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by eric_h 11y ago
Generally only in the second person, though. Third person (this dude was pissing me off, or "it's a dude!") usually means male.
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by eric_h 11y ago
except for the "smoking something" part, unless you find a particularly accommodating uber driver.
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by eric_h 11y ago
If you were hiring a mechanic, why would you test them on their ability to design engines?
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by eric_h 11y ago
The fact that they quote Arthur C. Clarke saying "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" plays into this ambiguity. Most of what they're talking about here is "illusion", but I think t
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by eric_h 11y ago
I actually had a long discussion about this with an Uber driver the other day. Given that this article predates that discussion, I would imagine he was sourcing a lot of his arguments from this article. My position in this discussion is tha
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Why Belgium might fall apart in 30 years(quora.com)
5 points by eric_h 11y ago|1 comments
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by eric_h 11y ago
Doing it on a whiteboard is an academic computer science problem. Doing it on a computer is more along the lines of a software engineering problem, though still it is largely academic and counter to one of the tenets of good software engine
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by eric_h 11y ago
So this article leads off with @mxcl's tweet about google not offering him a job because he wasn't able to reverse a binary tree on a whiteboard . I don't think that being able to describe an algorithm you haven't had t
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by eric_h 11y ago
So I'm curious how Snowden supports himself while exiled in Russia. How does he pay for these law firms representing him?
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by eric_h 11y ago
That's news to me! Admittedly, I haven't been on a highway in Ontario in ~2 years, but I definitely never saw signs like that then (of course, I definitely saw people exceeding the speed limit by 50kph on more than one occasion, a
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by eric_h 11y ago
This looks extremely useful, thanks for sharing.
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by eric_h 11y ago
Also - the summary at the end of TFA is quite succinct: > In summary, the present study has demonstrated that when we are in a novel environment, interhemispheric asymmetry occurs in regional SWA, vigilance, and responsiveness as a night
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by eric_h 11y ago
Gizmodo( http://gizmodo.com/why-we-sleep-so-poorly-in-unfamiliar-plac... ) has a shorter summary of this article as well. I know for sure that I've experienced this phenomenon, it's interesting to see that it's
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Night Watch in One Brain Hemisphere During Sleep In Unfamiliar location(cell.com)
1 points by eric_h 11y ago|2 comments
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by eric_h 11y ago
I wonder what the legal implications are for valve here, vs the third parties that are facilitating the gambling. Surely the companies taking bets are also taking a rake (how else would you pay for your infrastructure/support overhead)
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by eric_h 11y ago
Good catch, I blew right by that detail on my first read.
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Virtual Weapons Are Turning Gamers into Serious Gamblers(bloomberg.com)
134 points by eric_h 11y ago|106 comments
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by eric_h 11y ago
>Google, Facebook, Twitter, Quora, Stackoverflow (a lot more niche though) are all making money with advertising. Having spoken with some people who work at stack exchange in NYC, my understanding is that it's the jobs site that is
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by eric_h 11y ago
> why doesn't the "Netflix" of journalism exist? Blendle (blendle.com) seems like it's aiming to be that
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by eric_h 11y ago
I live in a newly constructed apartment building in a neighborhood in queens that's mostly houses. I typically guide the taxi driver to it by saying "it's the big, ugly building on the corner"
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by eric_h 11y ago
> I'm going to go out on a limb and say that English isn't his first language based on his name Or the third paragraph of TFA, which states that he was living in Turkey at the age of 9.
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by eric_h 11y ago
Yep, it was an improper backup and recovery system that did him in. I'm sure many other businesses have been destroyed by the same, whether or not it was an rm -rf that was the trigger.
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Apple did not invent emoji(eev.ee)
1 points by eric_h 11y ago|0 comments
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by eric_h 11y ago
I only skimmed - I'm curious which portion you suggest is an explicit warrant canary?
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by eric_h 11y ago
Perhaps not, but I do believe that the TSA and CBP are siblings under the umbrella of DHS.
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by eric_h 11y ago
Agreed, and I would also suggest that the number of strictly observant jews is a small fraction of the New York population that identify as jewish and would be counted as such in a survey
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by eric_h 11y ago
I suspect that Apple will always continue making the "trucks" of the computing world (to borrow Steve Jobs' analogy). To continue the analogy, compare their revenue numbers with, say Daimler[0]. Daimler sells more Mercedes ca
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by eric_h 11y ago
Perhaps you're right, though the last time I went apartment hunting in that general area I did not find anything in stuy town that was in my price range (1BRs there were 3k+), and I ended up about 16 blocks due south from the south eas
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by eric_h 11y ago
I have a friend who grew up there, getting out was his top priority. Fortunately, he succeeded.
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by eric_h 11y ago
> Stuy Town [...is] more known for being inaccessible and cheap than desirable in any particular way The last I heard about Stuy Town a friend of mine was moving out of there because he got priced out, and he was making ~90k/year.

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