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by bencoder 7y ago
> What bothers me about this conversation is that disastrous, society-shattering consequences are always mentioned if women keep choosing not to have sex with more men, but no one seems willing to suggest that men need to change the way
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by bencoder 7y ago
Judging by a lot of the discourse immediately following the most recent 737max incident, people were definitely blaming the pilots. Thankfully that's cleared up a bit now.
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by bencoder 7y ago
the very next paragraph: > Mr. Beecher advised young men to get in debt if they could to a small amount in the purchase of land, in the country districts. <snip> > This may be safe to a limited extent, but getting in debt for w
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by bencoder 8y ago
> there hasn't been a hull loss on US soil since 2009 Until 3 weeks ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Air_Flight_3591
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by bencoder 8y ago
Not sure if you're posting this as a disagreement with the suggested model, or agreeing. From the link, it looks like it costs ~$10bn per successful drug, at the top end of that list. Australia paid $750m for 5 years access. Australia
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by bencoder 8y ago
Why? If your real world adversaries can reverse binaries, why would you shackle a Red team from doing so?
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by bencoder 8y ago
Is there any difference? They would have to lower their prices in order to keep the same price to the end user (to keep the same number of users) and therefore get less profit. Is it because in the states you show the same price and local (
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by bencoder 8y ago
There's also the flyinside flight simulator, which is a completely new flight simulator engine, focused on (but not limited to) VR: https://flyinside-fsx.com/Home/Sim
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by bencoder 8y ago
Original article and comments discussing the work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18127811
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by bencoder 8y ago
Quest uses inside-out tracking (cameras on the device to perform feature-detection and SLAM) to give full 6dof headset and controller tracking. The GearVR and other current stand alone headsets only track rotation via gyroscope, which is mu
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by bencoder 8y ago
I would presume for training or evaluating game playing AI systems
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by bencoder 8y ago
>France Only Texas and Alaska are larger than France. I give you Alaska, due to the geography and low population, but Texas is just slightly larger and has half the population of France - not a massive difference. I think it could be rea
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by bencoder 8y ago
Also from the UK, and lived in Finland for a year. This surprised me massively when I moved considering the possibility of the door being blocked by snow on the outside. You also get the great drying cupboards above sinks (and corresponding
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by bencoder 8y ago
I believe op was just referring to the hn title which has a 'y' in place of the 'u'. The original URL does not use that spelling
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by bencoder 8y ago
reminds me of this gem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by bencoder 8y ago
> He saved just $180 per month? It's Northern England. he likely wasn't paid that much.
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by bencoder 8y ago
I don't think it made that claim (The HN title appears somewhat incorrect) - just that we are primarily detecting what are likely to be eyeball planets, so if life is out there on any of the planets we are detecting, then it'll mo
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by bencoder 8y ago
> salaries need to go up +1 The UK still seems to have such a classist attitude. Anything 'unskilled' in London is barely above minimum wage, and some people would react in horror if they demanded any more than that. See also:
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by bencoder 8y ago
They do weekly releases for some shows (maybe most shows that they don't produce themselves). I assumed it was some ridiculous commercial arrangment that meant they couldn't show it until after the season has finished in the state
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by bencoder 8y ago
In the UK netflix have the rights, but for some reason it doesn't show up on the service until months after the season has finished on syfy. Meaning most of my friends who have Netflix ended up pirating it. I waited until season 2 show
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by bencoder 8y ago
Holder of "Artificial Intelligence & Cybernetics" from Reading here ;)
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by bencoder 8y ago
Also seen in London
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by bencoder 8y ago
> really? really. Do you suppose that stalking doesn't happen?
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by bencoder 9y ago
Can someone explain why these exemptions exist in the first place?
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by bencoder 9y ago
They are actually launching Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into an earth-mars transfer orbit though :P
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by bencoder 9y ago
Same. It's only 16 frames.
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by bencoder 9y ago
I'm a member of several 'weird' communities on discord. It feels like the old internet I loved of irc + forums, with voice and video chat bringing it into my modern times
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by bencoder 9y ago
In countries where the dot is used as the thousands separator, it is not a 'decimal point'. In fact, much of the world does NOT use . as a decimal separator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2
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by bencoder 9y ago
in the FAQ it seems they required full KYC details for the pre-registration for different funding levels: https://kin.kik.com/files/faq.pdf
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by bencoder 9y ago
I don't think those are pre-tax. They are just interest free loans. At least, in none of the companies I've worked for has it been pre-tax

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