RevRal

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by RevRal 12y ago
I'm pretty impressed with how the header and side bar operate on this site. Enlarge/zoom the page and the sidebar becomes the header. I'd like to know how this is achieved.
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by RevRal 12y ago
Since I'm rather arrogant it would be nice to be able to easily compare my clicks against the statistics.
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Ask HN: Will two similar processors process data in the same exact way?
5 points by RevRal 12y ago|10 comments
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by RevRal 12y ago
Next up: How Lenovo Escapes Heat Death
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by RevRal 12y ago
While we are on the topic of great sf shorts: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream: http://users.pop.umn.edu/~matt0350/images/forumcrap/october/... The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect: http://l
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by RevRal 12y ago
I'll gladly purchase an epub for this, looks wonderful.
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by RevRal 13y ago
As a Native American I think I understand how this identity problem feels. I just asked a couple of my "Mexican" friends what race they were and they said "Mexican...." They are not from Mexico. It's a complicated i
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by RevRal 13y ago
Now, that's a slam. Anywhere in Africa, get it? Look our use of language is incredibly important, and the sooner people stop seeing and hearing the negative cultural associations between "the story" and "color," the
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by RevRal 13y ago
Yeah, and when we mention Africa we all think "white".
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by RevRal 13y ago
How is race in the post it even relevant? And my point still stands that a white man wouldn't likely have his race scrutinized.
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by RevRal 13y ago
Okay, but why "Mexican tycoon"? If he were white they probably wouldn't mention that. We don't need racism around here, please. Just look at his name for crying out loud.
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Goethean Science: Bringing chaos to order by looking phenomena right in the "I"(antroposofi.org)
1 points by RevRal 15y ago|0 comments
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by RevRal 15y ago
Mark Twain's tabbed notebook is a really good idea.
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The Power Is In Your Hands - How the Palms and Handshakes are used to control(westsidetoastmasters.com)
5 points by RevRal 15y ago|0 comments
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by RevRal 16y ago
I feel really stupid about a mistake I made recently while soldering, and this is extremely obvious: don't get cocky about where you're soldering. I've been soldering for years, and just once I thought "you know, I'll just solder right here
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by RevRal 16y ago
I just got this incredible feeling of being on a spaceship, turning.
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by RevRal 16y ago
My step brother's uncle was an alcoholic for ~25 years (off and on for 25 years? I don't know how this works). He joined the native American church, where he presumably used peyote, and the alcoholism eventually went away and he is now happ
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by RevRal 16y ago
Might enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0 .
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by RevRal 16y ago
That is my Minecraft username.
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by RevRal 16y ago
UhUhOhOh
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by RevRal 16y ago
It's extremely discouraging to write a sincere comment that receives downvotes without explanations, giving no chance to clarify or modify ideas. Sometimes I have no idea what people are objecting to.... I felt that my comment (the one I l
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by RevRal 16y ago
I basically stopped posting after this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433950
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by RevRal 16y ago
Reductio ad absurdum: http://www.iep.utm.edu/reductio . I use this with everything. Programming, math, thinking of relationships between people.... The technique comes naturally, I presume, from dealing with abstract problems. So a lot of
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by RevRal 16y ago
I use this a lot in debate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum (Not itself a fallacy)
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by RevRal 16y ago
I'm so sorry :(.
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by RevRal 16y ago
> Even some very successful animated movies like Lion King end up with the bad guy being killed. Either intentionally or not, kids end up satisfied that the bad guy had what he deserved and that all become happily ever after. This is s
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by RevRal 16y ago
SixthSense is the most promising system of augmenting reality I have seen.
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by RevRal 16y ago
Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world: http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_stamets_on_6_ways_mushrooms_ca... This talk is not about hallucinogenic mushrooms. It really opened my eyes to the awesome potential of fungi, and how this
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by RevRal 16y ago
I found it easier to just use DDG. With tor and google you also have to deal with the location of the exit node you're using.
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by RevRal 16y ago
Sometimes I have to wait at least a year before I can legally watch some movies that I read about on the internet, that are already available in parts of the world. With today's technology, this is utterly painful for movie fans. I will sup

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