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by fnid 17y ago
It's endlessly hardwareable. What I mean is, every algorithm or solution designed with software can always, by definition be implemented in hardware, bringing vast improvements in performance and scalability. This will always happen as lon
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by fnid 17y ago
There are sooooo many reasons why these numbers may look like this. You may consider it is because smart people are unattractive, or you could consider it that smart people are smart enough to know it isn't a good idea to have sex when you
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by fnid 17y ago
the links have .aspx at the end, so I'm almost certain it is .NET.
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by fnid 17y ago
By the same argument, totlol was helping more people view youtube.
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by fnid 17y ago
Once this guy, he made a bow and used it to hunt. Then one day, this other guy was like wow, can i use that? So he was like, sure, go ahead. The new guy was even better at first than the guy who made the bow he practiced all day and night
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by fnid 17y ago
There was this one guy, he had a gun and he'd hunt with it. One day, another guy came along and they started hunting together. Eventually, the guy with the gun shared the gun with the other guy who then shot the gun owner and took all the
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by fnid 17y ago
Not only that, but it requires two other .js files as well: http://ukijs.org/app/functional/wave.js http://ukijs.org/app/functional/wave-theme.js And on top of that, A lot of what you see there doesn't work, buttons don't do anything, s
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by fnid 17y ago
After that, we'll have to send our entire bodies through the x-ray machine.
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by fnid 17y ago
There are plenty.
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by fnid 17y ago
There's a classic experiment where people turn some pegs a quarter turn for an hour or so. There were three groups, the first was paid a dollar, the second $20, and third was control, paid nothing. Of the three groups, which do you think
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by fnid 17y ago
Some ideas that quickly come to mind. Number of bugs caught in test. Number of lines of code written, fewer would be better, but it's difficult to measure this, because more functionality is often correlated to lines of code. Number of hour
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by fnid 17y ago
The real problem here is that there is an incentive for everyone except the donor. The hospitals make lots of money. The doctors make lots of money. The patient gets a new organ. Even the organ transport companies get paid. But the or
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by fnid 17y ago
What concerns me, and something I didn't know before seeing this, is that the older generations can only be charged 2-3x as much for premiums as the younger generations, plus, everyone is required to get insurance under both plans. This a
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US healthcare bills: House v Senate(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by fnid 17y ago|2 comments
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Quiet Sun Means Cooling of Earth's Upper Atmosphere(nasa.gov)
1 points by fnid 17y ago|0 comments
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by fnid 17y ago
There's a lot you can do with bigger screens. When their screens become touch screens, there's going to be so much you can do with them. Eventually all TVs are going to be computers with functional browsers, so you better start thinking a
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by fnid 17y ago
I think it was acceptable then too.
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by fnid 17y ago
Are fewer males applying as well? If only 40% of applicants are male, then I'd say the ratio of college entrants is just right. Otherwise, I don't see a problem. I don't really see a problem anyway. I never saw a need to have exact d
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by fnid 17y ago
The plot was the weakest part of Avatar, partly because Cameron has shown himself capable of creating good stories that engage the audience.
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by fnid 17y ago
On a Mac book pro and Opera 10.10, I got: 5260.6ms +/- 0.7% I'll try with the new version and report back.
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by fnid 17y ago
clicky: http://news.ycombinator.com/noobstories
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by fnid 17y ago
I don't know why that's in there. I see no evidence for it, either in the article or anecdotally around me in the real world.
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by fnid 17y ago
For all the doom and gloom around old media. the NYT is doing a great job with the web. Other publications should be looking to them for inspiration. The NYT hasn't forgotten who they are. They are conveyors of information. It is their j
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by fnid 17y ago
If you read enough articles like this, you'll find the following to be the rule of thumb: Do and avoid doing everything possible.
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by fnid 17y ago
It's like the experiment in Stanford with the prison where the prison guards started doing typical prison guard things and the prisoners started doing typical prisoner things, even though originally, both groups were composed of people who
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by fnid 17y ago
More speculation... Perhaps it is constricted by the size of the skull? At some point, the skull stops growing and larger neurons could put stress on the existing ones and cause damage.
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by fnid 17y ago
This is actually just a sample for an open source visualization library. Look through the other samples. They are interesting. Wish it wasn't flash, but still nice nonetheless. http://www.axiis.org/examples.html
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by fnid 17y ago
That's exactly why I found the full talks! Haven't watched them all yet, will report back. Edit: Not sure. He didn't mention it in one of the video clips, but may eb addressed in the full audio.
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by fnid 17y ago
You can see the full talk here: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?author=3...
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by fnid 17y ago
Also consider that doctors get kickbacks from the pharmas for prescribing certain medicines, in addition to lots of perks like swag, vacations, etc piled on them by marketing reps.

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