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by blahedo 12y ago
Would this do? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2934358/How-chilly-s...
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by blahedo 12y ago
I do not have sufficient profanity in my verbal arsenal for websites that override basic, fundamental browser behaviour because they think they know better than I do what I actually meant to do. I have noticed Medium being a regular perpet
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by blahedo 12y ago
Surely the date error would go the other way? If the Americans are in Hawaii and it's (say) 1 February, in the landing zone in China it would be 2 February, not 31 January. So if a mistake were made and they had said "the attack
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by blahedo 12y ago
My coffee-drinking life got so much better when a friend gave me one of these a couple years ago. Easier and better-tasting than the alternatives (a "normal" coffee pot on the one hand, and Keurig-type machines on the other). N
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by blahedo 12y ago
The Providence one is interesting, because the 2013 photo shows a substantial improvement---when I-195 was laid out, it made a crazy-ass loop through downtown (and bisecting some historic neighbourhoods) before heading east. About ten year
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by blahedo 12y ago
I am surprised at how casually he dropped this in there: "When I was in college I used to write papers for my friends. It was quite interesting to write a paper for a class I wasn't taking. Plus they were always so relieved."
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by blahedo 12y ago
Don't be misled: the -are and -ire endings mark different conjugations (per my other comment, a Latin "crespare" would have become "créper" in French, which means "frizz" or "crimp" and is thus a
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by blahedo 12y ago
I was wondering the same thing; I checked the French dictionary on my desk and "crépir" (which would be the expected derivative of "crespire") means "roughcast", or plastering/cementing without smoothing t
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by blahedo 12y ago
This is a fantastic example of steganography in action, in a context other than hiding info in low-order bits of images.
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You could certainly be a software developer, and a reasonably competent one, without having heard of RPN. I would argue that it's harder to be a computer scientist---and shocking to manage to get to the PhD level in computer science--
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by blahedo 12y ago
Also interesting is the apparent fact that map and set (the tree-based ones) grow at faster than logarithmic time---if they were true O(lg n) then (given the log scale on the x axis) they should appear linear on these graphs. It would be ni
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Facebook finds that not all users want to review their year(npr.org)
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by blahedo 12y ago
> Ok, so if the mailing list is dead and your pull requests aren't the only ones being ignored, why not just fork the project and 'own the process' yourself? That's not necessarily straightforward even for experienc
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by blahedo 12y ago
Surely only temporarily, though. I mean, this is an exponential process---adding one bit only doubles the space, and it will not take another nine years before some video passes 4 billion.
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Uber drivers must listen to Diplo and like it(america.aljazeera.com)
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Google is spreading misinformation about birthright citizenship(vox.com)
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by blahedo 12y ago
> You do not buy something and then shut it down. An ironic comment on Hacker News, of all places.
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by blahedo 12y ago
Yes, and notice how much of the run involves "forward" calls---that's when you stay on the same road, but it changes name. It's mindblowing. If you want to track the run (it's accurate!) the starting point is right
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Would the latest Ok Go video have been legal in the United States?(vox.com)
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New Jersey e-vote experiment after Sandy declared a disaster(america.aljazeera.com)
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by blahedo 12y ago
So you lie to your friends and misrepresent what you're serving them, denying them control over what they put in their own body? It's one thing to not buy the whole gluten-free diet thing and say "I'm making good-tastin
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by blahedo 12y ago
> I wonder if it's easier to go from Chinese to English, they certainly have more sounds/tones an English speaker will have never spoken. Tones, yes. Sounds, not as much. English has a staggering inventory of distinct sound
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by blahedo 12y ago
Free market solutions don't work for health goods and services, because free market solutions require a feedback loop that is unavailable. At the provider level, in many cases you only have the option to be a repeat customer if they
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Will Ebola vanquish the MBAs who run our hospitals?(nakedcapitalism.com)
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by blahedo 12y ago
From TFA: > Skeptical Americans worry that the European model requires tracking, and it’s true, German children choose at age 10 among an academic high school, a vocational track, or something in between. But it turns out there’s a lot
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by blahedo 12y ago
I also have a (yet different) version of the robot rendered in my browser (Firefox on Ubuntu). I'm sure it is due to the font, which is monospaced but which probably doesn't include all the Unicode code points that you are usin
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by blahedo 12y ago
This is the most disturbing part of this: > ...he will likely spend the next two decades in prison for doing something that isn’t specifically forbidden by federal law. He was prosecuted in a state he'd never set foot in, for doin
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by blahedo 12y ago
In the US the word "womb" has a vaguely archaic or religious feel, but it seems to be much more current in UK English (and the link here is to the BBC). I've seen "womb" used regularly on UK sites. US-based news f
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by blahedo 12y ago
> And it is usually quite accurate. How do you know? How would you know?
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by blahedo 12y ago
The Great Lakes region is a whole other thing. In fifty or a hundred years, it's cities like Milwaukee, Chicago, Cleveland, Ottawa, and even Detroit that will be booming---because they will still have bountiful access to clean freshwa

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