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by crusso 8y ago
My thought too. No matter what the implementation or ideas behind it... that's a killer name.
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No, that's not what happened.
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You're just being argumentative. There's nothing you can predict that isn't built upon some assumptions. "When I flip this light switch, the lights will go on like they have the last 10,000 times I did so." Is a pr
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"Can you please point out where?" Your issues/questions indicate that you either aren't familiar with the talk or you disagree with the basic assumptions that he outlines. Questions like "Can you provide any study
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by crusso 8y ago
Watch the video that I linked. Your questions/issues are answered or obviated by it.
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Right, the title of the article is inane. Brains just process information. Computers process information and we continue to make them better at it. Eventually, computers will process information at least as well as brains do for various d
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by crusso 8y ago
Listen to Dan Carlin's Hardcore History series on World War I, and it will change your mind on the need for a podcast to have a conversation. https://www.dancarlin.com/
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I'm not sold. We had a pool when I was growing up and since I was the youngest child, there was a several year stretch in high school where I was taking care of the chemicals in the pool and really the only person ever swimming in it.
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by crusso 8y ago
1. I don't want spam from the site. 2. I definitely don't want to use my github email address on this site so that future spam from them or the people who hack them looks like it came to my github address.
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by crusso 8y ago
Why does the site need to have my github private email address? I use different email addresses for different sites. I don't want learningjavascript.online to have my github email address (or any email address, but that's doable
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by crusso 8y ago
"It’s not clear why mtDNA prefers being exclusively maternal" Wait... I thought that the reason mtDNA came from your mother is that the egg from your mother forms your first cell and the sperm only delivers DNA into the nucleus. T
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The context of the probing questions proposed is that of joining a startup. If during the interview and negotiation process, a hiring manager (probably a large equity holder) at a startup company can't give me details regarding their e
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Google Wave is the one that stands out on that list for me. It was such a fantastic and ambitious idea, but the execution was so buggy that it was basically unusable.
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Our daughter's doctor recommended a blood test for a possible minor condition she has. We said, sure, without thinking that it was something special. We received a bill for $5k and the insurance only paid $3k of it. You'd think
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by crusso 8y ago
I'm exactly the same way about Perl vs Python. After years of using Perl 5 and due to what I also think is the simplicity of the language, I know I could do most small tasks more easily in Perl. But Python feels more like "the fu
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by crusso 8y ago
Disclosure: I've been a remote worker full-time for the last 5 years. I travel to the office a few days a month. There are many natural reasons why being physically in an office is advantageous. I can have face-to-face meetings with
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by crusso 8y ago
we should stop tolerating failure to hire remote workers What are you suggesting?
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Normally, when I do play videogames, it's a private sort of thing between myself and my game system. I just recently ran across some twitch channels via youtube because I was looking for some help with some Dark Souls III content. It&#
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by crusso 8y ago
We love our leaf. Yeah, it's not the sexiest car, but the economics and fun to drive factor make it the goto vehicle for running around town.
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There's nothing stopping us from preserving enough specimens in labs around the world so that we can repopulate. This problem has been studied: https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/pdf/466432a.pdf
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by crusso 8y ago
We don't have to wipe out all mosquitos in one shot. There are many different species, not all of which transmit the deadly diseases of concern. We can start with less populous species that share their ecological niche with other spec
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by crusso 8y ago
Typo in the title. Should be "Netflix"
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there was an actual as-yet unexplained result / measurement 1. "actual" isn't that actual if enough independent scientists aren't duplicating it using scientifically accepted testing procedures. 2. &q
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The Steve Jobs "hero / shithead" rollercoaster was real That's funny. I had a boss at Apple when I did some contracting there in 1999 who told me that Jobs asked him, "You wanna be a hero?" before giving him
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Ultimately, we need to compare apples to apples by building rating systems that account for the difficulty of treating patients with various, ailments at various ages, with various complications. Think of it in terms of competitive diving,
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Reputation systems increase our ability to trust people, products, and systems in general. It seems like our logical concern should be whether or not such systems are accurate. The flip side of all this is that betrayal of trust is also de
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by crusso 9y ago
Is it dehumanizing when I decline a ride with an Uber driver that has 3 stars?

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