Roodgorf

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by Roodgorf 11y ago
For a supposedly economics oriented site this article sure spends a lot of time talking about celebrities and how much of a sham it is for them to title themselves "Dr." I am completely on board with the unearned title thing, but
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I have to say, I don't really understand your criticisms as you've presented them, perhaps I'm missing something. The "brainy mice" are pretty clearly the ones with the inhibited PDE4B enzyme. What is it you're
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I remember a time when I enjoyed AVGN and his ilk, but man, I find it harder and harder to stomach the obnoxiously over-the-top outpouring of anger over such inconsequential things (e.g. the Pixels rant). It's particularly frustrating
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Interesting, that seems like a pretty reasonable way to do it. Another case of convenience taking precedence over security, I guess.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Wait, so VW has an RFID immobilizer and a physical key? I've only ever seen cars having one or the other.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Another repo I like to check out for CS research papers and the like: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I'm interested to see where this concept goes, particularly in its stated mission to provide an educational experience for the underserved. Most non-traditional students, no matter how motivated, simply don't have the time or reso
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Sure, but the level of responsibility required by the user as a curator doesn't seem like it would hold past a critical mass. The insane amount of reposts that Buzzfeed-esque garbage gets just isn't all that encouraging to me. Sho
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Exactly. Except that this supposed ratings system could potentially have a bigger impact on quality than the cable model, though I'm not entirely convinced. I assume most channels make their income almost entirely off of advertisers, a
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I suppose the heading and maybe opening paragraph could be seen to give that impression, but the article makes note of the fact these are new nucleotides numerous times throughout the article. I found that pretty sufficient for showing that
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I don't know that anecdotal evidence about driving conditions is really a great way to talk about driving on gravel. I'm also an Iowan who grew up on gravel roads and frequently drove faster than 50 mph, but if I'm being tota
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Very cool, thanks for the information. I'm obviously more ignorant of Mozilla projects than I even thought.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
If that were to happen, how big an impact would that have on Firefox OS development? I admittedly don't understand the project too well, but they had to port Gecko to work in Gonk right? Would there be significant overhead getting Serv
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I actually don't believe that's entirely true either, or at least not as "bad" as you seem to think. Sure, any sort of advertiser would like you to use that product/service, but it's isn't necessarily tryi
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I will fight anyone who tries to tell me that a auto-playing video with sound enabled is not just as annoying as a small static image on the side of a page. Even when I'm somewhere with a limited internet connection. [sarcasm]
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
If these companies simultaneously put their foot down in this way and did not waiver I really doubt the government would go through with doing anything that would risk them leaving. Any one of these examples alone would be a huge loss to th
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
This is some very impressive stuff, I look forward to trying it out. Question: Have you run into any cases where the hints have actually caused significant roadblocks to discovering the underlying problem? I can't count the number of t
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
Potential headline: "Hey, I just learned about an interesting thing."
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I think you're right in the confusion of koan and kata, but unfortunately yes, I have seen a lot of that happening lately (perhaps due to greater awareness of the word from recent popularity of CodeWars[0]?). Interestingly I've on
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I honestly can't tell if this is sarcastic or not. Are you saying that you believe ethical practices are so vastly different across arbitrary distinctions like state borders?
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
But what would be the incentive for other site owners to use it then? It seems like in this scenario, the only time anyone would want to use the tool on their live site would be when they are sure they are getting an A+, any other sites tha
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
This is exactly what I kept thinking of. You could basically do a search/replace of "chess" with "video games" and be pretty close to the sentiment towards gaming in most media until very recently. And with the adve
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
The audacity! Europeans had feudalism for... as long as I can remember! Who do those colonists think they are?
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
For what it's worth, the 14th amendment was not adopted until 1868, nearly a century later.
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I think your third point is what's most striking about the dissenting opinion. Not providing marriage licenses to couples based on the arbitrary criteria of sex is a deliberate act of denying a specific group of people access to marria
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
This post about Wikipedia's policy regarding secondary sources seems to articulate this idea pretty well. http://weskaggs.net/?p=5053
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
> this effect is the reason why cities are warmer than their surrounding rural areas. Anthropologically produced heat is certainly a contributor, but as the article itself says, I believe the majority of the difference is more accurately
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
The first graph on that second link is a bit confusing and seems pretty disingenuous. It has the "observations" region stretching to 2050. The rest of the article seems much more factual and interesting, but why start with somethi
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
I think your parenthetical at the end is most important to the marketing strategy behind the way the book is named as opposed to your suggestions. In my experience discussing with people who do want to learn to program, their first question
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by Roodgorf 11y ago
That's an interesting example that hadn't occurred to me while reading. Beyond the debate over destination/emotional state, I wonder if there is a limitation of how long the trip is? It seems that after a certain amount of ti

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