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by tbabb 9y ago
My thought would be to have two distinct fields: "normalized" and "pristine" version of the user's email. Then always mail to exactly what the user typed ("pristine"), and use the "normalized" ma
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by tbabb 9y ago
> people out there that would love to pick up a booster with 9 re-usable engines in it. Makes me think of the early Keyhole spy satellite program, which returned exposed film to Earth in a capsule. The capsule was to be caught mid-air, a
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by tbabb 9y ago
It's not in orbit around Earth, and won't be visible from Earth. As soon as it boosts out of its parking orbit, it will be orbiting the sun between Earth and Mars. Also, there is not any danger of stuff "crowding" out th
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by tbabb 9y ago
The faring (the cover that you see in that photo) detaches and falls back to Earth. The car is exposed and floating in space.
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by tbabb 9y ago
Whoof. If these kinds of problems and design issues are still present when I'm ready to buy a 3, I'd probably reconsider. Maybe they'll tighten their tolerances as they perfect their line, but some of those design decisions s
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by tbabb 9y ago
Not in the second forked-universe version, which is isomorphic to Everett, which is isomorphic to any other formulation of QM.
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by tbabb 9y ago
I have a red ball and a blue ball. I flip a coin, and if it's heads I give you the red ball, and Alice the blue ball. If it's tails, the reverse. Alice goes off to Alpha Centauri, gives her ball to someone else, dies, the ball get
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by tbabb 9y ago
Sure, "no hidden variables" is interesting/weird. And interference is interesting/weird. And both of those things happen independently from entanglement. But entanglement itself seems very not-weird to me once you buy in
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by tbabb 9y ago
I don't understand why physics is spooked out by entanglement. It is just a correlation-- and if we want to have any interesting patterns in the universe at all, we are going to have correlations. All this seems to be saying is that th
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by tbabb 9y ago
Long post about rendering. Not a single pretty image. What gives?
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by tbabb 9y ago
Has anyone proposed to repeal Prop 65 yet? Seems like a pretty obvious thing to do. How easy would that be to get on the next election ballot?
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by tbabb 9y ago
When I encounter a page that does that, I leave immediately.
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by tbabb 9y ago
The spline and polygon tools also antialias, unlike the old app. Not knocking it though; it's an impressively close clone.
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by tbabb 9y ago
> I understand what a run is, and like, is this high school economics or something? Yeah, we could start there. So what's a run and what causes it? Still waiting.
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by tbabb 9y ago
Here's how this comment sounds: "I don't understand what a run is, but somehow I'm pretty sure it's bullshit. I don't understand how economics works, but I'm pretty sure all the rules have been rewritten i
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by tbabb 9y ago
I would also add to: > As a currency, assuming that its value stabilized by pointing out that without a central bank, a stable value is literally impossible, because its price becomes entirely demand-driven. That alone is enough to bring
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by tbabb 9y ago
Explain to me what you think a market run is and how it happens.
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by tbabb 9y ago
> Ok, who's doing this run? There are too many people at this point. There ins't a single entity that is currently capable of controlling all markets at all time. No offense, but I think this proves my point about commenters no
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by tbabb 9y ago
It absolutely boggles my mind that so many people in this thread cannot conceive of a run on crypto. I assume they probably don't even know what a "run" is . And it boggles my mind that their only conception of failure is
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by tbabb 9y ago
Agree 100%. Cryptocurrency can't be money until it measures stable value. And that stability is literally impossible without a central bank. http://www.bzarg.com/p/what-bitcoin-shows-us-about-how-money...
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by tbabb 9y ago
I have seen comparisons to the .com boom/bubble, and I don't buy it. There was a lot of economic movement while the entire economy moved over to the internet. Those who didn't adapt failed. Those who tried models which didn
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by tbabb 9y ago
It's hard to tell if the speech recognition is working, or even if the microphone is on. If I hum the star spangled banner, it rates me as 79% British.
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by tbabb 9y ago
20-25 years is at the limit of what I could imagine staying in one house with any certainty. How does the extra longevity justify the cost unless I plan to never ever move again?
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by tbabb 9y ago
Agreed. Shutting down participation in the planet's largest pyramid scheme doesn't have a lot of downside.
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by tbabb 9y ago
I would not be surprised if the technological predictions come about from a solid understanding and application of physics. It makes sense that the Bell Labs director would have had a clear sight of what was possible in networking off into
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by tbabb 9y ago
Some people in this thread seem to be taking this story at face value, astoundingly. Let's be clear: "Time working differently inside the tunnel" is, with 100% certainty, not was was going on. More plausible (not mutually exc
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by tbabb 9y ago
You can use polar coordinates; you just have to be sure to correct for the pinching of a polar coordinate system, which will bunch your samples toward the poles. This gets more complicated in higher dimensions, and at that point it is easie
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by tbabb 9y ago
Then we agree that secure channels should exist?
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by tbabb 9y ago
Agree, it is probably good for police / fire / EMT etc. to be open. However, the linked talk above notes that the researchers accidentally discovered that some "sensitive tactical law enforcement operations" were unwitti
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by tbabb 9y ago
> most people who have those kinds of jobs don’t want those jobs Why do you assume that?

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