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jengamaster

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    Comment #8861722

    In fact, insect byproducts are already used in food production. Carmine is a red food dye made from the scales of a particular bug: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmine

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    Comment #8788120

    I think some people may be checking wether your script works or not

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    Comment #8591014

    It's strange that the in the login object is never used. Also that the handleAuth function uses the existence of 'logoutUrl' to decide wether it should refresh or redirect, but use…

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    Comment #8590758

    Also https://www.google.com/foobar uses JS to set the src of the iframe holding https://foobar.withgoogle.com and appends window.location.search to it.

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    Comment #8590573

    That was my thought too, although I'm not sure how it would be done.

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    Comment #8137909

    Ahh, I get it. Took me a couple reads of the code to see what was going on, but that is pretty cool. Thanks for the info!

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    Comment #8137821

    That's an impressive result! My worry was that it would become more obvious if I were to skimp on the poly count of the shape. Doesn't seem to have been an issue for you. Thanks fo…

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    Comment #8136344

    That would be interesting. I had a quick look and found this paper, they simulate tectonic plate movement for terrain generation: http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~cutler/classes/advancedgrap…

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    Comment #8136324

    Very cool result! I've been wondering about applying the height-maps that you get from Perlin/Simplex directly to the vertices of a planet, for 3D terrain. I'd imagine that the cub…

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    Comment #7868792

    Would have been a greater one if linklist.js contained links to more sites than Github, Reddit and Hackernews... I mean I could have guessed those by assuming that I visited that p…

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    Comment #7822364

    I'd wager that it's not even close, unless you're referring to American executions only. China alone has executed in excess of 2000 people each year int the last few years: https:/…

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    Comment #7772287

    Very fun! Now I really want to get a Rubik's TouchCube and port this to it. EDIT: You could extrapolate this idea to different geometric shapes too, to achieve unconventional time-…

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    Comment #7754776

    I think the hardest part of creating a mirror for these other kinds of senses would be the fact that you need to be able to modify the 'reflected medium' in such a way that you can…