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by aggie 13y ago
Plastic bags haven't been banned, just disposable plastic bags. The idea is to bring a reusable bag or two with you to the store.
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by aggie 13y ago
There are 2 reasons you want a large sample size: (1) to have enough subjects to expect a reasonably representative random sample (typically ~30+ for social science [1]) and (2) to have sufficient statistical power. There's nothing inh
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by aggie 13y ago
Language evolves. Unless you're writing a technical document it's usually best to go with what is commonly used and understood.
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by aggie 13y ago
I don't see anyone saying it's irrefutable. It's a conference proceeding, which means it's essentially a progress report on a line of research. And small sample sizes can produce compelling evidence if there is a large e
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by aggie 13y ago
>interesting to note that it was efinancehub.com and not a tech site that reported this It was also reported by Wired the same day. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/09/tesla-autonomous/
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by aggie 13y ago
> Tesla is building the infrastructure for a supercharger network. If Tesla has any common sense at all, eventually all electric cars, not just Tesla's, will depend on this network. . . . It will control the national, and likely glo
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by aggie 13y ago
Greenwald says it's fake. https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/344333485550485504
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Facebook says it got up to 10,000 requests for data in 6 months(washingtonpost.com)
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by aggie 13y ago
>The magnetic field of Mars is .1% of Earth, and its atmosphere density is 2% that of Earth, so protection from ionizing radiation would require underground habitation, the same as on Mercury. Curiosity has gathered data that suggests r
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by aggie 14y ago
This approach seems heavy-handed. The crucial aspect of gamification this post mostly misses out on is the challenge-to-reward ratio. You can't just give users points and badges and level them up for every action they take, that gets old fa
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by aggie 14y ago
De-cluttering is one thing but.. no washer and dryer, no dishes and utensils? Unless he actually doesn't use things he doesn't own, simplifying ownership is just outsourcing your material and service needs to others. How about adding some s
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by aggie 14y ago
It's interesting to hear about the historical facts (thanks for sharing) but I have to disagree with your position. The quotation is a concise and eloquent means of making a point about consumer opinion that is true in some cases, even if n
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by aggie 14y ago
Constant movement is not necessary, hence the walking around 5 minutes per hour. I agree standing desks are not for everyone.
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by aggie 14y ago
Walking desks are inefficient and overkill for the ergonomic concerns of desk work. The practical solution is to have a properly adjusted [1] workstation and get up to walk around for ~5 minutes every hour. On a treadmill, you will lose mor
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by aggie 14y ago
>From a legal context, is someone's right to privacy thrown out the window every time they go outside? Yes. You may be photographed or filmed not only when you are in public, but when you are in view of a photographer who is on public g
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by aggie 14y ago
The image that stuck with me from when I first saw the promo video a while back was the museum tour. It will be interesting to see how much people enjoy the tele-tourism experience. I still think there should be an external camera for these
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Context-Aware Computing(interaction-design.org)
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by aggie 14y ago
The videos should delay starting until they are most of the way on the screen already, otherwise they are a distraction as I finish reading the text above them and they are just peeking out from the bottom of the screen. Stopping when they
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by aggie 14y ago
It's really a matter of slow and inconsistent reaction to changes in speed, not the change in speed itself. The delayed reaction of one car causes it to decelerate more then they would have had to, then for the car behind the impact is grea
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by aggie 14y ago
Convincing a lot of very wealthy people (and their families) to get genetic testing could see significant funding directed toward disease prevention and treatment research.
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by aggie 14y ago
Gesticulation helps the speaker as well. A recent thesis (unpublished) in my graduate program examined the effect of allowing a lecturer to move around and gesticulate vs. sitting still at a microphone. There were positive effects both in t
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by aggie 14y ago
The feds would need to justify a denial in funding based on some public health grounds ("to promote the general welfare" [1]). If this was brought to the courts, it could actually be a good opportunity to critically examine effects of legal
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by aggie 14y ago
Your IQ could see a similar jump if you spent a lot of time practicing for and taking IQ tests. IQ is a psychometric measure of a construct, intelligence, so when you increase your IQ by getting better at taking the test, you are not actual
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by aggie 14y ago
The government put a man on the moon so they could appear more technologically capable than the Soviets. Once they got their propaganda piece, the incentive died out.
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by aggie 14y ago
Reading my comment again, I see I made the mistake of addressing both the philosophy of science and the semantic aspect of the field of study called psychology in the same thought, and gave neither subject proper elaboration for the full-fl
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by aggie 14y ago
Psychology is a broad field with many subfields. Some areas are harder sciences than others (psychobiology/physiology, sensation and perception, neuroscience, some cognitive science, etc.), and some are admittedly very hand-wavy (emotion, p
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by aggie 14y ago
I first saw a Microsoft store at the Stanford Shopping Center (Palo Alto, CA), right next to the Apple store. At Valley Fair (Santa Clara, CA), I noticed a Microsoft store and my friend commented how it looked like an Apple store. I looked
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by aggie 14y ago
It seems a dedicated, remote, wheeled iPad, especially like in the gallery example, should take advantage of an external camera with optical zoom. The iPad camera is good for what it is, but the physical dimension constraints don't seem to
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Here Comes the Data Economy(slate.com)
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by aggie 14y ago
National opinion polls may have been against the bank bailouts, but national public opinion is not what really matters to a politician. Representatives are accountable only to their own districts. Of course, this is why we see pork barrel s

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