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by ecdavis 11y ago
> it was the way you learned your first language. Duolingo is almost exclusively focused on translation, which is absolutely not how most of us learned our first languages.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
There is a technique called "Listening-Reading" that's fairly well known within the language-learning community. The idea is straight-forward: Get a novel-length text in your target language, a high-quality recording of that
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by ecdavis 11y ago
That's a very good question, and I'm also quite curious. A quick look at the Wikipedia article for Skara Brae mentions that pottery, flint and ashes have been found at the site which certainly suggests they had fire. What other fu
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by ecdavis 11y ago
> We can restrict modes of expression without restricting content. Absolutely we can, but we need to be careful in how we do so and we really should be limiting those restrictions to the smallest number possible. Niceties like "free
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Perhaps I shouldn't have used that example. I wasn't trying to make a value judgement, rather to point out that we have collectively decided, "yes, we like free speech - but only up to a point." That's fine, I'
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by ecdavis 11y ago
To counter your opinion, I will quote to you from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: > Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, re
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Playing in a PvP corp in a major alliance, I always related more to this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgcUwTmHY74
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by ecdavis 11y ago
That question can and has been asked. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-02-05/germany-s-...
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by ecdavis 11y ago
Hah. This is a subplot in Cryptonomicon. Neal Stephenson's books from the 90s have proven remarkably prescient.
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I used Siege a few years ago for some benchmarking and was not impressed. It's a pity because I really like the interface, but Siege is technically lacking. There is a warning in the configuration file against using keep-alive with no
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by ecdavis 11y ago
I'm not sure what to make of this. It seems as though there were ~20 players in each of the zones he visited and 91 zones in total. 91 * 20 = 1820. Are player populations much higher than that on WoW servers? I was under the impression
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by ecdavis 11y ago
http://decafmud.stendec.me/
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I agree with this approach. If you do decide to testify, I would strongly recommend finding someone completely unrelated to the case who can coach you on how to be a witness. Not what to say, but how to say it. My only experience testifying
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by ecdavis 12y ago
You are making an important point but doing so in a confusing manner. The argument was made that prohibition is inherently ineffective. Some people who make this argument may nonetheless support prohibition in some cases. In fact, whether p
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Oh please, your analogy doesn't fit at all. Apple and Intel aren't friends, they're competitors in the labour market, both hoping to attract the top talent. If they had legitimate concerns about their employees leaving then t
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by ecdavis 12y ago
They did, it just slipped my mind. The point of my post was not to criticise the justice system (which, as I said, I have problems with) but to point out that critical thinking is needed when listening to what convicts have to say about the
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Great point, I didn't consider that.
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by ecdavis 12y ago
> He shoots my buddy, but I don't know he's dead so I pull him into the car and drive away. What if his friend wasn't dead, but in fact died in the car as he was driving away from the scene? What if his friend's lif
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I was including the OS in the stack. Is there any reason why vote-casting or vote-tallying software should be running on a fully-fledged OS? It introduces a massive attack surface in exchange for a benefit that is really only felt at develo
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I have no idea why people are so fixated on electronic voting. Running elections with paper ballots may be costly, but relative to other costs it's very little - it's also probably the single most important service the government
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by ecdavis 12y ago
This is a really interesting article. A problem I've discussed on HN before is the "dynamic playlist."[0] Creating a music map like this provides a complete and elegant solution to this problem. Choose starting and ending til
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by ecdavis 12y ago
> Australia fails to do anything when their citizens are killed for a bit of cannabis When has this happened? I know Schapelle Corby served 9 years for cannabis trafficking, and I know there are two Australian men facing execution for he
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by ecdavis 12y ago
A similar incident happened in Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-23/bunbury-girls-lemonade... It includes some great quotes from the council spokesperson. > An 11-year-old girl's cupcake and le
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by ecdavis 12y ago
You're getting downvoted because you're suggesting that women "enabled" and "actively encouraged" this man's behavior. In doing so, you're effectively shifting responsibility for this man's behav
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by ecdavis 12y ago
The major differences are that the E-3 can be renewed indefinitely, but it is technically not dual-intent. The E-3 cap has also never been reached.
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Driving under the influence is dangerous because it affects your judgement and your reaction times - much like driving while tired. The danger is not as present in familiar, safe conditions, but when something unexpected happens that puts y
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by ecdavis 12y ago
You're right. That's really interesting and counter-intuitive. https://gist.github.com/ecdavis/da8f67258860e9f35620 EDIT: After thinking about it for a while it seems obvious and I feel fairly stupid. 1/
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by ecdavis 12y ago
I don't think that's correct. The use of sets really clarifies things. Set B has a 2/3 chance of containing the car-hiding door. A fair coin or an RNG chooses which door in Set B to open. If the car is revealed, the game is o
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Fantastic explanation. I think this is what the article was trying to get across with the example of the doors but I felt that just confused the matter by talking about "shifting" the probability.
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by ecdavis 12y ago
Seems like it will protect data-at-rest really well. Unfortunately there's still the issue of the file/Box Key existing[0] in plaintext on Box's servers. You're trusting them to keep those servers secure against intrusti

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