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by terryf 11y ago
What you're proposing is that if I see some ads, then I get virtual money that I can then forward to someone I deem worthy? In theory, it seems a nice idea. Sharing ad profits from my views with someone who creates good content. Sure.
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For me the simple truth is: I don't care. Let me explain. I use ad-blocker (ghostery) on all the sites with everything blocked, because it makes my browsing experience better and faster. "But! But! How will the authors survive?&q
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This, of course, is the biggest problem with AR tech - you can only "add" light, not "subtract" it - meaning you can only make pixels brighter than they are, not darker. Essentially this will be unusable in bright daylig
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Thanks for the nice explanation! But another question: since the expansion rate of the universe has been different at different times, does this mean that the measured speed of light would be different at different times as well? Because if
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It was mentioned that during this event, three sun's mass equivalents were turned into gravity waves, I guess that means that matter particles were turned into gravitons. But what happens to them? Is there any way to turn them back int
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I find that having ideas and inspiration requires time where you are not actively doing anything, time that I used to call "being bored" when I was a kid, but now have come to realise that it is much more than that. Having kids ta
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by terryf 11y ago
You don't wear a breitling to tell time. You wear it to tell everyone else that you have money, power and self-confidence. It's essentially jewellery for men. That hasn't gone out of fashion for thousands of years. Pretty sur
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> I know the brain is suspended in liquor eh, a man can dream, but reality be a harsh mistress!
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How do you know he isn't? How do you know what his mental ability would have been if he could?
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They just did. Nowhere in the article did they state that orders were not carried out. They did say that a number of the guys quit, because the orders seemed to be not entirely true or correct. Also, an important point is that it IS NOT
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No, it's exactly the reverse in fact! Laws are supposed to be made to make living life better for the majority. Many problems stem from thinking the opposite.
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Like the saying goes, if you outlaw guns, only the outlaws will have guns. Seriously. Ever heard of steganography? Police being able to listen in to communications for selected individuals, based on court orders is of course something that
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It has almost never been a safer time to live in Europe than it is now. Look at crime rates, they are dropping everywhere. Homicide is down, robberies are down. Terrorist attacks happen so rarely that they almost don't count. The numbe
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> It's sadly not surprising how many people are killed on the roads. In 2013, US, total number of traffic deaths was 32719. Total number of miles driven: 2,946,000,000,000. Miles driven per one death: 90,039,426 It's not even o
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> > So my friends and I riding motocycles through the mountains on a sunny afternoon are reckless endangerment? > If you're breaking the law then yes, you're reckless, period. If not, then enjoy it all you want. The speed
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by terryf 11y ago
You did miss two things - distribution networks and industrial customers. Those are the two problems that nobody seems to be solving yet. Basically, high-voltage electricity is distributed with networks that are dumb and old. The generation
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But the whole point of insurance is to collectively spread the risk, so that when things do go bad, you are not on your own. By definition, people in aggregate pay more for insurance than what the insurance pays them back (otherwise the com
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The banks are doing things, perhaps not exactly what was described, but your facebook history, linkedin, other social media accounts are taken into account when applying for a loan. Even when you browse the bank's web page, where you
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So you're basically saying it's ok to tax people on gains, that are entirely theoretical and over which they had no control themselves? You might have a point if you consider a home something that is entirely fungible - but for a
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The last image shows flat buttons and one of them says "DEORBIT NOW" I am not an astronaut, but it sounds kind of important to me.
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I work with environmental data, part of which includes global measurement of wind speed at the water surface. Now, I'm certainly not an expert on how the sensors work exactly, but as far as I have read, satellites bounce microwaves off
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by terryf 11y ago
please note that according to https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4180.txt this is a valid record definition from a csv file: "b CRLF bb","ccc" CRLF zzz,yyy,xxx Your code will fail on this case. CSV parsing
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by terryf 12y ago
OpenGL certainly is a 3D library, but WebGL is based on OpenGL ES (the ES part being important here) and basically just provides facilities to transfer data to/from the GPU and run vertex and pixel shaders. It is completely up to the u
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by terryf 12y ago
"Shoplifting for the web" - so where do you draw the line? If I mute the TV during commercials, is that stealing? If I change the channel, is that stealing? If my monitor is too small for the ads to show on the side of the article
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There's a quote from the film Heat where Al Pacino says"You can get killed walking your doggie!" Death is everywhere, it seems that he has fully accepted the fact that all people are mortal and like him, you will die too. Als
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Having had three kids and living in an almost nordic country (Estonia) I can confirm that yes, indeed infants do sleep outside in winter temperatures. Mine did as well and they're fine and of regular health. The trick with sleeping out
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SOAP certainly sucks, but regarding your comment on using lisp as the transfer protocol is a bad idea. Data transfer protocols must be verifiable - you should basically be able to write a piece of code that parses the data input and verifie
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by terryf 12y ago
From the version distribution graph it is evident that npm hosts 0 packages with 25k+ versions, one package that has almos 20k versions and 40 packages with 0 versions. That seems to be at odds with the numbers quoted in the rest of the art