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by RK 13y ago
Interesting to see the trends about HN (plateaued?) and pg and YC (declining). Other things are relatively predictable: NSA, bitcoin, docker, or diaspora. Android reached parity with iphone around the end of 2010.
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by RK 13y ago
I agree there are far more options if you look outside your small field, but I think it's not uncommon for employers to be skeptical of hiring someone with a PhD. Some of their reasons may be borne from experience and some may be simpl
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by RK 13y ago
How is this different/better than already established bike registries? My bikes are registered here (for free): http://www.bikeshepherd.org/
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by RK 13y ago
Evolution is not true. It's not false either and any discussion about it being that is missing the point. Evolution is the best model we have to explain how life and species interact and evolve. I think you mean that the " theor
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by RK 13y ago
Is this a satire piece?
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by RK 13y ago
Don’t limit your search to candidates in your area. This is especially true if you’re in the bay area; lots of people want to move here. At first I thought I misread this paragraph, because I'm so used to people advocating remote hi
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by RK 13y ago
I just grabbed my radiobiology textbook off the shelf (Radiobiology for the Radiologist, for those keeping score). It claims that the latent period between radiation exposure and the appearance of a malignancy is years. The shortest is for
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by RK 13y ago
I've also noticed that people who don't like wine tend to gravitate towards white wines. Why are they drinking wine if they don't like wine? What's the context for that?
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by RK 13y ago
Is this for cheating at cards with Google Glass? :)
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by RK 13y ago
Seems the answer is to learn International Phonetic Alphabet.
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by RK 13y ago
You got me there!
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by RK 13y ago
What is the difference between "cray-ahn" and "cray-awn"? Note that I pronounce "dawn" = "don". Also, I say crayon as "crown", which either isn't very popular, or they just chose poor colors for the heatmap.
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by RK 13y ago
Or it can be a great. Severance packages can be quite lucrative. YMMV. I was part of a "10% workforce reduction", which included no severance packages. They gave us advanced notice, but I would have preferred the cash equivalent for that
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by RK 13y ago
My take-away wasn't that MOOC's will "save" autistic people, but rather that MOOC's have the potential to offer a lot to people who struggle for various reasons in a typical classroom environment. This happens to be an extreme example.
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by RK 13y ago
When I was a grad student there were a few people who couldn't pass the PhD qualifying exams. They basically were allowed to complete enough work for a masters degree, but not allowed to continue for a PhD. This is being forced out.
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by RK 13y ago
I think part 2 of the Article is what people worry could easily be abused, especially when you include wording like "for the protection of health or morals ". "Morals" in particular being something that is subject to very wide interpretati
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by RK 13y ago
I think the author of the article is probably someone an average person might consider an "activist" or the like, but I (an American) also feel like the report is alarming. It sounds like the kind of thing you'd expect from Saudi Arabia, ra
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by RK 13y ago
Everytime I see a news report from a field that I'm familiar with, I get disappointed... The Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect http://seekerblog.com/2006/01/31/the-murray-gell-mann-amnesi...
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by RK 13y ago
EDIT: Changed my mind. What I wrote below is not the argument the OP was making and your criticism stands... Though, if the photographer holds copyright they can still charge per digital copy (per use?) of the same photo. --- You're missi
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by RK 13y ago
The photographer still holds the copyright to those photos because they took them. That's only by custom. Legally the photographer holds the copyright as soon as they take the photo, but they could just as easily assign full copyright to
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by RK 13y ago
When I got married I put an ad on Craigslist seeking a photographer willing to do "work for hire" so that I would have the copyright. This is how photographers hire other photographers (e.g. for multi photographer shoots). I got many more r
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by RK 13y ago
Sounds similar to SnapStream. "Monitor everything said on TV" http://snapstream.com
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by RK 13y ago
Some of the recipes call for 0.13 cups or 0.06 cups, etc. I assume you can convert that to other units like tablespoons / teaspoons for the non-metric inclined?
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by RK 13y ago
Are you planning on releasing a Linux client? When you say science, git, and LaTeX, Linux is often the next word in the sequence...
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by RK 14y ago
How do I cancel my Mendeley account? Edit : If you log in to your account and go to account details there's a "delete your account" link at the bottom. When you click the link you get a dialogue box that says this: We're sorry you want to
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by RK 14y ago
I'm fortunate that I'm able to email and skype with my 90 year old grandmother. I do think it's interesting to see how this will play out with people who are used to being online. My grandmother is probably able to function online at the le
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by RK 14y ago
I was just recently wondering if you could use the bitcoin-style blockchain concept to implement encrypted "email". It looks like this does exactly that... Their white paper seems to address some issues such as proof-of-work, spam, and scal
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by RK 14y ago
Just a side note: They quote a person from the Ronin Institute, which is a virtual research institute for independent academics. They've received a fair amount of press as an alternative model for scholarship / academia. http://ronininstit
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The World Did Not End(opasnajazona.blogspot.com)
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by RK 14y ago
My impression from talking to people in the area is that the investor money is in Santa Fe, but most of the programming jobs are in Albuquerque. Of course Albuquerque is about 10X the size of Santa Fe.

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