IvyMike

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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Do you have any evidence to believe "elite" university graduates are more competent? I guess I'm talking about the difference between a strict rule and playing the odds.] > You can ask applicants what courses they to
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> Question for the Americans: Does it really matter if you go to an "elite" college or a regular one? One of the best engineers I know went to DeVry, which is definitely on the lower tier of schools. And I know a few great pro
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by IvyMike 12y ago
> I'm crossed about the News Corp. buyout of a large portion of the company. Maybe they have increased their stake or something, but the only deal I can find was for 5%. And I wouldn't call 5% a large portion. It certainly se
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It is less likely if only because the flight regulations aren't as strict--it used to be any measurable ash closed an air space, but this has now been revised to close airspace only if the ash levels are 4mg per cubic meter of air or
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I read this right after yesterday's article about Chris Knight, "The Last True Hermit". In particular, this part makes an interesting contrast with the quantified self movement. > "But you must have thought about thi
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The other four levels are increasingly in conflict with various religions.
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A little off topic, but if it goes off and is in the news, it will be useful to know how to pronouce Bárðarbunga: http://www.mbl.is/frettir/innlent/2014/08/19/how_to_pronounc... The key is that &#x2
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I've been wondering if there's another level to be reached after another factor of 10--in other words, is there a "100,000 hour" rule? Which at 8 hours per day would take over 30 years, so there's not going to be a
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I'm not sure why this is on HN today, but in a Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon kind of way, I just came across it yesterday. It was in this commencement speech at University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts by musician/artist/
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Most devices in the US are UL listed, but I believe this mostly means they meet UL's in-house guidelines of safety rather than certifying all of the manufacturer claims. (It's possible I'm misunderstanding though--I'd l
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A few years ago, I decided I wanted to get a good power strip. At the end of a few hours research, I concluded that there wasn't any trustworthy third party actually doing verification of manufacturer claims, and do not believe that &
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I used to reboot my Solaris workstation once a month. A friend mocked me--"Still in that Windows mentality". I replied, "No, I reboot it to make sure I still can ". When he rebooted his machine (after almost a year) a
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Technically, the constitutional right is "the right of the people peaceably to assemble". And the wikipedia summary is pretty good: "Unlawful assembly is a legal term to describe a group of people with the mutual intent of
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by IvyMike 12y ago
First of all, there's not enough data to be statistically significant in any of my ramblings, so it's all kind of hand-wavy and I apologize for that. But my general feeling is that there used to be a few "powerhouse" cou
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Notably, Maryam Mirzakhani is the first woman to win a Fields medal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_Mirzakhani
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by IvyMike 12y ago
There are countries named Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Papua New Guinea, Guyana and French Guiana. I think I'm pretty well traveled but even I have difficulty sorting these all out. So even though "Guinean" woul
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I've never flagged a story before but I'm flagging this one. Nobody on HN has enough information to evaluate the the events described in this link. Rape is bad, and false accusations are bad, and we'll never get to the bott
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by IvyMike 12y ago
Younger HNers may not remember the anonymous remailer days (ah, pre-spam internet, how I miss you) but this kind of technology has existed before. Specifically, this sounds a lot like mixmaster, the "Type II" anonymous remailer f
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Any repercussions?
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> Regulators are focused primarily on the disruptive effects of voice calls rather than texting or other data use I feel like this is going to be kind of a mess. "I'm not making a phone call, I'm voice-only skyping over w
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> "They say that the weather was just like this when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. If that actually happened." If your goal is to get instantly binned into the same category as 9/11 truthers, moon landing doubters, and
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by IvyMike 12y ago
I think there's a general trend towards dropping the hyphen in common words. Knuth talks about this in his discussion over "e-mail" v "email": http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
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I would bet money that this technique is already well known and has been used by certain intelligence agencies.
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The internet, including forums like HN, encourage tiny little "soundbites" of reading. How many internet stories do you read that are more than five minutes of reading? If you're like me, very few. But "deep" read
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I built a Onion Pi router for this purpose. All traffic on the public access point is sent over Tor. It's a mixed bag but seems to work well enough. https://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview
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> now that people can lose their job because of their political views I agree this is not fair nor beneficial, but from the Hollywood blacklist to Jim Crow to Martin Luther to "should we/shouldn't we build this golden calf
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https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/how-aid-works/cost... > approximately 70 percent of Harvard students receive some form of financial aid. About 2/3rds of Harvard students graduate with no debt. h
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> people will just come to recognize it as "a British thing" When it comes to the English language, the English have a pretty valid claim.
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The Guardian/Observer style guide specifically uses Nasa as an example: http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-a > Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an in
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I am convinced that most weight-loss diets that succeed (even if only for a time) work because they limit you to a subset of foodstuffs. The diets substitute "have willpower to eat less of everything you already eat" (which doesn&

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