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by ghkbrew 10y ago
It does seem to be much less common, but the home directory based nix install is extremely useful if you don't actually have admin rights on the machine. I.e. in basically any institutional system. I have a very handy nix install in
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
The V = IR equation relates the voltage _difference_ across a resistor to it's resistance and the amount of current flowing though it. So a super conductor in a circuit will have 0 drop in voltage across it, while still having an &quo
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
Reminds me of the old Heinlein novel "The Star Beast", which centers around a boy and his alien pet that has been in his family for generations. It turns out that the alien is actually royalty and from her perspective she's b
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
It would seem that you would only have problems when the weight is unevenly distributed. I've only ever seen people spread out when allowed to take any seat, which would tend to make things more even if anything.
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
Performed by whom?
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
I don't know if it's the one you're thinking of, but fabricate.py does basically that.
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
If you exclusively use name.surname, you could set up a filter to catch anything sent to namesurname and automatically have it skip the inbox/put in a folder/deleted/whatever
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
I've never done it, but I think those are just naturally bred out by breeding healthy mice from each successive generation.
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
I'm guessing GP is referring to the fact that most popular mouse strains for research are, in theory, isogenic (genetically identical). This is achieved by inbreeding the mice for multiple generations until they are statistically certa
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
I think what he meant was that proof that a particular piece of evidence was illegally obtained is likely to necessarily be illegally obtained as well. Thus it will be thrown out itself before it can used to get the original evidence thrown
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by ghkbrew 10y ago
Basically, regulations are supported by people who believe the activity should be not happen and those who profit from the facilitating an illegal activity. The phrase itself is reference to Prohibition in the US. https://en.wiki
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
While I applaud the police for being an unobtrusive as they could, this sort of discretionary enforcement is worrying in and of itself. In no small part, because it seems to set a precedent that they could have raided his house and impoun
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
<wild conjecture> Perhaps the social stigma is an evolved response. Maybe one method humans have evolved to incentivize reproduction is the ostracization of those unable/unwilling to have children. </wild conjecture>
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
Yes, you probably are. There may not be much technical difference between your hypothetical GET and PRINT requests, but the law generally isn't written or interpreted by technically minded people. Think of it this way. It is reasonab
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
The cost of the alternative is basically how value is defined in economic theory. Similar to the term "opportunity cost". There doesn't seem to be a better way to define value. You could say it's the subjective intrins
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
Do $10 smartphones exist today?
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
It's pretty much the opposite. Too much anti-aliasing. At low resolutions, you need to be aware of the pixel boundaries to really make an image look good. Think 8-bit Nintendo/"pixel" art. You can't simply anti-
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
Fair enough, perhaps I should have said "can be caused by" DI (technically Dipsogenic DI) can be caused by neurological dysfunction or psychiatric illness without any hormonal disregulation.
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
I suspect you're joking, but I'll go ahead and answer here anyway, because I find it interesting and think others might as well. The term "diabetes" refers specifically to the production of large amounts of urine. The d
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
Cable companies would just need to make their pricing structure more accurately reflect their cost structure. Comcast could charge me a base "connection" fee which cover's their overhead plus an itemized amount for each chan
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
previous discussion of this article on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8055520
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by ghkbrew 11y ago
The big caveat to that, being that you need to make sure whatever proxy marker you're looking at remains correlated even in the treatment setting. It doesn't seem like there would be a good way to do that without running the long
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
I personally prefer to keep my glorified display panel disconnected from any sort of ip network. It puts the HDMI input on the screen or else it gets the hose again.
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Seconded. "cellphone" and "mobile phone" are basically interchangeable to me. Though, honestly I'm more likely to just refer to it as a "phone" and use a qualifier to refer to the non-mobile variety (e.g
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
> I liken DNA to a paper tape containing one of two punches: MAN or MOUSE I don't think that really captures it. Yes, it requires external machinery to actually do anything, but DNA is much more information dense and carries much m
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
I'll just leave this here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3870088/a-monad-is-just-a...
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
Salt doesn't cause vasoconstriction (constriction of blood vessels). That's not really in dispute. It's whether increased salt intake leads to increase blood pressure. The theory behind this is that increases salt in the v
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
> Also why don't routine vaccinations in rich countries have a similar beneficial effect? Presumably, it's an issue with quantity. The ~20 mandatory vaccinations in West are simply a drop in the bucket compared to the number o
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
So, not so much a new theory as a new language and set of rules (a calculus) for describing our old theories?
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by ghkbrew 12y ago
That all depends on what you consider a significant speed up. For small values of N constant factors will usually dominate. In this case, they mention that lookup time is independent of dictionary size, so the "N" in question is

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