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by aggie 9y ago
> ban smokes/alcohol That didn't even work with a Constitutional amendment. If culture doesn't change, you'll have to live with it - there's no legal remedy. > tax fat/sugar Risky, given the track record
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by aggie 9y ago
In my experience, many restaurants have a limit on how many ways they can split the bill, usually 2-4, so for larger groups venmo is an easy way to solve the issue. And there certainly are some restaurants that don't split at all (seem
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by aggie 9y ago
That was what they had participants do in this study, and they still observed the effect.
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by aggie 9y ago
I'd be charitable to their claim if they left it at 'every time', but to say the incidents are not due to sexism 'at all' is not a good argument, even interpreted figuratively.
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by aggie 9y ago
To say "every time some social justice event gains public attention, it turns out to not be sexism/racist/etc. at all" seems like a wild overgeneralization. You would probably be more accurate in saying that while "
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by aggie 9y ago
> as futile as trying to outlaw the BitTorrent protocol It doesn't need to be eradicated, just kept underground to limit adoption. Millions use torrent, yes, but many more do not and the movie studios are still raking in money.
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San Francisco Declares War on Food Delivery Robots(eater.com)
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by aggie 9y ago
I don't know much about the science of vaccines so I won't address your point there. But I will say your comment is a good example of why I worry about the uptick in news of fraud and other bad practices in science, as well as the
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by aggie 9y ago
Long term (10+ year) returns have historically been around 7%. Obviously that can vary quite a bit year-to-year.
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by aggie 9y ago
Is this something that would be compatible with a typical 9-5 job? Sounds like you need to be somewhat on-call. Can you be a weekend on-call volunteer?
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by aggie 9y ago
Neuroscience and even brain-computer interfaces have indeed had decades of research and billions (though not hundreds of billions) in funding. As a partial proof of concept, BCI's are already capable of multiple-degree-of-freedom contr
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by aggie 9y ago
Is Steve Ballmer not a citizen? Do you mean crowd-funded? Assuming you're worried about self-interest tainting the project, a crowd-funded project doesn't necessarily eliminate that since someone still has to be in charge. Open-so
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by aggie 9y ago
Is _your_ assertion backed by data? Here's a study that disagrees with you, at least in terms of how many people have trouble with parallax (2 out of 43). http://uxpajournal.org/the-effects-of-parallax-scrolling-on-...
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by aggie 9y ago
You can use the volume (-) button on iPhone.
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by aggie 10y ago
The nature of personal libraries has changed a lot, even in the past couple of decades. In the past you might come across a book and then never see it again, even with some effort to find it. Today, just about any book you are interested in
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by aggie 10y ago
His lawyers could have convinced him to ask for immunity if there was even a slight chance of legal trouble. He may also only have some minor dirt to spill, so he's happy throwing some staffer under the bus.
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by aggie 10y ago
I'm curious to hear why you think it's unconstitutional. It's unobtrusive surveillance in a public setting, so there's no expectation of privacy. It's punishing people for breaking a public-safety law. In most cases
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by aggie 10y ago
I hear this argument whenever there's a discussion of 'should designers learn to code'. I have two problems with it. First, it's an argument for a very select set of design+engineering projects. In almost all real world
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by aggie 10y ago
So by your logic, human-piloted cars shouldn't be sold either, as humans are not able to detect things 100% of the time.
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by aggie 10y ago
Any examples you can point to of adaptive UIs?
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by aggie 10y ago
In all but one of those examples you're calling out technical errors that don't have much impact on communication. It seems most HN threads about writing advice have a post nit-picking the article for grammar. I don't see how
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by aggie 10y ago
The thread is discussing the value of this type of conceptual presentation to a design portfolio. 'Conceptual designer' by your definition would basically mean 3D visual artist. That's not quite 'design' as it'
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by aggie 10y ago
My favorite proposed method of asteroid deflection: http://www.planetary.org/explore/projects/laser-bees/ The idea is to ablate material off of one side of the asteroid using lasers and/or mirroring sunl
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by aggie 10y ago
I'm not sure why you think space exploration is a progressive issue. It's fairly non-partisan. To figure out who supports space you can mostly just look at who has the contractors or NASA center in their district. There are aspect
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by aggie 10y ago
It's one of the most popular social programs ever run in this country and that's why 'every few years' the efforts to privatize it go nowhere. Even the current unified Republican government won't dare touch it, and
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by aggie 10y ago
You can say that a strategy to regain power is an ideological action in the long run, but then what is the difference between ideology and partisanship?
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by aggie 10y ago
The problem I have with the GOP's obstructionism was not that it was checking power, but that it was purely political. They obstructed policies that had been supporting by conservatives in the past, just because they didn't want O
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by aggie 10y ago
Why use a 64-character password? This post suggests more than ~21 random characters (128 bits) doesn't get you extra (practical) security: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/33196/is-there-...
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by aggie 10y ago
Media organizations are corporations, and their primary interest is making money, which means getting viewership for their advertisers. Sure they have some political motivations as it relates to their business, as any business does, but thi
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by aggie 10y ago
Many students pay way more than they have to. I graduated from a top-10 public school (in-state) after transferring from community college and my total bill was about $35k. That's not nothing, but also not a ball-and-chain six-figure m

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