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by essayist 12y ago
Moderately off topic question for everyone who could whip up a superior solution over lunch with two Arduinos and a Raspberry Pi ;-) Where does one go (as a somewhat technical non-Wifi expert) to get guidance on positioning, configuring, na
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by essayist 12y ago
What Broderick has written is irresponsible and deadly. His bio [1] says he's an Associate Professor with tenure. Firing him for an opinion piece will most likely be a long drawn out process. As with free speech protections, academic f
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by essayist 12y ago
Jay Rosen's idea of "explainer" [1], implemented for instance by Vox's cardstacks, might help here. [1] http://pressthink.org/2014/01/keep-me-informed-parsing-the-l...
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Harvard team probes Chinese censorship of social media | Harvard Magazine(harvardmagazine.com)
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by essayist 13y ago
Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by essayist 13y ago
This is great - thanks. Though the site is still annoying.
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by essayist 13y ago
I can't find the reference now, but in the 1980's, there was a study done on honors physics students -- undergraduates IIRC -- at Johns Hopkins. They were asked questions that they had the physics training to answer, but that were
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by essayist 13y ago
They are working on it. There was an effort at Oxford to track perinatal trials -- started in the 1980's. It looks like it hasn't happened yet, but that various major players (PLOS, Center for Evidence-based Medicine) want to expa
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by essayist 13y ago
Fair point. If you own the condo or house that's being AirBNB'd, then we're ok (modulo pissing off the neighbors). If you're renting, then we're getting into the same territory as "unlimited bandwidth" s
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by essayist 13y ago
Depending on your definitions of "huge" and "no one", here ya go: http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth/
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by essayist 13y ago
Google cache to the rescue: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by essayist 14y ago
So my guess is that (a) the Google Sets feature is discontinued, much to the dismay of the implementing team, (b) they (you?) see a lifeboat in putting this into Google Docs. It's way better there than deep-sixed entirely, but Google Sets w
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by essayist 14y ago
I mostly agree. The form "x events every minute" is useless when you need a ratio to make sense of things. Current fave: the US borrows $2B every day, which sounds impressive, but is 0.01% of the $15,800,000M US GDP. So, in most cases, the
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by essayist 14y ago
Years ago, I was an applications programmer in San Francisco working on a timesharing language called EPS. The mainframes were all in Massachusetts. (Think dial-up terminals, mainframes, and 450 BAUD being considered fast.) EPS, an interpre
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by essayist 14y ago
Yup. Joined in the mid-1980's, shortly after it formed. Learned the old style of email addressing, which, IIRC, included the full route from the sending host to the receiving hosts. (Those were the days! Up hill, both ways! :) I've dropped
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by essayist 14y ago
I had the same thought about Alzheimers sufferers - I know a handful, one quite well. Alas, part of the challenge of the disease is that you're generally not able to use mental "crutches". E.g. give the person step-by-step instructions, and
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by essayist 14y ago
It took me a while to find someone with a Bacon number>2: Prince
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by essayist 14y ago
Promising -- and delivering, asap -- a friendly export format would be more convincing at this point.
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by essayist 14y ago
Ok, so I looked at the article again, and got that they focus on population, social structure, state strength, and political instability. It's even more interesting that they identify two cycles with at least some dynamics: 1. the "secular"
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by essayist 14y ago
This may help clear up something that has puzzled me about a site I use and often search via Google. https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&safe=off... (In this case, I specifically put in "For Sale" to highlight the spammy d
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by essayist 14y ago
A comparison with the Lotka-Volterra equation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio... which are the mathematical explanation of predator prey cycles, shows what's missing in the article and possibly in the research
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by essayist 14y ago
I agree that it's hard, but I don't think that's the end of the conversation. Why is it hard? Keep in mind that the results are filtered through a discussion with the boss, so once salaries are public, you're saying " The boss and I agree t
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by essayist 14y ago
The current standard deviation between our salaries is less than $5 suggests that everyone is paid about the same, but that would seem unlikely. I'd be interested in the salary distribution, and what sorts of things are discussed during t
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by essayist 14y ago
Restaurant health codes do exactly that. It seems to me that there are relatively few "black market" or "under the table" restaurants. (Yes, there are food trucks, but it's a recent and relatively smallscale phenomenon.) Of course, this doe
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by essayist 14y ago
The duplicates indicate a kind of tie. What I've noticed before are sequences like 100,101,101,103, suggesting that the two middle signatures happened at more or less the same time. 5704, 5705, 5705, 5708 is a little odd - there should be a
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by essayist 14y ago
I agree. The swirling lines begin to tell an interesting story: from 1994-1997, and then again from 2008-2012, lots of technologies enter the picture, so we get some sense of when the bursts of innovation happen. The clutter of the lines -
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by essayist 14y ago
That book, How to talk so kids will listen, and listen so kids will talk has been a staple in our (childless) household since we discovered it decades ago. The extent to which we recommend it to new couples and new parents is embarrassing
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by essayist 14y ago
Think of the current state of gun ownership, laws, and culture in the United States as the legacy system. Many don't like it (I certainly don't), but "be like Europe" is not a viable migration strategy without a lot more detail. How would w
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by essayist 14y ago
I'm not a VC, but, to be comprehensive, you'll need to put the negative impact of the suit publicity - whether she wins or loses - on her career against what she might gain by winning. If you sue McDonald's for food poisoning frivolously, h
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by essayist 14y ago
IANAL, but in various contexts, apologies actually work to defuse the situation and prevent legal action. I've read research into malpractice and product negligence that indicates that sincere apologies actually reduce lawsuits, because, in

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