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by blahedo 13y ago
Well, have you tried IndieGoGo? It appears that they won't reject you as fraudsters, at least. :P ...and who is "we"? A claim like you're making might be better backed up with at least a link to your company or some of
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by blahedo 13y ago
> Too bad they didn't include Asian Americans in the survey. What makes you say that? They said it was a nationally representative sample, which I would assume includes a substantial number of Asian Americans.
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by blahedo 13y ago
Ah, good point: so that means we should be using Gallons per 60 miles! :)
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by blahedo 13y ago
Well, the first paragraph did say > The solution we finally managed to come up with is also a good example of how very incorrect workarounds can actually be a really good solution to a complex problem. So you knew they were presenting
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by blahedo 13y ago
In a related vein, the idea reminds me of a strain of computer graphics research known as "non-photorealistic rendering"[0], i.e. acknowledging that for some uses, building a full shading model and trying to mimic reality actually
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by blahedo 13y ago
I didn't see that article the first time around, but I have to agree with the parent post; when I read today's post, I saw the graphs and didn't understand what they were trying to say (with or without xkcd-ification). So I
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by blahedo 13y ago
Well, that's why it's not the case that every application and website should worry about it. Which is why the OP's project is so nice: it abstracts the problem into an emulator, so one person can worry about it and solve i
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by blahedo 13y ago
I like the idea of a blind evaluation, but I can't get past how impossibly awkward it would be to have to keep switching between coding and communicating with my "partner" via an IM window. Speaking a question out loud while
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by blahedo 13y ago
It's certainly something to aspire to. But think about it this way: if someone is claiming that you are already a meritocracy, but their upper management are almost entirely white and male, what subsidiary claim does that seem to be
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by blahedo 13y ago
I'd like to mention three malls that don't purely fit the "greybox" model and may point to a likely future for malls in general. - West Edmonton Mall (Edmonton, AB). In one sense, it is the mother of all greybox malls,
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by blahedo 13y ago
> I am old enough to remember as a kid how people perceived automobiles in, say, the late 1950s, .... Even dissidents of the time, such as Jack Kerouac, .... Therefore, it did not take a secret plot by General Motors (or whomever) to ge
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by blahedo 13y ago
No argument on planes being better than driving, but could you give a little more detail on the un-accounted-for "fat" you're attributing to trains?
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by blahedo 13y ago
In the US (and other countries that have internal time zone borders), a lot of the variation is to keep the TZ boundary falling through relatively unpopulated areas OR to keep more of a state/region on the same time as its capital or
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Wrigley Building [Chicago] owners look to lure technology companies(bluesky.chicagotribune.com)
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by blahedo 13y ago
This is an interesting idea, but I wonder about the practicality. When you say something is MANDATORY, whose responsibility is it? The question writer, who may not have English at all? Someone else? Who?
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by blahedo 13y ago
You mean ACA (i.e. Obamacare)? The AMA is the American Medical Association (or at least, that's the apparent referent here).
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by blahedo 13y ago
I'd also like to know how many is "many". It would seem... odd... for there to be a substantial number of them (although I could imagine a few edge cases, I guess).
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by blahedo 13y ago
From the webpage: curl --header "X-GirlsAreBrosToo: 1" www.bropages.org ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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by blahedo 13y ago
> Using a term to facilitate a discussion of that term is completely and entirely different from using it in other ways. Side comment: The technical term for this is the "use-mention distinction". When you're dealing wi
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by blahedo 13y ago
Good point; fixed. Thanks.
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by blahedo 13y ago
No. 1) A big part of my point is that it doesn't matter what an author is thinking when it comes to discussing how others will react to it. I won't restate here my arguments on that topic. 2) We can safely say that the creato
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by blahedo 13y ago
> ... aren't thinking any of that ... funny play on words That might well be true; my point is that at some point their individual thoughts don't matter, because they're referencing a larger meme. I'll add that if it
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by blahedo 13y ago
They're footnotes. Footnotes are used both to cite sources and to make remarks that are relevant but would break up the flow of the prose.
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by blahedo 13y ago
Great idea; shame about the name. Here's the problem with using words like "bro" (however jokingly): the problem is not with what you [0] are thinking when you read the word "bro", but with what other people , esp
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by blahedo 13y ago
> Turns out professionals don't want to be held accountable for the quality of their work. This statement is not supported by the rest of your comment. Your comment supports a slightly different statement (which I also believe is
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by blahedo 13y ago
They claim that's the crux of the issue. But consider: if they're concerned about outside access, why are they blocking access to the site for precisely the set of people who actually are authorised to view the information?
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by blahedo 13y ago
What possible good would that do? You can't make them un-xenon. If I flash my lights or not, you'll still just keep toodling along blinding everybody in the oncoming lane.
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by blahedo 13y ago
Xenon lights are obnoxious because they are so much bluer than standard lights, they are that much more blinding; outdoor lights that are too blue (or full-spectrum) have the paradoxical effect of making everything darker by contrast, and
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by blahedo 13y ago
Originally posted and more useful title: "How ego and misunderstanding sabotage convertible notes"
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by blahedo 13y ago
"The game’s out of print, but ..." I've seen this for a few of the successful kickstarters, and it always makes me kind of sad; when Kickstarter is working at its best, it, y'know, kick-starts something so that the initi

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