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by td 15y ago
Because up until now, it's working just fine without large cash prizes, I guess.
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by td 15y ago
Just to remark that this seems to only apply to the state of Schleswig-Holstein, or, according to Wikipedia, 2.8 million of ~80 million Germans.
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by td 15y ago
Probably the point was he didn't want to do business with them (at least not anymore after being asked outrageous 10,000$ for the domain).
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by td 15y ago
So, am I the only one here who feels like this is an obvious (and funny) parody? Or are all the "serious" comments critiquing the video/website/C.V. just another level of irony?
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by td 15y ago
Of course they would have the same genes as other humans, just distributed on less chromosomes. For all practical matters, they would be indistinguishable from 46-chromosome humans.
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by td 16y ago
For a minute I thought they were referring to the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, in which case this would have been really shocking news (or, more likely, false reporting). This 'Heisenberg limit' seems to be more of a technical issue i
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by td 16y ago
For a more gentle start for those less familiar with functional programming (like myself) I can recommend "Higher Order Perl" by Mark Jason Dominus (also available for free online). The book discusses functional programming techniques in P
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by td 16y ago
low signal-to-noise ratio if you ask me... I don't understand why this gets upvotes.
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by td 16y ago
I think it should be read as a parable, not a true story. I think Max, who- or whatever he really is, once stated he's consciously creating some kind of online persona? No idea what he intends to achieve, though.
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by td 16y ago
I don't think we're supposed to believe this is meant seriously. But it's a nice pun on what is probably an all-too common problem :)
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by td 16y ago
On a tangent: I wonder why wikipedia doesn't list the articles on boats by their original Russian names, but uses their NATO calling instead. Now you have the article "Typhoon sub" which is actually about Akula class submarines, and the ar
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by td 16y ago
These discussions are really tiring. First it was "Canonical is not contributing to the kernel", now it's "Canonical is not contributing to GNOME", ... Isn't the point of free software that people can take the code and build whatever they
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by td 16y ago
I have a question about this blending effect. In the article, the author writes "If only I'd invented this trick 20 years ago when it really mattered!" But wouldn't this blending have cost a big performance hit, since, to do this with 25
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Google compromises, gets license renewal in China(washingtonpost.com)
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by td 16y ago
Well, it's helpful to keep in mind the main goal here, which is providing young people with an education (and providing society with educated young people), not having the students produce brilliant original work (it's just a school assignm
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by td 16y ago
There is no doubt that, in large parts of Congo, people are worse off than they were ca. 1960. But do you seriously propose a return to colonialism as the solution? Because that is what your governor Pétillon remark seems to say... I don'
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by td 16y ago
Can anybody explain how they get the number of five Higgs particles? If they count one doublet as 4 particles, two doublets would be 8 particles, right?
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by td 16y ago
Sure, growing the pie, and then eating it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian_Congo#Colonial_economic... I don't quite understand how pg's essay applies to the Belgian Congo, is there some specific paragraph you are referring to?
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by td 16y ago
One might say, the Belgians did very well for themselves in the Congo.
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by td 16y ago
> Afghanistan has few mainstream Arabs and very few Africans. I don't understand what this has to do with it. Do you mean that absence of Africans and Arabs helps in successfully building up a democracy and mining minerals?