his right to choose whatever title he desires for his compositions. On the other hand, those pieces are not equivalent to works with that title, say, written in the 19th centu
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by prvc 6y ago
What are the prospects for a hypothetical future fanless Ryzen laptop?
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by prvc 6y ago
>John Gruber has really become a shill over the last few years Only a grain of truth to that. He has always been known, as far as I am aware, merely as an Apple fan who blogs about it. There may be some "shilling", to the exten
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by prvc 6y ago
So what? Doesn't bear on whether that podcast is worthy listening. Uncalled for, tbh.
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by prvc 6y ago
A bit of a fluff piece; sadly short on details.
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In the gif, the path intersected the disc representing the Earth's position a few times. What was the actual minimum distance between the object and the Earth's surface?
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by prvc 6y ago
I think they just meant that bottles and shopping bags are made from "ordinary plastics".
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by prvc 6y ago
>Even if the group developed a system for using public information to improve their odds, experts expressed skepticism that it could result in reliable profit. My hunch is that winning tickets are not in fact equally distributed, and the
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by prvc 6y ago
Apple leaders have spoken publicly in favor of such deprivations. It would be interesting to check whether the company itself has made contributions to that cause under the guise of charity.
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Supposedly, this doesn't use "raycasting" like Wolfenstein-3D does, rather another, faster algorithm was used, which does not produce a correct result in every case. The perspective calculations do not appear to be correct ei
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by prvc 6y ago
Precisely. If he's selling ad-free versions, he can just host them himself.
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by prvc 6y ago
>it makes us all more vulnerable to extortion and blackmail This is true with the added proviso that, by "us", he means "the guilty". The rest are protected, on the contrary, to this very particular form of these crim
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by prvc 6y ago
>and got fired from every job he didn’t quit. By the summer of 1939, he was unemployed You don't say.
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by prvc 6y ago
And for DOS, there is FastDoom ( https://github.com/viti95/FastDoom )!
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by prvc 6y ago
Peachnote may also be used for the same purpose, but its usefulness is much diminished by their limiting of the length of search queries.
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by prvc 6y ago
What does that have to do with a rubber hose?

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