akjetma

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by akjetma 13y ago
We could go one deeper and consider the possibility that they wanted us to think that they were trying to signal something to us with the similar statements so they would have our goodwill. I feel like Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse.
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by akjetma 13y ago
In order to consider the possibility that this is clever language avoiding the truth of the issue, can someone explain how a system might work where google maintains plausible deniability while allowing access to the information it collects
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by akjetma 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_sharpshooter_fallacy
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by akjetma 14y ago
hn has always had styling issues for me. I've always just attributed them to something mysterious in the thick jungle of my current linux install... It is particularly nasty right now though.
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by akjetma 14y ago
There are people who are so out of touch with technology that they might not understand the (to us, incredibly obvious and clear) feedback the UI is providing, and might overlook it or be scared of pressing the screen again. Grandmothers an
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by akjetma 14y ago
As a person who's never had an iPhone/Mac, I experience the same foreign feeling when I use an iOS device. I'm pretty sure this feeling is mostly due to unfamiliarity and not superior design on either side. Although it is worth noting that
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by akjetma 14y ago
That seems to imply that the pleasure and beauty of mathematics is in the way one perceives symbolic manipulation. I actually think the pleasure and beauty of mathematics is in the stage before one gets to manipulating symbols; the stage wh
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by akjetma 14y ago
I've been more interested in what the bandwidth and packet loss rate are like.
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by akjetma 14y ago
I don't think 200m is enough to put them in significantly different orbits. Every once in awhile, dragon probably fires a thruster to make small adjustments. edit, clarification: The problem is that the object closer to the earth will exper
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by akjetma 16y ago
I've spent hours looking at simple statics problems that I know I should be able to solve in fifteen minutes, but just can't for whatever reason. It's like I've gotten on the wrong mental track early on and can only move further along that
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by akjetma 16y ago
Angry yellow bird makes a noise as if it were angrily flapping its wings when you activate its speed boost, suggesting that it is not accelerating without having a new force act upon it. This is a completely Newtonian bird afaik.
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by akjetma 16y ago
After spinning around for awhile, I forgot which axis was which. It's very pretty though and definitely useful for a visual learner like myself. It's annoying (to say the least) how long it takes to render a single frame of a 3D graph on a
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by akjetma 16y ago
He also could have been the one to tip Arrington to the meeting in the first place. Then, after alleging that it was one of the others who had tipped Arrington, he inspires mistrust among the colluding angels. This is all speculation, obvio