bhickey

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by bhickey 9y ago
I enjoyed his cynical schtick: a JD/PhD from West Cambridge pretending to be a blue collar guy.
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by bhickey 9y ago
You probably remember a few years back when the well-heeled Green candidate ran on a platform of bussing in homeless. https://www.reddit.com/r/CambridgeMA/comments/3pd9k3/my_note...
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by bhickey 9y ago
The writer is mistaken, but cholera pathogenicity is caused by a virus. A temperate phage carries the genes for cholera toxin and infects cholera bacteria.
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by bhickey 9y ago
The estimate I got for a well alone was about $40,000.
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by bhickey 9y ago
Hitler didn't take over Germany because he had the best words. He was enabled, among other things, by complicit Bavarian judges who refused to lop off his head for treason.
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by bhickey 9y ago
I'm riffing on his writing -- > Even Google Translate, which pulls off the neat trick of approximating translations by statistically associating sentences across languages, doesn’t understand a word of what it is translating. This i
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by bhickey 9y ago
The author is just spouting off on a topic he doesn't understand. It's just a rehashing of Chomsky's hatred of statistical NLP. He pulls off the neat trick of approximating knowledge of artificial intelligence by hoodwinking
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by bhickey 9y ago
2-opt can probably improve on the Hilbert solution ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-opt ) Is the world planar? There's an epsilon approximation scheme for planar TSP that's linear in the graph size (but expone
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by bhickey 9y ago
The discussion around its approval was contentious. My reading is that it exists primarily as an Oracle CLA. The license wasn't rigorously reviewed by non-Oracle counsel and there's some worry about hidden landmines. https:/
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by bhickey 9y ago
Still, be cautious. The OSI has approved a number of bad licenses. The UPL ( https://opensource.org/licenses/UPL ) stands out to me as one that should've been rejected.
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by bhickey 9y ago
> Public domain There are jurisdictions that don't recognize PD grants. I can't think of a good reason to use CC0 over MIT or BSD. > GPL (any version) This might be doctrinaire but I won't use the (L)GPLv3 because of th
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by bhickey 9y ago
We got here because carbon is mispriced not because of smug dilettantes on internet forums.
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by bhickey 9y ago
They're both benzos, but xanax ain't klonopin. It has a half-life around 12 hours while klonopin is about 30 hours. You can get interdose withdrawal with xanax, while it's less likely with klonopin.
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by bhickey 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracer_ammunition#/media/File:... It looks like they have a reddish hue.
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by bhickey 9y ago
And industrial fall arrest literature disagrees with the UIAA. A 4kN loading will break your spine in the correct orientation.
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by bhickey 9y ago
Take a 60 foot 1.95 factor fall and get back to me.
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by bhickey 9y ago
Very high factor falls. A factor 2 fall can kill you even if you don't hit anything on the way down.
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by bhickey 9y ago
As a (washed up) climber, falling is something I think about a lot. It turns out that sit harness used by recreational climbers are unsafe. In a catastrophic fall, the harness directs force into the lumbar spine in an anterior direction. An
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by bhickey 9y ago
The high-net-worth bar is lower than you might think. $1m in non-first home assets or $250k in income. Your dentist is not necessarily financially sophisticated by virtue of their high wages.
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by bhickey 9y ago
bstrie is coming by my place tomorrow, we're going to take a stab at overhauling `rand`. We must've been discussing this for two years.
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by bhickey 10y ago
And carbon taxes as reducing regulation.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Thanks, better tools are a godsend. Back in school I spent too much time using PrimerX ( http://www.bioinformatics.org/primerx/ ).
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by bhickey 10y ago
This is patently absurd. Let's walk through an example: I think you're being rude to everyone here. It's wrong for you to disagree with me. By abandoning any pretence of objective analysis you're reducing rudeness to a m
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by bhickey 10y ago
> They earned it,they were recognized for their achievement. So what of it? Knighthoods are handed out to political cronies like they're Jaffa Cakes. Besides, I'm not a subject of Her Majesty the Queen, Elizabeth Windsor. Deman
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by bhickey 10y ago
"Sherpa" isn't a generic word for porter, it's an ethnic group. They originated in Tibet and migrated across the Himalayas. While in decades past most high-altitude porters were Sherpa, today it's more common to see
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by bhickey 10y ago
Hi there, I'm one of the mods on /r/boston. I've fixed it.
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by bhickey 10y ago
Huh, totally weird. Maybe it's an encoding issue? The character appear to be getting shifted by -39 (ex. c 143 ->D 104) I never noticed because I'm typesetting for print.
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by bhickey 10y ago
I edit a genre fiction and we do all our layout in XeTeX. I picked it because it's the right tool for the job, and I don't know PageMaker. The colophon calls attention to it because I think it's helpful to tell others how you
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by bhickey 10y ago
I don't follow your reasoning. People died before seat belts. We have seat belts and they save lives. I publish a paper claiming that seat belts cause lung cancer. Seat belts are withdrawn from cars and people die. If my research was b
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by bhickey 10y ago
0. There's a lot of carbon in the air and we might want to get rid of it.

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