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by bjterry 13y ago
There is a Star Trek episode where Kirk is forced to watch as Spock and McCoy fight as gladiators against Roman guards. There aren't any Klingons involved, but it does feature Roman clothing. There is another episode where alien brains
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The "undesirability index" is hilariously loaded terminology, along with really quite questionable methodology. They weight each spot on the google results based on the first result being 1, the second being .995, the third being
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I was excited to read your article because based on this comment I thought it would have in-depth analysis of the issue, but I found it to be a very shallow in terms of additional content. It has one paragraph with the licensing costs, whic
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cwm?
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Wow, that's crazy. I actually USED DailyBurn at one point and I didn't even know this existed. Their strategy of separating everything into a bunch of superfluous apps seems to have failed pretty hard in this instance (they have a
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> or let you know how many calories you’re about to eat by looking at your lunch. I have previously told some people that this is the holy grail of dieting apps. The difference in ease of use between entering all of the items in your mea
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Obama should sell start selling indulgences. Every non-violent federal offender has a one-time opportunity to have their case dropped for $100,000. I'm pretty sure lots of people could pony up the cash through friends and family, if ne
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There actually is an answer here. Namely, http://www.givewell.org/ The "effective altruism" movement attempts to compare all of the altruistic interventions available to maximize the amount of good done per dollar
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It's hard to imagine a scenario where this would result in worse overall law enforcement. They are going to get 60 hours of patrol per week. Police don't really drive around upper middle class neighborhoods at all much less 35%
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That's not exactly how this works. This only shows positive reviews that you've made for the product, not all of your reviews.
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The new strategy for negative reviews on Google products will be to offer five star reviews (for visibility) where the text talks about their terrible experience (for truth).
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It's odd that no one has mentioned this, but part of the reason no American thought they looked like "Y-fronts" is because American briefs don't have a Y-front. I have never seen underwear that looks like the first and t
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If I am understanding your argument correctly in context, based on what you quoted, you are saying that the impact of genetics on g was found to be insignificant in the Hart & Risley study. That objectively seems not to be the case. F
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> It is a technology risk. This means that if I solve it, I wouldn’t have to worry about finding customers. VCs like technology risk. This is wrong (with all due respect to Steve Blank in his video, I don't really disagree with that
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Electronic dance music (EDM) DJs are not well-known in the US. Only a tiny portion of the population listens to EDM. I'm 29 and have friends that are very interested in EDM and I've never heard of Armin van Buuren either, but have
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In the context of a video game the scene has a very different effect than in the context of a movie. The game forces you to graphically torture an innocent man. Because you are selecting which torture methods to use, the player is personall
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I was curious what the nature of his art director position was because I was having trouble conceptualizing what field he was in. I assumed since he wasn't being clear on the point that it was straightforward prints or something, but i
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It's crazy to me that online poker companies make this information available. Shouldn't tables be private or something to stop this?
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You may find this economics paper by Lant Pritchett to be interesting. It is one of the most enlightening I've read this year. It discusses the ways that a system wherein the state provides the majority of education services at every l
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According to the author of SuperMemo, the lifetime cost of learning a particular fact for life, in a perfectly structured spaced repetition system, is between 30 seconds and 5 minutes[1]. Thus, you should never memorize a fact that will com
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It's really alien to me to judge a book based on its publisher. Whenever I need a book I check out reviews on Amazon or on programming sites to find the best in class. Is there a reason that it matters that I'm not thinking of?
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Sure. My point was that you can't physically construct a flat cylinder a couple centimeters across that you can flip fairly and achieve a 98% bias. And if you don't meet those physical requirements, it's not a coin. If you ha
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If you were holding a physical coin in your hand, you would have to be crazy to select a uniform distribution unless it was shaped like a sphere. This is sort of a really minor pet peeve of mine when people use coin-flipping as an example f
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Pedantically, it would have to be finite, because there is a size limit. Cancer couldn't transform your genome into a piece of DNA the size of the sun.
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I have been typing in Colemak for several years now and I don't really have any issues going back to QWERTY, with the caveat that, like the author, I have to look at the keyboard to do so reasonably well. It's a little bit hard to
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It's likely that Colemak would be at least somewhat better for any European language if only because all of the vowels are under the home row (except U, which is under QWERTY's "I").
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Not really, rm -rf only unlinks the files, it doesn't erase the data and any computer forensic is going to look for deleted files.
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I had a different but related reaction to point 8 specifically. He seems to imply (although it's not totally clear since he treats the academy as a single unit) that people who have come up with theory should turn their individual atte
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Or moisture vaporators in Star Wars, which Luke's uncle and aunt owned.
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That article did indeed "cover" their digital-first strategy, but it was thickly laden with sarcasm, their heavy-handed ideal of gender politics, and plain old lack of clarity. I didn't "cover" The Atlantic's s

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