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by briandh 12y ago
The fMRI results shown come from a self-described pilot study with only 3 subjects per group [1] [2]. > Results must be interpreted with caution due to the small number of participants and a fixed-effects analysis. However, the results a
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by briandh 12y ago
It's the website of the House Judiciary Committee, which is controlled by Republicans, and hence can and does challenge the President. In turn, the White House website, which is controlled by Democrats, can and does challenge Congress.
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by briandh 12y ago
Not really. Its president and CEO is a self-described libertarian [1] and FreedomWorks is co-plaintiff in Rand Paul's NSA lawsuit [2]. [1] http://reason.com/archives/2014/08/10/being-a-libertarian-in
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by briandh 12y ago
AMLogic seems to be decent, though I haven't had to delve into it personally so I can't say for sure how complete their source releases are. See here, for instance: http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/A
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by briandh 12y ago
As mentioned by other commenters, the Creator series has sets with more generic pieces. And you can easily buy large quantities of generic pieces, at least in the US. For instance: http://smile.amazon.com/LEGO-Classic-Large-
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by briandh 12y ago
> I have signed up for updated versions of courses I had finished earlier simply because I wanted to show three minutes of lesson 4.2 to someone, and I've told my students to "sign up" for course X because its materials at
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by briandh 12y ago
Two reasons similar/in addition to the ones already mentioned: The obvious one: MOOCs usually involve small or no payment and are not typically part of a degree program. Everyone who has attended a traditional college has taken one or
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by briandh 12y ago
QUIC is not a replacement for HTTP; it works below it. See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lmL9EF6qKrk7gbazY8bIdvq3...
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by briandh 12y ago
An important caveat from the inclusion criteria (touched on in the body of the IEEE piece, to their credit): > We chose to exclude measures that have only been replicated by a single research group to ensure all data included in and conc
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by briandh 12y ago
You are not comparing like to like. Those are individual experiments; this is a meta-analysis. In fact, the first study you mention was included in the analysis.
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by briandh 12y ago
Why would SRI protect against a MITM, who can simply change the embedded hashes? (not to mention that there's plenty of non-"resource" content that would not be hashed in the first place, yet an attacker might want to change)
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How much civil asset forfeiture will Holder’s new policy actually prevent?(washingtonpost.com)
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by briandh 12y ago
I am happy about this, but note that besides the (fairly narrow) "public safety" exception mentioned in the article the order also exempts joint task forces and joint federal-state investigations [1]. I don't know how those w
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by briandh 12y ago
That article is off-base; MediaTek, which is probably the most advanced of those listed, is Taiwanese.
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by briandh 12y ago
"TV sticks" of this form factor have been all the rage on AliExpress, DealExtreme, and the like, although their popularity seems to have waned somewhat compared set-top-boxes (I read somewhere that it was due to trouble managing h
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by briandh 12y ago
A quick search of Dr. Nardi reveals that he has a financial interest in the MBTI, being the author and/or publisher of many "educational" works on type (see, e.g., here: http://www.radiancehouse.com/psych.htm
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by briandh 12y ago
Because, in addition to jhallenworld's point that not all economically relevant companies are publicly traded, not all publicly traded companies are listed on exchanges in their own countries.
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by briandh 12y ago
>>Assembling high tech iPhone components >My Xiaomi is pretty much every bit as good as an iPhone and 1/4 the cost. Without taking Simonh's "side" here, you are missing his point, which is that the high-quality
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by briandh 12y ago
> Are there any sources (besides this rather fantastical article) that BGI-Shenzhen is conducting large-scale research into the genetics behind human intelligence Yes, that is well known, e.g., http://www.nature.com/news&
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by briandh 12y ago
Interestingly, one plant (partially owned by Google) recently applied for a Treasury grant to pay off its DoE loan [1]. As far as I know it has not been approved, but I'd be interested to know whether any companies have successfully do
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by briandh 12y ago
Check http://lowendbox.com/ , though YMMV.
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by briandh 12y ago
It's not just the nominal rate. The average effective corporate tax rate is also quite a bit higher for the US than other developed countries; according to a report by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the World Bank, 27.9% versus an OECD ave
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by briandh 12y ago
The "fair share" rhetoric so frequently deployed in these contexts would be more convincing if US corporate tax policy was more in line with international norms and if less tax revenue funded policies ranging from wasteful to down
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by briandh 12y ago
There is. Just long-press it and hit "Forget network".
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by briandh 12y ago
An idea along these lines is that of the Honduran ZEDEs: http://fee.org/the_freeman/detail/startup-city-redux (I'd link to a less ideological source but libertarians and their fellow travelers are the ones gi
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by briandh 12y ago
There's no need to "psychoanalyse" the field to find out why people repeat (with variations -- which is an important detail) the Milgram experiments; (nearly) all research papers contain clear statements about their motivatio
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by briandh 12y ago
> The post is attacking a straw man. It's a straw man, but not his straw man. Pull up popular press articles about iOS8's disk encryption and you'll find that a disturbing number of them uncritically claim that it's
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by briandh 12y ago
What you are describing would be more precisely called an anarcho-capitalist solution. There are a lot of self-described libertarians who would not endorse it.
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by briandh 12y ago
> The chip is probably manufactured in China Available info indicates that the A8 is fabbed on a 20nm process by both Samsung and TSMC [1]. For Samsung, that would indicate production in either the US or South Korea [2]; for TSMC, that w
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by briandh 12y ago
I don't know about "the same way", but Andrew "bunnie" Huang had a cool talk and post about hacking the firmware of SD cards and had this to say about security: > om the security perspective, our findings indicat

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