Thrymr

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by Thrymr 13y ago
It looks like he bought 100 consecutive tickets. If the winning tickets are truly random, it wouldn't matter, but I wouldn't be surprised if the distribution is controlled in some way that ensures winning tickets will be more evenly distrib
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by Thrymr 13y ago
It's annoying because it happens every single day . Or more.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
PyPy still doesn't work with Numpy, though they're working on it.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
No, you generally can't distribute them with out sharing your changes. Big difference.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
Recent article on git and reproducability in science: http://www.scfbm.org/content/8/1/7 It is badly needed.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> But seeing badly targeted adverts means absolutely nothing. You don't think that advertisers are willing to pay more for well-targeted ads? This is a strong sign that LinkedIn is not leveraging their data as well as they could.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
To be clear, that is homicides by handgun. Total number of deaths, including accidental and suicide, is much higher.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
I hope no one here thought .sy was a cool suffix for a domain name.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> In manhattan, pretty much every spot is metered, and therefore illegal. Not true. Most cross streets are not metered, they are free parking. I don't know whether they are legal for food trucks, but they are legal to park in.
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by Thrymr 13y ago
I think they mostly use free parking spaces (though I expect they also need a city permit to serve food). That's the thing about parking in Manhattan: it's either really expensive, or it's free. So a substantial portion of traffic at any gi
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by Thrymr 13y ago
> Is sound still a problem on Linux? Yes. My desktop has mostly just worked for a few upgrades now, but new versions on my HTPC running XBMCbuntu have been hit and miss and taken some screwing around with the sound. This article from le
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by Thrymr 13y ago
.ly is still controlled by Libya.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
But the point here is a "day against DRM". O'Reilly has really nice DRM-free editions, in multiple formats: PDF, ePub, Mobi, etc.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Agree; very strange. Fine dining is a luxury, great software can pay for itself many times over. Another way the analogy works, though: people hate paying for either with their own money. It's easier to spend when your company (or client) i
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Afar? The MIT police officer was killed outside Stallman's building.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The suspect hiding in the boat was found directly because the police finally told people to go about their business. Alternatively, if they had lifted the shelter-in-place order earlier, the guy would have gone out in his yard and noticed
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Quora? I always avoid Quora links for that reason. Worthless compared with SO.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Hardly the "majority". White males are less than 40% of the US population. I don't think we're going out on much of a limb to say that they are overrepresented in the game industry.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Most of the hydrogen used in the Haber process (to produce ammonia for fertilizer) comes from methane (natural gas). Most of the hydrocarbons used to produce commercial pesticides come from petroleum. They are not just energy sources, they
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by Thrymr 14y ago
I don't think any journal reviews attempt to be double-blind. I could be wrong, but I've never heard of it in my field. In smaller fields, even single-blind (the author not knowing the identity of the reviewer) is difficult, the other way a
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by Thrymr 14y ago
No, they're leaving: http://enjoythedisruption.com/post/47527556151/my-thoughts-o... Choice quote: "For that reason then I co-founded PeerJ, an Open Access journal, with one aim of never being in the position to take shit ever again from
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Science is already funded, in very large part, by the federal government (in the US). The research is already subject to political pressures, here we're just talking about the (much smaller) amount that goes towards publications. Federal gr
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by Thrymr 14y ago
As long as everyone's throwing in their experiences: I'm a fan of body weight exercises; no equipment needed (beyond things like a door or a table). I started with Mark Lauren's book [0], which has a set of 10 week programs and lots of exer
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The USD has the US government behind it. Whatever you think of that, it's not nothing.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Gold is a commodity.
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The difference is that scientific publishers are pure middlemen: scientists themselves are the content creators, consumers, and peer reviewers. As peer reviewers they are unpaid, and as authors they often pay to publish their work. No won
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by Thrymr 14y ago
> non-nuclear ICBMs- because that is what this is. Well, no, it's not. It's not a missile, it's not ballistic, and I don't know if the range is truly intercontinental. Not that the Russians and Chinese won't be concerned, but it is a ra
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Fossilization of diatoms doesn't require calcium. Their cell walls are made of silica, which is preserved quite well by itself. Though this is known from Earth diatoms, not space diatoms...
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by Thrymr 14y ago
The question then becomes "Are the tools free?" To complete the analogy, if I have a github repository cloned locally, I have no need of github to have full access to the source code and history on my machine. Will I be able to have a local
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by Thrymr 14y ago
Indeed. A snapshot could be a tag, and a reference contains that tag. Looking up a reference would let you see the paper in the state that is being referenced, but also allow you to easily move forward to later versions. We are a long way f

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