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by ptrincr 9y ago
Yes, and it also mentions the gini coefficient. This popped up in the History of Rome podcast I was listening to last night. Never heard it before, need to read up on it :-)
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by ptrincr 9y ago
Last time Rome popped up as a topic on hackernews, someone mentioned "The history of Rome" podcast. It's absolutely fantastic. I mention it so that perhaps someone else can enjoy this masterpiece as much as I have.
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by ptrincr 9y ago
The reason is Lorentz transformation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation Your measurement of time and space will always adjust to ensure light travels at a constant speed. Time dilates, length contrac
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by ptrincr 9y ago
This is all true.... However it should be said that time is not super slow for the particle, from the particles point of view (frame of reference) time passes as per normal for itself. This is what allows the photon to appear to continue to
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by ptrincr 9y ago
I'm sure that most people who have studied OO would find many similarities with Plato's forms. The same could be said of Spinoza's attributes, however the latter is much more abstract (to say the least). Without digressing to
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'Oumuamua: 'space cigar's' tumble hints at violent past(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by ptrincr 9y ago|0 comments
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by ptrincr 9y ago
It's possible that whilst the universe is full of life, intelligent life is quite scarce. It could be we are the first in this Galaxy. It could be that others have come and gone but never quite made it to space. Cave paintings go back
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by ptrincr 9y ago
Do you have a link to this paper? Life got going on Earth very early on, now perhaps it was a lucky fluke, but it happened early. When you consider that there are perhaps 100 Billion stars in a typical galaxy, and in the observable universe
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by ptrincr 9y ago
That was really impressive. Does anyone know what happened to the core? Seemed to lose feed to the drone ship.
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by ptrincr 9y ago
Thanks for this!
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by ptrincr 9y ago
On 16 August, 2013 block 252,451 (0x0000000000000024b58eeb1134432f00497a6a860412996e7a260f47126eed07) was accepted by the main network, forking unpatched nodes off the network. From https://github.com/bitcoin/bips&#x2
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by ptrincr 9y ago
Thanks for this, just gave tmux a try. Seems fantastic. Tried Version 2.0. Here are the bindings I went for so that it feels more like screen ( what I am used to ), plus being able to use vi like commands for copy + paste: vim ~/.t
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by ptrincr 9y ago
Exactly this. MSBlast was so prevalent that ISP's would prevent infected computers from accessing the internet, by redirecting them to a page which described how they could remove the infection and patch themselves up. I don't rem
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by ptrincr 10y ago
The below should be followed at the users own risk. Perhaps someone can confirm if the following is sane. For Ubuntu versions: Ubuntu 12.04.3 LTS Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS The following should get you patched up, you will need a reboot th
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by ptrincr 10y ago
I get this exact same feeling, a thousand fold when I'm in a supermarket. To think of the amount of effort it has taken to design, manufacture, package, market and transport all those products (edible or not) is a little overwhelming.
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by ptrincr 10y ago
I mentioned this is another comment, but it's worth saying again. For video/audio editing Blender can be used. Plus a bunch of other stuff, from their website: "Blender is the free and open source 3D creation suite. It suppor
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by ptrincr 10y ago
There is also Blender for video editing/model rending plus a whole bunch of other stuff.
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Spinoza's Theory of Attributes(plato.stanford.edu)
3 points by ptrincr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ptrincr 10y ago
Am I the only one who uses Flashback Metacity? It's nice and fast, no bells as whistles.
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by ptrincr 10y ago
I spent so much time on this. Learning how to use the various MFD's, trying to plot a course from Earth -> Moon -> Mars, with a slingshot around the Earth after refueling.... difficult but addictive. Then there was the UCGO mod.
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by ptrincr 10y ago
I searched the thread to see if anyone had mentioned inside out. I found that quite a powerful movie, with an important message. A lot of time and money has been spent trying to prevent people from feeling any kind of negative emotions. Mos
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by ptrincr 10y ago
Actually, the manual, at least the one I got with my C64, did mention many of those aspects and even gave examples of them. This is the one: http://www.retrogamingworld.co.uk/images/thumbnails/350/525/..
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by ptrincr 10y ago
Thanks for posting this, very much appreciated. Are there any tools available which allow you to live code in such a way? I did a quick search and found this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9448215/tools-to-su
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by ptrincr 10y ago
Well it's not been mentioned on this page, but without Sega, Alien Isolation would never have been made. Without doubt one of the scariest games I have played, and as a fan of the first Alien film, I feel they beautifully recreated the
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Europa moon 'spewing water jets'(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by ptrincr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ptrincr 10y ago
Look no further than D3.js as an example of the kind of visualisations which are possible with SVG. https://github.com/d3/d3/wiki/Gallery At least this is what introduced me to working with SVG. As much as I
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by ptrincr 10y ago
As it stands though, kakfa is no where near as complicated as setting up and managing a hadoop/yarn/spark(etc etc) cluster. Without using something like Hortonwork's Ambari, it's a right pain trying to get everything ins
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The poetics of space(harvarddesignmagazine.org)
1 points by ptrincr 10y ago|0 comments
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by ptrincr 10y ago
Entirely female population? This sounds somewhat familiar. Life finds a way.....
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by ptrincr 10y ago
This only clicked for me a few weeks ago, but it finally gave me an understanding of the Higgs field, and the Higgs-boson. So the Higgs field is everywhere, like the electron field and the electromagnetic field (all elementary particles are

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