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Our Preposterous Universe(preposterousuniverse.com)
1 points by 321abc 17y ago|0 comments
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How to Sleep Comfortably on a Hot Night(wikihow.com)
50 points by 321abc 17y ago|33 comments
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Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient(ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu)
2 points by 321abc 17y ago|1 comments
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by 321abc 17y ago
"attempting suicide seems a rational choice, as long as the attempt isn't too successful" What seems rational by economic standards may not be rational by other standards.
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by 321abc 17y ago
Unfortunately, at least France and Germany seem to want to start emulating the US in this regard. So they're increasing length of their work weeks: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124835745710975827.html http://www.thelocal.de/national/
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by 321abc 17y ago
I'm not a military economist type, but I'll take a stab at this. Apart from the costs you cite, which are certainly significant, there's the cost of replacing equipment, much of which dies quite quickly in the desert. There's also the cost
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Bloggers up in arms over Italian journalistic accountability law(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by 321abc 17y ago
Take a look at this MetaFilter thread about simple, useful skills that can be learned quickly: http://ask.metafilter.com/125874/Simple-useful-skills
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by 321abc 17y ago
There's a metafilter thread about this here: http://www.metafilter.com/83702/Cuz-Im-freefree-rangin
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by 321abc 17y ago
Primer is an excellent film, especially when you consider that it was made for a total of only $7,000. That's not a typo: only seven thousand dollars! Hollywood could really learn a lot from this movie.
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Tim Tyler's Microswitch Keyboard(mykeyboard.co.uk)
3 points by 321abc 17y ago|1 comments
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by 321abc 17y ago
How is the FDA useful? From http://fdaissues.blogspot.com/2008/03/upton-sinclair-book-ju... In "The Jungle", Upton Sinclair, "wrote about how dead rats were shoveled into sausage grinding machines. He explained, in nauseating detail, how
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by 321abc 17y ago
That might be a half-respectable position, if libertarians were against all concentrations of power. But they're not. They're more than happy to give corporations and individuals all the power their money can buy them. Also, libertarians
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by 321abc 17y ago
Not to mention the daily stories of Wall St hustlers stealing billions, trillions of taxpayer dollars being given away as welfare to corporations (which promptly pay out billions in bonuses) and trillions pissed away on murdering tens of th
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by 321abc 17y ago
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -- Samuel Johnson "The most patriotic thing you can do is get rich." -- Mark Cuban Sounds about right.
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by 321abc 17y ago
Also see: http://speleotrove.com/decimal
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by 321abc 17y ago
Wikipedia makes money through fundraising.
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by 321abc 17y ago
Just make your bot mimic the activity of a real human, and it won't take any more resources than a real human. And if you're crafty enough about it, no one will ever know (much less the advertisers, who are probably both clueless and don't
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by 321abc 17y ago
Bring your own snack, and coffee in a thermos bottle. Then just step outside the library for a few minutes to eat/drink what you brought.
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by 321abc 17y ago
Maybe you could set up an SSH server on port 80.
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by 321abc 17y ago
According to Carl Jung, who invented the terms introvert and extrovert, the two are really about preferring to focus inside or outside yourself. They don't necessarily have a social connotation. The introvert, according to Jung, generally
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by 321abc 17y ago
Don't worry, citizen. It's only those Koran-memorizing terrorists who have something to fear. You are quite safe. Go back to sleep.
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by 321abc 17y ago
I've been using computers since the 1980's, and have had dozens and dozens of passwords. I honestly don't remember the vast majority of passwords I've used in the past. Many of the passwords I currently use have been randomly generated and
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by 321abc 17y ago
claws http://www.claws-mail.org
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by 321abc 17y ago
"The researchers broke down each of these 30 behaviors into individual units. A side flip, for example, requires a dolphin to jump and land on its side -- for a total of two behavioral units." This sounds so arbitrary. Why is jumping and
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by 321abc 17y ago
According to "Reading rate: a review of research and theory" by Ronald P. Carver, speed reading (not to be confused with mere skimming) doesn't work. See: http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Rate-Review-Research-Theory/dp...
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by 321abc 17y ago
Using ctags and a good editor (or an IDE) will make the process of seeking to (and jumping back from) subroutines a lot less painful.
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by 321abc 17y ago
The author lists the following as a symptom of being "unable to reason about code": "5. 'Bulldozer code' that gives the appearance of refactoring by breaking out chunks into subroutines, but that are impossible to reuse in another context
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by 321abc 17y ago
The snippet plugin with the most features at present seems to be xptemplate: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611 There's a pretty interesting screencast about it here: http://vimeo.com/4449258
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by 321abc 17y ago
CTRL-R inserts from the register that follows it. See :help i_CTRL-R and :help registers

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