JDDunn9

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by JDDunn9 12y ago
Wonder if this was in response to the recent bit on the Daily Show. http://www.hulu.com/watch/664573#i1,p12,d1
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Sure, but you would just be testing it against other placebos. There has been work in this area. For instance getting a pill from a doctor is stronger than getting the same pill from a stranger. The look/cost of the pill affects it&#x2
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by JDDunn9 12y ago
Control and double blind studies are more important when the placebo effect and subjective outcomes are at play. Not necessary here. Everyone that follows a different diet would like to complain about that. You should have compared it to th
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Building an open source CMS for creating single page apps using AngularJS. Trying to build a low-cost ($4-$5k retail) mobile robotic platform to function as a robot butler.
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Could do a few things more the Angular way. - Use ng-keydown on the input field (less overhead than $scope.$watch) - $http.get has a built in promise. No need to build another one on top of it. - No need to splice the response, just pass th
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Who wants to chip in for a zombie apocalypse shelter?
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I didn't realize this was a legitimate site with real users. I always thought it was just a spam site scraping from somewhere based on the horrible design and excessive ads...
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Not even close to the hype about net neutrality. Spend 5 minutes researching before spouting off garbage.
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I agree it's unfair to the customer, but the message is still being twisted to serve corporate interests. ISPs have been throttling bittorrent for a while now and no one was making a fuss about net neutrality then...
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This is the misinformation mentioned. Small sites won't pay until they reach the size of YouTube/Netflix.
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Every business tries to maximize profits and minimize costs. Google has certainly done their fair share of exploiting people (e.g. knowingly selling ads for scams, stealing content from Yelp, etc.) for profit, so it's hard to feel bad
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The issue of Net Neutrality is consistently misrepresented. ISPs are not trying to extort the little guys (who have no money), they want to throttle YouTube and Netflix. The giant corporations have convinced average people to join their cau
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Sentient Robots may be Mathematically Impossible(newscientist.com)
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Modern Economists are more like Engineers than Theorists(qz.com)
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Perhaps if we legalized prostitution it would decrease incidents like this. We know that as pornography consumption increases, violent sex crimes decrease. It's plausible that giving people a legal outlet would make them less likely to
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by JDDunn9 13y ago
Where are you seeing 4 seconds? The only benchmark is 1.3 seconds for 1500 rows (very large/rare) vs .3 seconds for React. I was saying that making all users download the additional file may not be worth it if only %.01 of your pages a
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It looks like React will only really speed things up when you have over a hundred items repeating. Seems like a pretty rare use-case scenario for the additional 112KB overhead React brings with it.
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Festo's Newest Robot Is a Hopping Bionic Kangaroo(spectrum.ieee.org)
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- Oculus founders have an interest in tuning out the negativity - Ars (or the media) has an interest in hyperbole and sensationalism to get views - No one has anything to gain by making death threats...
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Sounds like they are trying to exploit you. There are plenty of companies out there that want you to think of them as "more than a job", but don't want to give you equity or pay competitive wages. Start taking interviews for
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Bill Gates says the success rate on VC is “pathetic” compared to development(qz.com)
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Part of the inequality in income results from the inequality in representation. When the wealthy run the government, of course they are going to stack the deck in their favor.
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These are just difficulties that need to be addressed, not deal-breakers. All new technologies have a transitional period where the rough edges need to be sanded off (Node.js, HTML5, etc.). As for people making comments that SPA should only
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Investors expect to see most of their investments fail. That's built in to the business model.
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Does 1+2+3... Really Equal -1/12?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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I never heard of swamp coolers before. Honestly I think the problem was I just kept my mainland lifestyle. In Hawaii, people keep electric consumption in mind with every purchase. Most people use fans instead of A/C. High efficiency ap
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Wish I knew. I know most people didn't use A/C at all, and I did, so that may have been part of it.
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Hawaii has the highest cost of electric in the nation. I used to live in Hawaii, and working from home, my monthly electric bill was $500-$750. Hawaii also has year-round sun, being close to the equator. The state also has rebate programs f
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They do. It's called YouTube. It's not that good...
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Crows Could be the Key to Understanding Alien Intelligence(io9.com)
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