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by aggie 14y ago
The difference is lobbying is soft influence, meaning if the politician's constituents care about an issue, lobbying and donations won't buy policy. What they do buy is sway in cases where the electorate isn't paying attention (essentially
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by aggie 14y ago
It's not good writing. There is no authority on language, so "permissible" has nothing to do with it. Writing guidelines are drawn from what makes the communication effective and pleasing to the reader; often this amounts to "everyone else
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by aggie 14y ago
I'm not sure why people expect these petitions would amount to any real policy change; in fact it would be a disaster if they were true referenda. 25,000 signatures represents 0.0008% of the population and all they did was click a button. I
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First important data from Curiosity: human-tolerable radiation(marssociety.org)
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by aggie 14y ago
Probably yes. Our focus so far has been to demonstrate that it is physiologically possible to control multiple degrees of freedom with a single muscle site, so we haven't done extensive testing to address that. It's also worth noting that h
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by aggie 14y ago
I am working in a lab that is developing a similar technology, the main difference being we use a single muscle site to control two degrees of freedom (primarily moving a cursor on a screen). We are also working on applications for severely
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by aggie 14y ago
I think that the future of input devices are our brains and a device that can read what's going on in them A major obstacle to developing a useful brain-computer interface using EEG is signal strength. The event-related potentials measure
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by aggie 14y ago
I was under the impression Intellectual Ventures doesn't bring patent suits themselves, but has quasi-independent shell corporations do the dirty work? In any case, I'm sure a team of IP lawyers would be able to set something like that up t
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by aggie 14y ago
How did he ensure followers were actual attendees of the schools programmatically? He mentions in the comments "I basically just checked that they didn't follow any other schools (from a small list). It's certainly not the greatest filter
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by aggie 14y ago
Jobs was visionary, not clairvoyant. I'm sure he did everything he could to keep Apple on his track as long as possible, but there's only so much that can be planned years in advance. I imagine Tim Cook was groomed as a Jobs zombie of sorts
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by aggie 14y ago
Exactly, putting on a good show at the product launch is what creates the media buzz. And advertising through the news is also likely to reach customers in a much more accepting state than if they are watching commercials on TV and have a w
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by aggie 14y ago
It's easy to think of the political obstacles if you are expecting this to happen overnight. But it will be gradual. People will share the road with robots for a while, and when it's clear how much safer the robots are, there will start to
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by aggie 14y ago
Those are clearly not the same. This is a password management service; PSN, LinkedIn, and Yahoo are not. They were also well established companies with large user bases.
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by aggie 14y ago
I don't think the post is suggesting that employers give their interns this advice directly, just as I wouldn't expect an employer to tell an intern to "go out drinking if anybody offers."
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by aggie 14y ago
Reddit's campaign may have produced more activists, but Google likely reached more eyeballs in a matter of hours than Reddit had in the preceding months. In the end, it was the widespread, mildly (somewhat blindly) anti-SOPA sentiment, not
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by aggie 14y ago
This is true to some extent; unfortunately in many cases the focus is on career advancement before contribution to human knowledge.
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by aggie 14y ago
You won't be able to publish any research involving humans unless you have met the ethics requirements of an institutional review board. Good luck doing that without university (or at least large, well-funded lab) association.
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by aggie 14y ago
Not to mention they pulled the same "joke" when reviewing the Nissan Leaf.
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by aggie 14y ago
You can buy Torx screwdrivers in any half-decent hardware store or any number of online merchants.
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by aggie 14y ago
Yeah, credit to him for proof of concept. I used to say McDonalds when I made the argument, but after seeing that guy's story I now say Twinkies.
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by aggie 14y ago
> It may be a fad, but it works if you're strict. You can eat nothing but twinkies and lose weight if you're strict about calories.
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by aggie 14y ago
I too thought of that passage but also this from Watchmen: "There are thermodynamic miracles, events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold; I long to observe such a thing.
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by aggie 14y ago
I would like to see a slider for minimum number of reviews counted in the tomato rating. A movie that has a 100% rating but only 3 reviews is something I'd like to be able to filter out.
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by aggie 14y ago
You might want to look into RPy for using R libraries with python.
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by aggie 14y ago
That's true. I guess I see the "jobs area" expanding. I'm thinking at some point, companies will pitch it as a job perk alongside the arcade machines and catered meals--"our office is located in south San Jose where your rent will be two th
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by aggie 14y ago
Rather than filling in the land between 101 and 280, which would turn into LA-esque traffic nightmares, why not expand into the East Bay or farther south of San Jose?
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by aggie 14y ago
What flat surface do you close by pinching it? Moreover, it seems you're trying to equate "intuitive gesture" with gestures people use with (non-computer) everyday objects, but I don't see why that is a requirement for intuitiveness. Pinchi
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by aggie 14y ago
While I agree there will likely be remote disabling procedures for emergency/law enforcement reasons, I don't see where you get the "no cause" piece of your slippery slope. It seems it would be much easier to unjustly pull someone over with
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by aggie 14y ago
Serious question: why not have wiper blades? I'm having a hard time accepting we can land a rover on another planet, but we can't find a way to clean some dust off of it.
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by aggie 15y ago
It would still be ad hominem ("against the person"), just not a fallacious argument.

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