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811.
by blahedo 15y ago
I thought the same thing, but it turns out the test is not all multiple choice---in the 2006 exam, 28 out of 58 problems were open answer, and the rest were 4-option multiple choice. So the expected value of a totally random selection wo
812.
by blahedo 15y ago
Oh, where to start. - BMI is a poor measure of obesity. Among other things, bone and muscle are both significantly denser than fat. People, including children, with thicker bones and/or more muscle will have higher BMI regardless of fatne
813.
by blahedo 15y ago
If you run a search for '"slightly overweight" live longer', you'll turn up links to a number of different studies in a number of different jurisdictions that have shown this. For instance: http://lifehacker.com/5303009/being-slightly-ove
814.
by blahedo 15y ago
Clearly, this page displays strong affect; that's why we're all talking about it. The question is, does it work?
815.
by blahedo 15y ago
> "For background, we have clear guidelines for any business that uses PayPal to accept donations." That doesn't appear to be true. This post lays out the actual content of the relative PayPal policies: http://thegreengeeks.wordpres
816.
by blahedo 15y ago
Actually, I just had this conversation with a student of mine; I teach CS, and have been trying to throw at least a few proofs each term into most of my upper-level classes. They're generally simple proofs and the initial reaction is that
817.
by blahedo 15y ago
> The title of the article assumes that gifted kids are supposed to like math. That's not really true; it just assumes that some gifted kids would, a priori, be expected to like math.
818.
by blahedo 15y ago
> Banks don't optimize for security, they optimize for profits. So true, and to them "profits" often means "user convenience" long before "user security". I've talked about it here before so this time I'll just post a link to my stor
819.
by blahedo 15y ago
Also, the rule may have been fixed by the time the match comes up.
820.
by blahedo 15y ago
The question itself is not offensive, and the idea of the filtering is perfectly valid. The problem arises in that the level of risk being filtered by "sex with another man, ever" or even "sex with another man, last five years" is much les
821.
by blahedo 15y ago
> Do you really want the donation pool potentially contaminated by the HIV virus? This is FUD. Gender of partner as an HIV risk factor is now much less predictive than a number of other risk factors that they do not check for; it is
822.
by blahedo 15y ago
In the early years of the web I actually threw in a raft of <br> tags at the bottom of my webpages just to counteract this problem---I've been complaining about it for upwards of fifteen years. My current solution is to put a "padd
823.
by blahedo 15y ago
We're talking about the organic results here. I was, anyway. Amazon (et al) show up there even without a paid ad.
824.
by blahedo 15y ago
I would totally use that site, but are you thinking micropayments or subscription?
825.
by blahedo 15y ago
Why the :/ ? DDG isn't taking away anyone _else's_ affiliation, right? This isn't really any different than leaving the referer-id in there, except that it shoehorns "referer" into the "affiliate" api that Amazon et al are geared to pay m
826.
by blahedo 15y ago
Over and over as I read this article I was reminded of stories of London just before and at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, both in reality and as parodied by Terry Pratchett as Ankh-Morpork. ...the flipside of which is that in
827.
by blahedo 15y ago
Google's search engine predates the ads by quite a few years, actually. You'd be correct to say, "without those ads, Google would necessarily look very different than how it does today," but then, that's nearly a vacuous statement.
828.
by blahedo 15y ago
Even if the content is user-generated, there is still curation by other users, analogous to editing, that this is short-circuiting. I didn't realise the site publisher had pre-approval, or I wouldn't have said "as an editor of that site I
829.
by blahedo 15y ago
The particular reason this opt-out is odious is that opting out requires you to stop participating in a service the mall has nothing to do with . If an opt-out is, "to opt out, press this button before entering the mall", or, "to opt ou
830.
by blahedo 15y ago
This reminds me of those newspaper ads that are crafted to look exactly like a newspaper article (columns of copy, headline, etc) but only set out with an " Advertisement " in very small print at the top of their enclosing box. I usually c
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by blahedo 15y ago
This is a great idea. Once you know the grid pattern, you could probably just overlay your documents with faint yellow dots on that grid; if noticeable at all it would come across as a very faint yellow haze, but that's a tradeoff.
832.
by blahedo 15y ago
A good story, but you should really start reading it from the beginning: http://brahmsyellowdots.blogspot.com/2008/10/it-begins.html
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by blahedo 15y ago
tl;dr: A Rails upgrade last January caused previously valid code to reset the session (but only once per user per session). The session reset caused a logged-in user to be suddenly logged out; but most users' use-flow (and Patrick's test-f
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm using Firefox and got the same problem. (And the same fix: http works just fine.)
835.
by blahedo 15y ago
The very first one I got was: Chair is to wall: like 'd00r' is to "mAn" and the An$wer is; bedroom. I was so flabbergasted I didn't even know where to start, and I had to move on just to see what else was in there---the rest of the
836.
by blahedo 15y ago
I think that "the reason" will vary from person to person. For me I prefer my credit card to debit because of consumer protections and chargeback ability; but I definitely know a lot of people that use their credit card as an actual line
837.
by blahedo 15y ago
Watching this and trying to figure out where "I" am in each clip feels like I'm trying to take a Sporcle quiz. That said, when I can figure it out, it's often quite amazing some of the emergent patterns, like "the lights are in a grid---mu
838.
by blahedo 15y ago
> Graphics Interchange Format... was dropped from every usage all over the net in the blink of an eye and replaced by a fresh-new format named Portable Network Graphics. If by "in the blink of an eye" they mean "over the course of abo
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by blahedo 15y ago
I tried the ae ligature, long s, sharp s, Russian zha, Greek capital gamma, and a heart, and of those only the gamma was in the top five (it was #2); zha, ae, and heart weren't even in the list, and long-s and sharp-s were waaay down the li
840.
by blahedo 15y ago
> “I think there’s quite a good argument now that the global race to the bottom has been concluded,” said Geoffrey Crothall of the China Labour Bulletin, a Hong Kong-based labor-rights group. “There’s nowhere else to go.” Africa?

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