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by blahedo 15y ago
> " ...the only democracy in the Middle East? ...all religion aside. " One problem is that it's difficult to consider the question of Israel being a "democracy" while setting aside "all religion". (Short version: there are a lot of peo
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by blahedo 15y ago
But the question is, would daily iteration reduce the rate of bikeshed[0] arguments? I guess I could imagine how it would make it worse, but it seems more likely that it would make it better: the people who know nothing about the process
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by blahedo 15y ago
Old news but good news if you hadn't already heard it. :) ACL has always had relatively open publication policies; the anthology has been online for years, and even when there was a print version of CL the articles were online too (maybe w
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by blahedo 15y ago
On-demand page scrape + memoisation is almost certainly a win here. Even if thousands of people are hitting this, a lot will choose some of the same queries (I'm sure Kevin Bacon and xkcd and philosophy are in there a bunch), especially in
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by blahedo 15y ago
"...she discovered an upside to forgetting. She had forgotten old rancors...." This bears repeating, because it's both interesting and unexpected. I have a relative with Alzheimer's—diagnosed a year ago—and while the signs are unmistakable
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by blahedo 15y ago
He's right, both about the problems and about the lack of alternatives. There are two particularly large practical hurdles to fixing the problem, and I don't know how to solve either one. The first is the "number of requirements" problem.
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by blahedo 15y ago
The hackers may have the email address, but they presumably can't read the email sent to that address. Hence "email exchange".
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by blahedo 15y ago
I actually use my phone book at least two or three times a year; partly because some of the information just isn't easily findable online (I live in a smaller city) and partly because it's sometimes just more convenient to look it up in the
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by blahedo 15y ago
A theocracy "by definition" involves God (or, more broadly, a religion). Constitutional monarchies do not, necessarily. Furthermore, at one end of the constitutional monarchy spectrum you have the monarch who is purely figurehead with onl
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by blahedo 15y ago
As draconian as it seems, there was great wisdom in the decision by the Screen Actors Guild that no two members can go by the same name professionally---you can't even use your own legal name if someone else has already taken it. The polic
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by blahedo 15y ago
"Even so, the first few computer scientists and statisticians the foundation got in touch with said that it couldn’t be done." Really? Wtf kind of incompetents were arguing that it couldn't be done ? I'm not arguing that it was or should
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by blahedo 15y ago
That's only the final manuscript---he's got a draft now and the editing process will be ongoing well before November.
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by blahedo 15y ago
I wonder if a lawyer can comment on the implications for the interaction between games and First Amendment case law. Specifically, I'm pretty sure I remember (vaguely) some suit coming down to a game publisher saying "this is speech, you c
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by blahedo 15y ago
I'm glad to see the wider exposure, but I don't see anything new here---this is essentially the same issue I ranted about two years ago ( http://www.blahedo.org/blog/archives/001060.html ). Right down to the "why don't they provide a dif
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Elections officials ‘bound’ to investigate early vote tweets(theglobeandmail.com)
1 points by blahedo 16y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 16y ago
This is a weakened version of FizzBuzz---I was taught the version that has you buzz on any number that is divisible by five OR which has a five in its base-ten representation. Which would be a lot harder to do without multiplication or d
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by blahedo 16y ago
As a compromise between pencil/ballpoint and true fountain pens, I've recently discovered that gel-based click-retractable pens have the easy inkflow of a fountain pen—hence permitting a much lighter touch on the page—but the convenience of
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by blahedo 16y ago
When I need to write comments on student work, I can't really type it. (Maybe in a few more years, but the technology for introducing your own markup to an electronic document is still clunky, awkward, and bad at letting you draw arbitrary
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by blahedo 16y ago
Downvoted because of the ad hominem attacks; the author did not "secretly" videotape anyone, he asked his supervisor's permission first . Furthermore, he never said he resented the fact that his red (contractor) badge didn't give him full
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Crowdsourcing Japan's radiation levels(english.aljazeera.net)
1 points by blahedo 16y ago|0 comments
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by blahedo 16y ago
I was confused because the apparent content is entirely overlaid with a full-page ad for Chrome, whose close button was off the window to the left. I nearly flagged this post as mislabelled content. :(
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by blahedo 16y ago
Nice in principle, but it'd be better if it could show real data. This post is basically "why we would expect users to click right-side call-to-actions more than left-side" without actually backing it up and showing that they actually d
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by blahedo 16y ago
Interesting for its exploration of the idea of programming languages expressed in something other than linear text.
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by blahedo 16y ago
Yes, because I send/receive on the order of ten or fifteen a month. Every time I actually talk to Verizon I have to endure a dumb conversation where they try to convince me that I'll save money by switching to a text plan, and they seem ge
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by blahedo 16y ago
Given the letter artifacts in "Kill Bill" it looks like they're preserving vertical position. So, possibly making each vertical pixel stripe a horizontal average of several consecutive frames---all pixels at height y in an adjacent batch
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by blahedo 16y ago
> ...it would have been unthinkably brutish for them to disallow another browser. You mean like how they printed an error message if you were running another DOS? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code (They did disable the error me
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by blahedo 16y ago
I agree with all your points except the first (I'm especially bitter about Spaces, in fact). But as for that one: > "have global menus (who really wants that with todays screen resolutions and two monitors?)" Because there are a lot
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by blahedo 16y ago
It's very confusing and unobvious what the percentages are percents of : the country's percentage of total IE6 users, or the IE6 users' percentage of the country? Based on the fact that they add to >100%, I guess that the per country
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by blahedo 16y ago
See also: "Bruce Vilanch is hiding under my desk right now. Unfortunately he's not writing jokes for me, if you know what I mean."
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by blahedo 16y ago
> You break the rules, you pay the consequences. Ignorance is NOT an excuse. While this is technically true, I feel that it has slipped to the level of a polite fiction rather than a core civic principle. People pretty much never rea

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