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vanattab
8y ago
Wow! why is everyone down voting this guys comment? He never said this previous discussion was about the contents of his stomach he just said here is a thread about the same ancient dead guy. I for one am glad he posted it so I could learn
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8y ago
I often do basically that. I love fly fishing the pond on my parents property but the weeds and algae blooms make cleaning the hook annoying chore every few casts. So I just cut the hooks off. I have fished that pond so many years I just do
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8y ago
You should try building your own rod as well. You can do it pretty cheap and it's a he'll of a good feeling when you get that fish on your own rod and fly.
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8y ago
My guess is the ansi color escape codes mess with peoples parsing code of the output when scripting.
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8y ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this. You were able to articulate in a clear way what I have been trying(and failing) to explain to my friends for a while now. I think people are final starting to understand how I can support the vision
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8y ago
Anyone know if they are planning to add support for LG Sport?
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8y ago
>since the election hasn't been hot new for quite a bit now. Oh. How I wish that were true. You must not watch the news much because that's pretty much all I hear on virtually all the channels.
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8y ago
I thought stairs were on of the hardest aspects for robots to master. I know the four leg bots are better but I still think having these heavy dense robots climbing 4+ stories of stairs would present more of a danger then it would help miti
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8y ago
Can you elaborate on how this is different from how a quartz crystal works. I assume it's related to the following. >That’s the “ticking.” In addition, the ticking in a time crystal is locked at a particular frequency, even when the
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8y ago
No ads. Just "messages from underwriters"..
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8y ago
You have a source for that stat I would be interested in learning more about how the calculate such a stat.
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8y ago
Really how is he supremely unqualified for stating his opinion on this? He is a fucking legendary physicist and when compared to the guy who is quoted in this article he has way more credibility. The article takes pains to refer to Mayer Hi
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8y ago
Because "big" numbers like 7M are scary I think a little perspective is warranted. The great lakes contain 380 quadrillion gallons of water which means even if they did not return a single drop it would take 54 billion years(or ~1
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9y ago
Wow scary shit. I hope she flies for free on Southwest for the rest of her life.
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9y ago
I just bought a LTE LG Watch (should be in tomorrow) just so I could leave my phone behind exactly due to this kind of effect. I have come to the realization that a huge junk of the time I and virtual everyone around me spends on our phones
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9y ago
Oh I was wondering why T-Mobile discontinued the ZTE smartwatch so quickly after releasing it but I think I understand now. Shame it looked like it had semi decent specs.
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9y ago
You pay someone to pre-vacation for you? Let me know when your hiring..
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9y ago
How is > broken to quote mobile users? What is obnoxious for mobile users is using code block quotes to quote non code.
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9y ago
That is exactly my point! There is no reasonable expectation for the future that would justify investing the current valuation.
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9y ago
"It makes a bit more sense if you think about Tesla's valuation as a bet on future potential." In my opinion that's a very small bit that can't possible justify the current price. If I was going to justify investing
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9y ago
I mean I get what your saying and I agree that Elon's reputation and past success should skew the risk equation a little in Elon's favor. But the risk question is not "being stretched a little" is been completely thrown
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9y ago
Unprecedented? Really? I just googled "reporter charged with trespassing" and it sure as heck does not seem that unprecedented. I am not sure why so many people think that just by calling yourself a journalist you somehow put your
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9y ago
Please elaborate on how they are not comparable uses?
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9y ago
The idea that Obama only collected data from people who signed up and registered is total nonsense. See the comments from Obama's media director in the below article or go back and read the news articles on the topic from 2010-2013 bac
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9y ago
Hence my first sentence. I am not opposed to topic but I am opposed to the media bending over backwards to pretend like this totally different then what Obama did.
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9y ago
I am obviously referring to the overall media portrayal of the Facebook/CA scandal.
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9y ago
Exactly my point! People are not upset by "psychometric advertising" they are upset that the other side making use of the technique. If you honestly think both sides don't use the technique to engage in despicable disinformat
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9y ago
I am all for taking a look at these privacy issues and seeing if we can develop some new regulations to address these concerns but the way the media covers this story is a complete joke. Obama was labeled a political geniuses who was truly
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9y ago
This is not how the term is typical used in vision science which is why I thought it was worth pointing out
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9y ago
I have never been able to understand why so many other scientists and "rationalist" look back on humans early "superstitious" ideas with contempt. To my mind these superstitious ideas are the beginning of the rationalist
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