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by xtreme 10y ago
> latex is not really designed for collaborative editing My personal experience is quite the opposite. In our research team, we collaborated on papers, proposals, theses and similar documents and we exclusively used Latex. Being a text b
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by xtreme 10y ago
> I'd further like to be able to query that database as a civilian. You are not entitled to know the details of my private property, similar to how a civilian can't access a list of cars you own. More pragmatically, this can le
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by xtreme 10y ago
In Ohio, it consists of about 10-15 minutes of driving around public roads following the instructions followed by a parallel parking test using cones. Most other states are pretty similar.
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by xtreme 10y ago
I think the risk of being exposed to spoilers is something you have to accept if you want to binge watch and not keep up with the populace. I enjoy binge watching, so I always wait for the season to complete; sometime for multiple seasons.
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by xtreme 10y ago
A number of molecular dynamics, astrophysics, and similar simulation applications are scalable enough to use 8 GPUs per node. Especially when multiple nodes are involved, these scientific applications are in general more mature compared to
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by xtreme 10y ago
Extending that analogy, I enjoy having a robot that will tell me if all the enemies are dead. Then I can try out different spells to my heart's content without having that nagging doubt about their effectiveness.
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by xtreme 10y ago
Coming from a country like India, I have a different opinion. We have FPTP but the voter turnout is somewhat higher (60-85% depending on the state) compared to the US. There are a large number of political parties but only three or four of
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by xtreme 11y ago
Should the legal minimum be close to the highest potential cost? You can cause massive damage if you hit a luxury car, or are involved in a multi-vehicle accident. Should you be forced to carry insurance that would cover these scenarios? Th
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by xtreme 11y ago
Bangladesh actually banned WhatsApp and other IM apps. http://www.thedailystar.net/whatsapp-mypeople-line-also-bloc...
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by xtreme 11y ago
One factor you've ignored is that to drive a car, you are required to carry insurance. Even if you modify your car, the insurance is still there to provide at least some relief to any loss of life and property you may cause.
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by xtreme 11y ago
You are definitely judging the book by its cover. If you follow the link, the full book has a lot more "tricks" and "solutions". The cross-multiply one is just an example. Of course many of them are culture/location
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by xtreme 11y ago
Just to set the record straight, beef is not banned in many states in India, especially the northeast. [Legislation on cattle slaughter by state]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle_slaughter_in_India#Legi... )
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by xtreme 11y ago
The problem is not restoring the system, but the time lost in figuring out what caused it without any logs.
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by xtreme 11y ago
I doubt it. A more probable reason is the higher transaction fee charged by Amex (3.5% compared to 2%).
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by xtreme 11y ago
Does using a tripod count as technical assistance?
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by xtreme 12y ago
An MPI library.
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by xtreme 12y ago
I believe it has something to do with automatic selection of the 2.4 GHz or the 5 GHz band. Unfortunately, Apple does not provide any API to control which band is selected.
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by xtreme 12y ago
Why would you want to put math symbols in LaTeX using unicode? What would be the advantage over using a package like amsmath or even the native math environment? I'm genuinely curious.
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by xtreme 12y ago
I am genuinely interested in why you think pope Francis has far more effect. There has been many popes in the recent past, how many people even remember their names? Pope Francis is trying to change some policies which might have a larger i
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by xtreme 13y ago
Everytime you visit a GA enabled site, it sends back some information to the Google servers including url, referrer, time spent etc. Google can use this build up a history of websites you (this is not linked to your Google account, more lik
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by xtreme 13y ago
In this example no government oversight would probably work much better. If a carrier starts opening your mails, they would lose their customer base and other services would come up. Also, you could probably stipulate this in the terms of s
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by xtreme 13y ago
You should optimize the common path, not the edge cases. Most of the time the user would be benefited (cached content = faster load) from using CDN. On the other hand, CDN being unreachable is not a very common scenario, so it is acceptable
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by xtreme 13y ago
I don't know if the offer was reasonable or not, so I am not going there. But the "value" of such start-ups are often their user-base, not the product or the technology itself. Can someone else implement a similar idea? Absol
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by xtreme 13y ago
Spark's major benefit comes from storing the intermediate results in-memory instead of storing it in HDFS as Hadoop does. Let's say a certain query needs to run 3 mapreduce jobs A, B, C one after another. In Hadoop, there will be
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by xtreme 13y ago
There is one additional factor: the filters are opt-out and you have to request the ISP if you don't want the censored experience. I believe this changes the dynamics quite a bit.
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by xtreme 13y ago
1. Once you have the infrastructure to block some websites set up, you can (ab)use it to block any arbitrary site that you want, including political dissent. 2. The "friends" of the legislators who will actually implement these on
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by xtreme 13y ago
[citation needed]
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by xtreme 13y ago
Browsers need to store the passwords in plaintext, because they need to populate the password field when you visit that website. However, you can store them encrypted using a master password and decrypt them once per session.
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by xtreme 13y ago
He was not saying anything like that. He is selling a book about MS Word and the video is basically an advertisement for him. It's not a bad thing, if I'm taking advice, I would rather take it from someone who can demonstrate he k
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by xtreme 13y ago
Of course, there is a lot of room for improvement as you mentioned. Some suggestions: - Please focus on the data part, I would want the relevant i nformation presented well, not a bunch of images. - The default alphabetical sorting is not v

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