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by ealloc 14y ago
As a non-EE, something that confused me briefly is that "L-R" doesn't seem symmetric but the scenario is symmetric. But I see now that you'd hear L-R in your left ear and R-L in your right ear. The R current goes the "wrong way" through the
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by ealloc 14y ago
When you send money to another individual what kind of check is there that you've sent the money to the right address? I read there's a confirmation step but in the event you accidentally sent the money to a random person that person could
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by ealloc 14y ago
I would phrase it as "press into the screen with another finger" maybe. Common screen coordinates (to me) are left/right (x), up/down (y), and in/out (z). The instruction is trying to refer to the z coord, but using the common word for the
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by ealloc 14y ago
The 'value' of the currency ultimately comes from people's opinion in it, and whether or not it is legal tender is just one influence on that opinion. You might be forced to accept payment in a currency but that doesn't mean you value the c
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by ealloc 14y ago
> if Language A does not distinguish green and blue, it does not necessarily mean that the speakers of Language A cannot distinguish them, but only that Language A does not distinguish them linguistically. True, but just to be clear: In
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by ealloc 14y ago
Pink slime is gross. A once-bacteria-laden mush of animal leftovers? No thanks. I don't eat food purely for nutrition (it's easy to get enough nutrition) but because it is appetizing too. Pink slime sounds tasteless and textureless. Health
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by ealloc 14y ago
Randomness doesn't come from the Heisenburg uncertainty principle, it comes from the Born rule. (and by the way, all this talk of randomness mainly applies to the copenhagen interpretation. Other interpretations, like many-worlds, do not re
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by ealloc 14y ago
> Simply handing people money to spend is not stimulative because it does not create value. Put another way, taking money from A and giving it to B so B can buy things from A does not (and cannot) make A wealthier. Sure they can, accord
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by ealloc 14y ago
I think the parent is referring to libdvdcss, which is the library that cracks the DRM encryption on the dvd. Without it you wouldn't be able to skip unskippable parts, nor even play the dvd using non-authorized dvd players like vlc. libdvd
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by ealloc 14y ago
you can encode all characters in the basic multilingual plane with a single utf-16 code unit, while in utf-8 BMP characters have variable lengths from 1 to 3 bytes. If Notch only allows BMP characters and uses utf-16, internationalized stri
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by ealloc 14y ago
I believe "PC" has historically meant (or often been used to imply) "IBM PC compatible" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_compatible ) which Apple/Mac was not, until they switched to x86.
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by ealloc 14y ago
By going UTF-16, he would make the game much more accessible to those not using a latin alphabet. If I was designing the game, I would favor internationalization vs space efficiency in the virtual computer. That way russian kids would get t
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by ealloc 14y ago
Say the 'acutal' rating for an item is p. (ie, if you got an infinite number of people voting, the ratio of upvotes to total votes is p). Now say your users vote, and they upvote with that probability p. The number of upvotes k you get out
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by ealloc 14y ago
Wikipedia is a reasonable starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_inequality_in_the_United... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United...