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by flatline 13y ago
I don't think there's any such thing as what the term "brainwashing" implies, but it is effectively a systematic form of mind control. If you can implant a thought and have it take hold, have the person own it and belie
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by flatline 13y ago
Due to these circumstances, I suspect that this having possible applications into life extension is a really good way to get funding for your research, because death is 100% certain, and a .0001% chance of evading it sounds so good to some
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by flatline 13y ago
It's not the NSA doing this intimidation, though they may well be facilitating it. I do agree that journalism is under siege in the US, however. I feel like the Obama administration would really like to put a stop to even the possibil
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by flatline 13y ago
Rent is generally quite cheap in Colorado, at least it was when I lived around Boulder. I remember seeing this interactive map, but now I can't read it on my phone to justify my claim: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive
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by flatline 13y ago
It is hard to beat a good CS curriculum with real teachers, peers, assignments, tests and grades. These things don't work well for everyone, and the pressure can be pretty intense at times, but damnit that pressure can really burn stuf
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Willard Van Orman Quine(en.m.wikipedia.org)
1 points by flatline 13y ago|0 comments
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by flatline 13y ago
I don't know about you all, but public school did an abysmal job of teaching me any US history post-WWII. It's like nothing has happened in this country since the women's suffrage movement, with WWII a hasty footnote. Honest
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by flatline 13y ago
Me too - for the lazy: http://i.imgur.com/dBIBuCD.jpg The Rock Creek Park divide is just as noticeable on the map as it is driving around the area. On a larger scale, the SE/NW divide is exactly what you'd expect
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by flatline 13y ago
As I've commented before: it provides a perverse incentive to editorialize a title until it gets upvoted to the front page and gets enough attention from a mod to be corrected. It makes the game of titling a submission even more compl
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by flatline 13y ago
In some spheres the market is already swinging back towards the "private cloud", where the technologies hammered out from large scale cloud computing are available as commodity software and hardware solutions. And so the cycle co
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by flatline 13y ago
I agree, and I love SICP, but it also assumes a general familiarity with undergraduate-level mathematics, up through calc 1 and linear algebra, as well as some basic number theory, that many people probably do not have and will immediately
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by flatline 13y ago
Pain is not terribly well understood. I mean, we generally know how nerve impulses convey a signal to the CNS, but how the brain chooses to interpret those signals as "pain" is still something of a mystery. There is an area of re
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The Best Exercise You're Not Doing(menshealth.com)
2 points by flatline 13y ago|0 comments
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by flatline 13y ago
Indeed, some others have mentioned the Gossamer Albatross, which was the result of progressive development of earlier fixed-wing human-powered flying machines. Long flying solar variants of this were made, so it is probably quite feasible
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by flatline 13y ago
One person's freedom to speak, another's freedom to censure them, both of which are covered under the first amendment. I don't understand the problem with this.
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by flatline 13y ago
You've got to admit that 2 and 3 are pretty glaringly bad in this case. My fold ends halfway through 5. Half of the top 4 links are for the data structure, half for some irrelevant company, so DDG is effectively placing this company
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by flatline 13y ago
Well, that is certainly a bare assertion. Why claim it did not?
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by flatline 13y ago
> I don’t want to be alone, but I want to be left alone. I have always suffered from this as well. Perhaps it is just a touch of introversion? I have a happy marriage and family but I often need time all to myself or I just get overwhe
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Welcome to the Program (2012)(bigdeadplace.com)
1 points by flatline 13y ago|0 comments
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by flatline 13y ago
Snowden himself is now compromised. How do we know that what he releases to the press is factual, and not tampered by a foreign entity who received the real information and his cooperation in exchange for asylum? I think this pretty well
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by flatline 13y ago
We were eligible for consideration for a modification under the DoJ settlement with BoA. After going back and forth with a contractor for over 5 months attempting to satisfy their never ending demand for extra paperwork, we got a letter fro
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by flatline 13y ago
This is part of a series. I haven't read Solve It but there is another one that I worked through several years ago before returning to school, How to Prove It , that really cleared up how to do proofs for me. It is all based around
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by flatline 13y ago
You are just a brain in a biochemical vat being fed electrical signals through the sensory organs. Are they false signals? There are non-negligible priors that support his accusation, such as gag orders and a proven and recent history of
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by flatline 13y ago
Having worked in the realm of government contracting, they often hire people who can get things done but don't necessarily have the appropriate depth of knowledge to make the kinds of claims that he is in fact making. He may have pl
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by flatline 13y ago
Confirmation bias
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by flatline 13y ago
I have this book, and would not recommend it as a stand-alone learning guide. It gives a decent intuitive treatment of some topics but is inconsistent. It will furthermore jump between e.g. an explanation of neural networks without any math
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by flatline 13y ago
I first learned to program in BASIC on an Apple ][+ when I was about 10, but never really followed through with it until I re-taught myself in my 20s, starting with "Learning Perl". So, I wasn't sure how to answer;)
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by flatline 13y ago
Mostly the latter, though I was tired of writing business applications and looking to move into something, broadly, in the domain of scientific research. Which is not terribly straightforward with only a B.S., but seems to be pretty much i
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by flatline 13y ago
I went back in my mid-30s, with one kid. I had flirted with a variety of work/school balances up until that point, but working full time and doing school part time was going to require about 8 more years of sustained effort to finish a B.S.
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Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by flatline 13y ago|0 comments

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