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by bhickey 11y ago
Shooting to wound is absurd. However, keep in mind that Bill Lewinski is a pseudoscientist who makes his living justifying killings by police. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/training-officers-to.
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by bhickey 11y ago
Ben and I started at Google on the same day. I was pretty psyched to meet him because I'd followed his website ( http://vterrain.org/ ) for years. He's a fairly loud, outgoing guy. Among a bunch of quirky nerds he s
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by bhickey 11y ago
Are there some key publications you could point us at? I've been out of the bioimformatics game for a couple of years and I'm always curious to see where the state of the art is at.
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NFS requires that you provide a name. They might cut you some slack if you can prove you live in North Korea.
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by bhickey 11y ago
You may be oversimplifying here. I can't speak to Eukaryotes, but Prokaryotes are routinely flash frozen in liquid nitrogen and then stored for years at -80. Gently thaw them out and they're happy to go on reproducing. For the pur
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by bhickey 11y ago
States establish indigence standards. Generally if your income exceeds 200% the federal poverty line, you aren't entitled to a court appointed attorney. Even then, if you're above 125% the poverty line, you can be forced to pay fo
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by bhickey 11y ago
Gideon v. Wainwright established that indigent defendants are entitled to free legal representation. There's no such right for non-indigent defendants.
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by bhickey 11y ago
As Thomas Piketty pointed out, 60% of German debt was cancelled in 1953. ( http://thewire.in/?p=5851 ) France defaulted on its debts after the Napoleonic wars. The United Kingdom defaulted in 1932. Apart from Greece's in
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by bhickey 11y ago
This is correct. Spoiler: https://i.imgur.com/evnckgy.png
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If this is useful to you, check out the Mutability Detector ( https://github.com/MutabilityDetector/MutabilityDetector ).
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This is California, not Canada, so Canadian legal definitions aren't relevant. Even if it was relevant, there's a saying that "the law is an ass." A legislature could decree that apple pie is terrorism, but it simply doe
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by bhickey 11y ago
This is hyperbolic nonsense. If terrorism is everything we don't like, then it's just a pejorative. Whoever is doing this is doing a very poor job at instilling fear in anybody.
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> Hate to make the comparison, but drug dealers have a saying "the first hit is free." There's a difference between not charging the end user and not paying the supplier.
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by bhickey 11y ago
The article doesn't explain why Lovecraft's works are in the public domain. Lovecraft's intention was that R.H. Barlow serve as executor of his literary estate. My recollection is that this was never properly carried out, s
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by bhickey 11y ago
The Shunt is great, but there are some potentially dangerous gotchas in its operation. Never use it with ropes of different diameter. As a rappel backup, the shunt can fail if you place it above your belay device. The risk is that a panicke
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by bhickey 11y ago
Here's a politically infeasible solution: Make the pie bigger. People want to live in San Francisco because Silicon Valley is an awful alternative. What are some concrete steps we could take to increase the stock of housing? * Repeal P
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by bhickey 11y ago
Here's a free C++ wang tile implementation I wrote: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/source/... It includes a stochastic solver for non-trivial tile sets.
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by bhickey 11y ago
There are some really neat things going on here! If you're interested in this, check out a paper by one of my old mentors: Darwinian evolution can follow only very few mutational paths to fitter proteins. ( http://www.ncbi.nl
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by bhickey 12y ago
The lack of generics in Go is a non-starter for me. There's polymorphism in built-in types, but these throw out compile time correctness guarantees.
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by bhickey 12y ago
Cambridge is a great study in rent control. After rent control was thrown out in 1994, as you might imagine, prices in the city began to rise. The twist is that never-controlled units rose faster than controlled units! Since a tenant doesn
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by bhickey 12y ago
It increases prices by reducing supply.
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You're mistaken in your mechanism: it reduces demand. Repealing prop 13 should drive down prices by increasing the total cost of ownership. Suppose you can afford to pay $3000/mo for housing. If your tax bill is $500, that leaves
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by bhickey 12y ago
I can promise you that powera knows something about reliable software. Any indication to the contrary is just loose talk. :)
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If you can live with [0, 1), there are simpler ways of doing this. Generate a number [1,2) by filling the 52-bit fractional component with a random integer. Then subtract 1. And you're done. http://www.math.sci.hiroshima-u.a
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by bhickey 12y ago
I took a look at his journal 9 May 1918-2 Feb. 1919. Specifically I'm trying to find his reaction to Wilfred Owen's death on November 4th. Owen's own letters were burned after his death by his brother. November 11th is an int
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by bhickey 12y ago
I wouldn't be so certain. Ebola can be transmitted between pigs and macaques via a respiratory path. http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/121115/srep00811/full/srep00...
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by bhickey 12y ago
pender has done an amazing job with Brogue. Without a doubt it's the best roguelike out there today. It doesn't have the same scale as crawl, but I think this is more of a strength than anything else. Slogging through 51 levels in
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We place a strong emphasis on usability and interface in crawl. For example, we actively avoid putting items in the inventory slot corresponding to using them: potions shouldn't land on 'q', food on 'e', etc. Anothe
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> Can someone explain the first example? I think the arc is the Earth.
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Google executives said the company would honor existing military contracts, but that it did not plan to move toward becoming a military contractor on its own. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/14&

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