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by btmorex 7y ago
Placebo effects on depression are enormous.
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by btmorex 7y ago
When was Google ever anything but "just another US corporation"?
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by btmorex 7y ago
Youtube and Google Now have turned into weird "interest-related" ghettos. I've completely stopped using Google Now and I only use Youtube via direct link (how does the most popular video platform have by far the worst discove
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by btmorex 7y ago
Can we just get public utilities back? At least if a public utility is run poorly, we can attempt to fix it via legislation. PG&E sucks, doesn't care, and probably the people responsible are still making bank.
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by btmorex 7y ago
What makes you think that God didn't find the movie funny?
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by btmorex 7y ago
Rural communities are already vastly overrepresented in Congress. They don't need what's effectively extra votes for President too.
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by btmorex 7y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to compare the likely progression with standard drug development rather than mobile phones? Last I checked, drug development is in a terrible state. I mean we're killing 70k+ people a year from opiate o
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by btmorex 8y ago
Maybe tenured professors nearing retirement are lazy, but a basic requirement of getting tenure is working at least as hard and usually harder than all your peers. At a certain level, everyone's smart and the only differentiator is har
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by btmorex 8y ago
I would guess that io2d::refresh_style::as_fast_as_possible means as opposed to Vsync. Vsync times drawing or at least buffer swapping so that you don't get video artifacts due to the monitor reading say half of one frame and half of a
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by btmorex 8y ago
No idea if it's on the rise or not because it could just be reporting, but hoarding is a mental disorder no doubt. Watch an episode or two of Hoarders. People are literally breaking down for having to throw away a dirty piece of trash.
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by btmorex 8y ago
If you're using node.js and redux, then https://github.com/faceyspacey/redux-first-router pretty easily gets you there. Other than turning route changes into redux actions, I don't find it particularly opinio
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by btmorex 8y ago
Except even when you think vectorized processing should be a performance win, it often isn't: http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol11/p2209-kersten.pdf I'd argue that GPUs and SIMD instructions have so many rest
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by btmorex 8y ago
Except really common things like LRU caches use them.
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by btmorex 8y ago
Please explain https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia then My own personal anecdotal experience is that thinking in words is far, far slower than skipping them and sticking to concepts and connections.
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by btmorex 9y ago
Isn't that why Vanguard has their Total Stock Market and Total Bond Market funds? Basically, they're the "invest in these if you don't want to bother" funds.
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by btmorex 9y ago
Put machines with sensitive data on a private network. Have one machine/one set of machines connected to both the private network and public network that proxy requests to the data machines. Proxy by parsing original request and then r
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by btmorex 9y ago
What science says nothing about because of the DEA's inane scheduling: hallucinogens.
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by btmorex 9y ago
Polk north of Geary should really just be one lane (with a little room to maneuver) for deliveries and emergency vehicles. It sort of the perfect street for that kind of thing: has a ton a foot traffic, it's already slow for vehicles,
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by btmorex 9y ago
On the other hand, all of your inherent values of a city center can be said to be caused by higher population density. Food and recreation spots will be opened close to where people live. Jobs are variable in terms of location, but there&#x
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by btmorex 9y ago
Run enough redis servers to handle the load. Choose a server by hashing a user id. Total = sum of counts from all servers.
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by btmorex 10y ago
You could just as easily say that consciousness is all that exists and the physical universe is the illusion. There is no objective reality.
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by btmorex 10y ago
It's like how people hide behind "Changing the world for the better!" because "I want to get rich" doesn't sound as nice. I think more often than not, if you actually get to know those people, you'll fin
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by btmorex 10y ago
Interesting that you think it's insignificant. A lot of group photos are taken at 3 to 5 meters away and it's immediately obvious who's looking directly into the camera and who isn't...
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by btmorex 10y ago
You must be a fucking genius then because: Vec w=nl, u=((fabs(w.x)>.1?Vec(0,1):Vec(1))%w).norm(), v=w%u; is completely unreadable and that's just one line.
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by btmorex 10y ago
People have used atypical antipsychotics for years to abort bad trips (especially effective is Seroquel because it also has a sedatory effect). It definitely works, but most people would take an oral form which is not immediate (30-60 minut
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by btmorex 10y ago
If you're the type of person who thinks it's creepy for a random stranger to start a conversation with you, a random stranger (who's not a creep) will never start a conversation with you.
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by btmorex 10y ago
That's true for GC vs. manual heap-based memory management, but most GC languages don't do stack allocation at all or only for primitive types and stack allocation is much, much faster than any sort of heap-based memory management
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by btmorex 10y ago
From an ethical standpoint, I think they should've just wound down the company. If there are parts of the business that still have value, sell them. Otherwise, give employees decent severance and try to help them find new jobs. Return
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by btmorex 10y ago
For a very long time, MySQL had much, much better replication and some people would argue that it still does. It would be nice if MySQL were a little less lax in other regards, but replication is always going too be more important for produ
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by btmorex 10y ago
Wow, you're absolutely wrong. Alcohol is one of the few drugs where withdrawal can kill you. That's about as physically addictive as it comes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirium_tremens

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