FelixP

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by FelixP 15y ago
Here's the problem: smartphones make terrible game controllers, mainly due to the shortcomings of touchscreens when compared to joypads, thumbsticks, and buttons for gaming. I don't want to use my smartphone as a controller for a game tha
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by FelixP 15y ago
Optimistically, I think it'd be a great thing if this (or even some portion of it) came to pass. Two thoughts come to mind: 1) Salman Khan is arguably this already (although he's not a "teacher" in the narrow, institutional sense) - he's ma
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by FelixP 15y ago
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarium_Capital#Recent_performa...
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by FelixP 15y ago
What about the fumes and such from the ablation of the toner? Seems like it could be a serious health hazard.
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by FelixP 15y ago
There was a really great piece in GQ a month or two ago on the use of CBT to treat PTSD for soldiers coming back from Iraq/Afghanistan. Long, but definitely worth the read. http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201202/burning-ma...
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by FelixP 15y ago
Forgive my ignorance, but it's been a while since I was in Tokyo. What's an ALT-haven? Is that like a residential version of a capsule hotel?
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by FelixP 15y ago
But most of them don't have flat bottoms (or tops, for that matter).
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by FelixP 15y ago
It's startups all the way down! /inception
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by FelixP 15y ago
When I lived in the Mission, I regularly saw a pair of cops walking a beat on 24th (with old-school plain wooden batons, no less). However, this was the exception, rather than the rule.
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by FelixP 15y ago
To be fair, medical errors are a "TRULY" big problem, and I'm sure that poor/inaccurate/incomplete record-keeping isn't helping things.
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by FelixP 15y ago
One thing that might be skewing the results- this chart is based on regularly-taxed income, which would exclude gains made from things like stock options and grants. I would hypothesize that a good chunk of CS and Engineering majors have d
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I'm doing both.
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by FelixP 15y ago
It might still work if it could narrow down the possibilities to, say, a hundred photos or less. The user should be able to go the "last mile" and pick out the one they're looking for. I'd be curious to see if Facebook's facial recognition
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by FelixP 15y ago
Is there an option to turn it on by default for every comment thread? You could build this into something resembling the Reddit Enhancement Suite for Chrome...
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by FelixP 15y ago
Definitely true, but the tax evasion is made possible by the nature of the work (i.e. it's not an option at all in the fast food job)
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He said they only worked for about 3 hours. Even if you take out $75 for the GF subsidy (being generous and assuming she gets an equal share), each guy made $25/hour, cash (i.e. ~$30-$35/hour pre-tax), which is >3x what they'd get at a