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by ctchocula 13y ago
Employees give inside info on their wages and benefits on glassdoor.com and indeed.com. The latter seems to have extensive forums for most companies [1]. [1] http://www.indeed.com/forum/cmp
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by ctchocula 13y ago
I think he was trying to appear heroic in the statement rather than seeking pity.
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by ctchocula 13y ago
Someone linked on HN this webpage by a theoretical physicist on how to become one and all the things you need to learn: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/theorist.html
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by ctchocula 13y ago
If I understand you correctly, I think in English it would translate to "affection". In his book "The Conquest of Happiness", Bertrand Russell talks about this and says receiving parental affection is quite important to children. >The c
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by ctchocula 14y ago
You can check if your solution is correct at this website whois confirms to be owned by the puzzle creator, Jim Sanborn: http://kryptosclue.com/clue/clue.html
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by ctchocula 14y ago
Article is a bit misleading, because they mention former world champion Tigran Petrosian who passed away in 1984, and quote his son the 29-year-old grandmaster Tigran Petrosian.
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by ctchocula 14y ago
Your argument was raised and given a historical context in an interesting article that was posted here a week ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5353315
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by ctchocula 14y ago
On second look, I agree with you that my statement (while true) does not apply to the grandparent, because as you explained the naturalistic fallacy does seem to apply here.
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The naturalistic fallacy is only relevant when dealing with ethics.
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> don't ask, don't talk, don't write. This reminds me of the dystopia in 1984.
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Seems like a great blog. I'm trying to get through The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose that's supposedly capable of giving a layman an idea of the math and physics behind modern physics including string theory, but I'm finding Jeremy Kun's
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by ctchocula 14y ago
Fields Medal winner Terence Tao gives a public lecture on this material: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ne0GArfeMs
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by ctchocula 14y ago
What about FreedomBox? There's a great talk about it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgu8NUm5Zxk
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Not sure if relevant, but the Geopolitics of the United States article claims the thesis that one reason the US got such a strong economy was because the rich Mississippi Basin had more navigable waterways than the rest of the world combine
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by ctchocula 14y ago
I really agree with your point. It reminds me of an article written by The Atlantic some time ago with the provocative title "Is Google making us dumber?". It talked about how easy it is to find information using Google, but albeit that we'
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by ctchocula 14y ago
Maybe someone will parse the emails and have a detector that will find the ones written in English.
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by ctchocula 15y ago
Thanks for sharing. I was really excited by the website, but there's nothing like seeing the device in action.
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by ctchocula 15y ago
You should pay attention to the website he gave as his source - a website run by the Heritage Foundation known for having a strong conservative bias. I found some criticisms to the study in the comments of a blog: 1. Authors show a graph sh
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by ctchocula 15y ago
Wikiquotes has a segment on this quote.[1] It's uncertain whether Stalin said it to Truman at the Potsdam conference, or whether the quote was actually said by someone else and misattributed to Stalin, but it is certain that the game design
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by ctchocula 15y ago
I'm not an expert on this, but judging from the discussion above based on the EFF guide, it sounds like hidden partitions aren't recommended. The consensus seems to be that they may have ways of detecting hidden partitions and may ask you i
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Am I being paranoid or did "A View Inside Iran" link get deleted from Hacker News? edit: Yes, I was being way too paranoid. The article only has 3 upvotes and isn't on the first three pages, which surprised me, but I suppose more technologi
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by ctchocula 15y ago
Thanks for sharing! I enjoyed reading how clearly and precisely he showed a way to master a difficult subject. The white printer paper reminded me of that "end artificial scarcity" article. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3396669
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Having read "Down and Out in Paris and London" recently, I didn't notice anything too appalling. Just some stereotypical views of Jews, which I thought Orwell wrote with the purpose of describing a typical Brit from the early 20th century i
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Black swan theory is an interesting read.
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Good point. I for one can't wait for the day schools can afford to hold the Kobayashi Maru test.
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Pretty cool. I always thought fractals looked like Cthulhu. Also the part where Cthulhu is said to be a cosmic entity and bring subconscious anxiety to humans. Reminds me of fractals in math class.