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by redcap 3y ago
The guide has a section on accuracy but doesn’t talk about having punctuation outside of quotation marks. There’s a world of difference between 1. Please enter the text “foo bar.” and 2. Please enter the text “foo bar”. The first is normal
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by redcap 3y ago
It’s possibly competition for ASML if it works well. If it makes sense for them, TSMC could buy it and use it to keep doing what they’re doing. The key point is that it’s equipment used to manufacture semiconductor devices, and Canon would
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by redcap 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scottish_play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth#Superstition_and_%22Th...
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by redcap 3y ago
I don't know how much rice you eat, but my experience has been that 1 rice cup cooks enough rice for a modest serving for 2 adults - in our household at least.
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by redcap 8y ago
In that case I would suggest that Olive Garden Canada didn't "go out of business" (i.e. naturally through business dying off), but was killed intentionally. It didn't die as a result of failure on its own part. There is
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by redcap 8y ago
"The mining of rare-earth minerals was at one time dominated by the United States. The People's Republic of China has since come to dominate the market." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_mineral
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by redcap 8y ago
I listen to Youtube fairly extensively while working, but don't get any ads because I have an ad blocker. I don't even get "you have an ad-blocker installed" warnings...
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by redcap 9y ago
Rather than the abstract, the legality of a patent is based primarily on the claims. That's what you should be looking at to see if there's prior art. Here's claim 1: 1. A virtual currency transaction system, comprising: a no
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by redcap 9y ago
You realize the NIMBYs have had the law changed for their benefit? Why did that need government intervention?
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by redcap 9y ago
The Liberal party is the conservative party. No Conservative party in Australia AFAIK. The Liberal party is broadly social-conservative, pro-business. The Labor party is broadly speaking socially liberal and pro-labour.
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by redcap 9y ago
the algorithm may be nigh-on unbreakable, but the implementation can always have flaws. Getting crypto right is hard.
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by redcap 9y ago
One of my Japanese teachers really stressed reading out loud as good practice - you practice reading the piece, you practice saying the words, and you get some listening practice too. One nice big feedback loop!
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by redcap 9y ago
Japanese train drivers have a system that's called Pointing and Calling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_and_calling http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/pointing-and-calling-ja... Visu
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by redcap 9y ago
#1 There's nothing wrong with TODO comments. Often you don't want implement feature B in full so that you can focus on feature A. Of course you've told your customers that you'll do both features, so you push feature B b
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by redcap 9y ago
Try accounting for population size before touting universities as a good measure of anything. Try looking up cost of tertiary education and maybe cost of medical care and see who ends up better. You haven't proved your point.
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by redcap 10y ago
I'm currently working in a patent law firm in Japan, and we make heavy use of Notes to manage work we bill and to manage all the information relating to filing cases and managing the client correspondence for each case. There's a
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by redcap 10y ago
The warning in Japan is for as high as 3m tsunamis: http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20161122_12/
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by redcap 10y ago
While the Liberals (conversatives in Australia) have the lower house, they don't have the majority in the upper house, making it more of a house of review than a rubber stamp. The PM is elected by the parliament, and often disposed of
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by redcap 10y ago
There's a lot to be said for going for a 3-day hike in the wilderness, even if you're accompanied by a parent. Going with a scout group usually means that you wont be relying on the parent as you want to stay as a member of the gr
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by redcap 10y ago
I presume there's a difference in manufacturing between these tiles and normal tiles. I also presume there's CO2 costs involved in manufacturing solar cells that aren't present in normal shingles.
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by redcap 10y ago
2) Does that include the carbon cost of manufacturing, distributing and installing the tiles?
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by redcap 10y ago
I've always thought of it as playing second fiddle to JAL. That's changed after JAL had to go through a lot of restructuring, but it's mostly been these two companies. There could be some numbers out there stating that ANA is
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by redcap 10y ago
> On March 10, 1945, one of the last paper balloons descended in the vicinity of the Manhattan Project's production facility at the Hanford Site. This balloon caused a short circuit in the power lines supplying electricity for the n
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by redcap 10y ago
CSS is only 40 bits, which is ridiculously easy to crack. 56-bit DES keys are pretty unsafe these days, so you want at least 128 bits if you're talking private keys. If it's using 2048-bit RSA, that's perhaps equivalent to a
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by redcap 10y ago
(World War 2 flying ace)
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by redcap 10y ago
It's from the priority date, which was Aug 29, 1986 making this expired. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent_in_the_United_S...
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by redcap 10y ago
For me it was mainly twitter for news. Facebook was useful immediately after the quake to let family back home know that I was OK while the phone lines were still jammed. I also used it as a way to relay news in English to Facebook friends
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by redcap 10y ago
Twitter was amazing useful after the big earthquake/nuclear issues in 2011 (I live in Japan).
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by redcap 10y ago
What I've seen suggested elsewhere is having publicly viewable code on github or the like - that would effectively be your coding resume and evidence of your ability.
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by redcap 10y ago
There's the story about a developer who outsourced his work to China so that he could browse reddit: http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2013/01/16/verizon-finds-de...

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