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by quink 12y ago
While still waiting for Daala I've already started encoding my videos in H.265 separately from handbrake, using mplayer. It's been going very well, H.265 will be awesome once it really starts hitting the mainstream. The bitrates a
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by quink 12y ago
Year is wrong, BTW. I remember reading this a few years before 2011. Edit: here we go, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173226
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by quink 12y ago
But you don't understand. My special variety of the Martignale system works to beat the wheel in the long run. Guaranteed!
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by quink 12y ago
Except that all TA 'rules' are based essentially based on numerology. The MACD camp worships 12, 26 and 9. RSI does 14, 70 and 30. They all also worship past values that wre present in the market in the past, which apparently have
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by quink 12y ago
But Josh, don't you understand that 120 days in a past market is just the same as 120 days in the future market? As we all know the stock market is innately tied to certain magic specific numbers of days that are ever unchanging. Like
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by quink 12y ago
I've just had a revelation. MACD has three days as parameters, 12, 26 and 9 being commonly used for completely arbitrary reasons. Biorhythms use 23, 28 and 33 for similarly arbitrary reasons. Maybe if we found the right magic numbers w
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by quink 12y ago
Nope, technical analysis of the usual sort doesn't look at the book at all. It just looks at the past prices and, if you're really lucky, past volumes. Going past what's traditionally technical analysis, in that example at 5.
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by quink 12y ago
Don't forget the magical term 'support'. Or 'Fibonacci levels'. Or 'resistance zones'. If I see another blog post by the brokerage firm I'm with about freaking 'supports' I'm going to h
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by quink 12y ago
Anyone else getting ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID?
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I guess it's possible that the URL behind the black bar doesn't match the actual URL used for the exploit - further obscuring. It might be too easily guessable if it's short, no matter the censorship. And editing the URL woul
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by quink 12y ago
> PNG frames could just as easily be used where needed. Oh goodie, let's do a lossless sub-format. Why? Because motion prediction trickling through alpha transparency. http://xkcd.com/463/
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This is just MJPEG in disguise and then worse again. And MJPEG is already near the bottom of the list of things I would ever send over the web. Better or 'good' XNG encoder is an oxymoron. Also, it's JPEG so there's no t
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by quink 12y ago
This is completely terrible. This completely disregards anything motion estimation. Every single frame is encoded from scratch and that means a huge amount of space is wasted. And because of how JPEG works if even a single pixel is differen
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by quink 12y ago
Just in case someone skipped out on the relevant day of middle school science, it should be 'fission'. The difference is that fission is taking heavy elements, breaking them apart and using the released energy. Radioactivity, Thor
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The parents of a one-year-old?
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Glenn Lazarus is a former rugby footballer, who was nicknamed 'the brick with eyes'. He's basically a warm body whose election was paid for by a political party founded by a billionaire miner who - the miner - has hardly been
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by quink 12y ago
Being in Australia, I consider any claim by Rupert that someone else is damaging the public discourse even remotely as much as him to be utterly ludicrous. Yesterday was just another example of that. I'd qualify which yesterday, but it
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by quink 12y ago
EC2 screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/OdCehey.png And copy of the email that was sent out to us... ---- Dear Amazon EC2 Customer, One or more of your Amazon EC2 instances are scheduled to be rebooted for required host maintena
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by quink 12y ago
No I didn't. I said that it's something like that from a 30,000 view. I even put being happy about a +/- 50% difference without a problem. But if I put 1 energy into object x, at the simplest I'll get something about 1 t
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by quink 12y ago
> climate science is oversold (a simple truth that anyone with any rational sense understands) Now replace 'climate science' with astrology on the one hand or astronomy on the other and you might understand why what you're
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It is a bit of an existentialist threat. It's one of the possible answers to the Fermi paradox. Why haven't we met anyone? Because they boiled themselves to bits before they could interstellar space. Which, inherently, requires hu
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by quink 12y ago
If by that you mean that the outbound radiation of Earth will increase to provide negative feedback due to black-body radiation, then that's absolutely right. T^4 in fact, like you said. But if the greenhouse gas levels are coming up 5
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by quink 12y ago
> The sun is no where near that unstable. I didn't say the sun was - this calculation is past the point of radiation and already in Watt being received by Earth. And I'm pretty sure those Watt are linearly (edit: or at least so
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by quink 12y ago
It's kind of like that. In three ways that I can think of. The models are run hundreds or thousands of times across different countries. The climate, modelled on a day by day basis, is effectively random for any particular instant. And
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by quink 12y ago
http://www.skepticalscience.com/solar-activity-sunspots-glob... In a nutshell, CO2 is near enough on the path to increasing by 50% and it's pretty important for the greenhouse effect. Solar variation over millenia is,
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by quink 12y ago
http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.... http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-... And can you please stop with the 'Warmist' label? It's stu
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> Dr. Koonin was undersecretary for science in the Energy Department during President Barack Obama's first term and is currently director of the Center for Urban Science and Progress at New York University. His previous positions in
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by quink 12y ago
Yeah, the BBC have turned into a big giant bunch of dicks. Here's what they're up to in Australia, out of all places: http://torrentfreak.com/bbc-isps-should-assume-heavy-vpn-use...
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What? No. Comcast has their network reliably built out to 750 MHz. If you think there are 600 MHz unused on that, you're left with 150 MHz. Which is about enough space for about 20 NTSC channels and the FM band. I can assure you that t
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> Cable could easily offer these rates by using the bandwidth currently occupied by their tv channels. Not exactly. It's true that a coax cable can, over distances of hundreds of metres, carry up to a frequency of 850 MHz at a fairl

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