Litost

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by Litost 11y ago
For completeness, i guess most people have seen the ant colony layouts? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGJ2jMZ-gaI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmD5ahkOPAQ
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by Litost 11y ago
It turns out that driving in london or using public transport (bus at least) is noticeably less healthy than walking [1]. I imagine if you could fit in a run through some less busy and/or green spaces you might be overall better off??
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by Litost 11y ago
"Am I an "avarage joe" going to work from 9-5, or am I being wasteful? You tell me. I know what I'm going to continue doing :-)" Arguably both ;), but then i'd blame a broken system for coercing you into those
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by Litost 11y ago
This might well be the dumbest thing i've ever said on the internet, but extrapolating from "data on 7% of americans just got hacked" to the premise nothing is actually secure a) What would happen if we embraced this and just
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by Litost 11y ago
and then what happens when you do? Reminds me very much of the classic 1974 film "The Conversation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_LJ5ICMbP4 [EDIT: And this interesting analysis as it pertains to the modern wo
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by Litost 11y ago
I've only had a cursory introduction to Nash's work through brief flirtations with game theory, but this is the best explanation i've found so far on Nash's Equilibrium which i still remember vividly for highlighting why
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by Litost 11y ago
This happened to me in my 2nd job, a long time ago. Customer went tits up owing us £150k, we were only a small firm, around 10 employees so would have meant significant layoffs. So the owner asked if we'd all take 20% or so paycuts, wi
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by Litost 11y ago
That's a very good point about RAWs, in my haste to dismiss it out of hand, i hadn't realised it doesn't backup RAW. But then just another sign of where it's target demographic is.
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by Litost 11y ago
^This - as summed up in more detail here [1] And these changes don't do anything for me personally. 1) Uploadr - as a semi-pro user, i.e. still using real cameras and lightroom (with plugin) to sync to flickr this means nothing. 2) 1TB
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by Litost 11y ago
1 in 10, or 3 out of 500? The problem with comparisons like this is it's horribly a) Judgemental - what you might class as a success can differ wildly from what someone else does. b) Situational - the success rate you get from differin
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by Litost 12y ago
Glad you found them useful, i was mildy surprised mainstream media (the bbc) was publishing them. There's a digest and comments more eloquent than i can muster from the guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio&
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by Litost 12y ago
If you watch pt1 and pt2 of this series, and take them at face value, you'd arguably be hard pushed to see a huge difference in them either? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwboEpZe88 https://www.youtube.co
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by Litost 12y ago
I watched a Noam Chomsky youtube video recently, where he said something similar about TV news. The amount of time you get is only about enough to throw out some half-baked soundbite i.e. "XXX are terrorists", "All benefit cl
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by Litost 12y ago
Many thanks for the post, and the link which eventually led me to this, in which Martin Crawford also appears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVBYgg013KM which also explains why both old (reliant on intensive manual labour
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by Litost 12y ago
Thank you, thank you. That Bertrand Russel link is simultaneously one of the funniest and most poignant things i've read in quite a while. Always seemed odd, this keep everyone so busy working (and consuming), they won't have the
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by Litost 12y ago
Thanks, i was using this: http://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/ in a similar fashion to described in here: http://box.matto.nl/dnsadblok.html but will look into this one as well.
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by Litost 13y ago
I'm not sure how qualified i am to answer this post, when i got approached by google i didn't actually reply because i'm 99% sure i wouldn't even have got to a first phone interview so your way ahead of me in employabili
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by Litost 13y ago
On a slightly related note, i used to ask at interviews, "What was the worst mistake you've ever made?". I found out later when stopped by the (UK) police once, that their "Have you ever been in trouble with the police b
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by Litost 13y ago
"They need to dial it back some." I had the same thought about Glastonbury, when they were talking about not running it a few years back, because it had got too unwieldy and a lot of the regular goers were complaining it had sold
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by Litost 13y ago
I still find it slightly bemusing, that 2.5 billion people lack access to any sanitation [1], but only 1 billion lack electricity and access to a mobile phone, especially given that it's estimated that 700,000 children die every year t