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by arh68 13y ago
So how does the Prius fit into this? How could Toyota have spent any money at all on electric technology when they had billions invested in gasoline combustion? How did GM spend any money on their EV-1 when they were similarly rooted? There
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by arh68 14y ago
I disagree that Cornell is an elites-only institution. Besides, how would you have spent the money within the CUNY system? According to [1], their FY14 budget is $2.154B, so $133M would be a 6% bump for FY14. Any ideas? [1] http://www.cuny
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by arh68 14y ago
Pleasure? That's not what comes to mind. I haven't answered the poll, but I did think about putting <10. Since you seem to comprehend the situation.. it's not about the readers or the moderators, it's more like a dialogue between me and
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by arh68 14y ago
Surely you don't mean to refute Hans Rosling's testimony that his mother had more time to read to him? I think you have an interesting viewpoint. If these technologies don't actually save any time, it follows that we spend as much doing X b
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by arh68 14y ago
You are mostly correct, but I'd like to agree that the rate food heats up does depend where it is. I know this intuitively, when the middle of my burrito is cold when the rest is hot. Microwave ovens do not cook food evenly, and it's not ju
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by arh68 14y ago
I don't think a microwave could effectively heat the center. The skin depth on a turkey is probably only a couple inches so a microwave could only heat the exterior.
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by arh68 14y ago
I don't know if this was easy or quick for you (less than an hour, in any case), but you seem to prove the parent correct: "That code has lots of shortcomings. Compromised readability due to line length is not one of them." Maybe you're sim
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by arh68 14y ago
> A part of me doesn't even want to think about it again for some time until the dust has completely settled. How long do you think that will be (for you)? I agree with your sentiment, and I'm now more skeptical of everyone's motives si
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by arh68 14y ago
Hey thanks, that's definitely helpful. I wanted to read the Cazenave paper (paywall), but 'centrality' led me to a Google Book [1] which briefly explains MMRI (salience, centrality, regard, ideology). Understanding the differences between t
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by arh68 14y ago
Is this a good idea, legally? At first glance I'd say no, but a quick Google leads me to believe breaking captchas is just fine [1]. Could one be prosecuted under CFAA for this kind of thing? Maybe the weev case is throwing my mind for a lo
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by arh68 14y ago
Is there a good source for your first definition? I've never come across this distinction so directly before, and the line between the two is still a little blurry. I hate to get all [citation needed] on you, but it just seems to me that th
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by arh68 14y ago
> "The researchers said that seven species of bacteria were found in the frozen water in 2012. The DNA match to any known organisms never went past 86 percent, so it is considered to be an unknown form of life. Anything under 90 percent
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by arh68 14y ago
Richard Feynman's written a number of roughly biographical books. He's a good story teller and is clever enough to have stories to tell.
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by arh68 14y ago
A more unified computing environment: I love the simplicity of spreadsheets, the plotting of Matlab, the interactivity of SLIME, the pragmatism of bash scripting, the breadth of knowledge of Wolfram Alpha (and Wikipedia), so on and so forth
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by arh68 14y ago
How 'often'? Either all the time or very rarely, depending on your perspective. You wouldn't have 50% of your codebase treating code as data, because only a few lines of macros could define an entire new paradigm on top of what's included i
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by arh68 14y ago
Emacs default for me, thanks! I used to play with color schemes, preferring Vim's desert and solarized among others, but if the screen's too bright now, I just turn down the brightness and/or make the font bigger.
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by arh68 14y ago
I'm fairly young and I'm not anywhere close to email overload, but some highlights: I have a 'server logs' label for various reports/scripts I use, an 'ideas' label I send things to myself (and reply, with each development; these are not to
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by arh68 14y ago
While I agree that Greenwald mostly danced around the issue, I think there was some content to his exclamations. While I'm not terribly familiar with Jennifer Granick, I think she does a much better job explaining the FISA vs FAA debate [1]
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by arh68 14y ago
I'm a bit confused by your first point: the claim Obama's spokesman made back in 2007 reads more like your 'entirely new promise' than what you suggest in your first paragraph.
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I do keep a running log of ideas in org-mode, but it's by no means comprehensive (I can only really use it at home). I keep most things in a notebook, but typing is so much faster I can't help it. I have a few files for various topics; I us
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by arh68 14y ago
I also very much like this quote. This is Reata Strickland, as far as I can tell. I remember seeing it on /r/trees as a Dalai Lama quote, but wikiquote [1] says otherwise. Reata's website [2] seems to be the closest source. [1] http://en.w
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by arh68 14y ago
I thought this was pretty well-written, but I didn't come away from it with the same lesson. It didn't seem like you needed any motivation to 'just do it', but that you confused what 'it' was. You thought what you were doing (bugging profes
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by arh68 15y ago
They just screwed up. They installed the device a day late and outside of DC. From the last footnote in Alito's opinion, In this case, the agents obtained a warrant, but they did not comply with two of the warrant’s restrictions: They did