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by blahedo 11y ago
> While hot water may cause shrinkage in wool garments, for cotton and polyester t-shirts, the washer settings don't make a big difference. This is also more or less true of wool, in fact. It's not the hot water that shrinks
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by blahedo 11y ago
This is truly hacking at its finest.
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The Patient Who Diagnosed Her Own Genetic Mutation–and an Olympic Athlete's(theatlantic.com)
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by blahedo 11y ago
Check out the spikiness of the graphs---they show much higher rates on Saturday and Sunday. And substantially higher-than-most-weekdays rates on, say, Christmas. That's gotta be driven by a big disparity in residential vs commercia
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How to create a top journal by accepting (almost) everything(colinphillips.net)
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by blahedo 11y ago
> I've been ticketed in Atlanta for walking on a patch of grass by a road because that section of the road did not have a sidewalk. What were you even supposed to do in that case?
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by blahedo 11y ago
On the other hand, > Google has most of my email because it has all of yours https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7731022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10229928
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Facebook Makes Changes to Its Real Name Policy Enforcement Process(techcrunch.com)
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My strange, unexpected love affair with delivering food for DoorDash(vox.com)
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by blahedo 11y ago
> If P equals NP, then you could solve anything as easily as you could verify it. This is the core oversimplification of the article—if P=NP there's no guarantee that the solution is as easy as the verification. O(n^3) is still
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Why the economic fate of America's cities diverged: deregulation(theatlantic.com)
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by blahedo 11y ago
True, although for the same reasons that "fail fast" is sometimes better than the alternatives, a "leap hour"---being much easier to perceive than a leap second---may be easier to work with. At least then you'll
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by blahedo 11y ago
Perhaps, but the mindset here is fundamentally academic: here is an interesting problem, I wonder what I can learn about its properties? And having looked into those properties, the author decides to write them up and disseminate them. (V
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TSA “Mobile Passport Control” app: take a selfie, pass customs faster(cbp.gov)
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Solution to graph isomorphism problem found, improves understanding of P and NP(sciencenews.org)
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Sony says goodbye to Betamax tapes(bbc.com)
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Editorial board quits top linguistics journal to protest subscription fees(insidehighered.com)
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by blahedo 11y ago
If you read this, definitely follow up by reading the (more recent) response: https://medium.com/@eytanadar/on-the-value-of-command-line-b...
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In Memory of Robert Farquhar, NASA mission design specialist(motherboard.vice.com)
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In Memory of Robert Farquhar, the Original Space Hacker(motherboard.vice.com)
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by blahedo 11y ago
Well, yes and no. I had exactly the same thought as I was reading the article, but the bit about noise is important: in the presence of even a tiny bit of noise, the de-blur algorithm collapses pretty rapidly. And the "enhance!&quo
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by blahedo 11y ago
It's not just Washington; this is basically the same as in Illinois, for instance. (I performed a wedding for friends this past summer in Chicago, so I investigated. :) The bit about validity is really a good idea, because it's
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by blahedo 11y ago
The fact that it was a Soviet passport, which meant that a) she was defecting and b) she had somehow gotten her passport away from the Soviet embassy.
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by blahedo 11y ago
Are you sure about that? He's declared bankruptcy multiple times (three?), and his net worth is either about the same as, or significantly worse than, if he had invested his wealth in index funds (depending on just when the investment
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by blahedo 11y ago
The other main case where monospace (as such) is important is when multi-line expressions should be lined up in some semantically relevant way, e.g. to reflect boolean and/or grouping, or to line up function arguments. (This is especi
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by blahedo 11y ago
Ooh, just wait til that gets hacked. Yikes. ...not that I think you're wrong.
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by blahedo 11y ago
Alas, it's not a gopher:// link; gopher is just the name of the host. (Perhaps it also is a gopher server, or once was.)
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Court holds that UIUC broke contract in Salaita case(chronicle.com)
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Law librarians help make progress in “Happy Birthday” case(abovethelaw.com)
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Most workers are employees, says US Dept of Labor(america.aljazeera.com)
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