Thriptic

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by Thriptic 10y ago
It's easy to point the finger and call people assholes when its not your home value that is being impacted by the project. For better or worse, most people don't move to places like cape cod so they can stare at wind turbines all
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by Thriptic 10y ago
I've found that I too have stopped hanging out with a lot of old friends, mainly because our friendships were based on circumstance / proximity or shared hardship more than shared values / thought processes / beliefs. Mo
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by Thriptic 10y ago
The average person probably wouldn't benefit from cuts that much while a minority of people would be deeply negatively affected. You can bet that minority of people is going to be calling their representatives whereas the average citiz
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Sadly directly funding basic research or even translational research is not nearly as popular politically as funding military research. Basic research is often deemed wasteful by the public.
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Jeff Lierberman's slow motion picture frame(fastcodesign.com)
1 points by Thriptic 10y ago|0 comments
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Wouldn't that also harm anyone with a vacation property?
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Complications by Atul Gawande
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by Thriptic 10y ago
> The problem here isn't that there's two perspectives (in fact, there are many more than 'two cultures of programming'), it is that you tried to teach people programming by bombarding them with 50 new tools (git, LaT
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by Thriptic 10y ago
How much time have you invested into developing the proper form for these activities? Does your training regimen make sense? I'm a powerlifter so I can't speak to specific injuries in these sports, but most of the chronic injuries
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Even if this is true, that doesn't mean they should be blindly disregarded.
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Are you suggesting that there is a correlation between legal firearm ownership rates and a more aggressive police reaponse? I would think that the probability of an individual having an illegal firearm would be more of a driver of an aggres
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Possibly but it would probably lead to people disregarding the data they are being provided with, effectively removing a lot of the benefits of the automation.
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Amazon Working on Making Alexa Recognize Your Emotions(technologyreview.com)
3 points by Thriptic 10y ago|0 comments
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by Thriptic 10y ago
People didn't just use a guerrilla mail or an equivalent?
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by Thriptic 10y ago
This. With smaller amounts of data it's not even a big deal. Just pull everything into python or R and subset in there.
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Oh man this takes me back. I remember lugging steel case builds and CRTs around to many 2-3 day cs 1.6 LAN parties in high school. So many cases of bawls were consumed; so much time was spent sitting in #findscrim
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Mild "night terrors" are occasionally a side effect of taking melatonin for me. I will wake up and see a swarm of aggressive insects flying towards me, or a large rat in my bed, or a person in my room who is trying to kill me. The
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Most have malpractice insurance anyway
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A Weekend in Chicago: Where Gunfire Is a Terrifying Norm(nytimes.com)
3 points by Thriptic 10y ago|0 comments
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by Thriptic 10y ago
I've heard that Uber is going after those contracts as well.
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by Thriptic 10y ago
I personally question the legitimacy / usefulness of affirmative action, but the best argument in support of it which I have heard is that people bound their career prospects based on the individuals they observe to be occupying those
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by Thriptic 10y ago
> As to why CCP is blocking the internet? Because, the blocked sites contains values that is not really about freedom or human rights, instead that is like virus, that will do harm to our values and the interest our the Chinese people. W
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Hell, just roll things back to how they were before 9/11. I think it makes sense to have metal detectors, but we don't need to be taking clothes off or going through x-ray machines
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by Thriptic 10y ago
The biggest risk to the NFL isn't young players finding the game dangerous, but their concerned moms. If the middle school and high school programs die off from parental concern then the NFL is doomed.
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by Thriptic 10y ago
A cult / survivalist group?
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by Thriptic 10y ago
No, you are not, as evidenced by the presence of escorts throughout your stay and the search of all of your digital media upon entry and exit of the country.
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by Thriptic 10y ago
In the US there are also review boards (IRBs) to which you need to submit proposals for research involving human subjects. These can be intra-university boards, or third parties. These review boards look at both the safety and ethical impli
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by Thriptic 10y ago
Yeah in my experience alcohol only helps with high level ideation. It typically makes implementation more difficult.
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by Thriptic 10y ago
> Or let's do it like a bunch of other countries: children have the reaponsability of taking good care of the books and pass them to the next generation at the end of their class. It's a great way of teaching respect for the pu
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by Thriptic 10y ago
I believe System76 uses rebranded Clevos. I own a Sager which is also a rebranded Clevo and it has the worst build quality of any computer I have ever owned.

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