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It's not really by default, more like by necessity. Almost all categorization schemes for human cultural artifacts are necessarily blurry at the edges, and just because someone has provided a definition that is useful for one purpose (
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Many of my favorite websites from the old Internet were exactly this, and I think it's sort of a shame that I can no longer find sites like that with Google. For example, I once read a site about this person's journey for the perf
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In a way, VCs cease to be interesting when they are publicly traded. When you invest directly into a fund, the partners are promising to take your original capital and invest it in companies to dramatically increase its value. When you inve
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by bjterry 10y ago
I was very confused about this video until I watched it with the sound on. The Tesla beeps at the driver clearly before the accident has occurred, but doesn't appear to decelerate until afterwards.
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It's unfortunate that there aren't separate widely-used terms for recommendation style reviews and critical breakdown style reviews, because it makes it hard to find the latter when I want it. For an example, Jamahl Epsicokhan has
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Anytime someone uses the phrase "in order to facilitate" they are being more verbose than is necessary in order to signify their greater erudition. There is no meaningful semantic or technical distinction between "in order to
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Someone on HN posted a link to this article that compared Japanese zoning laws to American zoning laws.[0] There was also some interesting discussion.[1] The reason I thought of this is because in Japan the broad outlines of zoning laws are
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Music, language learning and fitness all fall into this category of things that are difficult because they require so much regular investment, are optional in every day life, but anyone could in theory do them. For things like this, the num
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The entire article provides reasons why the companies are incentivized to inflate the prices, because those prices are used in contracts which affect them. Asbridge is either not aware of this aspect of the incentives in his industry, which
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Regarding 2, Google has started penalizing these popups, at least for mobile users. https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easi...
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I sort of understand the point of this post, but I basically disagree with it. From a pedantic perspective, you aren't writing "good C" if your code isn't 100% standards-compliant, but if we applied this same rigor to dy
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CGAL is pretty cool. It was tricky to get set up. I was trying to use it as part of a mostly Python utility, and there are SWIG bindings for it that should theoretically have worked, but they were a huge pain and half the core functionality
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The goals of the Federal Reserve are "maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates." The real goal, though, is economic growth, and we just happen to believe that those intermediate goals are good at se
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The airspace above New York which you could encapsulate with more walls is worth quite literally hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Seems like a pretty passive-aggressive way to punish the developers for a piece of software you don't like.
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Yeah, I definitely don't think that this would give you mathematically provable security, especially if you are including n-grams which would allow you to chain together sentences combined with a language model. How much that matters i
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One typical strategy for spam detection is to convert text to a "bag of words" representation[0]. If you take this bag of words representation and hash all the values, then rather than training words like ED, you are training on w
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"How I violated terms of service, defected on a prisoner's dilemma, and likely committed fraud to make some extra spending cash." The ending is really weird. It's supposed to be introspective, but the supposed problem is
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A deal team "pushing back hard" is only as good as the next best offer. (But they have to say that of course.)
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All in all I found your guide pretty straightforward and agreeable. I think that you overstate its applicability, since it's tailored for very thin people like yourself rather than for overweight people (the majority of people that sta
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I had this problem. There was a firmware update for the printer that solved the issue. Now it reliably wakes from deep sleep on WiFi from my Mac. It is a Brother DCPL2520DW.
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This title should be made less clickbaity, something like "Utah Reduced Chronic Homelessness by 91 Percent with Housing First Model"
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Here is a google translated version: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
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Healthy ingredients have been removed from most foods, and for very similar reasons. It's not a product requirement for a burger bun to include wheat germ, for example, so it is removed to reduce cost and balance with other product req
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I don't know about that. From a pure physical health perspective (i.e. discounting convenience, cost and supposed mental health benefits), there are a bunch of exercises that are strictly superior to running. They provide all of the ca
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Since you dropped a load of references I thought I might as well critique the ones in the first batch to satisfy my curiosity (the other citations would be less surprising to me, though I didn't check them). 1. This doesn't analyz
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Mark Sisson's intellectual rigor is certainly higher than the average blogspam but not as high as the best diet bloggers in the paleo or fitness communities (e.g. Stephan Guyenet, Alan Aragon). That said, his biases would tend to go ag
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It's weird how he talks about glass blocks like they are an endangered species. You can go on alibaba right now and get literal tons delivered to your port of call for approximately $1 per brick, in an incredible quantity of styles and
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Here is a recent blog post that has some references to economics research papers around this general topic, but likely not directly addressing your exact claim. Nonetheless, you may find it interesting: http://slatestarcodex.com&
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According to my understanding, the rendered character is cached by the OS, so this probably shouldn't have any effect.

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