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by flurie 13y ago
> However, in this era of e-mail, Skype, and many people working successfully in the technology business from a large distance (e.g. India or China), why exactly couldn’t the desperate “starving” technology companies offer him a job he c
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by flurie 13y ago
I never thought that I'd have the chance to submit on topic one of my favorite figures from history. Behold the king of the dudes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evander_Berry_Wall . ed. This is actually a better lin
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by flurie 13y ago
Actually, ω and o are not the same sound with different duration. You can refer to Vox Graeca pp. 60 & 71 for specifics.
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by flurie 13y ago
Since I guess this is the place for pedantry, viola is the third person singular passé simple of violer.
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by flurie 13y ago
"It is one thing to create special rules for national security," Gertner said. "Ordinary crime is entirely different. It sounds like they are phonying up investigations." This implicit double standard plays a role in a
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by flurie 14y ago
Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit Gets me more often than I'd like to admit.
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by flurie 14y ago
This letter was not written for an eight-year-old. The real eight-year-old is used as an angle to garner sympathy from us, the intended audience, but the hypothetical eight-year-old is a MacGuffin.
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by flurie 14y ago
What you describe sounds eerily like the äppärät from Super Sad True Love Story.
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by flurie 14y ago
FWIW, I and many of my friends (who admittedly deal primarily with hardware) find the gpio a big draw. The machine is cheaper and more useful than an arduino after you've thrown in an ethernet shield. I got one to serve as a doorbell router
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by flurie 14y ago
I find it a bit curious to call Harvard's entrance exam[1] a "simple objective test of academic merit". I would call it a glorified spelling bee whose word list was handed out only to the most privileged. [1] http://graphics8.nytimes.com/p
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by flurie 14y ago
A third of women in the US end up having an abortion at some point in their lives. That's a pretty blunt edge.
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by flurie 14y ago
This article makes me incredibly angry, and I think I've figured out why. This sort of thing masquerades as a transgressive act, but it serves to reinforce the notion that the lives of working adults are drudgery, and that, every so often,
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by flurie 14y ago
I'm not sure using "if you love something, set it free" is a good judge of the worth of ideas. To me it belies a lack of deep introspection.
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by flurie 14y ago
Just some minor quibbles... You probably mean radon testing, not argon, as I don't believe argon is radioactive. One can make an educated guess about lead paint without a test. If your house is old enough, it's there. If it's there, it's pr
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by flurie 14y ago
When was the last time you heard of a "bar fight / civil squabble" that involved a reported 2000 people?
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by flurie 14y ago
Obvious differences aside, there's something about the presentation of this (e.g., "the secret of human thought revealed") that reminds me of Deepak Chopra.
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by flurie 14y ago
This seems much more complicated than is necessary. It costs ~$200 for a 7 ft^3 chest freezer and ~$50 for a fridge thermostat with the required temperature setpoints.
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by flurie 14y ago
How does a country that bans guns entirely give athletes access to them?
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by flurie 14y ago
The great irony of this is that the vast majority of these free offerings from which one could conceivably cobble a degree are in STEM, and yet the numbers of students graduating with STEM degrees has been flat for decades.
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by flurie 15y ago
I wonder what sort of people putting photos on Instagram weren't also sending them to Facebook. Wouldn't it likely be people who don't/won't use Facebook anyway?
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China’s Bloody Factories: A Problem Bigger than Foxconn(pulitzercenter.org)
2 points by flurie 15y ago|0 comments
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by flurie 15y ago
Given that the subject of worker treatment in China hasn't died down as Daisey has pointed out it so often did, even in light of the retractions and apologies, can we say yet whether he's done those workers a disservice? I think it's too ea
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by flurie 15y ago
The greatest explanation I've ever seen for the Incompleteness Theorems comes from Palle Yourgrau in his book A World Without Time. He gives an excellent introduction to his explanation: "To appreciate Godel's theorem is your birthright; le
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by flurie 15y ago
We can't push Foxconn directly, so Apple serves as a good bellwether among clients of Foxconn to see whether the sort of pressure they have been receiving of late results in verifiably improved conditions.
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by flurie 15y ago
The point of this article has less to do with drinking than people realize. It has to do with his establishments. They promote binge drinking, and the CDC discourages binge drinking, so he has to find a way to reconcile this to his very whi
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Callin' Oates - new viral marketing campaign powered by Twilio(twitter.com)
7 points by flurie 15y ago|0 comments
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by flurie 15y ago
There are other, more popular ways to game the system that have nothing to do with the algorithm (cf. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ekd1o/iam_my_own_okcup... ).
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by flurie 15y ago
It's true, but that's a valid way to approach the question. The problem is that grandparent will have more misses (people who legitimately believe that the earth is larger than the sun by the assumed metric) than hits (people who think outs
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by flurie 15y ago
Sam's Club has been offering something like this for at least a few years by my recollection. http://www.samsclub.com/sams/pagedetails/content.jsp?pageNam...
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Gender gap in spatial abilities depends on females' role in society(arstechnica.com)
1 points by flurie 15y ago|0 comments

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