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by cbr 12y ago
Looking at the details [1], it seems to be a small (N=180, then N=152) correlational study. How can we tell whether the effect is causal? One way would be to run a randomized controlled trial, where you show some people slightly happier or
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by cbr 12y ago
""" Obviously there was a lot more to the Civil Rights movement than a lack of malaria. But it was one of the factors that helped. How likely is someone with “body aches, headache and nausea, general weakness, and prostration
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by cbr 12y ago
I became acclimated to that "bill" much as one does their car payment or home payment. It is in the range of a small car payment per month now and I only chide myself for not boosting it more. The idea is to mak
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by cbr 12y ago
Looking at http://www.irs.gov/publications/p542/ar02.html I see: Cash contributions: A corporation must maintain a record of any contribution of cash, check, or other monetary contribution, regardle
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by cbr 12y ago
My wife and I are also trying to do this, and I suspect a big part of why we've been able to stick to it is the growing effective altruism community. We commit to donating 50%, post our income and donations publicly [1], and we know p
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by cbr 12y ago
Ben Todd, Will's co-founder, responded to Brook's response with: https://80000hours.org/2013/07/show-me-the-harm/ I like their estimate #1. For earning to give in finance to be net-negative then fi
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by cbr 12y ago
> I just don't know what certificate is supposed to prove? That someone at some point in time had 100$ to spend on a cert? How's that more secure than self signed cert? A standard domain-validated cert proves that the CA saw yo
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by cbr 12y ago
'a.b()' dereferences 'a' to call its 'b' method. If 'a' is null you'll get a NullPointerException.
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by cbr 12y ago
I made a list of other way usb can be evil: http://www.jefftk.com/p/malicious-usb-sticks
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by cbr 12y ago
That makes sense. That's what I'd want for my projects on Google Code if it got shut down.
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by cbr 12y ago
Have you ever tried to browse the web without chunked transfer encoding? It's everywhere now.
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by cbr 12y ago
"Will someone pay you to publish your work" is a much stronger filter than "do you put your work on your website". (I write this as someone who has written a lot on my website for free and not published anything in a pai
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by cbr 12y ago
Should Google just kill it and suggest people move to GitHub?
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by cbr 12y ago
Github is a great alternative for Google Code. Nothing currently out there is as good as Google Code Search was: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Code_Search
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by cbr 12y ago
The old Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia had different facts for different countries. In the US edition, Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, while the British version said it was Sir Joseph Swan. If you search for &qu
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by cbr 12y ago
I'll say again: I really like T-Mobile's $30/month prepaid unlimited data plan. Combine with Hangouts for voice and Voice for text (who names these?) and it's about the cheapest you can get for a smartphone. (Tradeoff?
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by cbr 12y ago
The sample is only searches where DDG fails; inevitably, every other search engine will provide better results. That's not guaranteed. You could try the search on Google in an incognito tab and decide you think the resul
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by cbr 12y ago
When you start using these apps there's generally a popup like this one: When you use voice activation commands like "OK Google" or touching a microphone icon, a recording of the next thing you say, plus a f
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by cbr 12y ago
Newspapers digitizing their archives is great; it's their rejection of the initial removal request that should have been challenged. Removing things from indexes makes much less sense than removing them at their source. Disclaimer: I
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by cbr 12y ago
I like that my wages are high, but I don't like that lots of other people don't have good economic options. If my wages go down because more people learn to code and it becomes less of a sellers market, I'd consider that a g
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by cbr 12y ago
This is also how ngx_pagespeed gets back onto nginx's event loop after finishing some work in a background thread.
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by cbr 12y ago
My favorite are the comments like: 1:12pm line 33: Why are you doing this? 1:13pm line 33: I see, sorry, ignore my earlier comment. A system that lets you draft comments and then send them out in a batch can avoid a bunch o
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by cbr 12y ago
Some cases are ambiguous, as fuzzy definitions change over time. In this case, however, a name that once applied only to relatively severe cases has been intentionally expanded: The term "Asperger's disorder" will not
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by cbr 12y ago
Though the data we have is under constant scrutiny for its accuracy, methodology, and usefulness, the Centers for Disease Control reports that the current rate of autism diagnosis in the United States is 1 in 68. This
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by cbr 12y ago
Significantly less, but still impressive for its purpose.
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by cbr 12y ago
Most of those products locally recognize an activation command: "hey siri", "ok google", "alexa", ... and then send the next phase to the cloud for interpretation. With Samsung's Smart-TV, however, it sou
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by cbr 12y ago
In MA you need two-party consent for audio recordings, but not for text or audioless video. CA may be similar.
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by cbr 12y ago
To figure the "cost" of learning a language in school you need to count what else you could have been learning with that time.
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by cbr 12y ago
Lets say you're hiring a freelancer and you take bids. The lowest bid is from a member of a historically disadvantaged minority, and the reason their bid is lower is because as a member of that group discrimination makes it harder for
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by cbr 12y ago
A fixed wing drone could turn off its engine to glide over the border. Very hard to hear, very hard to spot.

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