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by fela 13y ago
Another interesting color fact: many birds have four independent color channels instead of our three [1]. Which means they can see a whole additional dimension of colors we cannot even imagine. I like to think how it would be to wake up one
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Nobel laureate: Break free from the stifling grip of luxury journals(arstechnica.com)
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by fela 13y ago
Made me think of the following though experiment: what if we randomly shuffled all babies at birth?
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by fela 13y ago
1. No appropriate locking doesn't necessarily mean a world war will get triggered, but it might happen, and it would be a very bad thing, specially if it could be avoided, that your party started would hardly be of any consolation. 2.
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by fela 13y ago
Even if the questions were perfect (each question splitting the population in two exact halves, and all questions totally independent from each other) and therefore the algorithm would give each person a perfectly random number, the birthda
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Hacker News was down(twitter.com)
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by fela 13y ago
One problem with making them too inaccessible and too expensive is that it might make the illegal market attractive again, with the risk of bringing us back to the current situation. So I think the idea is viable but can only be pushed up t
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by fela 13y ago
Shouldn't the speaker/mic communication theory be easy to test? If computer microphones are being used by the malware a simple computer mic should be enough to detect if there is any communication going on...
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by fela 13y ago
You don't blindly believe axioms, it is just that certain sets of axioms happen to allow us to make useful predictions about the world. While you could have philosophical discussions about weather certain axioms are true (whatever that
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by fela 13y ago
You don't blindly believe axioms, it is just that certain sets of axioms happen to allow us to make useful predictions about the world. While you could have philosophical discussions about weather certain axioms are true (whatever that
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by fela 13y ago
line 72: // Holy shit, is this the cleanest fucking frontend file you've ever seen?!
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by fela 13y ago
Maybe the median would be better than the mean? Any number lower than the median and more then 50% of the employees would want it higher, any number bigger and more than 50% would want it lower. It also protects from strategic voting: if yo
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by fela 14y ago
I think that what is important to note is that their only evolutionary advantage, and thus the main reason they spread, is their resistance to antibiotics, in normal conditions they would have a quite big chance of losing in competition wit