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If you have an infinite amount of money, you already own the casino.


I almost never use Pantone libs anyway. I usually just use Cyan or Magenta as Pantone plates and tell the printer what Pantone color the C or M plate should be printed in.


The simple rule running your java program is a NAND-gate.


Would be interesting to run linguistic analysis on written text by CSW and Satoshi.


Why would they do that?


So they can rent them out and profit.


Now says "This article was amended on 19 November 2016. The act has not yet received royal assent, as stated in an earlier version." at the bottom.


Classic Grauniad


The example refering to rotating car wheels seeming to stand still can only be seen in "artificial" street light and not in direct sunlight. It is the lights Hz (refresh rate) that causes the illusion and not some "frame rate" in the brain.


My dad used to own a company that made wheel balancers, they work by spinning a wheel really fast, then flashing a light with a known refresh rate, and seeing how the wheel behaves (if the wheel looks like it is standing still, then it is perfectly balanced, otherwise it is unbalanced, and it is speeding up and slowing down because of gravity).

Although the refresh rate of artificial light could be manipulated to create very interesting effects, even in natural light you can see wheels rotating backwards, or standing still, or forwards in slow motion, because of the exact thing mentioned in the article.

I was a kid when my dad worked with that, and I was always fascinated, I could keep staring at the spinning wheels during testing of our product for hours.


I also thought so, but the research abstract linked from the article suggests there is a real perceptual effect.

I would be curious to know if they had any estimate of the 'frame rate'

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....


~18 Hz by my own imperfect measurements.


Seriously, or only joking? That's interesting. How did you measure it?



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