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Micro Python will be ported to run on a microcontroller of your choice. The microcontroller must have the capabilities, and you are responsible for set-up costs for the development board and/or software.
his point is that we don't have a scientific way to measure emotions.
In my opinion if we have emotions we should demonstrate that other animals don't not the opposite.
Why do you assume that we are more evolved? The only evidence we have is that we are better at building and using tools. "More evolved" can be defined in a lot of different ways (why are we more evolved than a wasp?) I think the idea that humans are more evolved it's just a anthropocentric assumptions.
R is a bit faster? and so? If i was really concerned about performance i wouldn't use R in The first place.
R is relatively fast when it uses libraries written in c or fortran, like Python.
My explanation is that it's easy to write about that and feel good after.
1) they assume that people who played 2048 or similar will not use their game. I think they could use 2048 for free advertisement, as they not the same thing, what's wrong about downloading two similar game? expecoially when one of them it's free
2) their game will not have nearly as many users as 2048, it's spread it's due simplicity, ui and design
3) They say their game is better (also) because it's more difficult to play: nonsense, games are not designed to be difficult but to be enjoiable
4) they knew someone will clone them, I think it's a risk to take into consideration
I my opinion 2048 could only have boosted their sales, because it focused the attentions of millions of people with this sort of games. I would like to see the growth of the two compared
Looking a bit further there were society completely destroyed by themself (for example Easter Island http://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/News-Events/Latest-News/News-...)
It's good to have both forces, a conservative and a progressive, to maintain equilibrium, it's never a good idea to put all the eggs in one basket
Edit: update link about Easter Island
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far less accidents, much faster, less traffic jams, more efficient, no traffic light, different speed limits etc...
people don't. There is a market and you have to understand it before making your product.
It's not a question of how much effort you put, it's how much value the customer can see in it.
Why? The price is designed to end up that way, if people will have to add 15% on every item they will modify their cost structure.
>airline tickets yes if I want to add a service I pay, but in a restaurant I don't have the option to be served without the waiter, so it's not fair to the consumer that has the right to know how much he has to pay when he orders something.
When a book a ticket the full price is displayed before I make the purchase, not after I used the service.
Also for the waiter lobster and champagne require the same effort of soup and tap water, so it's not like adding a language of 15 or 20 kg.
I think this is a bad advice. You only need long password that are not feasible for a brute force attack and not trivial (personal data). If you have a password you can't remember you are going to write it somewhere and that can be a security issue
Are you talking about France?
I've been to Big Data conferences where the main application was mean and standard deviation on a huge datasets, I'm just sick of companies inflating the Big Data bubble (and this comes from a "data scientist")
I agree that it wasn't the main point of the post i was replying to but I found that point just smug and incorrect, backed-up with cultural bias rather than historical fact.
EDIT: sorry, I wasn't clear enough, my comparison was mostly in the "most powerful" part rather than "richest"
As it's difficult to compare richness through history I was focusing on relative power. Can someone challenge US now? yes: Russia, China, Europe. Some past empires didn't have any counterpart because they were too powerful for anyone.
US is the most powerful country now, but it isn't dominant (see Syria, Crimea, etc..) and it not as dominant as the British Empire or the Roman Empire was at their time
The British empire at his peak held one fifth of the worlds population. The Roman empire conquered everything was worth conquering and he was providing free food and gigantic games to his poor citizens. If you consider modern Europe his GDP is very similar to the US, although his political situation is more fragmented.
So back to the OP in each era the economic conditions improved, and there was a place where this improvements was more evident, a country who was richer and more powerful than the others. US is one of these nations but it's not something exceptional in history as the OP suggested.
not even close
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-modern_great_powers
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