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by Anechoic 14y ago
Acoustic simulation is a deficit in first-class CAD packages. That's probably more of a feature than a bug since they have different purposes and different. That said, there are a variety of acoustics simulation (including auralization) s
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Again, that 395 number is not the total number of tweets, it's the number of tweets that included geolocation data. That 395 was likely a subset of the total number of racist tweets.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
395 tweets out of It's 395 geocoded tweets, not 395 tweets total across Twitter.
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I haven't tried that, personally, so I may be wrong. I would love to hear about how pregnancy negatively impacts information workers. I can think of a number of negative impacts - for example I would imagine that being pregnant with a rap
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by Anechoic 14y ago
So the idea that the market share decrease was due to Apple buyers sitting out in anticipation of the mini seems rather misguided. On the other hand, Apple just announced selling 3 million iPad minis this weekend so it looks as though the
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by Anechoic 14y ago
it's even more open than the NBA because the judge is the market Interesting, I have the exact opposite viewpoint - I can see the result of a software project, but I have very little insight into the contributions behind the scenes. In
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by Anechoic 14y ago
Profits are what matters No, opportunity is what matters. "Underrepresentation does not equal racism" is true but it may (and I stress "may") be an indicator of disparate impact, and so underrepresentation shouldn't be dismissed. Paul J
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by Anechoic 14y ago
House effects for 2012: http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/calculat...
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This isn't the first time something like this has happened: http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=14672228 You would think that would have a procedure in place to address these types of situations, for good PR at least.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
You can be an executive and still be in a situation where a higher ranking executive can override you even when you are the domain expert and they aren't. Then you quit.
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Trains in NYC are expected to be down through the end of the week, Connecticut has closed highways to non-emergency traffic, chunks of Manhattan have no power and patients at one NYC hospital are being evacuated due to generator failure. Ho
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by Anechoic 14y ago
As one of the 75% of blacks who is lactose intolerant, I can certainly sympathize with bifrost's post, although I don't want to deprive others of milk products if they enjoy it. As I was growing up, milk, being recognized as healthy part of
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by Anechoic 14y ago
I was afraid that mentioning Marco's name directly would lead to my post getting buried without consideration, so I left it as an exercise for the reader. Looks like my worries were unfounded.
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What is the relative success rate of ethnic groups who are accepted into the elite schools? If (making up numbers) 90-100% of Asians who are accepted into the school graduate, vs (again making up numbers) 40-50% of blacks/latinos/whites, th
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by Anechoic 14y ago
What ginko said. Engineers don't memorize formulas, we're taught to recognize the principles underlying problems, and then looking up the appropriate formula to address the problem. In high school all I did was rote memorization and I coast
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what is the theoretical limit for storing energy in a spring. I spring is a material (usually a metal, but could be a plastic as well) that is under stress, typically tension, torsion or compression (depending on type of spring). The limi
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"The diagonally-oriented camera is strange. In the one orientation it’s optimized for, it’s slightly annoying. In any other orientation, it’s almost intolerable. " "The built-in front-facing camera for Skype is angled so that it’ll work gre
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Planet Money: How To Fix The Patent Mess(npr.org)
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Almost all serious engineering, scientific [..] and the majority of manufacturing are metric in the U.S. This isn't true in my experience. Of course my experience certainly isn't comprehensive, but in my work I interact with a lot of US f
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Interesting, although the big problem with the FB datacenter ductless return is that the noise level from the RTU will be very loud. I suppose that might be mitigated somewhat by a) the noise from the servers themselves, and b) the center m
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by Anechoic 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company That investment was (in part, along with a cash settlement) the resultion of a dispute over Microsoft using Quicktime code in their Video for Windows product.
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by Anechoic 14y ago
COBRA covers you (costs go up precisely 1%) When I was on COBRA, my out-of-pocket costs went up significantly more than 1% (compared to what I was paying for the same policy when I was employed). Anechoic is right - anyone claiming they
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by Anechoic 14y ago
#2 is irrelevant in MA. MA already has Obama/Romneycare. It's not quite that simple. One, the plans offered through the MA Connector may not be as inexpensive as plans negotiated by an employer, so you may wind up paying more for the same
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have cities provide a public health insurance option that a person or business could buy into. That only works if all cities have plans, otherwise you can find yourself trapped staying in a city that same way that one might find himself
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Isn't it possible that's just a handy self-justification, though? Looking specifically at the folks in my circle, I doubt for for two reasons: 1) they've seen me make a living at it for 9 years and they are all as smart, if not smarter th
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But the thing is, most people don't want to run their own business no matter how safe you make it. In the aggregate you may be right. Just from my own personally experience, I can think of at least a dozen folks (extremely well-regarded i
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That was pretty distasteful considering the bailout by Microsoft in 1997 It wasn't a "bailout" it was a legal settlement.
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Maybe people are more likely to perceive the behaviour of others towards them as racist, if they are racist themselves? Really? The "I know you are, but what am I" defense?
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TSA unveils new, less revealing body scanners at Logan(boston.com)
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There's no reference to the actual allegations, not even a link to the original post. Did you actually read the article? There's a link to the original article describing the allegations in the second sentence: http://venturebeat.com/2

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