antimagic

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by antimagic 11y ago
You have to read the next article (it's the link at the bottom), which then describes in detail how one driver can indeed remove traffic jams. The first article explains how traffic jams form, so you can understand in the second artic
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by antimagic 11y ago
A tactic particularly well-loved by those with small government tendencies for everything except the military. Not only do you get to hide exactly how that money you keep giving to the military is being spent, but you then get to use the
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by antimagic 11y ago
Some dogs can be trained to herd sheep in a remarkably precise way, with just hand gestures and whistles to control them. There are plenty of people on this planet, born with mental defects, that would be incapable of learning to do this.
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by antimagic 11y ago
Well, in investing there is the concept of the sophisticated investor, where you're supposed to be capable of determining all by yourself if you're being had, provided all of the relevant information is being provided. Caveat emp
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by antimagic 11y ago
Rental demand is fairly inelastic though - everyone needs a roof over their head. The main force keeping prices down is competition, not the fact that landlords are being kind. If land taxes are increased, then all landlords will raise th
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by antimagic 11y ago
So what, you're postulating that US citizens justly deserve to be killed by police 79 time more than their British counterparts? I mean the police is only supposed to kill to protect their, or a bystander's, life. We know from t
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by antimagic 11y ago
Ahhh, a most timely article, from my perspective. I've recently being writing a computer game for my first computer, which was a contemporary of the trash-80 ( http://www.compucolor.org/emu/ccemu.html ). The guy t
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by antimagic 11y ago
It's not about BASIC though - it really is about the fact that computers literally booted into a REPL. That REPL being a BASIC REPL was probably something that set people back - I remember having a really hard time grokking how the co
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by antimagic 11y ago
The thing is, that's not really true. Developers made it possible for advertisers to insert their adverts into web resources. Advertisers decided to use that power to track users through cookies, tracking pixels, localStorage and var
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by antimagic 11y ago
So, you think your partner is cheating on you with their ex. You know they got a taxi from your apartment last Sunday at 6pm, you look up the data, and sure enough, the taxi went to the ex's address, and not home as your partner claim
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by antimagic 11y ago
You're getting cause and effect back to front - Musk started Tesla because he wanted to play a real part in reducing emissions. He is on record as saying so. So arguing for a carbon tax is just another effort in that direction, not an
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by antimagic 11y ago
Which is fair enough. It does make me wonder though if you tried representing the duration in base 4 of pi, or something like that, whether you couldn't create something that sounded quite nice. Probably not, but I admit that if it w
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by antimagic 11y ago
I downvoted you, but I thought I'd explain why - I don't think it's reasonable to characterise this as childish. Government surveillance is something which our industry is the best positioned to speak out against. This type
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by antimagic 11y ago
This type of arrangement does actually exist already. The BBC in the UK, and the ABC in Australia are both openly critical of governments - I know that the political right in Australia finds the ABC overly biased to the left, and the polit
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by antimagic 11y ago
The French default to "left-pondian" when speaking English, much to my Australian-living-in-Paris chagrin. Most aren't even aware that there is a difference between English English and American English. One step up from that
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by antimagic 11y ago
Stephen Pinker. Just about the only person from a humanities field that left me in awe of his intellect when I saw him speak.
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by antimagic 11y ago
That's not entirely true. Grasshopper is entirely capable of hovering, there are plenty of videos of it doing precisely that. The Falcon 9 landings that have been attempted are a different story because they actually weigh much less
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by antimagic 11y ago
You see, this is the thing that kills me when thinking about the quantum world. The Many Worlds interpretation is so clean and obvious, except for one thing - it requires creating a new universe for each quantum entanglement event. Gah! Of
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by antimagic 11y ago
It wasn't really a very impressive prediction though - if it even was one. I mean, the technical details are all wrong. The only correct aspect was how people would use video-conf. But I can't help thinking that this is just an
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by antimagic 11y ago
The thing is though that right from the start the calculations make the assumption that the solar panels are sized in such a way that they capture just the right amount of energy over the course of the year. That means that you need to sto
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by antimagic 11y ago
Yup, sounds a bit like a project I did a while back - I had a C/C++ bindings generator that took an XML file and generated the C/C++ code to expose a C/C++ class to Javascript. So of course the logical thing for me to do was
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by antimagic 11y ago
You'd almost certainly lose that wager though. There are a lot of French lawyers out there! OK, I'm being a bit tongue in cheek, you're talking (I think!) about people actually needing a lawyer, but you know what, those lawy
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by antimagic 11y ago
"This is incredibly bad" It is? Please explain why other people should be prepared to go to gaol or businesses should pay heavy fines to protect my personal information from legal(1) government requests? Particularly when I appar
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by antimagic 11y ago
That is just not true. The Church was front and centre in the French Revolution. The whole problem was that the first two estates (Church and Nobility) didn't want to cede power to the third estate (the Commons). Removing the King w
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by antimagic 11y ago
Ahhh, premature optimisation! You've optimised for your time, but have you optimised for the best efficiency at the company level? Ok, so your precious flow doesn't get interrupted, but the person that had a question that need
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by antimagic 11y ago
But that's not at all the message "and that has made all the difference"... It's not that your choices don't make any difference, but that you make them without knowledge of where they really lead, and that you can
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by antimagic 11y ago
I have very fond memories of just how blazingly fast Turbo Pascal was at compiling on my Mac. It stunned me every time. I remember spending most of one summer writing a text adventure game with it, based in the Australian Gold Rush. It ev
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by antimagic 11y ago
OK, this is one of things where you have to be very precise with the terminology. HLS does enforce the use of MPEG-2 Transport streams, but it does not force the use of the video encoding that is packaged in the stream. It is very typic
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by antimagic 11y ago
Are you suggesting that Vim-lovers and Emacs afficianados are actually very similar? Perish the thought!
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by antimagic 11y ago
The event isn't just "there was a coin flip". The event was "there is a coin flip and I have been woken up". For this event, two thirds of the time the coin flip will have been tails. Halfers forget that there is

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