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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
citation for "half your human brain is devoted to visual processing"?
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
He was an engineer - he probably wanted to try and "solve" the problem (isolate the car's behavior and see what inputs are causing the incorrect reaction) and engineer a solution. As an engineer, I can understand this drive.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Realistically, the way we do it is we have a team of supervisors who have been around long enough and have seen everything that - as a group - we are the institutional knowledge. We are pretty effective at communicating with each other to b
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
The surface comes pretty close.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
I have to disagree - the ipad shouldn't be simpler than the iPhone - it should be binary: simpler for the grandparents, powerful enough to compete against a surface. When I travel, I'm only taking 1 big screen. The ipad should rep
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
I did as well - until I got my Apple II+ - which was amazing, but didn't have a built in modem.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Ironically, procrastination is often tied to boredom (just because we have something to do doesn't mean we aren't bored). Boredom is no small thing: http://www.toolsforhealthandwellness.com/negative-effects-of...
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Two words: trackball (or track-ball). Easiest on wrist and fingers for long days.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
I loved my TRS-80 100. My first laptop.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
I grew up playing Asteroids, Missile Command, and Space Invaders - but pinball was always more interesting because of its lack of predictability. Even good players couldn't perfectly master it.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
hypothetical number - chosen for the sake of argument
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
It's a free country - the drivers can choose to take the assignments or choose not to. What they (and customers) are entitled to are accurate information so they can make choices about whether this is in their interest. It's easy
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Life and Death of the American Arcade(theverge.com)
2 points by Balanceinfinity 7y ago|1 comments
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
if you start from the assumption that each of us has a finite amount of money we will give to charity and that - one way or another - we will give that amount, then giving to things like fun runs and fancy balls ( https://leukemia
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
what's amazing about alcohol is that it's been around a long time and people have been self medicating with it for just as long. http://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-how-much-did-our-an...
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Have to give some love to TripTiks, from AAA - the precursor to printed directions from the computer: https://magazine.northeast.aaa.com/daily/travel/road-trips/p...
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
on the lighter side, I do a lot of cooking and I always laugh when I visit a baking website and I get a popup that warns me about the cookie policy. Because of the context, my brain first goes to "I wonder what the recipe is for those
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
That's funny.
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Could also be mass hysteria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_psychogenic_illness
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
That misses the point. Jaguars are better (and more fun) than a Ford Focus. The question is whether the branded school is worth the delta, and the answer is that in most undergrad programs, it isn't. Let's take an example: Steve w
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
A degree from an expensive private school or out of state school is a luxury item, and parents need to treat them like the Jaguar or Porsche with a comparable value. If your child got their license and asked for a Range Rover, would you plu
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
One of the anomalies of English is the spelling bee. I can't really speak any other language, but I've been told that the idea of such a bee in most languages wouldn't make any sense because everything is spelled - if not exa
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
You may agree or disagree with Justice Scalia, but he was not one to sit around trying to figure out legislative intent when reading a statute ( http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?art... ). His tak
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Thanks
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Thanks, I think the best way to think of this is that with better competition in the primary market, we can expect more information about secondary costs to be available at the time of purchase (and the hope is that the competitors will com
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Lifecycle costs of machinery are pretty standard (especially after whatever warranty expires). And, of course, the farmer can avoid the risks of these costs by simply extending the warranty - then all the risk is on the warranty provider. B
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
agreed. But when they purchased the machines, they should have looked at the services terms and taken that into account when making their purchases. If there's competition in the market (no idea) then presumably someone would try to be
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
An economist would say that when considering buying this machinery the farmer would also consider the cost and availability of repairs and that the competition in the machinery market (the primary market) would police the secondary market f
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Totally amazed that share buybacks are controversial. If a company believes its shares are undervalued, and the best place to use its capital, then it should buy them back. In the same way, if a company decides retiring debt is in its best
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by Balanceinfinity 7y ago
Some cities simply can't do this, such as Los Angeles, Dallas, and Atlanta. It's not in their DNA. Things are simply too far apart and the infrastructure couldn't hold it. Other cities are moving toward "no cars" b

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