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by beisner 11y ago
Buzzfeed is a credible news source. It just so happens that they are, so far, the only news outlet to become profitable online, mainly through content for which they have been stigmatized and which you seem to be criticizing. That being sai
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Interesting - thanks for the correction. I have been learning Mandarin for a few years now, and made the assumption that since the accepted writing system was standard nationally (and practiced by all literate Chinese speakers, regardless o
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by beisner 11y ago
While the different dialects of Chinese (Mandarin/普通话/putonghua being the most common, followed by Cantonese/广东话/Guangdonghua, etc.) sound entirely different spoken, the written character representations of the dialects
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by beisner 11y ago
It's not really about the money, though. The number of qualified, published academics in CS is just not high enough to meet new academic demands. I'm currently a student at an Ivy League school with an extremely reputable CS depar
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by beisner 12y ago
They can differ, but they are usually extremely generous. I know loads of people who pay less for Princeton, Harvard, and MIT than they would for state school.
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by beisner 12y ago
If the Netflix traffic was exempt from your data cap, you would be paying $(Netflix rate)/(Netflix usage) for Netflix, while you would be paying (monthly rate)/(other usage) other usage. That means different rates for different ty
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by beisner 12y ago
I spoke to Kernighan about it a few days ago, and he seemed to be doing a good amount of go development.
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by beisner 12y ago
Wow. Excellent execution of an awesome idea. Seriously, I've always lamented the fact that news is never presented with enough background, and the fact that these articles allow the user to either get an overview or an in-depth history
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by beisner 12y ago
The problem with weight loss and other sorts of large, daunting projects is that morale and focus tend to evaporate pretty quickly when you don't hold yourself accountable and don't see immediate results. Whether it's weighin