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by T-hawk 13y ago
The underlying cause of Facebook feeling depressing is that the corpus of Facebook posts you see are not drawn from a random population of moments of your friends' lives. There's an enormous sampling bias created by the sources s
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Just divide the yearly cost by the rate of interest or inflation. $10 billion divided by 3.71% yields that $270 billion figure. Use whatever mental shortcuts work for arithmetic in other contexts. There's no need for an actual infin
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Awesome! Most of the demo, you can pretty much figure out how they did it by watching... Except for the plasma waves about halfway through. I've been dying to know how that was done for twenty years, and here it is!
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Thanks for the pointer. But I don't see such a plan offered? The VPS plans all have bandwidth limits between 300 GB and 1000 GB. But they do list shared hosting for $2 or $4 per month, which says unlimited bandwidth. Wonder if that&
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Ask HN: Best way to host a video file?
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Me too, my alias here came from gaming sites (not Street Fighter), which isn't really appropriate for HN. +1 for a way to change usernames here.
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The article says he chose left-handed out of personal preference. Not everything by Microsoft is a sinister conspiracy, sometimes it's a garden variety screwup. They were probably merely insular enough to ignore the rest of the indus
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The wording of "made redundant" here is a Britishism. For a UK employer to fire an underperforming or unnecessary employee, first there is a process and period of time where the employee is notified his position is being made red
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Prices in the US are creeping up to that level too. A full meal of Big Mac, fries, and drink is over $7 at all but the most rural McDonald's locations now.
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The outcome you're trying to predict is how people will vote, and you're free to go and ask them how they will vote. True, but what Nate Silver brings to the table goes far beyond that. Polls are inaccurate. His statistical mo
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Oh my gosh, thanks for posting that! I went to a Montessori school and must have used those, but never knew it was a thing with a name. I see arithmetic in visual terms like those rods. Like to add 18 + 12: ++++++++++ ++ +++++
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"The frame contains". Meaning that every dead and then-living human was within the camera's view frustum, except for the three in the spacecraft. Not considering whether they're in the nighttime part of the planet or o
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by T-hawk 13y ago
This sort of rational sensibility isn't going to stop the TSA from power-grabbing and mission-creeping their way into any new transportation system. They'll get their tendrils in the pie, sure as the sunrise. So will a million o
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Not allowed to, in many US localities. Segways are too fast for sidewalks, posing danger to pedestrians. But they're not fast enough to merge with car traffic on a road. Where do they travel in European cities? Bicycle paths?
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Yes, and excellently stated. In any organization, power will be captured by those who are most interested in capturing power. Wikipedia and Stack Overflow are no exceptions.
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Well, there's no central source or single manufacturer to shut down. Pretty much anybody with a printer can make them. The most likely explanation is Watterson knows trying to challenge them would be futile and a waste of his time.
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Well, Neptune is in the top three most likely places to find more moons. Jupiter and Saturn have been pretty well mined out by the orbiters Galileo and Cassini, and we can see the inner solar system pretty well from right here on earth. B
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Yes, it's ageist, and so is Valve if they really have been cleaning house of older employees in favor of fresh college-age kids. But, is that bad? As ChrisNorstrom's sibling reply points out, companies really do want young workers
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by T-hawk 13y ago
We have a real test case. Opera has identified directly as "Opera" not "Mozilla" since forever (unless you configure it otherwise), and at least 95% of websites work fine with it. And of the small minority that do fail
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by T-hawk 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_education The Montessori approach has some similarities to what you propose, and is probably about as close as you can get in current American education. Not outdoors or all-boy
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Of course, the gait speed itself takes as inputs many of the rest of those factors. Smoking history, body mass index, and chronic joint or muscular conditions all pretty directly affect one's ability to walk fast. So gait speed turns
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by T-hawk 13y ago
You may also care about a server exit strategy. Your local storage format becomes relevant in the event you want to change email servers. (Maybe if, for example, your email server decides to stop supporting IMAP to get everybody to use th
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Blogspam, go here for the original. http://deedy.quora.com/Hacking-into-the-Indian-Education-Sys... That has all the real graphs. They make it really obvious that the test must not be scored on a continuous spectrum, but is chunked into
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by T-hawk 13y ago
But there's still a loser there: the older transportation or retail providers who can no longer sustain their high profit margins. The Pennsylvania Railroad took in profits that used to belong to Erie Canal shippers. Amazon got rich by co
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by T-hawk 13y ago
"According to Rosenblatt, in 2009 the entire HFT industry made around $5 billion trading stocks." Where does this money come from? The industry doesn't actually create any wealth. There must be a greater fool who lost this $5 billion to
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by T-hawk 13y ago
While we're dispelling SSL myths, let me add the reminder that SSL does encrypt the URL and querystring and HTTP headers. It doesn't look like it in browsers because they still show the URL cleartext onscreen, but over the wire all of that
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Statistically speaking, you can draw the conclusion that your salary is substantially lower than typical of people who responded to this poll . You can't draw any conclusion about your salary in relation to the overall market, because the
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by T-hawk 13y ago
A theory that has been roundly debunked. Coca-Cola already had HFCS five years earlier, since 1980. Here's Snopes on the topic: http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/newcoke.asp And the whole category of Cokelore: http://www.snopes.com/cokelo
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by T-hawk 13y ago
The foresight came from the invisible hand of capitalism. Remember the NYC subway started as two competing private companies. They each strived to offer the best service to compete with each other, which included building tracks for expre
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by T-hawk 13y ago
Cookies have a Path attribute, right? A cookie can be defined to go only to domain.com/artist1 and not domain.com/artist2 .

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