Cushman

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721.
by Cushman 14y ago
These articles are getting a bit tiring. > On December 14, 2007, Apple laid claim to the supposed novel invention of “list scrolling and document translation, scaling, and rotation on a touch-screen display,” the formal title of United
722.
by Cushman 14y ago
Careful, that's not the same as (->).bind(somethingElse). => binds to the current value of this at execution -- in that function, @ will compile to `var _this = this`, not `somethingElse` as we'd expect. I just tested and it looks
723.
by Cushman 14y ago
> Or even by delegating to another object: > viewInstance.onScroll = somethingElse.render; This one is a bit dangerous, because as you mention the "methods" are just anonymous functions assigned to objects. If `render` is expecti
724.
by Cushman 14y ago
My recollection is that this number is based on a percentage of individuals seeking paternity tests-- where obviously we would expect to see a much larger number of false paternities showing up than in the general population.
725.
by Cushman 14y ago
Yeah, good catch. I was hoping no one would notice that goof :)
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by Cushman 14y ago
Ubisoft is not a great advocate for the industry, in my opinion. I buy their games occasionally, since they own some of my favorite franchises. I also occasionally pirate them first to see if they are unplayable console ports, or have game-
727.
by Cushman 14y ago
Well, your number of children is linear, but your number of descendants is exponential. For the CS students, what this means is that the number of children you have personally, even assuming they all reproduce, rapidly becomes immaterial ne
728.
by Cushman 14y ago
I don't think the difference you're talking about is real. "Eve" is mitochondrial Eve, the most recent direct female-line ancestor-- the first human every woman can say was her mother's mother's mother's et cetera. There's a corresponding
729.
by Cushman 14y ago
I don't really buy this idea that it's not "really" a camera. Think of it like this: A still camera has a number of small receptors. When you take a photograph, you wind up with a bunch of numbers that average the amount of light that hit e
730.
by Cushman 14y ago
> Many English speakers use "begs the question" to mean "raises the question," or "impels the question," and follow that phrase with the question raised,[17] for example, "this year's deficit is half a trillion dollars, which begs the q
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by Cushman 14y ago
Okay, so that's a fair point: Federal and international laws about pornography are arguably broad. For example, it would be legal for me to have sex with a 16 year old, but illegal for me to photograph the act-- that's definitely silly. And
732.
by Cushman 14y ago
Yes, because I'm super baked. No, but seriously-- is it off that I can be made a felon because I clicked the wrong link? Yes. Does that make the laws forbidding the possession of child pornography dumb? No. If there were a reliable way to f
733.
by Cushman 14y ago
Lots of people smoking weed right now would not shed a tear for you if you were arrested because you went looking for child pornography.
734.
by Cushman 14y ago
The difference, if I could put it in as mild a way as possible, is that it has yet to be conclusively demonstrated that safe, reliable access to weapons of known quality is a net positive to public health and safety.
735.
by Cushman 14y ago
> Drug markets, weapon markets, assasin markets (altough I don't know how sersiously to take those), terrorist websites, child porn websites. One of these things, is not like the others...
736.
by Cushman 14y ago
Hah, I missed that both times. That is in fact what they have on that page. I assume it's a typo.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Stranger, perhaps, this also works with the same class 256 times. That is <div class="c"> with a style def .c.c[...256...].c {}. http://codepen.io/anon/pen/zbcxs
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by Cushman 14y ago
I'm not contributing, and I wouldn't care about the deduction if I were... You're welcome to, though :)
739.
by Cushman 14y ago
So long as they do not accept pledges by credit card, only PayPal, and their PayPal account is registered as a 501(c)3. (It looks like this campaign accepts credit cards, which would imply the answer is no.) http://support.indiegogo.com/e
740.
by Cushman 14y ago
Man, I'm not trying to take a side here -- history is pretty complicated -- but that writing style is seriously aggravating. In general, if you ever find yourself in the position of saying, "I'm a comedian, you shouldn't take what I say ser
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by Cushman 14y ago
Probably not, but I'd love to try.
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by Cushman 14y ago
It's only, what, 450 times the density of a Retina MacBook... So you only need, what, a 200,000 times faster card? No sweat.
743.
by Cushman 14y ago
Paraphrasing a great comment on this idea from the Schneier thread (sorry, I can't find it): "Hi, I need to make a change to my account." "All right, ma'am, I'll have you just answer this security question first: What is the make of your fi
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by Cushman 14y ago
Could we theoretically control the resonance of these nano-posts electronically, and use this technology as the basis for a next-generation reflective display?
745.
by Cushman 14y ago
For me, at least, it's only a small part of a greater question: Why do anything that robots do better and cheaper? It seems to me that the best thing for us as a species is to let robots that do the things robots are good at, like transla
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by Cushman 14y ago
So my proposal is this: Spend a lot less money building a much larger, much more durable self-sufficient colony of robots . Once that's going good and strong, maybe we program the robots to produce the oxygen and water and complex organic
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by Cushman 14y ago
And if Mars had an oxygen atmosphere, protection from solar radiation, a fully self-sustaining human-compatible ecology and a number of extant human civilizations that might be relevant somehow.
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by Cushman 14y ago
Terraforming Mars is a great long-term goal. But I don't see how putting a human being on the surface of the planet gets us there any faster.
749.
by Cushman 14y ago
We're doing science. There's a whole science lab on Mars, right now, rolling around doing science. That's super valuable. What does it need a human for?
750.
by Cushman 14y ago
Yes, but not in the next twenty years. Or the next hundred years. Or the next thousand years. A nuclear holocaust would not kill all the humans. A major asteroid strike would not kill all the humans. A super-flu pandemic would not kill all

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