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by xpda 12y ago
This article is weak on many levels. "I learned it from an extraordinary mixture of people I met on my travels." Is this more credible than modern science? "It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned" is i
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by xpda 12y ago
Wow! There are five times as many dumps if you zoom out. That's an interesting way to implement map panning.
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by xpda 12y ago
Sometimes I rationally realize that I am making an irrational decision, but I still prefer the "wrong" decision. For example, I may pick up a dirty penny in a street. The risk/reward is negative because the very slight possib
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by xpda 12y ago
Interesting! There are no airports in that area. The time zone is named Danmarkshavn time zone. Danmarkshavn is a weather station in the zone with a permanent population of 8.
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by xpda 12y ago
Different cancers are different. Skin cancer, both basal cell and melanoma, is usually caused by the sun. Other cancers have a very strong genetic correlation. This study did not consider the most common cancer in men, prostate cancer, or b
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by xpda 12y ago
The longer before its operational, the sooner its deployment will be replaced or reduced by UCAV (combat drones). Technology will make it economical and tactically advantageous for unmanned aircraft to replace manned fighters and bombers i
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by xpda 12y ago
It looks like there would be a lot of stress holding the doors up. I can only see the arm on the side, and at that angle it looks like it would not be very strong. I wonder about the longevity. But they do look cool!
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by xpda 12y ago
The sequence "sometimes behave so strangely" exhibits syncopated notes on a diatonic scale, 2/4 type meter, and a progression that adheres to chords of a melody. It seems unlikely that something this musical would often appea
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by xpda 12y ago
It should not be patentable, but, unfortunately, the bar is very low at the moment.
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by xpda 12y ago
1. Work at your full potential. Top mental work requires significant time uninterrupted by texts, phones, humans, etc. It also requires sleep and is inhibited by alcohol and drugs. You can get by with less or poor sleep, but you won't
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by xpda 12y ago
Tom Stagliano's makes the point. It doesn't matter. Coding is a tool to use at the university level, not the goal of education. In addition, coding can be learned at the university and is not necessary for admission.
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by xpda 12y ago
Points deducted for incorrect O's. Quick Sort is not O(n log n), and merge sort is not O(n^2)
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by xpda 12y ago
The paper is really interesting, but a lot of the references have been omitted.
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by xpda 12y ago
"Learning obscure and strange languages, yields better understanding and broader horizons" does not, need a comma.
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by xpda 13y ago
It has always been a taxable event. If you buy anything and sell or trade it for a profit, you owe income tax (in the U.S.), be it gold, water, wheat, or Hungarian forints. The IRS just confirmed that bitcoins are assets and not currency, w
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by xpda 13y ago
1. It depends on who "we" are. For almost everybody, it would be a non-event but for the hype in the media. Electronics would not be deep fried. Some damage would occur to satellites, but few would be permanently affected. 2. &quo
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by xpda 13y ago
Right! Forget the slow, unreliable upload. Overnight a USB drive.
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by xpda 13y ago
When I tried Opera, it returned Chrome 31.
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by xpda 13y ago
It is possible that MtGox lost its money by dipping into deposits and pending cash withdrawals for its own use. Then, maybe some bad investments snowballed and they couldn't recover. This seems more likely than someone hacking them and
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by xpda 13y ago
This is not the only or even the primary problem with MtGox. There are fundamental control shortcomings, among various tech problems.
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by xpda 13y ago
No need to break them up. They just need their virtually unlimited budget cut to the neighborhood of 1995 levels. A gas expands to fill its container. A political organization expands to fill its budget.
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by xpda 13y ago
We are giving ourselves cancer when we spend time outdoors without sunscreen or other protection.
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by xpda 13y ago
1. Stock market: up. 2. Economy (U.S. and world): up. 3. Political polarization: up. 4. Stupid-patent lawsuits: up. 5. World violence: down.
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by xpda 13y ago
The U.S. expected to (and was prepared to) drop several atomic bombs before Japan surrendered. Even so, some of the Japanese hardliners tried to kidnap the emperor so he couldn't surrender. ("The Rising Sun", John Toland)
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by xpda 13y ago
This was easy to fix before Google broke their personal exclusion lists. You used to be able to block a set of sites from your Google searches. I guess Google figured out they were losing potential advertisers.
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by xpda 13y ago
Google search has become fuzzier over recent years. When I look for something technical, I almost always have to go back and put quotes around the terms, because Google prefers to display a different search for more common, related terms. T
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by xpda 13y ago
Mine too. I'm still unclear on how OP lost the photos in the first place.
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by xpda 15y ago
Pryor.
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by xpda 15y ago
I think there is a solution to this on the iPad and Windows 8 (Metro UI).
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by xpda 15y ago
I just cut my Visual Studio font size down to 6, but my code runs the same.

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