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by cjslep 12y ago
> Clearing your cookies is not the way to opt-out of tailored advertising, and may in fact be counterproductive if you’ve cleared the cookie that indicates you have opted-out. I realize the technical reason cookies exist yet this seems w
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by cjslep 12y ago
Small world: My grandparents have lived there for a fair length of time. I remember driving by the county courthouse where a klan rally was being held in the mid 2000's with a Grand Wizard in red robes and everything. I've been to
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by cjslep 12y ago
> Instead of reporting the total body accumulated dose, they report the dose a single scanning beam sweep induces over a small area. A major problem radiation dosimetry has is definitions are easily confused. The NRC's dose limits
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by cjslep 12y ago
As a junior programmer in the contracting world, I ask the same as it is also a business question. You do not want to create so much extra work in the process of refactoring that you wind up losing money or running out of time before creati
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by cjslep 12y ago
I'm in the process of reading The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft and there was an interesting brief comparison of the fantasies of Tolkien and Lovecraft (both born within ~2 years of each other). While Tolkien's fantasy world is s
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by cjslep 12y ago
Sure, you can fail to capture any return variable (not just errors) in lots of languages. What is available to Go that isn't in, say, C++ or Java is the "black-hole variable" marked with the underscore _ so its very much a st
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by cjslep 12y ago
NC State University has adopted the same ceremony, though it is not well known and leads to really weird conversations occasionally, until I mention that the ring does not mean I'm homosexual.
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by cjslep 12y ago
I think you are looking for something similar to: http://longbets.org/
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What about a movie like Syriana ?
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by cjslep 12y ago
Yes and no[0]. For reference, the definition of a Stand Alone Complex from wikipedia [1]: Stand Alone Complex (スタンド・アローン・コンプレックス Sutando Arōn Konpurekkusu) eventually came to represent a phenomenon where unrelated, yet very similar actions
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by cjslep 12y ago
> More than 1,164 nuclear engineering degrees were awarded in 2013—a 160 percent increase over the number granted a decade ago. > So what, after a 30-year drought, is drawing smart young people back to the nuclear industry? The answer
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by cjslep 12y ago
> Definitely a lot of room for both programmers and non-programmers to contribute. As an engineer-developer hybrid, I found OSM mightily helpful when pulling midwest town data and running tornado strike simulations. I encourage contribut
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Videogame Pioneer Ralph Baer Dies(bbc.com)
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Thank you for setting the record straight for me! I feel pretty bad for getting it wrong this whole time.
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It's interesting to see how Woz's attitude towards Steve Jobs has changed over the years. In the book The Ultimate History of Video Games (2001), I remember Woz being very bitter about Steve Jobs and characterized Steve as someo
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> That's like comparing a lit-match to a gas pipeline fire. That's a terrible analogy. Radioactivity, a nuclear reaction, deals with totally different physics and phenomena than combustion, a chemical reaction. A more proper an
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The United States of America has detonated over 1,000 nuclear weapons singlehandedly. I imagine it would take much more than 507 commercial nuclear powerplants to render the entire Earth inhospitable.
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I think this article is very well-written overall. However, there are still a point that could use clarification. > During a routine test on April 26, 1986, reactor Number 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant experienced a power surge
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by cjslep 12y ago
It was sarcasm, of the drier variety.
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Previous submission's comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8635866
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> Why are supercomputers still popular? Scaling. A very easy out for me to explain is imagine if you could only simulate two molecules in a Molecular Dynamics simulation and both had to have 100 atoms or less. There's plenty of oppo
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by cjslep 12y ago
The app looks nice! Here's anecdotal feedback for my download and account creation experience. I haven't tried reading a book yet and using the annotation feature. One thing immediately apparent when creating the account is the la
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It is probably less Hollywood-like, such as predicting cloud cover over areas you'd be interested in using your satellites to look at. Or maybe they had a cyberhacking campaign and broke into as many US orgs as possible simultaneously,
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I've been using it instead of Python as my custom analysis tool - the ease of concurrency makes it very handy when working with large data sets, or gluing various codes together.
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> It's not as bad as it could be. JPMorgan spent 9 billion dollars to keep her off the witness stand. ...but they didn't really spend 9 billion if you read the article: For starters, $4 billion of the settlement was largel
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At least initially, the gccgo compiler implemented goroutines as OS native threads and am wanting to say it still does.
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> Makes ya think. Sure, and rather than being vague here are mine: "Why is HN being negative? Probably because of the insanely dehumanizing working conditions Amazon warehouse 'contractors' are put in. Why would that preve
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by cjslep 12y ago
Maybe a nitpick, but in this image: http://0a.io/assets/img/1d_2d_3.png The red triangle should be above the line so it touches the X-axis, as the "area under the curve" should always be towards the X-ax
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> But it beats AoE all over in my opinion. You, me, and 3 of my cousins would all agree. We had a blast playing over LAN and watching our millions of pikemen get mowed down by grapeshot, large fleets of battleships tear through each othe
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> The worst case scenario is that they are not defined immediately next to the equation and presume that you have read the preceding material. The textbooks I have used written by Russian mathematicians are almost entirely equation after

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