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by dspeyer 13y ago
> For there is a good argument to the effect that if metaphysical realism is true, then global skepticism is also true, that is, it is possible that all of our referential beliefs about the world are false. But they're not going to
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by dspeyer 13y ago
It doesn't seem worth it for Intel to measure MTBF. By the time they got good numbers for a specific chip, they'd be trying to sell its successor.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Until he started talking about the history of the Yeardye family. One long digression about some specific people I have no previous reason to care about is tolerable. When he went back to them I decided to drop the article and just read
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by dspeyer 13y ago
more text
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by dspeyer 13y ago
let's test this hello ‮backward world
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by dspeyer 13y ago
IIRC, when Windows file browser sees a .exe file, it looks inside the file for the program's icon and only uses the window thing if it doesn't find one. Nothing stops the program's icon from being the same as a Word doc.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
That's part of the point. A single man -- even one who has engaged in violence -- can create peace in a situation where revenge is natural. In fact I wonder if his past willingness to use violence when he thought it justified is what
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> leading the peaceful transition of his nation This point deserves more expounding, which I'm not qualified to write. Apartheid was brutal, and the victims suddenly became the majority in a democracy. It's the sort of situat
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by dspeyer 13y ago
The videos are short on details, and I'm a little sceptical. A lot of it seems to involve removing Lithium from Lion batteries. I'm told that can be done with wire cutters, but I don't think you can buy those inside the ste
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Alternative proposal: take the package to the customer's phone. At this sort of timing, "where I am now" is better than "where I usually am". The customer must have a smartphone and place the order with Amazon&#x27
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by dspeyer 13y ago
90% is probably good enough for Amazon package delivery. The other 10% they send out another one. The cost of this is included in the fast-delivery surcharge. Unique and living products are not eligible for air delivery.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I'm interested in reading opposing views, but not stupid ones. If there's a large inferential gap, it often takes me a while to tell the difference. Does this software have a way to distinguish?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Your claim is the exact opposite of what he wrote. Do you have any evidence?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I have worked on codebases (in javascript) that did essentially this. I tweaked private members from outside the class. I never regretted it. There's probably a moral here, but I'm not sure what it is.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Here's two examples: I'm testing the effectiveness of a drug. Drugs of this class have a certain likelihood of working, the noise in my data is known, the experimental group did this much better than the control... does the drug
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by dspeyer 13y ago
How many legitimate websites use that CA? Especially ones Chinese users will visit often? If the browser blocks the CA, those will all break. Perhaps the browser could do something subtler, but it's not straightforward. Or we could
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by dspeyer 13y ago
I don't think it's belligerent or simply compressed. AFAICT, it warns the listener that a lot is being left out. It is, in fact, the independent phrase version, using a single noun as the independent phrase. This tells the list
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> I think he's saying that falsely implanted self-esteen, a la "everyones a unique special winner!", is a problem. I certainly hated that growing up. It was years before I could believe I had done anything right, because
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Empirically, most suicides have more to do with corrupted thinking processes than a negative total life value expectation. Often the corrupted thinking process can be directly observed without knowledge of the suicide attempt. Often, peop
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by dspeyer 13y ago
> Most Google employees do not approve of a strategy that google is betting its future on. Has this ever happened before? It was before my time, but I'm told acquiring youtube was unpopular. That seems to have worked out. I doubt
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Former Googler here. The vast majority of Googlers do not approve of G+ policies. However, Google has never been run democratically and most of the time that's probably a good thing. Furthermore, the management has been much less fort
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Are you saying your less technical relatives don't ask you for advice on internet matters? And take it?
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Check the stats on reddit. There are a ton of people who want topic-focused discussion with strangers on the internet. G+ seems to be trying to be both a public discussion forum and a hangout for existing friends at the same time. This is
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Most websites use email as the password recovery mechanism. "Authenticate by email" is strictly better than "authenticate by password or email".
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by dspeyer 13y ago
A datacenter in/near SF doesn't make much sense. Electricity there is just too expensive. And, no, the waves in the bay aren't a solution. I suppose you might build a datacenter there and then ship it to some third-world po
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Thank you. I've been doing that by hand.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Depends on the lighting conditions. Compared to paper reflecting indirect sunlight, computer screens are quite dim.
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Given how many more votes US has than anything else, I think breaking it down would be warranted. I'm thinking: * San Fransisco Bay area * Seattle/Redmond area * Other west coast * Boston/Cambridge * New York * Other east coa
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Unless someone has observed otherwise, I'm betting continuous wouldn't work. The difference between "now" and "later" won't be as big, and it will take effort to calculate, which makes it feel smaller too
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by dspeyer 13y ago
Only one normal, but the maps and shopping that take up most of the space are still organic results, and probably more useful than the 'normal' ones.

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