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by dlss 13y ago
I feel like this effect is diminished when you're brushing your teeth in front of a researcher. Also, don't forget that the NEW STYLE BRUSH you mention is more likely to be improperly used.
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by dlss 13y ago
Yeah, you don't need a double blind study here... Just measure the plaque levels before and after usage. As long as the plaque reductions are comparable, as well as the absolute final values, you're golden. Looks like the savings
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by dlss 13y ago
First of all, if you click on anon1358's profile you'll see 3.5k karma... about as much as you have. If you read through his previous comments they are pretty mundane, so I don't think he's just changing nicks for commen
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by dlss 13y ago
Yep. Nothing's as good as finding out someone's name to prove you're good at writing webapps... oh wait :p
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by dlss 13y ago
http://lesswrong.com/lw/iq/guessing_the_teachers_password/ A good riddle is about the best way to do something, not about the way someone else happened to do it.
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by dlss 13y ago
This is dumb. You can get a private investigator to do this for $100 - $200, with almost surely a better method that Phil used. Given what Phil does, the most cost effective (rational) method he could have used was to spend those hours work
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by dlss 13y ago
IANAL, but I'm guessing no. Free wifi is too common to be the sort of thing you're legally liable for. Basically there's no way Panera would give wifi away if that were true.
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by dlss 13y ago
Looks like the website is ladbrokes... http://sportsbeta.ladbrokes.com/Specials/Microsoft-Specials/... Traffic looks like 20k/day visits or so ( https://siteanalytics.compete.com/ladbrokes.com&
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by dlss 13y ago
I'm confused. I was trying to say something along the lines of "once you've played with rapleaf, you won't care what the stdev is", because rapleaf's data isn't good. The standard deviation here isn't
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by dlss 13y ago
He found the salaries out using rapleaf... which didn't know the salaries but was making an educated guess. (You can try out their api if you register an account, FWIW it was way off for the people I've tried it on.) With data lik
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by dlss 13y ago
Same here, had to disable
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by dlss 13y ago
This is actually genius. A nationwide tube system feels like it would beat the pants of of trucking. I'm not sure about narrower though -- maybe the "with car" design could be modified to have shipping containers placed on to
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by dlss 13y ago
The most expensive thing in aggregate is the part which surely received the most attention when cost cutting. I think it makes perfect sense it's the dumbest part.
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by dlss 13y ago
except for "that is why we are acting now" and the rest of the text, yes
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by dlss 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're getting at here.. the things I suggested also include a negative filter component... To reiterate my second sentence: He was looking for a company that was too good to spend interview time on a question co
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by dlss 13y ago
I honestly can't tell if you're trolling. You're asking for evidence... but are apparently not happy with first hand accounts, and classified documents. The authenticity has been confirmed -- take for example the senate heari
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by dlss 13y ago
I didn't get the impression OP thought that he was too good to implement a linked list in JS. Rather, he was looking for a company that was too good to spend interview time on a question containing low signal. Like, the question itself
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by dlss 13y ago
> some individuals think they can post all sorts of rude bullshit online because "freedom of speech" gives them the right to behave like pillocks Right. Freedom of speech does give them that right. You've backed off from y
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by dlss 13y ago
The thing you're calling X here isn't X. There's a big difference between what the comment you're replying to is calling self-censorship (chilling effects), and what you're calling self-censorship (googling before y
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by dlss 13y ago
Can we organize a list of time + locations for NSA recruiting sessions, maybe with GPS based email alerts? 1. I think that if this kind of questioning become the norm, we'd have a significant impact on their ability to recruit. 2. Mayb
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by dlss 13y ago
Cool project, you seem talented... I'm just a bit confused here. If we basically know several governments already have copies of your historical gmails, and you're not securing the incoming channel (which we basically know has a b
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by dlss 13y ago
In case you haven't heard the term before, the thing you're talking about is called Noble Cause Corruption. "Noble cause corruption is a police crime in which police officers violate legal or ethical standards in pursuit of w
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The Strange Case of Barrett Brown(thenation.com)
643 points by dlss 13y ago|177 comments
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by dlss 13y ago
In general, money laundering is much a bigger problem than p2p drug sales. Money laundering is anything that turns illegally acquired cash into seemingly legitimate funds. People do this because they are worried about the physical security
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by dlss 13y ago
Here's the huffington post version: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/25/jeff-olson-californ... From the article: "[Olsen] eventually got a call from San Diego's Gang Unit in August 2012, w
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by dlss 13y ago
> He never said anything about any jail sentence being reasonable. He just said 13yrs is unreasonable. 1. It sounds like GP thinks jail is reasonable based on "I sure would like them to be arrested and given a good punishment so the
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by dlss 13y ago
You're forgetting that he's not plea bargaining (hence the judge barring arguments)
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by dlss 13y ago
Wait, so you think maybe 1/13th of the max punishment (1 year in prison) is a reasonable punishment for writing things in chalk on private property? If we're talking community service, repaying the cost of cleanup, or that sort of
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by dlss 13y ago
To quote the cryptonomicon, "Clarity of mind (Cm) is affected by any number of factors, but by far the most important is horniness" http://www.euskalnet.net/larraorma/crypto/slide63.html Until an article
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by dlss 13y ago
I think smart people probably require less torture than dumb ones... but I agree with the rest.

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