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by ralfd 8y ago
Tag the review with the info if the item was returned.
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by ralfd 8y ago
is compiling as taxing as video rendering though?
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by ralfd 8y ago
We actually discussed it 8 years ago too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2027691
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by ralfd 8y ago
I guess it depends on the domain name...
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by ralfd 8y ago
> ...as he sat down in his seat, Mr Houston realised that he had forgotten the memory stick that contained all the files. "I was so frustrated because I felt like this kept happening," he says. "I never wanted to have the
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by ralfd 8y ago
Bobbing dices won't work. Think about it: VR sickness comes from the mismatch of your body _not_ moving, while the visuals show you moving around. Car sickness comes from your body moving (detected by your inner ear), but if you are no
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by ralfd 8y ago
Read the article. The headline is misleading.
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by ralfd 8y ago
Apple car rumors surfaced when driverless was not a trend and only done as research project by Google. I guess they thought they could leapfrog the established industry as they did with the iPhone. But now EVERY major car manufacturer is ho
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by ralfd 8y ago
Antennagate was a none issue. There was one week of bitching, then a grumpy Steve Jobs had the press event were he handed out free bumpers and showed other phones also had the death grip, then the iPhone 4 sold tens of millions and was kept
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by ralfd 8y ago
The existence of the universe itself
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by ralfd 8y ago
For me (subjectively) Civ 4 was the best civ. It has (objectively) the more challenging AI/difficulty. A hardcore gamers view in what went wrong woth Civ 5: http://www.sullla.com/Civ5/whatwentwrong.html
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by ralfd 9y ago
Newton was a mathematician, but he was not a scientist. John Maynard Keynes opined "Newton was not the first of the age of reason, he was the last of the magicians." "Scientist" is a modern term and I would grant histori
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by ralfd 9y ago
Why though? At least gold is very nonreactive, isn't it?
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by ralfd 9y ago
She wants low-functioning, rebellious drones?
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by ralfd 9y ago
⌘F Edge "Edge of Tomorrow" is a fantastic video game movie in spirit. The Groundhog-Day-Formula is not new, but it nails the game experience of having a "savepoint" and getting better and better until you master the bull
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by ralfd 9y ago
We do know remarkably few things about life on Earth or a developed colony. On a starship you have duties, you work, and people are discriminated according to military rank (better living quarters, more holodeck privileges). But what do peo
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by ralfd 9y ago
In the vimeo video he shows the other burst shots in Lightroom. A tenth of a second before/after is noticeably different.
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by ralfd 9y ago
> For example, a non-profit corporation has no owners. What happens if a non-profit dissolves?
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by ralfd 9y ago
Not only warfare: http://www.businessinsider.de/drones-carrying-drugs-and-expl...
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by ralfd 9y ago
Fun Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XbLz0L6UdI (Change it to english subtitles)
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by ralfd 9y ago
It is interesting to read Lessigs view and how he thought he lost the case: http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/March-April-2004/story_le... ------------------------------- There were two points in this argument wh
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by ralfd 9y ago
The dig at the beginning that „white men“ got 1962 the Nobel prize for DNA instead Rosalind Franklin was cringey and factually incorrect. Frankin died in 1958 and the Nobel prize is not awarded posthumously. Had she lived she would have got
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by ralfd 9y ago
Yahoo had a hundred other problems.
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by ralfd 9y ago
Comment for saving.
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by ralfd 9y ago
> As of December, Every Frame a Painting is no longer. Ramos and Zhou got busy with other work, and couldn't figure out how to keep doing what they wanted within the confines of both their channel and YouTube's systems. Noooooo
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by ralfd 9y ago
He is likely right, because genes for intelligence are very often on the X-chromosome: https://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/201109/the-incredib...
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by ralfd 9y ago
But if you hadn’t known about the twin, what would you have thought then?
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by ralfd 9y ago
Apples claims the risk a random person is recognized with TouchID is 1 : 50000. So while in theory every person has a different fingerprint, there are technical limitations. If the HSBC voice ID has a similar failure rate for random voices
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by ralfd 9y ago
Great, but this is the other side of the coin: https://www.energy-charts.de/power.htm?source=all-sources&we... Look at the beginning of the week on 18.December and Wind+Solar are only 5% to electricity production. Over
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by ralfd 9y ago
Speaking of: Does anyone know a good glorified tutorial on machine learning?

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