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by b_emery 13y ago
For many of these people, science and religion simply deal with different realms. Science deals with natural causes for natural phenomena, while religion deals with beliefs that are beyond the natural world. I think scientists are too q
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The other long tail!
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Parbuckle Salvage(en.wikipedia.org)
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by b_emery 13y ago
Possibilities: - they looked at signups at close.io after the evening, thus narrowing a list of female names for image searching. They could further limit this to IP's from the austin area. - They bought the ad words 'justin gold&
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by b_emery 13y ago
Similar suggestion to what's proposed here: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/laptop_securit...
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Interesting question. Seems like they have a lot of weight in the superstructure that would be removed with a single blade (and tail rotor).
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by b_emery 13y ago
Good spot: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2351981/Is-Ed-Snowde...
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How americans can be spied on without warrant despite FISA(eff.org)
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by b_emery 13y ago
Wired agrees with you ("a spectacularly bad idea"): http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/yahoos-very-bad-ide...
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by b_emery 13y ago
From http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual/x110.html "A public and private key each have a specific role when encrypting and decrypting documents. A public key may be thought of as an open safe. When a corr
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by b_emery 13y ago
This is almost as much a comment on the process of making a decision as anything else. Having made a few big decisions recently, I was surprised at how ill-equipped I felt in evaluating possible directions. It's really quite difficult to im
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by b_emery 14y ago
If the Earth radius was 100 pixels, the average depth of the ocean (~4km) would be less than 0.1 pixels. I once had a professor hold up piece of paper and say "this is my scale model of the pacific ocean". Took me a while to realize he wasn
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DE-STAR: A plan to keep asteroids from destroying Earth(independent.com)
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Ask HN: Tech predictions for the next 10 years?
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Symantec Throws NYTimes Under Bus(blogs.csoonline.com)
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by b_emery 14y ago
> A friend down the hall could learn a Caltech course in a few hours by flipping through the textbook. I was nowhere near as smart as him. I very much doubt this, and I'm curious about the truth. I suspect that if you replaced 'smart' w
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by b_emery 14y ago
If I'm not mistaken, UC gets only 13% of it's budget from tuition [1]. I believe this is up from previous years. The CC -> UC route is a very good one - and should be taken guilt free if one decides to go that route. 1. http://regents.
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Jared Diamond on How To Get Rich(edge.org)
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by b_emery 14y ago
Exactly! It becomes a machine learning problem. There was a post about this a while back ..
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That and a code verification from your surgically-implanted-at-birth RFID. Call it N-factor authentication!
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by b_emery 14y ago
I once read a book called adrift [1], a true story about a man adrift at sea, alone, for 76 days. The main takeaway that I recall was the profound loneliness and the desire for human contact that he experienced. I sometimes think of this I
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by b_emery 14y ago
> The ones taking away the only thing preventing a dictatorial government from being impossible to revolt against ain't one of them. Amen. They can have my Twitter when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
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by b_emery 14y ago
Thanks - I didn't even know it was an option. Apparently it is on Lion and above (which is 10.7 for those of us who can't keep their cat's straight). Here's a link to how it works: http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20082711-285/how-to-us
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by b_emery 14y ago
I had some stuff in self-storage when I once went away for several months. Spending some time there made me want to get rid of all my stuff. It's a very strange and sad place. One could write a novel about it. It's a place of transitions, a
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by b_emery 14y ago
Yes! This is what had me thinking that this article is the best one I've read all week. It's not about language wars, it's about finding the new applications of math. With the data and computational power at our disposal, big questions are
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by b_emery 14y ago
Meyer's matrix analysis has an excellent, and relevant, quote: The great French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) said that, “Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language that its simpliﬁed notation often becomes the so
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by b_emery 14y ago
Jeesh that's a lot of hours. That's like 75,000 people each playing 40 hours a week for a year. I read Ben Franklin's biography a while back and got the impression that he had an advantage over many of his contemporaries because it was the
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by b_emery 14y ago
Funny, I sort of did this yesterday and it worked. In the act of planning my current week, I took a look at my log of time spent last week. The log was much more detailed than usual because I was auditing my time pretty carefully. After add
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by b_emery 14y ago
Their link to human vs machine is interesting: http://www.planethunters.org/science#human I wonder how good their machine learning is? I'd love to throw some support vector machines or neural networks at this stuff!
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by b_emery 14y ago
I'm a heavy user of tiddlywiki. I originally liked the portability of it, but now it lives in my Dropbox folder which has been an awesome combination.

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