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by carlob 12y ago
Feynman on the IAS http://www.pitt.edu/~druzdzel/feynman.html
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by carlob 12y ago
It seems a bit pretentious to flag something because you haven't heard of him. There is a bunch of stuff on HN daily that I don't know about, and often the article doesn't provide much context. However, I usually hit wikipedi
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by carlob 12y ago
Mine: "Can you sequence DNA by unzipping it? No."
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by carlob 12y ago
Please note that an IBAN is not enough to set up direct debit. So giving out users' bank accounts it's not as bad as it would be using ACH.
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by carlob 12y ago
That's right, but what about tm_yday then?
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by carlob 12y ago
Am I the only one that finds it weird that the tm_mday field in the tm struct is the only one that starts from 1? I understand it doesn't make much sense to have tm_mday start from 0, but then again even 3 as April seems weird, maybe t
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by carlob 12y ago
> Just make sure to set up BackDoorLock so that Amazon can't force an OTA update on you. Just don't ever connect it to a wifi. This will also keep the ads off it.
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by carlob 12y ago
I couldn't find any indication that there is any difference in terms of regulations between lithium polymer and lithium ion batteries. Are you sure? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_polymer_battery#Safety htt
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by carlob 12y ago
Also note that there was no PhD program in Italy until 1984. That's why a bachelor is historically called a doctor in Italy and also why the standards where so high on something that was at the time the highest degree attainable. Anoth
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by carlob 12y ago
apparently it was already corrected once, but it's still chock-full of mistakes.
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by carlob 12y ago
This. The selection of cheese at an expensive chain or a specialist gourmet food in the US is okay and comparable to what you find in European low-price chains (albeit at 2-3x the price). Try going to a gourmet cheese shop in France and get
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by carlob 12y ago
Aurora negotialis would be more correct, but I really love this expression!
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by carlob 12y ago
What do you know of the sky in the UK? How was the eclipse by the way? :) Just kidding, I was just too disappointed not to be able to see anything.
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by carlob 12y ago
Actually this is much more true of Paris than Rome. Paris was basically all rebuilt in the same period of time with ideals of uniformity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_Par...
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by carlob 12y ago
Unfortunately April only has 30 days.
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by carlob 12y ago
Most of the stuff on Mathematica is wrong as well.
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by carlob 12y ago
I've seen it in theoretical physics as well. There are 'schools of thought', for example at my alma mater most of the professors doing theoretical particle physics are phenomenologists and tend to regard people doing say stri
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by carlob 12y ago
Also remove the clutch and gears and brakes. Those just add weight. Moreover stopping by backpedalling gives you a much better feel of the road.
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by carlob 12y ago
That's pretty bad for a car that size nowadays. I'm sure you can get to 5-6 l/100 km, that should be 40-50 mpg.
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by carlob 12y ago
Mathematica also has its own string pattern sytax http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/StringExpression.h... Something like that would be StringExpression[ "$", Repeated[DigitC
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by carlob 12y ago
This looks very similar to a question I asked yesterday about enthuse :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8985364
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by carlob 12y ago
Don't all verbs use have as the auxiliary in the present perfect tense? As such I am enthused would not be an intransitive verb, but either a nominal predicate or a passive verbal predicate. A correct intransitive form would be "I
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by carlob 12y ago
Honest question about grammar (not a native speaker): is enthused correct here? Other than the fact that enthuse is a verb that was made up from enthusiasm, shouldn't this be "Why people were enthusiastic about…", "Why p
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by carlob 12y ago
> homogeneity is considered the simplest assumption you could make: you can't get simpler than a no-parameter model. Ehm… one-parameter…
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by carlob 12y ago
Public school in the UK is private school in the US.
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by carlob 12y ago
No, sending your kids to private school is actively making it more rigged. If you tell them, it means you know. Let me rephrase my previous post: "Listen kiddo, since your dad got a high score in SAT he can apply to get you a 500 point
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by carlob 12y ago
"Listen kiddo, since your dad got a high score in SAT you get to a 500 points headstart on other kids in your class. So make the most of it." I think we'd all agree this would be a perverse incentive. My point is that there a
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by carlob 12y ago
You have some good points and I admit that what I wrote came mostly from a gut reaction. However there are a lot of studies showing that there are few benefits for more well-off kids to avoid social mixing, while the damage inflicted to tho
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by carlob 12y ago
> Some parents start with even larger line items. Trisha Jones, a stay-at-home mother in Norfolk, Va., sends her children, who are 6 and 8, to private school. Each month, she has them sit with her while she pays the tuition online, askin
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by carlob 12y ago
There are a bunch of extensions that could have forced all video to html5 for you. ClickToPlugin is great IMO and it's kept me from switching away from safari for the longest time.

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