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by agarden 11y ago
But how many of those 294 mass shootings were criminal vendettas or some such? Something where there were four particular people that were targeted, or three that were targeted and one who was collateral damage. The shootings that disturb u
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Pushing the limits of brain science could bring Canadian marathoners glory(2012)(thewalrus.ca)
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I have noticed this in myself. Generally, I find ads terribly annoying and frequently offensive. And then on occasion I see or hear on ad for something that actually interests me. Maybe it is for a service I did not know existed. At that po
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New Technique Can Efficiently Detect All Known Human Viruses in a Blood Sample(theatlantic.com)
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The Aging Advantage(psmag.com)
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That sounds interesting. I'd really like to read those. What sources can I go to?
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America’s Fragile Constitution(theatlantic.com)
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Companion: Never Walk Home Alone(companionapp.io)
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"Slickle" has an entry as slang in the urban dictionary. "Revergent" gets a definition here[1] as "a mutation that precisely restores a mutant DNA sequence to a WT DNA sequence". [0] http://www.urban
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by agarden 11y ago
Fascinating. The way you describe navigating the world based on people's expressions is similar to how Joe Navarro described his experience. He immigrated to America when a youth and knew no English at the time, forcing him to rely on
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by agarden 11y ago
“Good science is nothing more than a progress report. It’s what we know at a certain time with the data that we have.” That is the best definition of scientific knowledge I have read.
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by agarden 11y ago
You are right. I failed to thoroughly think it through. But I think I would rather have a system where you need to intimidate and coerce people en masse in order to change the vote than a system where you just need to coerce the handful of
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by agarden 11y ago
And still horrendously bad. http://gizmodo.com/200693/how-to-steal-an-election-with-a-di...
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That is the weakness. It wouldn't just be that their vote would be revealed, though, it would be that then the bad actor could contest the vote, claiming that they were the voter and their vote was counted wrong. But if people were in
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by agarden 11y ago
The attack on paper voting is not flipping votes, it is invalidating votes. In Chicago, election officers counting the votes used to hide a small piece of pencil lead under their finger nail. If there were too many Republic votes, they woul
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by agarden 11y ago
Or maybe it is just that the segment of the public that is expected to vote doesn't care. I don't vote, and I care about this issue. Why don't I vote? Mostly because the things I care about are not made campaign issues. That
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by agarden 11y ago
It is also unfair if their crime was more a matter of the circumstances they found themselves in than their baked-in character. For example, if they got convicted for second-degree murder because they had a hot-tempered friend in college wh
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Because if you wait for it to happen on its own time, there will only be ninety seconds of early warning, and then only half an hour before the tsunami hits. Not much time to escape. If you set it off on schedule, everyone knows where they
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Senate ends debate on NSA surveillance powers and USA Freedom Act – live(theguardian.com)
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by agarden 11y ago
lamdu has some interesting features: http://peaker.github.io/lamdu/
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by agarden 12y ago
Laszlo Bock talked about that in an interview in The Guardian[0]. Here is the quote: > After six weeks of this, 99 are rejected. They’re not told why. “If somebody just breaks up with you,” Bock says, “that’s not the time to hear: ‘And r
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by agarden 12y ago
I first saw Hacker School name-dropped on a blog. It was such an intriguing name I Googled it and read up. Sounds fantastic, like something I would really like to do some day. Seeing a reference to Recurse Center on a blog would not have th
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Former Mooresville child compensated by federal 'vaccine court'(charlotteobserver.com)
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I think this anecdote might help explain Jobs's success. There is a tendency when one is running or developing a product to convince yourself that your efforts are producing a genuinely good product that your customers will like. Frequ
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Yes. From the article: "According to Thurston’s own model, Growth Science’s own chance of survival following its current business model is about 69 percent. Adding the automated service would actually improve its chances, he says.&quot
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by agarden 12y ago
Interesting. I am the opposite. When you watch a sport, it makes you want to play it. When I play a sport, it makes me want to watch it. Watching a professional sport bores me unless I am currently playing that sport. When I am playing a gi
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Is There Anything Good About Men? (2007)(denisdutton.com)
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Samsung EYECAN+: Next-Generation Mouse for People with Disabilities(global.samsungtomorrow.com)
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I learned to type using only my thoughts(theverge.com)
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According to the announcement on visualstudio.com about the Community Edition, it isn't just for students and open source developers. Basically, only enterprises or companies with more than five developers need to pay.

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