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by carlob 10y ago
Seems like something that would make you suuuupersweaty on the back
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by carlob 10y ago
Probably here soon http://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~tvg/code.php You might also say that it's not science until it's been peer reviewed and this is a preprint from 2 weeks ago…
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by carlob 10y ago
Yeah I think the author would agree with you that moderate use of HN is probably fine, but FB, Twitter and Linkedin are probably useless and altogether harmful.
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by carlob 10y ago
> That "nanny state nonsense" witnessed road deaths fall from 25 per 100K in 1930 to 10 per 100K since 2010 I think the better metric is the number of deaths per billion vehicle-km. In your metric most European countries have h
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by carlob 10y ago
Yes
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by carlob 10y ago
It's also interesting to see how the article fails to mention a more recent, infamous example of the deployment of concrete to control an urban environment: the Berlin Wall.
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by carlob 10y ago
Download them all, import them in Photos.app and then get Apple to print you a copy of the book for you through their own app.
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by carlob 10y ago
Wow did he just take a page directly from Berlusconi's book? Berlusconi did the exact same 100 days contract about ten years ago!
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by carlob 10y ago
Well in this context, it's good to make it wobble to show people that accuracy is meaningless so far, because we have very low precision. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision
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by carlob 10y ago
Vacuum doesn't exist for all practical purposes, every form of vacuum is just low pressure. So if you don't say anything about what level of vacuum or how low the pressure is your statement is meaningless.
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by carlob 10y ago
http://mecklenburg.bol.ucla.edu/kosterlitz%20and%20thouless%... full text
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by carlob 10y ago
I'm as skeptical as OP, but if anything it's not the minerals that change the taste, it's algae and fish residue.
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by carlob 10y ago
https://d262ilb51hltx0.cloudfront.net/max/1600/1*8Hmq2oVwZAm... Why does it say digital cameras were introduced in 1999? I remember seeing the first consumer cameras at least a couple of years earlier.
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by carlob 10y ago
I don't know about India, but I know that in many western European countries overdraft fees such as those that are common in the US would be considered above the maximum legal interest rate, because of that the bank has no big incentiv
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by carlob 10y ago
Let's disrupt holes in the wall! :)
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by carlob 10y ago
The price comparison is a bit disingenuous IMHO: coffee is $3 only if you buy a latte at Starbucks. Homemade coffee is probably less than a tenth of that even if you use capsules, and a filter coffee can be as cheap as $1. You can also buy
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by carlob 10y ago
A quick napkin calculation. Capital returns on houses are about 4-5%, and I'm guessing income tax is about 20-30%. So if you convert this income tex to a capital tax you get 0.8-1.5%. So I guess you're right in saying that 2% is n
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by carlob 10y ago
I don't think the housing shortage will be fixed with tweaks to rental laws. Most of France happens in Paris (jobs, culture, …) and Paris has not kept up with the pace. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/common
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by carlob 10y ago
Let's say he sells the first for $40, the second for $80 etc… The total he's trying to net is $40 * 50 (50 + 1) / 2 = $51.000 Not bad!
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by carlob 10y ago
Then we'll go to eggs=cholesterol=good, and then at some point we'll realize that it was probably something in between all along and that eating 4 eggs for breakfast is not exactly great either…
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by carlob 10y ago
I have also noticed that there are a lot of recipes that include 5-6 yolks of hard boiled eggs. My guess is that eggs have grown significantly larger[0], but still that would be a pretty large amount of cholesterol! [0] My grandma used to h
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by carlob 10y ago
This. If you visit Paris now, you see more police, a slightly worse nightlife. Right after the attacks you could see everyone was really on edge. On the other hand if you're taking into account this kind of mood/atmosphere, a plac
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by carlob 10y ago
>but anecdotally I think modern writing often suffers from excess verbiage. I love how meta this sentence is :)
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by carlob 10y ago
> One thing people often miss talking about Mathematica is that the core math notebook features, 3d plotting, symbolic algebra tools have all been available since the early 1990s. late 1980s to be more precise…
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by carlob 10y ago
But how is that different from having a program that pulls data from an external API or an URL? What if the data changes, the API breaks backwards compatibility or the site just goes offline? This stuff is packaged nicely, but it's rea
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by carlob 10y ago
Piketty's book was not peer-reviewed, but as it's often the case in all fields you first publish a bunch of peer-reviewed articles on a subject and then you summarize and clarify stuff putting together a book. So the book itself m
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by carlob 10y ago
So http://voga.com is dead?
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by carlob 10y ago
Adamatzky seems to be churning out cookie cutter articles on slime molds and highways https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=Adamatzky+highways&btnG...
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by carlob 10y ago
I live in Italy, you can easily get a seated dinner for under 10 euros (including tax and service) if you get pizza, or a quick lunch for 5 or under. I don't think it's really a factor of cost, it's more that a lot more peopl
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by carlob 10y ago
> Eating out was a luxury, two to three times a week. Frozen pizza was a good friend to me then. Wow I thought eating out 2-3 times a week was in the normal/high range. Maybe it's one of those US vs Europe things. Also frozen p

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