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by Tloewald 11y ago
The content of the article relevant to its title is basically this: "In 1963, an American chemistry graduate named Lawrence Herbert devised a system to standardize color, specifying the exact ink formula for every shade." How he d
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Have you talked to a lot of plumbers?
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And OMG yes. So many lawyers.
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A friend of mine working as a transport economist produced used modeling and projections to estimate things like traffic congestion, road usage, miles driven and so forth over the next however-many years (this was in the late 90s and the ef
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. It also covers all the objections discussed elsewhere here (e.g. that some professions are fine-grained, others lumped together, and that two categories were omitted for being too huge and vague).
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Cough -- Blizzard -- cough.
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There's also the fact that the effect size is huge — 63%. Most real world population differences are not weird enough to generate that large an effect without bias. The bigger questions are how much would the effect size change without
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by Tloewald 11y ago
For capital cases the number of faulty convictions is disturbingly high -- 4.1% according to a widely reported study. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/28/death-penalty-s...
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I think you end up playing wack-a-mole for a very long time. Indeed I think browsers add new moles faster than they can be whacked. For every bit of horror that gets "fixed" we get a couple of new bits of craziness and the fix is
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I don't think the problem is the lack of comp sci fundamentals (although yes, there is that) it's that aside from part 1 -- a pretty pointless ramble about "the front-end practice" -- this thing is a crazy collection of
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Actually knowing Javascript, HTML, and CSS is pretty darn huge if you want to do front-end work. Solid front-end people are very much in demand.
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The negative publicity on Android for bad taste or stupid/dangerous apps (remember "Send me to heaven"? the app that measured how high you threw your phone?) is probably swamped by the bad publicity from malware and spyware.
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The situation with car dealerships is a quagmire. I'd suggest a broader, simpler, and probably more politically viable solution would be a law requiring truth in advertised prices : If you advertise something as $X then that is the m
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I assume there's some kind of tight binding or why would they use such terrible tools? That said, the tools may have improved since the person describing them last saw them. It's hard to imagine that fixing tools in that state wou
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This is definitely a MS strength, although there have been some notable exceptions (e.g. Silverlight and Expression Studio).
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It's not really exceptionally portable either. It weighs nearly twice as much as a Macbook.
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The albedo (reflectivity) of typical desert landscape is going to be higher than that of solar collectors (which, by definition, are trying to collect sunlight). Large cities, which are not specifically trying to collect sunlight, already
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by Tloewald 11y ago
The emission of warm water from (conventional and nuclear) power plants is a significant issue but it's kind of not the most prominent issue w.r.t. nuclear power so it tends to be ignored (e.g. the fact that the water is slightly more
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by Tloewald 11y ago
I'm glad you raise this point. I think if we are going to stick huge solar farms in the desert we need to either (a) minimize the surface area (since it will become uninhabitable) and also figure out how to minimize the impact of therm
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Step 1 to getting Mac fixed. Take it to Apple Genius who may well just fix it for free (definitely if it's under warranty and quite often if it isn't) or tell you exactly what's wrong and how to fix it yourself or where to ge
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by Tloewald 11y ago
My recollection is that the roundabouts in Paris are free for alls (a whole different kind of crazy, but it seems to work). I checked the satellite images of the circle around the arc de triomphe and it seems to be as I remember. There may
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Agreed. And besides which stop signs may get treated as yield but yield signs are treated even worse. The only thing better than stop signs for pedestrians (and I'd say they're better than traffic lights with dedicated pedestrian
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For true insanity you need to go to Washington DC which has roundabouts with divided lanes, pedestrian crossings, traffic lights, stop signs, and turning lanes. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Washington,+DC&#x2F
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by Tloewald 11y ago
You don't keep conspiracies secret by keeping quiet, you keep them secret by burying them in confusing noise -- plausible deniability. This is why we have crazy stories about flying saucers and people still believe carrots improve your
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I see you conspicuously do not address point 2 (which, by the way, is also buttressed by eyewitness testimony that Pakistani plain-clothes security showed up before the raid and told people to keep clear, etc.) Your suggestion that all the
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Even the idea that Iraqis tried to topple the statue at all (and then the US "helped") is highly controversial. (That's how CNN portrayed it at the time.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firdos_Square_statu
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by Tloewald 11y ago
Reminds me of a terrible old Cold War era joke: Russian worker sees a queue to buy sewing machines at the local GUM (department store) and joins it. Eventually he gets to the front, and the sales clerk has run out of the machines, but offer
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When it comes to digital technology patents are often granted for ideas or concepts so general as to be ridiculous. Whether those patents stand up in court is another thing but even there -- as in this case -- there are no guarantees of san
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Genuine as in not a publicity stunt per the post I was replying to. Incidentally, I just saw coverage of this story that said the playboy website stopped showing nudes a year ago and quadrupled readership.
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I agree it's purely a business decision, but I suspect it's a genuine attempt to redefine the magazine -- essentially as a head-on rival to Esquire (which is pretty much Playboy without the pictures). This allows Playboy to addr

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