MoosePlissken

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by MoosePlissken 13y ago
That statement doesn't mention the Galaxy Nexus one way or the other. I imagine it's just a listing of the devices that Google has direct control over that they'll update in the near future. Since updates for the Galaxy Nexus
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by MoosePlissken 13y ago
There are plenty of other artistic mediums that lack a performance aspect. Painting, drawing, literature, photography. Do these mediums also lack soul because they directly connect the composer to the audience, without a third party to inte
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by MoosePlissken 13y ago
Yeah, the study showing a correlation between a country's economic status and its gender differences is interesting, but all it really means is that economic factors might have an effect on gender equality IN ADDITION to cultural and b
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by MoosePlissken 13y ago
Did you read to the end of the article? ScreenHero is a company that makes software for remote collaboration. They started by acknowledging the downsides of remote work, but ended by stating that they believe these disadvantages can be over
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by MoosePlissken 13y ago
From what I've read, Cooler Master and Filco use the same OEM (Costar) so there's almost no difference in quality between the two.
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by MoosePlissken 14y ago
"What about medical students - if they know that the difference in diagnosis accuracy between a medium and a top student has been reduced to just 2-3%, why strive to learn more than the other?" From what I've heard, med school is mostly abo
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by MoosePlissken 14y ago
The book "Thinking, Fast and Slow" has a great chapter on human predictions versus those made by forumlas. The superiority of simple forumlas was being demonstrated way back in the 50s (see "Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoret
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by MoosePlissken 14y ago
And yet it's primarily ideas from literature (from the "niche and isolated genre of science fiction") which Taleb rails against. But since he apparently doesn't like sci fi, I guess it doesn't count. I don't think Shakespeare helped put a r
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by MoosePlissken 14y ago
We recently started using Solr in a similar manner where I work. We don't go as far as to pack an index in with our code, but each page serving instance has an embedded Solr server that it uses to pull a lot of fairly static data. Those ind