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by flashman 8y ago
Certainly archaeology could demonstrate disease if human remains were found. But like all things that outlive us, we forget that cities aren't permanent. Perhaps they moved on because the grass was greener elsewhere (there was a '
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by flashman 8y ago
> If Earth was at one end of a yard-stick and the Sun on the other, Parker Solar Probe will make it to within four inches of the solar surface. 91cm and 10cm, to save anyone else doing the conversion. Also, it seems to understate the cl
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by flashman 8y ago
I ran the kind of mid-sized forum that catered to an active community of posters and a casual community that showed up for topic-related content (i.e. from search engines). But because most of what we were sharing was either links to news e
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by flashman 8y ago
I had a go of it by replacing the drum samples with voice samples (both 1-2 seconds and 3-5 seconds), then removing the features concerned with length and volume. Fiddled with the number of sub-sections per sample, and some of the random fo
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by flashman 8y ago
I think you're right: Product Review is doing a nice line in politely blackmailing companies to pay for their product to avoid negative reviews on PR's site: "Resolve customer complaints before they are published. When your c
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by flashman 8y ago
Could I use something like this to identify which of two or three people is speaking in an audio clip? Assume I can label several samples of each person's speech, then present an unlabeled sample for classification.
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by flashman 8y ago
To answer GP's questions with Pushshift links: "see all of my own comments": http://api.pushshift.io/reddit/comment/search?author=saurik&... (use &before=[epoch] for pagination) "see
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by flashman 8y ago
Jacobson sent a $1m winning ticket to a hospital, where the donations clerk immediately turned it in. Imagine what would have happened if she'd decided to keep it for herself? I wonder whether and how Jacobson would have taken steps to
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by flashman 8y ago
That's the one!
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by flashman 8y ago
Yes, poor article, it's not 300 worms but 300 permafrost samples, of which two contained an unspecified number of viable nematodes : https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1134%2FS00124966180... > We anal
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by flashman 8y ago
This sounds a lot like a cargo cult: copy what you've observed, and wait for the previous result to show up again!
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by flashman 8y ago
> Total market volume is in the billions. Trade volume, or market cap? This is an important distinction. You can't multiply the number of items for sale by the market rate for those items. What you're saying is that people are
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by flashman 8y ago
No, you've read it wrong. $320m of that $355m is the revenue from selling 21 million copies of the game (and doesn't adjust for discounted copies). The 10% cut of transactions figure ($21m) is based on how much money they'd m
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by flashman 8y ago
It's short for "taking the piss out of (someone or something)." To make fun of, but in a light-hearted way that implies the speaker has the advantage of the target. In the instance above, it means "using an exaggerated B
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by flashman 8y ago
I think the point there is that an English speaker who learns a second language doesn't suffer the social stigma of a someone who learns English as a subsequent language. (I have a pseudo-scientific theory that the Australian accent&#x
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by flashman 8y ago
A 12% minority of one billion[1] is still greater than the combined populations of the UK, Canada, Australia and South Africa. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_English-s...
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by flashman 8y ago
> your entire existence is as a wrapper around the content folks actually want to see Yeah, what sets popular streamers apart is that their 'wrapper' is distinctive and entertaining in its own right. Everyone is showing much th
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by flashman 8y ago
Not on Surveillance Island
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by flashman 8y ago
Oh, for me it's totally the ads I have a problem with. They're distracting and I didn't visit the site to see them. I'm not surprised that publishers have resorted to moral appeals to support the business model they&#x27
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by flashman 8y ago
FWIW I think your approach to counting moves is more logical. We're more interested in understanding how many intermediate states a puzzle has between its initial state and solution. Whether you move a piece by one square or three is
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What cracking open a Sonos One tells us about the Sonos IPO(blog.bolt.io)
191 points by flashman 8y ago|182 comments
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by flashman 8y ago
Here's the thing, UBI will be used to argue that other social interventions and support are no longer necessary. "We're giving you free money, and you want more?" UBI is a convenient way for the wealthy classes to wash t
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by flashman 8y ago
Maybe because she just bought that variety of Cheetos for the first time. They're trying to promote repeat purchases. Of course, when there are millions of opportunities for coincidences to occur, and when coincidences are much more
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by flashman 8y ago
My guess would be a Kodak 16mm handheld. The Cine-Kodak Model B was introduced in 1923 and a few subsequent models had been released by 1935: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cine-Kodak
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by flashman 8y ago
People love to say that they shouldn't be prevented from owning these toys just because some other person's child might get injured, and I sympathise with that point of view. But at their peak, three thousand children a year were
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by flashman 8y ago
It's okay if they call me Mr [Surname] but not if they use my first name. Probably some weird respect/familiarity thing.
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by flashman 8y ago
The first cipher gives directions in yards, in this order: east, south, west, north. When followed in order, this gives a location just north of an old dolomite quarry, 3.95 miles from Buford's Tavern. It's not far off the Appalac
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by flashman 8y ago
> The gig economy should only be for people that have economic security. This would be a form of scabbing: taking jobs away from people that don't have economic security, to give disposable income to people that do .
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by flashman 8y ago
> Wages have never been higher Except that "in real terms the average wage peaked more than 40 years ago: The $4.03-an-hour rate recorded in January 1973 has the same purchasing power as $22.41 would today." [ http://
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by flashman 8y ago
There's no comparison. The previous generations' fights were about the negative effects of video games on the players, which are measurably minimal. The current generation is arguing that certain games are equivalent to hate speec

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