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Grenades blow through almost every building material you can think of with ease. Grenades thrown in-doors are pretty loud even if you have some sort of hs/ld ear protection it's going to rock you pretty good.

I may have not been clear, yes you want it in the room. Generally you want in the fatal front area, yes it's called a fatal funnel for that entire situation/entry point (and all sorts of other names).

In this instance its the fatal front(in relation to that fatal funnel). Generally you want to be able to clear your nearside corners and the immediate area in front of the door. The point is not to chuck the Flashbang in too far or you are not going to get the full stun effect in areas with the highest threat.

If you are 6ft like me you generally pretend you are tossing it just to your head if you were laying down. It's going to roll/bounce in most cases and go farther. In any case you are aiming for a point that is most likely going to be open. Flashbangs don't work so well if they roll under a couch or a TV stand.

I guess our grenade experiences differ, If I requested a crate of grenades. I would get a crate of grenades.

If you wanted to reduce things down you want to get the maximum stun in the areas where you do your fan-out to slow down anyone who might get grabby or dont need to get a good sight picture to hit you. That's all going to happen in proximity to door. in an ideal world your going to want to hit closer to the center but in less you stick your head in first or have a god-like sense of the local building construction and layout signatures you might as well throw into an area that everyone can see the flash and for the folks close in the bang.
Vertical centering usually requires weird hacks (either you know the height in advance and use negative margin, or use tables / display:table)

The part that annoyed me is the vertical centering is not preserved on window resize.
I'm hearing echos of 'x will be the year of Linux on the desktop' in these discussions...
> Yes, bitcoin mining would be worse. Provably worse.

... and exponentially worse as time goes on (by design).
On the other hand, it's quite convenient if you can't remember the exact name and it saves you a look-up e.g. quick_sort vs quicksort vs quickSort - either work
The order book would quickly become a tragedy of the commons - everyone's free to add quotes to it, and doing so costs everyone else. In a perfect frictionless free market maybe exchanges could charge appropriately to put in an order, and rebate the proceeds to people who use the order book. But that's probably impractical (if nothing else, people would send their orders to other exchanges), and would create bad incentives; we'd lose the public good of the displayed, honest order book.

> If he could in fact not deliver the initial sales, then not only is it fraud, but it is a broken system that allows you to put up stuff for sale that you don't own.

Real world commerce works on trust and sometimes retroactive enforcement. If I order ten tons of timber, the world doesn't force the person selling it to prove they have it in stock, I just get to sue them if they don't deliver. Somehow it all manages to work out.
So robbing people is actually striking a blow for economy prosperity? Right, I'm sure all those greedy Jews were wrecking things by coveting their shiny ducats... they should learn to share right?

Anyway. Turning "hoarding" into a dirty word is one of the last signs an economy is about to tear itself to pieces, just before the baseball bats come out and shop windows start getting smashed. Stay classy though!
They don't provide the Javascript runtime - Google does that. This is a fork of Node.js - glossing over this is at least a little disrespectful to Node.js.
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Go back to /r/bitcoin, libetard. Articles like this make me giggle, love seeing you dipshits get your ass handed to you time and time again because of your BS "currency"
I can wholeheartedly recommend participating in this tournament as a student. I built a bot for BWAPI a few years back and it taught me a great deal about programming in hostile environments against unreliable API's and with unreliable resources.

And that's all before you even get to true AI. You can skip all that and just cut to the AI part by choosing to base your bot on one of the existing open source AI's that are already available and continuously improved by the community.
my person problem with librem laptops are the prices, they seem quite high for a free software product, but i guess its because they need capital to begin producing the laptops.
Then why does the API allow it?
Does anyone know what 'MI' and 'MD layer' refer to in Theo's message ? Machine Indepedent and Machine Dependent maybe ?
Jim Crow laws were also about wages vs profits. White people wanted to not have their wages lowered via competition with blacks. The racist components of the New Deal were almost entirely economic.

If you want to alter the H1B program, I'm all for auctioning off work permits. That's not an argument to eliminate H1B, that's merely an argument to replace it. I'm arguing against eliminating/reducing it and comparing many of those who favor it to Jim Crow types.

As for "brain drain", the same can happen with the black community. A black person may get a good job in white America and then leave his predominantly black neighborhood. He might then marry a white woman and never look back. Oh noes!

Similarly, a black person who attends Howard University and then works as a plastic surgeon for rich white women has also had his investment paid for by the black community, but the first world is getting the whole benefit. (Yeah, isn't it a bit disconcerting when I describe the black community the way you describe a nation?)

And again, like I said, these are all empirical criteria. Even if you have exact thresholds in each criteria which India currently satisfies but "Black America" does not, one could easily imagine a future where Black America does cross those thresholds. Should we bring back segregation at that time, and require black Americans to get a B1B visa to live and work in white America? If you oppose this, then your stated criteria are not your real ones.
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Which do you prefer?
Yes. Many programs rely on W&X (I believe the JVM is a prominent example)
When I want to know if a site is trustworthy, the first thing I check is whois information. If hidden, do not trust.
Clickables: http://fallinloveapp.com or http://loveactualized.com ?
The UK is one of the wealthiest, stablest, most developed countries in the world. Pointing out that its banking system is relatively effective as if that reduces the value of Bitcoin is like saying toilets and public sanitation is great in the UK so why are these entrepreneurs bothering building cheap toilets and menstruation technologies for India and Africa again? In other words, unbelievably naive and borderline arrogant.
$3M in sales is the yearly turnover of a small local bakery chain with a few retail points. Every village of more than 5000 people has several companies with this turnover. $3M is nothing. For a retailer of low-margin goods like Overstock, they must have spend more on implementing bitcoin payments than they made on the sales that were paid with them, and that's not even counting costs of converting back to $ etc.
It'd be good to see how these new languages compare to established ones that offer similar features - maybe OCaml and Haskell.
>Use mongoose!

We don't use node.js. Also, we have app-level schema, but enforcing should (IMHO) be done on DB level so as to avoid any chance of invalid data.

Joins: easy, we specify which fields are connected (on app level), then fetching goes to connected collections and fetches data from there too. Not ideal, but it works. We made a similar solution for foreign keys.

Transactions: no need for any further guarantees. Our system mostly works on a single record at a time in all critical components. If this is not possible, we have app-level locking to avoid conflicts. No issues or wishes here.
Well, sure. PHP could also become a nice language to code in. Neither outcome seems likely, given what we've seen in the past.
When/if Bitcoin becomes the world currency, it's price will stabilise to match the global desire to defer the completion of trades (i.e. the aggregate desire to purchase goods in the future). So you might expect to see it go up and down depending on very largescale worldwide trends about purchase timing.
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Oh man! 9 year old me just flipped out. I can't believe you could actually outrun him...
> I think you're better off hoarding canned tuna, vodka and guns;

Epic :)
Works for me now, but I can only support DDG. If you mostly use search when you know where you want to end up, like documentations, specific websites etc. DDG is really worth a shot. Using Google to actually "search" is just a !g away.
It can be done with flexbox now[1]. Which IE11 also supports[2] :)

[1]http://css-tricks.com/centering-css-complete-guide/#center-v...
[2]http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox
Checklocktime + multisig + the reputable third-party arbitrage provider of your choice, if you want.
Bitcoin is the currency of future. It looks promising but to change people's mindset and to get accepted widely, it will take some more time. We just need to be patient and believe in this future currency.
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completely agree. I didn't even get it was a node replacement. A spork of node? What is that? I might be missing some tech vocabulary, or just some native-english understanding. But the wording could be much more clear.
There's one use of bitcoins, it's a great currency to avoid paying taxes which compensates for the loss of small interests (not saying I'm doing this, but I'm quite sure that some of the users use it for exactly this reason)
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Agreed. That said, optional schema enforcement would be really nice (in my experience, most of the data has a predefined format; so why not define schema and enforce it?).
Mining effort is pretty much independant of the number of transactions.
Ask HN: Kickstarter from Norway – disadvantage for US backers?
Kickstarter became available in Norway late last year. I launched my first project yesterday, a board game to teach the fundamentals of Lean Startup.

After 17 hours, I notice that I get a whole lot more Norwegian backers than US ones. It should be the other way round, there are a lot more US Lean Startup enthusiasts than there are Norwegian ones.

Norwegian Kickstarter projects list as every other project, but there are two big differences:

- Currency has to be NOK

- Backers must put in a new credit card

In your opinion, would this be considered a big barrier for US backers? Does it seem "foreign" and create uncertainty?

Here's the link, if you want to make up your own opinion:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/44846941/playing-lean
"The predictable monetary supply of Bitcoin is precisely why it is doomed to fail"

Sorry but you're backwards there chief.

"Specifically, Bitcoin's deflationary nature."

Of course you don't elaborate. That's ok because another guy will say inflationary then another guy will point out how all fiat is always in a state of either or.

"In the best case scenario, Bitcoin will continue to experience unstable boom-bust cycles "

No, that's the US dollar. As it's economy experiences a crash every six years on average. Little overdue at the moment.

"prices will rise when people start hoarding their coins"

That's always been what's going on.

"then crash again when people dump their Bitcoin en masse once prices hit a high enough peak."

Oh so there's a collective price point where everyone sells is there? That would be a first for any object in the history of the world. You realize that right?

"This is great for speculators, terrible for everyone else."

Yes that is what we saw in 2014 with the introduction of futures markets and are continuing to see. Watch the Chinese exchange. All gamblers with it at the moment making money on the downside.

"In the worst case scenario, Bitcoin prices drop to $0" yes captain obvious, that would be, but people won't give up using it because of it's utility.

"Bitcoin never really solved the chicken-and-egg problem. Not enough merchants accept Bitcoin for customers to bother with yet another currency, and not enough customers use bitcoins for merchants to deal with yet another currency."

Brawker, Purse etc for those that don't. But THOUSANDS now do. Newegg, tigerdirect, anything you need or want can now be had with btc. Bitpay makes it super easy for stores to accept coins.

Lots of talking out your butt. You have no data on how many people use it and for a merchant to accept it, like say Paypal, it's nothing but a good thing because of almost nonexistent transactions costs and elimination of chargebacks.
While I generally agree with your analysis/predictions, there is an alternative outcome to the "dying in the streets" outcome (which IS where we are heading, unfortunately).

The alternative is the same one that happens every time a large enough percentage of the population starts going hungry: they simply take what they need from those that are hoarding it. Sometimes this includes putting those responsible for the hoarding under the guillotine - possibly for revenge and and possibly as a warning for future generations.

The future you descirbe is a prerequisite, and it will get ugly a lot sooner than most people expect. While being one of those with money is probably a good idea when possible, it is also a good idea to prepare for when those who do not have money decide to go full Robespierre.
I don't write the rules, I'm just telling you what they are. I guess it boils down to the idea that bluffing is banned in financial markets. What differentiates making a bluff from a regular raise in poker? You have to 'make good' on the bet either way, yes? The difference is that you're 'hoping' that you don't get called, 'hoping' that your opponent folds. Not allowed in markets. Probably a good thing too, or they'd be even more chaotic as they degenerate into bluff and double-bluff. Having said that spoofing is still widespread, likely because it is hard to prove and some regulators aren't as tough on it as they should be.
Bitcoin because it was first. Bitcoin because it has the community, the attention, the history - in other words, the network effect. Bitcoin because it's not a clone. Bitcoin because other people choose Bitcoin. Etc. etc. Bitcoin because it has the initial gravitational advantage, and mass begets mass in the formation of stars.
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To be more precise, it's not actually 'low-skill' labor that is vulnerable - it's 'routine' labor that is. Autor and Acemoglu talk about this in their paper 'Skills, Tasks and Technologies':

'Following, ALM, we refer to these procedural, rule-based activities to which computers are currently well-suited as "routine" tasks. By routine, we do not mean mundane (e.g., washing dishes) but rather sufficiently
well understood that the task can be fully specified as a series of instructions to be executed by a machine (e.g., adding a column of numbers).
Routine tasks are characteristic of many middle-skilled cognitive and manual jobs, such as bookkeeping, clerical work, repetitive production, and monitoring jobs. Because the core job tasks of these occupations follow precise, well-understood procedures, they can be (and increasingly are) codified
in computer software and performed by machines.'
At least there's more competition possible between people who sell BTC. right now there's only paypal.
Commodore famously licensed Microsoft BASIC on a "pay once, no royalties" basis, and independently kept developing it for its 8-bit line of computers. If you're interested in its history David Viner has posted the source for version 4.75 from 1982 with several enhancements:

http://www.davidviner.com/cbm9.html
Similarly, the anti-segregationists don't realize that what's good for a black man is not necessarily good for black America as a whole.

Sure, it's great to allow black people to shop at white stores, but what if they all decide "white man's ice is colder" and the black business community suffers? <- real thing that happened.

Since you seem to want to bring up a variety of empirical criteria, what are the specific empirical criteria that would justify laws which require black Americans to get a visa before living/working in white America? I.e., what has to happen before you favor segregation?
Jeff Vogel is great, and I've been playing his games for over half my life. But he's written similarly themed blog posts himself: http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/the-indie-bubble-is...

Part of the reason he can still do it is that he's been doing it for so long, and has a loyal long term audience quite happy to buy a new Spiderweb game because it's a new spiderweb game.
Oh simply invest into more tangible things, like companies, land and properties, etc. Unless communism becomes modern again it is safe to say that your assets should be secured.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/IpNotes.htm

* Inflation

> (1) output measured in physical units

* Overcapacity

I'm not even sure what you're claiming as a problem with the IP index here; it measures actual production, while there are entirely separate indices for Capacity (and Capacity Utilization). See http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/g17/CapNotes.htm

* Transfer pricing

Again:

> (1) output measured in physical units

The people who put these indices together are, surprisingly enough, professionals who have thought about these issues.
You can't cancel them after they're matched, these cancellations happen while they're sitting around waiting for someone to take them.
Hmm, does the cap screw on tight like a normal thermos? Maybe it's designed to always have a loose cap for venting.

The dewars I was talking about above hold several hundred liters, are about 5-8 feet tall, and primarily for liquid helium (where evaporation is way more of a factor.

The pressure relief valves were built in to the storage dewar's we would get from LN2 and LHe suppliers, but I don't think the cryostats in our lab had them built in, you needed to add them separately by connecting onto the dewar's main flange. The one my colleague exploded didn't have the extra valve hardware attached, and he just capped it and walked away.
I did take pains to point out that it's a human rights violation, but that didn't stop you going straight for the Godwin, did it?
Those that can 'defer to the machine' are going to do better in many jobs (that will remain) in the future. This is a big part of Cowen's "Average is Over." Here's a good review of it which goes into that aspect of it:

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/searle20150109

Excerpt:

'The moral Cowen draws from freestyle chess is that the winners of these games, and he extrapolates, the economic “games” of the future, are those human beings who are most willing to defer to the decisions of the machine. I find this conclusion more than a little chilling given we’re talk about real people here rather than Knight or Pawns, but Cowen seems to think it’s just common sense.

In its simplest form Cowen’s argument boils down to the prediction that an increasing amount of human work in the future will come in the form of these AI-human teams. Some of this, he admits, will amount to no workers at all with the human part of the “team” reduced to an unpaid customer. I now almost always scan and bag my own goods at the grocery store, just as I can’t remember the last time I actually spoke to a bank teller who wasn’t my mom. Cowen also admits that the rise of AI might mean the world actually gets “dumber” our interactions with our environment simplified to foster smooth integration with machines and compressed to meet their limits.

In his vision intelligent machines will revolutionize everything from medicine to education to business management and negotiation to love. The human beings who will best thrive in this new environment will be those whose work best complements that of intelligent machines, and this will be the case all the way from the factory floor to the classroom. Intelligent machines should improve human judgement in areas such as medical diagnostics and would even replace judges in the courtroom if we are ever willing to take the constitutional plunge. Teachers will go from educators to “coaches” as intelligent machines allow individualized instruction , but education will still require a human touch when it comes to motivating students.'
I'm currently working on a mobile game all by myself. So this article should worry me. But I share your sentiment. You should create the games you'd want to play yourself. There are many games that were developed with the wrong intentions and so I'm actually glad they fail because it makes the audience seem smarter than they are often depicted.

Every now and then I browse through the app stores for games that didn't get attention and I've never seen a great game among them. I'd like to be proven wrong on this but it hasn't happened yet.

I've also read a couple of postmortems of failed games and I haven't seen a single game that failed despite delivering quality. Most of the times I asked myself how they even thought they'll have success with such a low quality product. One of the best post mortems I've read was this one which emphasizes my point http://gamasutra.com/blogs/DomDrysdale/20150107/233677/Lesso...

>... we were inspired by the success of games like Ski Safari and Jetpack Joyride. These are not good reasons to make a particular type of game

>... I don't think we ever really had the passion for this genre of games to make something truly great.
These are limit orders under discussion, you seem to be confusing them with market orders.
If you want to learn a bit more about mainframes, this podcast http://www.se-radio.net/2012/03/episode-184-the-mainframe-wi... has a lot of great info.
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Well, that is a compelling argument I guess...

Bonus points for being honest about it (a rarity) :)
Why are Twitter and Farmville hard to replicate, while Uber and AirBnB are not?
UK police get stabbed a lot too but they have much better armor.

Yes, talking people down works in every situation.

Not to say that guns work every time but if someone has the intent to get all staby It's time to go lethal.

I think it would be eye opening for everyone to get a taste of how things can go wrong in police situations themselves.
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Are you suggesting that the API should read your mind to discover whether you really intend to trade on an order that you enter?
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Also, immigration and free trade are different things. You can be anti-H1B but still favor free trade, allowing those H1B'ers to sell their software in direct competition with US firms online if they so wish.
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Proof of Stake is a proposed solution to that criticism https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Proof_of_Stake (although not free of criticism itself).
Investors are like companies, 60%-80%(Dubious estimation) are not that great, but every so often there is a good one.