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  1. Comment on City Sizes: City size comparison tool in ~misc

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    Gothenburg brings up some tiny city in Nebraska with no way of selecting the one in Sweden?

    Gothenburg brings up some tiny city in Nebraska with no way of selecting the one in Sweden?

    1 vote

  2. Comment on The man problem | “Why are men moving right?” in ~life.men

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    The real fallacy in all this is the ad hominem of the parent comment.

    The real fallacy in all this is the ad hominem of the parent comment.

    6 votes

  3. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~music

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    Seems like you might have posted the wrong link here?

    Seems like you might have posted the wrong link here?

  4. Comment on Inrupt releases React SDK for Solid in ~comp

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    For anyone unfamiliar, Solid is the MIT/Tim Berners-Lee project aiming to introduce:

    For anyone unfamiliar, Solid is the MIT/Tim Berners-Lee project aiming to introduce:

    a proposed set of conventions and tools for building decentralized social applications based on Linked Data principles.

    2 votes

  6. Comment on CERN reveals plans for the Future Circular Collider (FCC) - almost four times longer than the current LHC in ~science

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    According to the article the FCC would be over seven times more powerful than the current LHC but how that impacts its effectiveness/usefulness I don't know. It would seem common-sense that there...

    According to the article the FCC would be over seven times more powerful than the current LHC but how that impacts its effectiveness/usefulness I don't know. It would seem common-sense that there would be a non-linear relationship between size/cost and effectiveness and that you would get diminishing returns for a collider over a certain size but I'm no expert in this field.

    I agree with @spctrvl though that I would have assumed that this would have cost more than they are projecting.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on What do you think of star citizen? in ~games

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    This isn't entirely accurate. They changed engine to Lumberyard from CryEngine. Lumberyard itself is a fork of the same version of CryEngine that Star Citizen was already being built on. According...

    changed engines a while back, and that's a lot of rework, no matter how good you and/or your existing codebase are.

    This isn't entirely accurate. They changed engine to Lumberyard from CryEngine. Lumberyard itself is a fork of the same version of CryEngine that Star Citizen was already being built on. According to Chris Roberts:

    We stopped taking new builds from Crytek towards the end of 2015. So did Amazon. Because of this the core of the engine that we use is the same one that Amazon use and the switch was painless (I think it took us a day or so of two engineers on the engine team).

    https://forums.robertsspaceindustries.com/discussion/364217/lumberyard-for-those-interested/p1

  9. Comment on Theresa May loses Brexit deal vote by majority of 230 in ~news

  10. Comment on Theresa May loses Brexit deal vote by majority of 230 in ~news

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    The majority of MP's have always been remain. If you look at that list you'll see that Theresa May herself (at the time the Home Secretary) supported remain. There are a number of die-hard leavers...

    The majority of MP's have always been remain. If you look at that list you'll see that Theresa May herself (at the time the Home Secretary) supported remain.

    There are a number of die-hard leavers like Andrea Leadsom on the front benches but if anything I suspect support for Remain amongst MPs has grown in the two years since that list was made.

    Most, however, are too concerned with self preservation than to admit that as an MP they owe their constituents (to quote David Lammy) "Not only [their] 'industry' but also [their] 'judgement'".

    Better to enact the "people's will" and go through with is outcomes be damned than to be seen as anti democratic and give those that wanted to leave a "get out of jail free" card by any time anything goes wrong being able to blame it on the EU.

    12 votes

  11. Comment on any sites like 23andme that dont sell your DNA to corporations? in ~tech

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    Is that something on the horizon do you think?

    home genome sequencing kits become publicly available

    Is that something on the horizon do you think?