Thrymr

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In Praise of CSV(usopendata.org)
6 points by Thrymr 12y ago|4 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
There is essentially a wiki for the major English-speaking countries to share intelligence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
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The Evolution of Character Codes, 1874-1968 [pdf](trafficways.org)
5 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Yes. I like movies, and a service that only has a limited selection of crappy movies isn't that interesting to me. I don't really care if it takes a couple days to arrive. I can see the attraction of the streaming service if you a
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Why is a press release undated? You have to go back to the "News releases" page to see that it is dated today. The PDF version doesn't have the date, either.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
"whether or not we call it a planet is pretty much the least interesting thing about Pluto" https://twitter.com/PlanetDr/status/568091457866719232
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by Thrymr 12y ago
That is basically the Nemesis hypothesis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemesis_%28hypothetical_star%29
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Not just mixed drinks: Prohibition killed decent American beer & wine as well, and led to decades of industrialized, homogenized mediocrity that we are still recovering from.
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How one bad line of code shut down UK air traffic for an hour(zdnet.com)
2 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Yes, it is: http://investor.google.com/corporate/code-of-conduct.html
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> So you're saying unemployment is higher? Also underemployment: there are a lot of people working part time who would like to be working full time. My main point, though, is that there is no shortage of leisure time, and that can&#
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by Thrymr 12y ago
He says no: https://twitter.com/mims/status/306453610961702913
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Why is everyone so busy?(economist.com)
3 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
"Americans are too busy to tinker" is not a very plausible premise for Radio Shack's demise. Others in this tread have pointed out Radio Shack's longstanding problems and failure to find a niche in the modern retail worl
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> "scientists in China, Japan, etc. would have to learn four languages to keep up with their field instead of just English." Absolutely; the combinatorics here are huge. The UN has 6 official languages [0], the EU has 24 [1]. T
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Except that the process really picked up speed during WWI, and was basically complete before the internet came along.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
The water in the interior is what matters. It's actually the fact that water is recycled into the Earth's deep interior that's thought to keep it "lubricated", so to speak, and allow the mantle to flow more readily.
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Google and Esri(esri.com)
3 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> there's the reality that the football coach is the highest (in the millions of dollars range) paid position at almost every university in the US Not only that, coaches are the highest paid public employees in most states [0]. [
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Cyberselfish 15 years after(networkcultures.org)
1 points by Thrymr 12y ago|0 comments
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by Thrymr 12y ago
It has been alleged that the US Air Force actively encouraged UFO conspiracy theories to draw attention away from secret weapons programs. See for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage_Men
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by Thrymr 12y ago
How did you get $2 million from that? What distribution did you assume? According to [0], net worth of $1 million would put you in the top 0.7%. [0] http://www.international-adviser.com/ia/media/Media/Credit-S
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> I have a hard time seeing using Word [...] being very effective in terms of version control. If you're writing a paper with other software developers who already use git, this is very true. If you are collaborating with people who
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by Thrymr 12y ago
>> Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze. > This is due to their poverty, not the cold. If it was just cold there, as opposed to cold and impoverished, they could either keep water constantly running th
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> Keep in mind the whole point of insurance is shared, proportional risk. The fundamental problem is that the more information is brought to bear on the idea of "risk", the less shared it is. This is especially stark in health
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Why not apologize for something you know you are guilty of? That's the real problem, that rarely happens (especially in the case of a corporation).
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by Thrymr 12y ago
And this is a pretty good description of how it's taught: "Well, next year they take Pre-Paint-by-Numbers. That prepares them for the main Paint-by-Numbers sequence in high school"
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by Thrymr 12y ago
> The only difference between that and terrorism is the rhetoric. Also, the terror.
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by Thrymr 12y ago
"The right of the people peaceably to assemble" is protected in the Bill of Rights (1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution). The letter writer seems to be referring to the shutting down a public street, which indeed could subject
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by Thrymr 12y ago
Mars' orbit is not circular, and spacecraft's would not be, either. They would be in slightly different (and intersecting, or nearly so) elliptical orbits, which would allow Mars to gravitationally capture the spacecraft when it a

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