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by crystalis 15y ago
Forgive my statistical ignorance, but isn't this form of cheating easily remedied by substituting a different class of characteristic functions? If a different class of functions doesn't exist, it seems like your classmates just had better
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by crystalis 15y ago
I'm not trying to argue, I was simply trying to discover how much he thought popularity matters. If he figured van Gogh was unimportant, it'd be pointless to try to convince him that sometimes having companies doing interesting things is wo
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by crystalis 15y ago
Do you also think we'd be better off without the many van Gogh paintings that didn't sell during his lifetime?
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by crystalis 15y ago
Without points, I mostly just read posts from users whose comments used to show a lot of points. Without points, that list only gets smaller for me.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Flours today are more refined and more likely to be bleached. Extended with fillers and soaked in sweeteners is stated to be how "grains are typically available to us." Wonderbread is a fair example, and the "standard" muffin that typically
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by crystalis 16y ago
> If it's right for artists to expect, even demand, payment for the value they provide, then piracy is wrong. > If it's alright to extract value from people's work without compensating them as long as they aren't directly impacted,
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by crystalis 16y ago
They might be drowning pigs to find the swimmers.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Video games all seem to tell the same story: 8 or 9 pirates to 1 legitimate user ( http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350 http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/04/stardock-88-per/ ) Pirates converted to legitimate custom
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by crystalis 16y ago
Scrolls sounds just like Spectromancer, from Richard Garfield and Skaff Elias (of MTG) and Alexey Stankevich (creator of Astral Tournament). You should check it out: http://www.spectromancer.com
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by crystalis 16y ago
All of the stories that bother to look at numbers seem to look something like this: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350 http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/04/stardock-88-per/ In games, pirates seem to outnumber l
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by crystalis 16y ago
There's enough users that each 3 second downtime is long enough to get someone who submits stories like 'WHY WAS REDDIT DOWN' and enough upvotes to stay on the front page long enough for everyone else to see it. And then recency effect kick
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by crystalis 16y ago
"I'll listen to these podcasts and that audiobook on my trip, but I don't want them in my collection once I've listened to them..." for an obvious scenario.
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by crystalis 16y ago
I'm pretty sure this is the same argument used to make Perl a bad guy.
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by crystalis 16y ago
That hides default logic in the signature. Why would you favor that over def f(a=3, b=None): b = b or a+1 # or use a more explicit version return (a + b) / 2
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by crystalis 16y ago
SHILLY HAYS HERE, YOUR RESIDENT expert IN CHRISTMAS BINGO. CHECK OUT MY CREDENTIALS- I WAS A MALL SANTA, AND I HAVE TWO, THAT'S RIGHT, TWO GRANDMOTHERS!
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by crystalis 16y ago
He's said shit all about how well the framework answered the problem he had. He might not have even had a problem. He just said writing a framework is the most effective thing he has done to improve his programming skills.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Don't forget, skipping flu vac could also lead to potentially lethal flu infections for the elderly as well.
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by crystalis 16y ago
Nick Bostrom is indeed the director of the FHI. Anyone interested in the sort of perspective he has might want to read The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant ( http://www.nickbostrom.com/fable/dragon.html ), the Simulation Argument ( http://www.sim
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by crystalis 16y ago
The average person can probably name more movie stars than high school classmates. It's really easy to hit a number that 'primitive-monkey-brain' starts treating as 'many'. Reasoned reflection will reveal how silly that is, but we get to de
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by crystalis 16y ago
http://www.cracked.com/article_15028_attack-clones-suspiciou... ?
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by crystalis 16y ago
I see your point, but how many ads do you know that aren't made by an interested party? Most companies sponsor ads to validate their products or success. Clearly, they too should get free press coverage.
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by crystalis 16y ago
You've used some popular words, but I'm not sure you're saying anything. The Groupon "problem" is somewhere between businesses making poor decisions in how or if they participate and Groupon taking too much of a cut. What can a new startup
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by crystalis 16y ago
But still, no matter how long your snorkel, you're not going to average more than a few breaths of fresh air per minute. Will that make a noticeable dent in the 8-10 hours of snorkeling you're doing? :)
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by crystalis 16y ago
You get the one-two of potential insight into the particular workings and potential 'unintended cool thing'.
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by crystalis 16y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/11/books/review/McInerney-t.h... could make an interesting companion.
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by crystalis 16y ago
To generalize from a few anecdotes, the Humanities professors that "do" something can get their Association card in as little as 5 years. (e.g., notable book, visible research, department responsibilities...)
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by crystalis 16y ago
Similar studies that I'll try to track down have it down to hours worked. Unmarried women in the same profession continued to display the same earnings as men. It may have extended to married women without children, but I can't recall- I'
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by crystalis 16y ago
(This and other related bits in http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm , with discussions http://searchyc.com/submissions/is+there+anything+good )
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The hidden histories that shape the way we live now(timharford.com)
1 points by crystalis 16y ago|0 comments
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by crystalis 16y ago
Some extreme stereotypes end up with a disproportionate amount of mindshare - Christine O'Donnell and Sarah Palin seem like reasonable examples of this. [You could also consider those in charge of the Texas Board of Education rewriting hist

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