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by a-priori 13y ago
Technically, they're different, which makes the question of whether they should have a different name a political one, not a linguistic one. As the saying goes, a language is a dialect with an army and a navy.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Yes, but many people in Moldova call the language they speak 'Moldovan', even if it's only subtly different from Romanian. When given the option in a 2004 census, 60% of the population chose 'Moldovan' as their nati
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by a-priori 13y ago
This is exactly it: a beacon just announces itself and provides its ID. It's up to an app on the receiving device to listen for the beacons it cares about and react to them. The beacon has no way of knowing which devices are listenin
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by a-priori 13y ago
In this case, that would mean that it would be fast to contract but slow to release. Our muscles have a similar problem, though maybe not quite as bad. This is part of the reason our muscles work in antagonistic pairs, e.g. the biceps and t
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by a-priori 13y ago
The similarities between how people act within a firm (where a 'firm' is basically any sort of corporation, partnership, or similar economic entity) and within an ideal communist society are not a coincidence: a communist society
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by a-priori 13y ago
http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Tapestry_(episode)
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by a-priori 13y ago
This sounds like the first step in a vision I've had for how the web should evolve. We now have an LLVM frontend for Javascript, so Javascript code can be turned into LLVM bytecode. The next step would be to swap out the existing Javas
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by a-priori 13y ago
People are born with bad intuitions about how randomness works -- it's not learned. For whatever reason, our brains are wired to make uniformity feel random and randomness feel ordered. It's why we see stars in the sky, which are
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by a-priori 13y ago
This is a problem of energy conservation: the cue ball starts with E = 1/2 mv^2 kinetic energy and, no matter what, that same amount of energy has to exist afterwards in some form. But where will it go? In an elastic collision, a neg
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by a-priori 13y ago
Canadians too. Not sure why.
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by a-priori 13y ago
This may be a regional thing? I've always used "Lego" as a mass noun as in "I'm playing with Lego". The pluralization "Legos" sounds weird to me.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Replacing a defective part is no big deal, just incorporate an inspection of the part into a regular maintenance window every X cycles (a 'cycle' is usually one flight) and model its cost as an amortized per-cycle cost based on it
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by a-priori 13y ago
I get that concern, and it's your prerogative as the parent to limit what your daughter can access on the Internet. What I don't get is delegating this to the government rather than using something that's under your control.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Cool. I fully expect that their response will be "haha that a-priori dude is an idiot".
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by a-priori 13y ago
I don't know what I'm talking about, but it may be possible for Canadian and Mexican investors to participate due to NAFTA. I understand there's something in there about investment. Something to look into anyway.
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by a-priori 13y ago
A big advantage this would have over the current one-torrent-per-episode model is that every person following a series would automatically be a seed for every prior episode.
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by a-priori 13y ago
I can't believe I'm about to do this, but here's me sticking up for sweatshops... I'm not sure what to make of the allegations of them keeping workers captive. But assuming the work is voluntary, sweatshops are not all b
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by a-priori 13y ago
It's called Wi-fi Indoor Positioning. Last I heard, the state of the art uses triangulation of signal strengths between multiple access points. This gives it 'aisle-level accuracy', or about 5-10m. It's pseudo-anonymous
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by a-priori 13y ago
The longer I do this the more I believe that value isn't created by doing. It's created by selling. You can't sell something that doesn't have value to the buyer. Therefore, if someone buys a thing from you, it already
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by a-priori 13y ago
You speak the truth. I've never knit a stitch in my life, yet I made this for my wife a couple years back: http://knitting.heroku.com/ :)
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by a-priori 13y ago
The widespread use of electricity or trains or airplanes or dams or any major paradigm changing invention in human history requires mega engineering projects for a very simple reason. You have to deliver at scale. I disagree there. All th
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by a-priori 13y ago
I didn't include pumped storage because I figured the scale of the facilities required to store one night's power demands for the continental US (for example) would be infeasible. I just did a quick calculation in Wolfram Alpha an
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by a-priori 13y ago
I don't understand why 100% solar would be a good thing. Sure, it could hypothetically meet our daytime demands, but what about night time? There's only two options there: import power from another time zone where the sun shines,
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by a-priori 13y ago
Background noise and activity isn't all alike. In a coffee shop it's irrelevant: strangers moving about and talking about things that don't concern you. That's easier to tune out than things than the noise and activity i
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by a-priori 13y ago
This is cool and all, but it's a hack and it confuses the meanings of the viewport meta tags. Why should a "width=device-width" setting magically alter how touch events are processed? It makes no sense. Wouldn't it make
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by a-priori 13y ago
Everyone gets their own mailbox with a separate key, they're just all together in one place. They look like this: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_AMDCvMaCBE4/TPNLlfBWovI/AAAAAAAAAf...
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by a-priori 13y ago
There is no evidence that chiropractic treatments are any more effective for treating back pain than other manual treatments (e.g. massage). And it comes with much higher risks. There is no evidence it does any good for anything elsewhere o
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by a-priori 13y ago
In the x86 family anyway, it's kinda-sorta 'built in'. It is possible to avoid using the stack -- it's done in interrupt handlers which do not have a stack of their own and must avoid clobbering it -- but most code uses
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by a-priori 13y ago
Yes, it is. It's called the "singular 'they'", but some native English speakers were taught that it's incorrect. The controversy over it seems to be an American thing, that at some point in the 19th century som
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by a-priori 13y ago
Cool, didn't know that! It's basically a degenerate pooled memory allocator. That one is a bit more clever in that it falls through to a proper malloc when it runs out of space. That's assuming, of course, that you have a pro

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