harshpotatoes

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by harshpotatoes 12y ago
I don't like his method of measuring the curvature distance. I think it will be very difficult to align a local to the local tangent of the earth's surface. Over a distance of 700m, the earth's surface deviates by about 4cm.
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by harshpotatoes 12y ago
I agree that things won't change instantaneously, but I also don't think change will happen or even could happen as quickly as most of the talk on the internet thinks it should. These articles make the rounds on the internet every
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by harshpotatoes 12y ago
Could you imagine Boeing/lockheed/GM/some some oil company or any other manufacturer going up to their stockholders and saying: "This next year, profits will be significantly reduced as we replace every piece of equipmen
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
I have a similar issue using Brighthouse in Florida. For the longest time I was able to stream HD quality from netflix through my roku, until recently. I always suspect that my ISP is somehow the cause, the only problem is I can't imag
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
That makes sense. So i guess from the perspective of the regulators the options are now either prevent the uber cabs from being flagged down from the street to remove the incentive to roam the street and keep the limo/cab markets separ
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
So I understand that on of the main points of contention is that the paris cab drivers face steep regulation in the form of requiring an expensive license, while the Uber drivers require no such license, and that to counter this lack of reg
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
So, I don't understand. Why does bitcoin have such high deflation? Is this just because there has been a constant stream of people switching their traditional currencies for bitcoins at a rate faster than bitcoins can be mined? Presuma
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
Even more unreasonable: His original reason for wanting the list of zipcodes was to correlate the zip codes of some health inspections in some county in Oregon to a specific location. Undoubtedly, these health inspections are older than one
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
I feel like this legislature would be a huge cost to startups wishing to do business in Germany, and would likewise be a huge cost to already established businesses. Of course, I suppose there is the added benefit that many companies would
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
I don't understand, should the SEC only occaisionally enforce the laws? Would you prefer a situation where he was not prosecuted for insider trading, even though this is a crime he committed?
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
If I understand both you and the parent correctly, you are describing the same process. When you melt two fibers together, the cores aren't really becoming one. Really, they melt together such that light from one core partially evanesc
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
So the question becomes, to how young a person does this apply? How far back can be extrapolated? Is a slow 40something as meaningful a data point as a slow 70something year old?
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
Was it perfectly edible? My understanding of the fiasco is that it was not simply calling horsemeat beef or some other meat. My understanding is that the horsemeat found in packages originated from meat labeled as not for human consumption,
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by harshpotatoes 13y ago
ErSo, there are a few things I don't quite understand. In the original study, Renhart had erroneously averaged 7 numbers together to get a slightly negative growth. The 'correct' result is obtained from averaging eight numbers together, res
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
I dunno. Reservation seems very unemotional and bureaucratic, very disconnected from any soft and cuddly words. Nature reserves are land that has been set aside for nature purposes, Indian reservations are land set aside for the Native Amer
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
I thought silent hill was quite good, probably due to less rigid 'canon' allowing for flexibility in characters and story. Admittedly, this would make it the exception and not the rule. I also think this means that Half Life/Portal would no
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
Without further details from Coke, I believe you are absolutely correct. Oranges do not have constant flavor throughout the year, and the various species of oranges which mature at different points in the season have quite different flavors
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
As a 26 year old, I can agree with his conclusion (or at least want his conclusion to be true). With 40-60 hour work weeks for both my girlfriend and I, it can be difficult sometimes. Similarly, new friendships can be hard to come by. With
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
There are many ways to present the data such that situation in the pacific northwest doesn't seem so bad."If you look at the total inches of rainfall in Seattle, we really don't get that much rain." "Oh sure, most days it rains, but by hour
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
Ok, thats a good point. I'm not farmiliar enough with the globe to remember the great circle routes.
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
Of course, assuming they allow supersonic flights over the continental united states. I imagine it would probably be severely restricted due to the noise concerns from the sonic boom.
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
My understanding is that when using the xor cipher, even if the key is truely random, the file could still be trivially completely decrypted for a repeating key. It seems like a rather unwieldy cipher if you need to download a key which is
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
It's interesting to me that Kerr cells were invented so early. I wonder what they were first used for? I know in the '60's and later they were used in lasers for Q-switching, but I'm trying to think what else they would have been used for i
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
Mostly I watch TV at night, after 7pm or so. So I suppose it's possible that the local ads are played during an earlier block like the local news. I have a feeling though, that the presidential campaigns are buying a significant portion of
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
Living in an "important swing state" at the moment, the last thing I need is more factoids about the presidential race. Every form of media is completely saturated with the same talking points, and it is quite exhausting. It would be nice t
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
It's interesting that camera quality is so important for people, yet I find it difficult to find information on image quality beyond how many megapixels the sesnor has. The least they could do is tell me the sensor size/aperture size too. Y
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
It's interesting that Apple's competitors prioritize adding more features to their phones while Apple is apparently prioritizing compactness and minimizing weight. A few years ago it would have been obvious to me that a compact, light weigh
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
My understanding of bitcoins is that there is some maximum limit of 21million and that there are currently 9.7million mined. So there are a little less than half of the bitcoins mined. http://blockexplorer.com/q/totalbc
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
It's unclear to me how this was calculated. But the Obama campaign estimates were based on some assumptions: 1) That Romney's ultimate budget would not increase the deficit 2) That the base tax rate would not be raised under Romney 3) Findi
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by harshpotatoes 14y ago
Well, it appears that episodes are no longer visible through thedailyshow website. But... http://www.hulu.com/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart Seems to work fine.

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