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by ern 12y ago
As I said, there would have to be careful study and consideration of the effects, and in all likelihood, it would fail, probably for the reasons you cite. However, I suspect the modern knee-jerk reaction would be to reject these sorts of id
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by ern 12y ago
When I read the first paragraph, I was immediately reminded of my feelings when watching the Star Trek:TNG episode, made in the late 80's where Picard considered quitting Star Fleet to head the Atlantis Project. When I watched that epi
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by ern 12y ago
It wasn't until Windows 95 (or was it 3.1?) that usability and standardization were taken very seriously in the PC world. I recall vaguely using an 80's-era DOS-based word processor at my father's office, and pressing "F
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by ern 12y ago
"Fantastic" may be overstating it. I've been running Raspbmc for about 15 months now, and although the video rendering is very good, the XMBC UI is a bit laggy and unresponsive (although there seems to have been an improvemen
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The Scientific Reason Your iPhone Earbuds Get Tangled Up(slate.com)
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Adios to the Tiki-Taka Men(newyorker.com)
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by ern 12y ago
Why should I pay for an XBox live sub to use something I paid for? Since earlier this month, you don't need to pay for an XBox Live Gold subscription to use apps like Hulu+, Youtube, Netflix and IE (!). Although I can't see the
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Why are countries still using fake bomb detectors?(theguardian.com)
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China's Achilles Heel(2012)(economist.com)
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Germany Fights Population Drop (2013)(nytimes.com)
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by ern 12y ago
A condition for parole seems to be that the prisoner accept that they did the crime ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innocent_prisoner's_dilemma ). I don't know the circumstances of the case, but assuming that t
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by ern 12y ago
British English seems to prefer treat entities like companies as plurals, while the rest of the English-speaking world seems to treat them as singular. Lots of discussion on this point can be found on Google.
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The Source of Europe's Mild Climate(americanscientist.org)
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by ern 12y ago
Reading the Wikipedia article seems to indicate that most of the rises in IQ due to the Flynn effect happened during the period when fuel lead levels were high. Would they have risen faster without lead?
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Berlin gripped by property boom as Germans turn their backs on renting(theguardian.com)
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The function of zebra stripes(nature.com)
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'Breakthrough Stem Cell Study Used Falsified Data(iflscience.com)
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by ern 13y ago
If it is an April fool, then it is not entirely off the mark as satire. It isn't uncommon to see reviews of apps like Dragonbox and Slice Fractions where bloggers claim "my 5 year old can do algebra"[ ] or "my 3 year old
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by ern 13y ago
There’s a 24/7 culture, where people expect a response. It doesn’t matter that it’s Saturday at 2 a.m.–people think you’re responding to e-mail. People are no longer going on vacation. People have become slaves to email. It’s not a
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Roundup: All of Google’s jokes for April Fools’ Day 2014(thenextweb.com)
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When Rising Revenue Spells Trouble(blogs.hbr.org)
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Liver replica is first step to creating a lab 'microhuman'(wired.co.uk)
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Florida trauma centers charge huge fees the moment you come through the door(tampabay.com)
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by ern 13y ago
When we look at the costs of investigating this disaster and the search for AF447's black boxes (and finding them was not a certainty, as far as I recall),I'm sure the cost equation will shift in favor of more extensive (certifica
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by ern 13y ago
How do you make sure only the eyes intended to see the data see it and nobody else? Why isn't this a concern with ADS-B, which allows anyone with the right equipment (or access to a flight tracking website) to track planes in real ti
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Measuring Worth – Measuring the Value of a Slave(measuringworth.com)
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How Did Whales Evolve?(smithsonianmag.com)
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World's largest concrete pour: LA awaits 'ballet of concrete trucks'(theguardian.com)
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by ern 13y ago
When my son was 2, I found a free iPad app called "My Colours". It was a grid of 12 colors. When a color block was touched, a synthesized female voice read out the name of the color. For my son, at least, it worked very well, much
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Lawsuit targets NYPD sting tactic which tempts people to steal (2013)(nydailynews.com)
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