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by blahedo 8y ago
And his shirt! That was the detail that seemed to me most jarring---the cut and style look quite current. (The pants, seen in some of the other photos at the google link, not so much.)
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by blahedo 8y ago
I would be interested in a similar study done in central Virginia. My county here closed the public schools for five years in the 60s in order to avoid integrating, and after they reopened most kids who'd been out never went back. Ma
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Facing Tomorrow's High-Tech School Surveillance(motherboard.vice.com)
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by blahedo 8y ago
Serious question: were building permits required in Barcelona at the time construction began? (Side comment not worth its own response to others' posts: the church is not technically a cathedral—ie the seat of the local bishop—but rath
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by blahedo 8y ago
Yup, that's what I was coming over here to post about too—this is not a "novel approach" as the article alleges. http://www.ginandtacos.com/2014/04/04/npf-beat-on-the-brat/ (has pictures!)
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Amazon AI-based hiring tool immediately started discriminating against women(slate.com)
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by blahedo 8y ago
Note that they said "ASCII-compatible encoding". You're right to note the problem with shift-JIS and others, but then, those aren't ASCII-compatible. Whereas utf8 and the iso-8859 series are all ASCII-compatible in tha
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Border family separation and how computer software can make policy(vox.com)
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by blahedo 8y ago
The author misses one useful strategy (or maybe it's just a sub-strategy of #3): Pick a name that is a former fad name. I was named after two uncles (same name, one on each side!) and my name is wildly common in men 30-60 years olde
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by blahedo 8y ago
> ...I bought stock, which payed for my new headphones. This reads as: "What's your problem? I have lots of money, so I can afford this." When people talk about classism and privilege in the tech industry, this is the so
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by blahedo 8y ago
This seems to be a common feature in "found" things in the natural sciences—the actual discovery is years before the publication of the associated journal article or conference proceedings. Until the peer review is done, the scie
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by blahedo 8y ago
> ...It crushes most competition and development of open source alternatives.... This is the aspect, above all the others, that bothers me. Apple is guilty of this too. As soon as a project or tool is released free or as part of the
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by blahedo 8y ago
It didn't when she still had her hand on it, but as soon as the water began to drain, the funnel/vortex immediately connected the mouth with the air pocket at the top.
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by blahedo 8y ago
7.2, not 17.2, so about 46 sqft per person. Point taken, but if a submarine is the point of comparison... yeah, that's really really not a lot of room.
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by blahedo 8y ago
> "...six oval-shaped cars, each measuring 18m x 7.2m holding 30 people, ... eight days ...." Whooooa. Let's think about this for a second. Eight days means people need to sleep (and not just sitting up in a chair, no
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by blahedo 8y ago
You're kidding, right? Two years ago I visited Germany and was able to find and buy train tickets with options including various connections of long-distance trains, local transit, and walking (with statable preferences on how much wa
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by blahedo 8y ago
> The CBP can and sometimes does conduct inspection on precleared passengers at the actual US port of entry. How? I'm pretty sure that when I've flown pre-cleared from Canada and Bermuda, the arrival was to a non-internation
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by blahedo 8y ago
> try drawing the simplest of all forms: a straight line My high school algebra/geometry teacher, Fr. Arnold Perham, taught me this crucial skill almost 30 years ago and I use it frequently still and teach my own students how to d
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by blahedo 8y ago
> “Just because you followed the software requirements spec doesn’t mean you met the capability need,” Kroger said. Sage words. I do wonder, though: becoming more agile (or agile AF as the case may be) is one thing, but is it healthy f
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by blahedo 8y ago
I agree. It's on the biometric passports but not the previous generation, on p28 (and is abbreviated from the full quote printed in the article): "Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new wor
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by blahedo 8y ago
The article doesn't mention one very important expense for nearly every research field: getting access to the research other people have published. Some fields (e.g. computational linguistics) have long had a policy of letting authors
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by blahedo 8y ago
Whoa! "More radically to that end, in April, Nintendo began selling a toy line called Labo, which consists of cardboard assembly kits that gamers can use to transform the Switch’s detachable controllers into rudimentary motion-sensiti
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Nathan Myhrvold: ‘Nasa doesn’t want to admit it’s wrong about asteroids’(theguardian.com)
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by blahedo 8y ago
A friend of mine interviewed and was hired while pregnant, and disclosed that fact immediately after signing her contract. The response, correctly, was "Oh. Well, we'll make that work." And they did. That's both the l
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by blahedo 8y ago
It says it's about number, but then in the Examples section, Sorbian lists three nominative forms and one genitive. But not all the genitive forms, just the plural form. And no other cases. I'm... confused about how this is sup
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Rise in banned ozone-destroying chemical in east Asia shocks scientists(theguardian.com)
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Copyright law hides work like Zora Neale Hurston's newly published first book(washingtonpost.com)
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by blahedo 8y ago
Yes; but the "one" on the tracks is now the passenger in the car. Does the car divert from hitting a bunch of people on the road ahead if it means killing its passenger? With autonomous cars, suddenly a lot of hypotheticals get
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Germany adopts first ethics standards for autonomous driving systems(360.here.com)
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by blahedo 8y ago
Not unique to Pittsburgh (also prevalent in Rhode Island, among other places), but more importantly, letting the first car turn left first is useful to keeping traffic flowing on narrow roads—which, in the areas that use this tactic, rely o

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