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by blahedo 13y ago
How do they tell whether the teen is driving or a passenger?
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by blahedo 13y ago
I think (i.e. infer from context) that they mean that in 2000, the people who were of an age to be getting PhDs[0] made up that percent of their age "group"[1]. On the axes, I'm assuming due to poor choice of sig figs that &
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Newegg trial: Crypto legend takes the stand, goes for knockout patent punch(arstechnica.com)
2 points by blahedo 13y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 13y ago
It's also worth noting that there is some movement towards preventing businesses from asking about convictions until after a conditional offer has been extended, and then putting some burden on them to demonstrate relevance before they
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by blahedo 13y ago
I'm not sure how these students are filtered out at other places, but in Brown's CS department, PhD students are required to pass a "programming comp" that involves a fairly intense week-long programming project. You do
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by blahedo 13y ago
> It's a positive development that admission into a decent PhD program requires research experience. No, it really really isn't. The vast majority of undergraduates have no effective access to research experience, even many
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by blahedo 13y ago
> ... racking up debt This is FUD. While there is arguably opportunity cost involved, it is not at all difficult to avoid "racking up debt" in grad school, at least if you're at the PhD level and in a STEM field. It is
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by blahedo 13y ago
The drag is bad enough---somewhat chaotic, hard to compute due to atmospheric variation---but I bet they could give a reasonably good estimate as long as it remains in one piece. The problem is, the moment it starts to break up, all bets ar
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by blahedo 13y ago
We're reading this on Tesla's site, and they obviously wouldn't have posted it if it weren't at least somewhat flattering, so we have that lens to view it through. But, the letter does raise the important idea that befor
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by blahedo 13y ago
Ironically, standardised tests like the SAT were themselves originally conceived as a way to justify limiting the numbers of Jews accepted into elite colleges---it was thought that they would be unable to perform as well as the "right&
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by blahedo 13y ago
There are at least two massive fallacies embedded in this quote (and afaict in the larger essay, though I did not read the whole thing): - Due to better modern reporting (and the 24h news cycle), despite generally lower rates of crimes and
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by blahedo 13y ago
I've been using my cell phone as primary alarm clock for years, and it always bugged me, for reasons I can't even articulate, that the snooze interval was "wrong"---ten minutes on one phone, five on another. When I fina
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by blahedo 13y ago
Maybe something like "please force my changes to be saved to disk now, even if your autosave would not normally sync for another little while", or "please tag the version as of this moment as a relevant consistent state"
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Employment in America: WTF is going on?(corcodilos.com)
159 points by blahedo 13y ago|123 comments
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by blahedo 13y ago
It's third lightest---there's an outlier that's way lower. But, again just from eyeballing, it looks like there's two clusters, one that has tracked with the IPK and one that is now heavier than the IPK. Based only on
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by blahedo 13y ago
I can't speak for Outlook's performance at the MTA level, but the user-facing parts break all sorts of expectations I have from twenty years of standards-compliant email. For instance---just at the tip of a very large iceberg--
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by blahedo 13y ago
Yes, I noticed that too. I assume this was a brain fart on the part of the OP---2^32 is definitely 4 billion, not 4 million. (Well, approximately.)
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by blahedo 13y ago
Quite possibly, and for a very important and underrated reason: the fights over water are already starting and are going to get bigger and nastier over the next few decades, but the cities on the shores of the largest freshwater supply in t
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Hey healthcare.gov, your username requirement is wonky(blahedo.org)
1 points by blahedo 13y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 13y ago
Why oh why do interface designers ever think it's a good idea to hijack the browser's keyboard controls, especially if it's only to make them do nothing ?
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by blahedo 13y ago
It's not a big hassle at all. The system is already managing payments as a queue, and once your meal is paid for (either because you paid it or because you were a beneficiary of someone else), the next one on the queue is the one imme
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Art project adds tinge of terror to everyday email(blogs.chicagotribune.com)
14 points by blahedo 13y ago|12 comments
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by blahedo 13y ago
From the linked page: > Information Required for Application > [...] > Ethnicity Really ? I could have sworn they're not allowed to require you to provide that. (They can ask, but only if they make it clear tha
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by blahedo 13y ago
Once again, some admin has changed the title from better to worse---it was "How I met a serial killer when I was a marine", which is considerably more descriptive.
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by blahedo 13y ago
When I read an article like this, I'm always amazed that more people haven't discovered credit unions. Most of the objections that the article raises about "banks" are objections that I have too, except that they'r
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by blahedo 13y ago
I agree, and I understood the careful phrasing ("safe", "assume") in the original remark---but given the number of people who apparently didn't understand, I wanted to give a clarified version.
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by blahedo 13y ago
> It's statistically reasonable to assume any particular animal product, that was bought in a store, in the US, and doesn't advertise any particular affiliation with ethical-treatment or other specialty causes, is unethical.
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by blahedo 13y ago
Got to 500 and had to guess (definitely Slavic, but had a choice between Czech, Slovak, Macedonian... yikes!)... and got a 522 Timed Out error. Thhbbbbt.
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by blahedo 13y ago
Nevermind Venice, which is at least still above sea level (barely)---what about New Orleans?
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by blahedo 13y ago
Not that this answers any part of the question, but I just created a redirect on Wikipedia for people who link without the apostrophe. (In case anyone's wondering why the broken link now works.)

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