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Apple Announces Safari 4 Public Beta(macrumors.com)
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The Index Funds Win Again(nytimes.com)
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by divia 18y ago
I learn that it's even better than that: You're the FreeBSD Security Officer, which presumably involves a great deal of practical expertise in reviewing and fixing insecure software. cperciva has a bit of a history of surprising people wi
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US uses songs to deter immigrants(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by divia 18y ago|1 comments
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How to make Lisp go faster than C(lrde.epita.fr)
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Scientists isolate genes that made 1918 flu lethal(eurekalert.org)
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Chemists create two-armed nanorobotic device to maneuver world's tiniest particles(eurekalert.org)
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Pirates vs. University Presses(insidehighered.com)
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The Body as Billboard: Your Ad Here(nytimes.com)
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Speed Bumps That Flatten for Slow Speeds(yankodesign.com)
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I was driven mad by the Chinese education system(en.chinaelections.org)
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by divia 18y ago
I think it's a little strange that though this announcement has been submitted to reddit, it currently has only four upvotes there. http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/7xgql/i_read_it_...
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Basketball Stats: They all maximize what they think they’re being paid for(nytimes.com)
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by divia 18y ago
An additional reason in favor of making the punishment for this harsher than for murder is that as I understand it it's often the case that the severity of a sentence is related to the chance of getting caught. I bet it's a lot easier to ca
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by divia 18y ago
I agree with you that arguing against the Obama strategy is pretty much futile, but I think it's wrong to assume it'll be obvious after the fact whether the bailout made things better or worse, since there's no way to run a controlled exper
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Steve Wozniak to Compete on 'Dancing with the Stars' TV Show(macrumors.com)
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by divia 18y ago
I'm a big fan of the flaming gauntlet picture that accompanies this article.
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by divia 18y ago
If you liked King of Kong, you might like Chasing Ghosts: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0479879/ It has a different focus, but it's about a lot of the same guys (Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Roy Schmidt), and is also really well done.
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by divia 18y ago
Well, I bet you're right that the former type of accident is more common, but the latter is almost certainly more dangerous when it happens. I do agree that helmets that don't look like helmets would be ideal.
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by divia 18y ago
No, the logic is that it helps in low-speed falls and accidents, but it makes drivers more likely to hit you and doesn't really help much if do. So maybe it's better to wear a helmet--I'm have to look at the data more. But it doesn't seem
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by divia 18y ago
This page has a ton of stats: http://www.bhsi.org/stats.htm
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by divia 18y ago
Unfortunately, it's not obvious that it's safer to wear a helmet. http://www.bhsi.org/walkerstudy.htm "We know helmets are useful in low-speed falls, and so definitely good for children, but whether they offer any real protection to some
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by divia 18y ago
The mention of Memphis and FedEx makes me think of a problem set I did in college, I think for an AI class. It involved calculating different types of distance, such as Euclidean distance, Manhattan distance, and Memphis distance, where the
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by divia 18y ago
Once, when I had Harry Lewis as a professor, I was telling a friend something about him, referring to him as "Professor Lewis." My friend asked me if I meant a different Lewis, as there was more than one professor with that last name, so,
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by divia 18y ago
The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that evidence obtained from an unlawful arrest based on careless record keeping by the police may be used against a criminal defendant. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/washington/15scotus.html?h...
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by divia 18y ago
I think you mean http://www.backtype.com/ .
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Price as Signal: The recording industry is lying about why they want different prices (2005)(joelonsoftware.com)
2 points by divia 18y ago|3 comments
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The cause of the Zune leap year bug has been isolated to a Freescale date routine(zuneboards.com)
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by divia 18y ago
I'm not sure if it's what you meant, but I found this: Perhaps it was commercialization in the 1980s that killed off the next expected new thing. Our plan and our hope was that the next generation of kids would come along and do something
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by divia 18y ago
A CS professor who taught my friend came into class soon after his wife gave birth and lamented his new baby's "poor user interface."

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