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by ern 14y ago
Using Mercurial daily, I don't understand why it isn't widely viewed as the alternative to git that you mention. It seems to avoid some of the pain-points the OP lists. The idea that there are "git faithful" is a sign of how immature (in ev
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We’re not “resources”(blog.markturansky.com)
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How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong (2010)(nytimes.com)
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by ern 14y ago
the rest of Pakistan for the average citizen, much larger than the first and which is reasonably misunderstood and relatively safe; I'm not an expert on the topic, but if Karachi[1] can be regarded as "relatively safe", the Pakistan has b
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by ern 14y ago
Workers would be needed to create buildings, build roads and transmission lines, repair robots, scrap robots, replace robots, R&D robot tech, provide materials, and so on. It would cultivate a huge ecosystem. Wouldn't robots eventuall
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by ern 14y ago
I used to read its international coverage online, and never detected much bias. When I started reading it, I was also taken aback by the name, but it doesn't appear to be heavily influenced by its parent organization.
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by ern 15y ago
When I program in C-syntax languages, I always surround loop and conditional blocks with braces, even if they have a single line of code. Even though these languages allow braces to be omitted, I consider it bad style, and error prone (alth
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by ern 15y ago
The article seems to be part of a trend where people are made aware of the value of letting go, rather than engaging in futile medical care. However, before making end of life decisions, one should be aware that there is a large and growing
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US hospice industry worth $14 billion, under federal investigation(businessweek.com)
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It Could Be Old Age, or It Could Be Low B12(nytimes.com)
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How Brooklyn Got Its Groove Back(city-journal.org)
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Who, What, Why: How do you assess a killer's mental health?(bbc.co.uk)
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The story behind Apple's 1984 ad(lowendmac.com)
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What Do a Bunch of Old Jews Know About Living Forever?(nymag.com)
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The Startling Science of a Starling Murmuration(wired.com)
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Examples of "common knowledge" that historians universally consider incorrect(quora.com)
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"System D" - The black market is the world's fastest growing economy (foreignpolicy.com)
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by ern 15y ago
Here's the paper: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
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1 million UK children under 13 on Facebook(scotsman.com)
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The crazy math of airline ticket pricing (2002)(maa.org)
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The paperless cockpit is here(salon.com)
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by ern 15y ago
I agree that there may be a concept of innate intelligence as you describe it. I have no idea if IQ is an effective measure of it. My uninformed lay-person's instinct is that IQ is correlated with intelligence (with this new evidence we can
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Optimizing a Basketball Shot(wired.com)
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by ern 15y ago
Link to original study: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/natu...
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by ern 15y ago
Smartpones can already detect that you are travelling above a certain speed on a public road and display a notification that texting while driving is dangerous. Not something I would endorse (too many false positives), but I wouldn't be sur
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Why Are Dubai and Abu Dhabi's Roads Some of the World's Most Dangerous?(theatlantic.com)
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Logo programming in your browser(calormen.com)
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The case of the 500 mile email (2002)(ibiblio.org)
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by ern 15y ago
Actually, I still find these sorts of results very surprising. Till recently, I always thought that once one was an adult, one's brain lost its self-renewal capacity, and that progressive mental decline was inevitable. This was the general
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by ern 15y ago
No reason to feel inadequate. All kids are different, and they are not extensions of our egos. As a first-time parent, I am still trying to convince myself of this, but I am slowly beginning to believe it. I was a very articulate 3 year old

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