davidvaughan

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by davidvaughan 12y ago
Sleet, snow, rain and even clouds of insects can reduce or confuse the signal.
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by davidvaughan 12y ago
Dissenters identified and exposed by an algorithm? I don't think this is a good or ethical idea to put into practice. But I admit it's interesting.
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by davidvaughan 12y ago
"What is the problem with the idea of an ID card?" In my view, the problem is that it increases the government's power over citizens. Much government is useful and good, but it's an ineluctable law that powers are abused
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by davidvaughan 12y ago
I wear a tinfoil hat because governments have a history of abusing their powers. Although we live in steady and somewhat well-governed democracies, there's no guarantee that this will always be the case.
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
Indeed, and by coincidence Izabella Kaminska published an interesting piece on why that's true with reference to cryptocurencies yesterday: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/01/24/1750472/why-its-tough
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
Although the learning pyramid may be accurate, the research on which the figures is based has either gone missing or never existed. The given source is the National Training Laboratories in Bethel, Maine. However, they happily admit that th
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
I've had some success with cold calls. I'm uncomfortable with the scattergun approach, so I research the business before calling and use LinkedIn to see who I should be talking to. I use the call to ask them about pain points, and
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
No, you weren't the only one. The only reality-based test mentioned in this review was whether Okies could get a "basic" job in a factory, and an assertion that this would require critical thinking skills (with the implicatio
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
"It seems self-evident that lecturing is a hugely inefficient and ineffective way of teaching people." Is it possible that only poor lecturers give hugely inefficient and ineffective lectures? It seems to me the point of lectures
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
"Before you type even a word, determine what you want to say." I disagree. Writing is part of the process of determining what you want to say. It's an imaginary conversation with your reader and with your conscience. We all h
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
Possibly on the plus side, increasing concentration of CO2 may be encouraging the growth of vegetation in previously bare regions. "Satellite observations reveal a greening of the globe over recent decades. The role in this greening of
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
So the internet doesn't "never forget" after all. Are the advocates of "right to be forgotten" supporting this?
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
The ruling is here (PDF): http://dg5vd3ocj3r4t.cloudfront.net/sites/default/files/docu... It's not copy-pastable, but Chevron's argument starts on page 8.
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(2011) Palantir, the War on Terror's Secret Weapon(businessweek.com)
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SAP seeks hundreds of programmers with autism(ft.com)
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by davidvaughan 13y ago
#whole-map { rotation:180deg; } It might result in a few confused travellers, but hey.
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
"you are likely to see a much more stable valuation" Does this not assume that Bitcoin remains the only currency of its kind? I've been assuming that there's an incentive for anybody capable to design a new currency and make sure they're in
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
I think the chief reason why some people make more than others is because they want more. The reasons given in this article are interesting but they strike me as rather technical embellishments to the fundamental variable: the desire for mo
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
The London homeless charity Broadway tried giving out money for a while. After a year, it was reported (independently) to have been a success, and in 2010 the Economist ran a feature on it. The idea was that you ask people what would most c
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
It would be great if people were taught to say "I don't know" (in other words, to tell the truth). It's such a liberating thing to be able to say. I tutor kids, and sometimes they ask stuff I can't answer. I tell them I don't know but will
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
This is very clever. love watching people do the Harlem shake I really really really want a snake How does it work? I'm guessing it 1) scans tweets for pentameters using a large corpus annotated by syllables, then 2) looks up a rhyming dict
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What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know(query.nytimes.com)
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
No, they were aimed but it was a matter of trial and error. To get the data about where they'd landed, some had radio transmitters. They sent a message back to armourers in France (I assume some were deliberately non-explosive). Meanwhile G
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
I noticed my local library got rid of about fifty percent of its few remaining books a couple of weeks ago. The extra space means the body of the building is now devoted to activities relating to schools, I think. As somebody who once did w
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
I regret to announce that I share your sentiments with regard to the circumloquacious fashion of the writing in that article. I think we've made progress since it was written. Eye-tracking shows how we read and which words or letter combi
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by davidvaughan 14y ago
It's complex. Writing disciplines thought, and thought disciplines writing. The two must progress hand in hand. Analytical writing is a method for achieving greater intellectual honesty. It includes the habit of giving evidence for assertio
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by davidvaughan 15y ago
I'm building something that might be of interest to you. Would it be convenient to contact you? If so, how?
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by davidvaughan 15y ago
For enantiodromes, I recommend 'anathema', which was once a thing devoted to the gods but came to mean accursed, and 'cleave' which still occasionally means 'adhere to' but more commonly means 'to split'. It's interesting (and frustrating)
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by davidvaughan 15y ago
The only way I can think of to pay for this, is for the more productive people to pay, in the form of a citizen's wage. We have the first inkling of this in Britain, in the form of the proposed universal credit. But it should be borne in mi
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by davidvaughan 15y ago
The figure of two billion could be an exaggeration, but it may also be true that a big chunk of the employment pie is currently disappearing. If you're a poorly educated westerner, there isn't much for you to do even now. OECD countries all

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