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by avn2109 11y ago
This is a great comment and really interesting. Can you suggest a reliable source to read more about rail standards and loading constraints?
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by avn2109 11y ago
It's not just MS, I'm pretty sure every Ubuntu OS update from Hardy to Lucid destroyed 1) my video configuration and 2) one other large thing and 3) 20 little things
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by avn2109 11y ago
This is super interesting, where did you learn about it?
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by avn2109 11y ago
GP here: Don't get me wrong, I would rather see out-of-the-box Linux win in the laptop market and I strongly dislike walled gardens (mobile and otherwise) on philosophical grounds. But that doesn't stop me from hypothesizing about
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by avn2109 11y ago
People say Apple is a tech company or a toys for millenials company, but I claim that fundamentally Apple is a user experience company (maybe the only one). They dominate because Steve Jobs realized what business they're in, and none
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by avn2109 11y ago
As a former tunnel boring engineer, I can attest that mining tunnels through consistent rock is vastly easier than through mixed geologies such as Manhattan island. Also there is less stuff (utilities, metal debris, etc) underground in Aust
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by avn2109 11y ago
Indeed, prewar Westchester is one of the few suburbs that isn't an utter abomination, both architecturally and land-use-planning wise. I think that's because they built them before the current bad ideas were in vogue.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Relevant and hilarious: http://whartoniteseekscodemonkey.tumblr.com/
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by avn2109 11y ago
Pretty sure both of those are true.
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by avn2109 11y ago
In the literature, they use the term "qualia" for what you're calling "awareness" here.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Honestly I'm pretty sure your iPhone slows down after a year because they build the software that way on purpose so as to incentivize you to buy a new one.
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by avn2109 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but I assume the exchange takes the same cut of the bid ask spread on an insider trade as it does on any other trade. So the answer to your question is an unequivocal yes.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Human height
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by avn2109 11y ago
Speaking of validity, it's not immediately obvious to me that each citizen of an OECD country constitutes a valid Bernoulli trial. Applying a uniform empirical prior of shooting rampage probability across the entire population strikes
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by avn2109 11y ago
Y U no ship legible typography? This is awful. If I couldn't one-click reskin the CSS with Readability I would never read any articles on this site.
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by avn2109 11y ago
He just closed a series A with a $10 billion valuation, so he's hiring rock star full stack data scientists.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Too late to edit now, but autocorrect strikes again! Good catch, thanks :)
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by avn2109 11y ago
It's not just China with a shortage of great investment opportunities, it's ~everywhere.
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by avn2109 11y ago
The deterministic-coupling-between-exercise-and-fitness thing is a good idea, but I'm worried that the OP has ignored the vital, crucial importance of doing something wise with your daily hour of fitness. If you're a fitness n00b
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by avn2109 11y ago
I'm a huge skeptic of Uber's explotative labor practices and general shadiness, and I think "sharing economy" is doublespeak marketing BS. But credit where credit is due, the greater population of Portland might well rea
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by avn2109 11y ago
Protip: If canceling telecom/tv/whatever crappy ossified subscription business, tell them you are immediately moving to a very remote location. I usually say I've joined the Peace Core and am leaving for Namibia next week. Af
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by avn2109 11y ago
By far the most important factor for getting a smooth, fast shave with a traditional safety razor is finding the right shaving cream. If you get the pre-lathered ones that come in a tube or tub, you can avoid spending several minutes lather
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by avn2109 11y ago
Interesting link, but $11 million bucks is probably not enough to buy even a single Senator, even if his district is an extremely cheap media market. A recent Senate campaign in one of the nation's cheapest media markets (Jon Tester&#x
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by avn2109 11y ago
That sounds cool, but I have a deep-seated conviction that programming language design and implementation should be done by someone smarter than me.
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by avn2109 11y ago
Solar thermal plants use a working fluid that happens to be sometimes called "salt" but is a totally different thing from the salt that is in ocean water.
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by avn2109 11y ago
If internet advertising is any guide, there is plenty of demand for baldness cures, penis enlargement, and bigger boobs. These might not be the first applications of genetic modification tech but I suspect they'll be among the commones
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by avn2109 11y ago
The NSA will just get your data off Dropbox by having a judge ask them nicely. That much is undeniable. Whether or not they can break the Keepass encryption after getting your data is debatable but strikes me as "probably yes."
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by avn2109 11y ago
IIRC Palantir subscribes at least nominally to this philosophy, too. And they're trying to scale it, so we'll get to see how that works out in the near-ish future. (Unless you work at Palantir, in which case I feel silly).
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by avn2109 11y ago
>> "They're being paid huge sums..." Everyone who works in finance just lol'd. But seriously, relative to the value a good hacker adds to the business, "huge sums" is probably not an accurate characteriza
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Actually this document is very easy to translate. For example, the sentence you've mentioned here means "Our funding agencies are easily bamboozled by computers and programming because technology is associated with fields that hav

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