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by Nzen 9y ago
If you are referring to the first amendment, that protects us from government censorship. There are a number of ways we may agree to censor ourselves when interacting with private entities. I signed a non disclosure agreement with my employ
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by Nzen 9y ago
tl;dr Alan Sokal, US based physics professor, convinced _Social Text_ , a postmodern-focused academic journal, to publish a fraudulent article in 1995. When appraised, the editors noted that they urged him to let them edit it, as they consi
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by Nzen 9y ago
Perhaps there was a 'joke' comparison that that author forgot or later editors deemed unserious. Something like "only a mass equivalent to the Himalayas, less than one billionth, would have decayed into thallium." This e
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by Nzen 9y ago
tl;dr studies show friendships form from unplanned proximity; cities are no longer human sized; hence, we are (more likely) lonely and should invest in walkable, noncommercial spaces.
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by Nzen 9y ago
The headline is the tl;dr. The article also mentions that two future exchanges, Cboe and CME, are adopting some bitcoin exposure on Sunday and next week, respectively. Presumably, public notices like this foster an environment encouraging s
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by Nzen 9y ago
My favorite viruscomix [1] (by Winston Rowntree) deals with intrusive thoughts, by having a homeless character meet her alternate reality self. The conventionally successful self had a better support network, but is still desperately afraid
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by Nzen 9y ago
tl;dr 5-10 (for the referenced type of molestation) 5-20 for distribution, in Louisiana. Skenazy, the author, also begins with the non sequitur that distribution is easier to convict objectively.
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by Nzen 9y ago
tl;dr a short biography of Thomas Hargrove, leader of the Murder Accountability Project (MAP). He is a former crime reporter who has often involved statistical analysis of crime databases in his work. MAP provides geographic profiling, pair
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tl;dr The author visited a university with one of the two copies of a wallpaper sample book. Its danger stems from the arsenic dyes used at the time. The article then relays the history of arsenic dyes and how we came to notice (1847-ish) t
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by Nzen 9y ago
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/galleries has some of their discontinued series (ex rhymedown spectacular, I hit it with my axe, and unskippable).
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by Nzen 9y ago
tl;dr F1 is generally help . Excel's help is apparently slow to load and close. Hence, the interviewees removed the key to avoid pressing it, when they meant to press F2. It's disappointing but unsurprising they didn't just
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by Nzen 9y ago
tl;dr Ian Bogost (of CowClicker) reviews Dan Kurtz's free ios app. Binky operates as a fidget toy with the social app interactions. One can scroll through random pictures, like them, and swipe them. Typing a 'comment' just re
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by Nzen 9y ago
tl;dr Valve is replacing the greenlight system with a per title fee. Supplement above with http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight/discussions/18446744073... for details on how they'll handle games in during the
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by Nzen 10y ago
tl;dr listicle with a restatement of the Tiobe index
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by Nzen 10y ago
tl;dr University of Alberta's Edmonton cold storage facility suffered a freezer unit failure. This melted 180 ice cores, 13% of the whole collection. Each may cost 5e5-1e6 dollars to replace.
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the equivalent of a grievance filed through the International Trademark Association
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by Nzen 10y ago
I'd assume I'll throw the first one away, so no framework. Just use C# in a console. wasd+ is input. Game loop is update positions based on input, convert positions to an ascii 2d array, print ascii. Just those could get you to st
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by Nzen 10y ago
tl;dr a team has used some kind of novel encoding to pack the max bits into some test tube dna. Presumably a strategy better than 4B5B? Far future use is Amazon Glacier storage. I recommend http://dnafountain.teamerlich.org/
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by Nzen 10y ago
tl;dr It's a 2 foot cylindrical robot for carrying 40 lb of stuff alongside/behind you as you walk. Can move at walking-running speed of a person. Unveiled two days ago; no indication of when this is ready for general consumption.
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by Nzen 10y ago
It depends upon your chosen medium. For most terminals, you could print ansi escape codes to color sections of the text output. As with any software, there are disjoint sets of coverage. http://stackoverflow.com/questions&#x
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by Nzen 10y ago
tl;dr we should resist an insistence that federally funded science ought prioritize by free-market principles. Thomas Levenson provides examples of basic research that took long periods, often initially focused on non-remunerative subjects.
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by Nzen 10y ago
tl;dr an interview with five mensa members about how they perceive genius and their hi IQ peers. They mostly associate genius with accomplishment or creativity that expands a frontier.
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tl;dr some repost of a webcam gal in a chair looking coquettish and stroking herself. Set to music. I suggest using a private browser if you don't want it to affect your recommended vids.
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A spectrum of increasing respect for those ellipses: https://github.com/debugger22/github-audio https://github.com/Thomasb81/Midi_SynthFpga http://overtone.github.io/ https:&#x2F
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by Nzen 10y ago
tl;dr Listicle of five service layouts for different horizontal and vertical scaling. Provides a paragraph about each and pros/cons. Useful if you only have five minutes to learn about the following terms; not, if you've already s
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<formatting edit> The college I attended had a copy. I leafed through it. I recall (but didn't reimplement) * map coloring * maze generation * some company forecasting / resource allocation game * a vm and compiler * huffman
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by Nzen 10y ago
DigitalOcean and Github sponsored event. Sign up, submit four pull requests, and they'll send you a shirt. Ends Oct 31. Also has a spot for repo owners to advertise collaboration ready issues.
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For those thinking of writing a ssg as a challenge, I recommend reading Rhodes and Rocco's _500 Lines or Less_ [1] chapter about an incremental build system. It describes the general strategy behind tup. [1] http://aosabook.
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Satirical page by design firm Nicer. Advertises an audiojack plug to make contemporary iphones as smooth in that spot as the iphone7
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4t0BKlICsk Motherboard report about how beavers imported to Chile have disrupted riparian forests.

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