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by blahedo 8y ago
But, how is this not a flagrant violation of basically everybody's TOS, and illegal in its own right?
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by blahedo 8y ago
> A mathematician might benefit from the quiet solace of the country side, the human bandwidth being of marginal benefit, But most of the working (academic) mathematicians I know, while they need some time in "quiet solace"
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by blahedo 8y ago
I file on paper, as I always have, because a) I absolutely refuse to pay money to file my taxes, and b) I especially refuse to pay money to companies that lobby for taxes to be more complicated. There are free e-filing solutions, but not
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by blahedo 8y ago
For what it's worth, they did announce an extension (the OP article has been updated to reflect this). Best of luck!
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by blahedo 8y ago
This is very explicitly contradicted in the article, so your claim is not simply about the inaccuracy of the title. Do you have a cite for your claim?
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The river that appeared overnight in Argentina(theguardian.com)
13 points by blahedo 9y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 9y ago
You can get all the necessary keywords in without lying; and actually lying on your resume is liable to lose you the job or in some cases to cause you trouble even after you have it . Easy solution: distinguish the stuff that you have &quo
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by blahedo 9y ago
Sorry, should have included this! 3¾c. of brownie mix (again, Betty Crocker Original Supreme) 2 eggs ¼c. water ⅓c. vegetable oil and the included packet of Hershey's syrup The baking times on the old box were:
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by blahedo 9y ago
I can do them one better: my family has a meta -secret recipe. It didn't used to be secret, but it became secret through no effort or intent of our own. For a long time, decades at this point, my mom has been known for the brownies s
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by blahedo 9y ago
Ohhhhhh this explains something that confused me at the time and that I never followed up on. My family had a Nintendo and rented a copy of Tetris, played it for a few days, liked it. Aside from the gameplay, I remembered that they had cl
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Thousands of Virginians may have voted in the wrong state House districts(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by blahedo 9y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 9y ago
Huh. This explains something I've been wondering about for a while: I thought I had remembered figuring that a bottle of wine (standard 750 mL) was good for about six glasses. But at a recent event I helped host, the wine caterers sa
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by blahedo 9y ago
The most interesting part of an interesting article was the bit near the bottom about "kratt law"—conceptualising the idea of wanting to "make it possible to hold accountable whoever gave a drop of blood." It's a b
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by blahedo 9y ago
Another weird fail point: their entire discussion on their "Real names policy" ( https://www.wikitribune.com/project/real-names-policy-a-note... ) is being conducted by people who have already been vetted by
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by blahedo 9y ago
I love that this post is quantifying results over actual data—a huge improvement over the speculative/anecdotal pattern that a lot of these analyses have. But the conclusion that complexity and LOC both are higher in codebases with muc
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FCC will also preempt state net neutrality laws(arstechnica.com)
2 points by blahedo 9y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 9y ago
Literally "church tower politics"—a beautiful reflection of the different focus between European concerns and US concerns historically....
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Google is locking people out of their documents(mashable.com)
14 points by blahedo 9y ago|4 comments
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by blahedo 9y ago
I've done a lot of cross-country train trips, and in addition to NE corridor, travel radiating to/from Chicago and within about 500 miles is generally pretty transport-oriented (not just vacationing). And even in a lot of the oth
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by blahedo 9y ago
The DC metro was mostly built in the 80s and 90s (early construction started in the 70s), and the Portland MAX started construction in the mid 80s and has been expanding regularly since then. Atlanta's MARTA rail network was built mos
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Stanford professor draws maps to correct NC gerrymanders; now seeking feedback(newsobserver.com)
2 points by blahedo 9y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 9y ago
> It's almost as if it's a requirement for everyone to pay up for a service... From the article: "(LSAC will launch a free one next year.)" So it's not about making them money. More importantly, it seems to m
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How Facebook Figures Out Everyone You've Ever Met(gizmodo.com)
4 points by blahedo 9y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 9y ago
> "Doesn't allow you to pay with cash" How? Once they've poured your drink and ask for money, they can't refuse your cash payment[0] (that's what "legal tender" means). I suppose they could forbi
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by blahedo 9y ago
> Why not make a startup? Why would you want to buy anything so important from a startup? Either it'll suck or it'll be good, and if it sucks you don't want it, and if it's good, Google or FB or someone will acquihir
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by blahedo 9y ago
My years on a Sun keyboard spoiled me, so I remap backquote to escape (much more easily reachable than now-standard Escape location). Also Capslock to control and swap backspace and backslash. Everything I use more frequently is closer in
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by blahedo 9y ago
> The PhD system is a Ponzi scheme. First and foremost, a PhD program trains one to become a professor. During a professor career, one is expected to graduate 5, 10, 20 PhD students. In the US at least, a substantial proportion of prof
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by blahedo 9y ago
We're unlikely to see them for much longer; my most recent credit card has the number as a sticker on the back, with no embossed printing at all anywhere on the card. (I've also got an even more recent debit card that does still
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iOS 11 will make it impossible for cops to force you to unlock your phone(bgr.com)
5 points by blahedo 9y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 9y ago
Chicago itself is on a well-arranged grid system, and its south and west suburbs generally follow the same grid (so addresses on a street in one town might proceed from 9200 S to 10400 S, for instance, and the next town picks up at 10400) a

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