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Even when test scores go up, some cognitive abilities don't(web.mit.edu)
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by clarkm 13y ago
You realize that this is a humor column for USENIX's online magazine, right?
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How to demolish your software project with style(esr.ibiblio.org)
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Exam grades 'more nature than nurture'(bbc.co.uk)
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by clarkm 13y ago
> I am currently exploring feminist critiques of logic Can someone explain this to me? Taken at face value that seems like a ridiculous statement, but I'm assuming there's a lot of context I don't know about. I tried googl
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by clarkm 13y ago
Unfortunately, designers these days seem to hate modal interfaces because they detract from "walkup usability", so I doubt we'll see these making a comeback. Then again, maybe Apple's multi-touch gestures are close enoug
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by clarkm 13y ago
Honest question: What's the difference between that and telling someone they shouldn't use 123456 as their password because it increases the chances that their account might get hacked?
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by clarkm 13y ago
You should've asked her if you could scan it, OCR it, and upload it to a publicly available, web-crawlable, SEO-optimized website where it would be scooped up and stored on archive.org for all eternity.
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by clarkm 13y ago
The book is really good and definitely worth a read, especially for the analysis he presents in the first few chapters. The "Fishtown" vs. "Belmont" graphs are brilliant. They do a great job illustrating just how much tr
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by clarkm 13y ago
This is why basing tax brackets on yearly income has always struck me as flawed. Imagine you're an author that spends a couple years writing a book. For the first three years you make no money, but the forth you make a million. You&#x2
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by clarkm 13y ago
Like when your children start going through your post history and reading stuff about you they weren't supposed to know (yet).
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by clarkm 13y ago
> I do not say anything online that I wouldn't in real life But do you say things in real life that you wouldn't online?
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How Y Combinator Did(rationalconspiracy.com)
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Germany considers arming police with Nazi music identifier app(ynetnews.com)
3 points by clarkm 13y ago|1 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
> The question - and only question - should be what David Simon asks: are we all in this together or are we not? To me, the answer is blindingly obvious. It's demonstrated by what societies are flourishing - with high economic and s
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by clarkm 13y ago
Does this mean that it always uses CrossCat for predictions, or is there some other mechanism?
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by clarkm 13y ago
Here's a map of the vote on final passage: https://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/house/1/629 And the failed amendments: https://politics.nytimes.com/congress/vote
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by clarkm 13y ago
You bring up the Koch brothers simply because the author wrote a report for the Manhattan Institute? That's like bringing up George Soros whenever you read an op-ed by someone who once worked for the Brookings Institute.
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How does the NSA break SSL?(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
20 points by clarkm 13y ago|0 comments
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Twenty Reasons to Believe Oswald Acted Alone(scottaaronson.com)
14 points by clarkm 13y ago|6 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
If anything, I'd say that Southwest has much more in common with Rand's heroes than Ryanair. To stretch this ridiculous comparison further: Like Southwest, Roark didn't nickel and dime his clients. Rather, he simply pursued h
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Effective Usenet Tradecraft: Survival in an Extremely Adversarial Environment(grugq.github.io)
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by clarkm 13y ago
> I’ll go a step further and say the price volatility of Bitcoins, and especially the upswings seem necessary to garner widespread attention and increase the user base. Users “cashing out” after a hoarding period might turn out to be the
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Don't use Actors for concurrency(chrisstucchio.com)
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Silicon Valley catches Bitcoin fever(ft.com)
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by clarkm 13y ago
Considering that veterans make up 8.9% of all US adults [1] and that both veterans and homeless people are overwhelmingly male, 14% doesn't sound very high. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if veterans were actually underrepresen
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by clarkm 13y ago
I know Adam Back introduced Satoshi to b-money, but (correct me if I'm wrong) this was back before Satoshi had formalized his ideas. When he first posted the paper to metzdowd's cryptography list, the b-money citation was there.
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Google Can Stop the NSA(rationalconspiracy.com)
3 points by clarkm 13y ago|1 comments
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by clarkm 13y ago
Well, Wei Dai and b-money are cited in Satoshi's original white paper.
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by clarkm 13y ago
I've studied the origins of bitcoin extensively, and I agree with almost everything you've said. One nitpick: I don't think it was necessarily the work of a high school or college student, but rather someone older who had bee

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