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by aggie 11y ago
If you read the linked article you will find that he means it is resistant to non-bathroom activities such as using it for washing clothes. I'm not sure why that would be a big problem, but the design isn't intended to prevent the
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by aggie 11y ago
With a projected lifespan of 150 years [1], that seems pretty reasonable. [1] http://www.dot.ca.gov/dist4/eastspans/
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by aggie 11y ago
I think it's fair to say that taking any single company and holding it as evidence of what the private sector produces is flawed, but Comcast is a particularly flawed example. Likewise with any single government entity.
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by aggie 11y ago
Comcast doesn't face typical market competition; it is uncommon for it's customers to have good alternatives. That's not a good representation of the efficiency and quality the private sector produces.
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by aggie 11y ago
Why would people not use plastic currently and now adopt Apple Pay?
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by aggie 11y ago
I think you'd be surprised how nice it is to have a team of producers and camera operators doing the work of finding the interesting views for you. People attend live sports for the atmosphere and shared experience, not the view.
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by aggie 11y ago
Lynch is a great power runner, but even he is not automatic to score on two attempts. If I remember right, he was actually 0/4 on the year inside the 2 yard line. If the Seahawks throw an incomplete pass on 2nd down, they have time lef
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by aggie 11y ago
You also should account for the fact that coaches are often considering more than just points, and beyond that are often just irrational. Coaches should go for it on 4th-and-short more often than they do, but getting stopped on 4th down is
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by aggie 11y ago
>what Elon Musk implies with his illustrations I think this is a very uncharitable interpretation of that 'illustration'. The illustration makes no explicit claim that the energy is produced by the solar panels on the roof, let
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by aggie 11y ago
In my mind the issue is not absolute turnout but representative turnout. If only 1% of people voted but they were a good representation of the varied interests of the population, that would be just fine. The problem today is that certain gr
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by aggie 11y ago
Can you point to any evidence? "Aspartame is one of the most rigorously tested food ingredients ... has been deemed safe for human consumption by over 100 regulatory agencies in their respective countries." https://en.w
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by aggie 12y ago
> cerizos and besos which is perfect rhyme Since letters in Spanish have only one sound, '-izos' and '-esos' cannot be made to rhyme without distorting the pronunciation of one of the words. I don't see how that
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by aggie 12y ago
A pragmatic approach would be to simply leave pharma alone, at least initially, as they actually need strong incentive for R&D.
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by aggie 12y ago
This is great advice. I would also recommend adding just a bit of additional synthesis to your summary if possible, connecting what the chapter/book talks about to other topics or ideas you may have. Creating strong and varied connecti
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by aggie 12y ago
Forgive my lack of a source, but I read a while back that hotel wifi is often so bad because they signed short-sighted contracts in the past that locked them in to these terrible data rates for many years. And now they pass that terrible de
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by aggie 12y ago
> although Jakob Nielsen's work has shown that you reach the point of quickly diminishing returns after testing with 5-10 users This gets tossed around a lot, but is usually misinterpreted. What 5-10 users will get you is discoverin
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by aggie 12y ago
A year is far longer than they would need just to achieve statistical significance. They've got over 160 million unique visitors per month [1]. Even showing the variants to only 1% of traffic you're working with over 50,000 visito
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by aggie 12y ago
Why not run a two-tailed test and double the alpha? If I'm understanding it correctly, you'll still make the same conclusion at either tail as a one-tailed test, but this way you have both directions covered. I could be missing so
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by aggie 12y ago
The study doesn't show that writing on paper is necessarily more effective than typing notes on a laptop. The study shows that, when typing, students tends to transcribe verbatim, whereas when writing longhand they tend to paraphrase.
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by aggie 12y ago
Weight loss is hardly as simple as learning to count, assuming we're talking about actually doing something and not just planning for it. You seem to assume very little capacity for learning basic nutritional facts and very high capaci
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by aggie 12y ago
These are some great examples to get yourself thinking philosophically. If anyone reading would like to explore them a bit more, here are some wikipedia articles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualia http://e
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by aggie 12y ago
The number refers to the capacity of working memory and has indeed been revised over time. It's a complicated issue, but 4 units of information is now considered a more accurate approximation. But if you're remembering a password,
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by aggie 12y ago
>By imposing your own extrajudical punishments you are undermining the court system as a whole. Hardly. The justice system does not have a monopoly on punishment. There are punishments reserved for the justice system, including suspendin
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by aggie 13y ago
Not that it's any surprise, but it's nice to see an emphasis on Siri. Voice control is very well suited to car interfaces: the car is a relatively-quiet, private space where you can be heard by the interface but not bother a stran
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by aggie 13y ago
“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through t
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by aggie 13y ago
How often do you get a scam call AND the lock screen notification has been pushed to the bottom (within careless swiping range of the actual slide to unlock zone) AND you are swiping without aiming? Does avoiding that extreme edge case real
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by aggie 13y ago
The strength of Mazda rotary engines, high horsepower at very high RPMs, doesn't translate all that well to normal driving behavior compared to 4-strokes, and the low torque makes them less fun to those who just want to blast out a qui
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by aggie 13y ago
The field of Human-Computer Interaction has been around for decades but the larger design community has not always paid much attention to the literature or embraced the scientific approach to design.
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by aggie 13y ago
Ok, but did you read the article? Snowden is talking about the mission of starting the conversation, which he has done. “'For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission’s already accomplished,' he said. 'I already won
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by aggie 13y ago
That's an interesting question, but I think it could be less helpful for scientific progress than you might imagine. It could even be a hindrance. As Max Planck put it, "A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its oppone

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