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by esquivalience 12y ago
Surprised it hasn't come up in this thread already, but an excellent and free resource for this sort of thing is EtymOnline[0]. It's volunteer-made[1], has an easy search and quick on-results-page answers. Here's the search p
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by esquivalience 12y ago
But the OP is quite a claim. I find the difficulty with "fair" is that it means different things to different people.
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by esquivalience 12y ago
This is quite a claim. I find the difficulty with "fair" is that it means different things to different people.
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by esquivalience 12y ago
This is very interesting indeed. They say music goes hand in hand with maths, but it's never taught that way... and musical theory (at least in the UK) teaches what exists but not the principles behind it.
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by esquivalience 13y ago
Although there's perhaps nothing new in this article, the lifehacking approach is interesting, and there's a lot less insubstantial blabber that I expect to see under this sort of claim. I searched HN for this assuming it had been
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How to learn a language in 3 months(fourhourworkweek.com)
1 points by esquivalience 13y ago|2 comments
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by esquivalience 13y ago
The value of a non-tech member is the same as the value a consultant, project manager, or a lawyer can give to their clients. It's about a mode of thought - reality checks, decision making and finding creative solutions to the problems
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Thatcher warned of WW2 codebreaker 40 years after his work(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by esquivalience 13y ago|0 comments
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by esquivalience 13y ago
Unfortunately the front seats are usually mist desirable. That system would incentivise people to the back of the queue - nobody would stand up first! Might be possible to undo this effect by filling up front-to-back - but that creates oth
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by esquivalience 13y ago
It's a core principle of TM law that similar, not just identical trademarks will infringe a registration. "Soundalike" searches are also standard practice before adopting a brand. Amazon is lawyered-up and would certainly hav
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by esquivalience 13y ago
I like that in the final photo, the note-taker has even got a shadow of another note-taker projected onto him.
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by esquivalience 13y ago
Surely you can split-test at any level, it just takes longer for useful data to build up? Then it just becomes a question of confidence interval.
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by esquivalience 13y ago
Although the example cited in this article seems pretty obvious on what we have, for all we know (a) it is the very first example of time-sorted photos and (b) there could be further context in the article saying that the analysis is done b