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by goodside 16y ago
I meant to upvote you. Touchscreen syndrome. Somebody please upvote the parent and downvote me. Thanks.
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by goodside 16y ago
Without looking too hard at it, this seems to be nonsense. Shu pulls parameters out of the air all over the place and makes wild philosophical claims about the nature of time without explanation. He selectively ignores basic physics, and ma
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by goodside 16y ago
No, none. I never went past General Relativity in school but I read a few textbooks on my own. Don't take anything I say with authority.
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by goodside 16y ago
As pointed out by others, the largest scales on this animation are completely wrong. The figure given for the Observable Universe, 14 billion light years, is actually only half of the distance between us and the HUDF.YD3 galaxy. The figure
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by goodside 16y ago
"Simple" is quantifiable as how much information-theoretic complexity a population's selection pressure can sustain against mutational entropy to allow for relatively permanent (on non-evolutionary time scales) adaptations. It's not a measu
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by goodside 16y ago
The majority of Earth's history was spent in a state that contained simple single-celled organisms but no eukaryotes. Once eukaryotes showed up, everything changed rather abruptly. This is strong evidence against the idea that other alterna
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by goodside 16y ago
For a website that's espousing the virtues of minimalism, those sure are some tacky mouseover effects in the header.
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by goodside 16y ago
I will second this. Make sure you're looking at the $150 Fredrik "Computer work station", not the $100 Fredrik "Desk". The Fredrik has extremely solid steel support. I've used it for over a year and a half, most of that time as a standing d
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by goodside 16y ago
Wikipedia is an interesting case study in that not only has it not been overrun by joke memes, but it has virtually eliminated humor from both its public-facing articles and its internal communication. I spent several years as a fairly acti
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by goodside 16y ago
Regardless of their relevance to golfing, hunter-gatherers do use spears and projectile rocks extensively for hunting. They're ubiquitous among modern hunter-gatherers, and archaeologists have uncovered wooden spears from over 400K years ag
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by goodside 16y ago
"Women generally go out in groups and search for good sources of roots, ripe berries or nuts, which they use their acute powers of observation to spot and collect. Without knowing it, [...] shoe retailers are setting up a sort of ersatz ech
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by goodside 16y ago
It should. I was referring to Google Analytics in particular, which was the source of this data, and GA's calculation doesn't use blur tracking as far as I can tell.
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by goodside 16y ago
A monthly rate is no less normalized or comparable than an annual one, and it's more representative of the timescales the loans are actually used for. If you required hotels to report their nightly rates in terms of how much it would cost t
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by goodside 16y ago
Yes, it would. "Time on Site" measurements do nothing to detect whether the site has been opened in the background, or whether visitors are actively engaged. General practice seems to be to measure the extent of this bias by comparing the d
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by goodside 16y ago
Also, "400% APR" is misleading because it implies somebody might potentially take out the loan and pay it back five-fold a year later, when in reality these loans are almost always paid back either quickly or not at all. By extension, any t
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by goodside 16y ago
The point isn't to avoid accidents, it's to avoid wasting a valuable spot on the keyboard.
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PSA: You should remap your capslock key(c2.com)
15 points by goodside 16y ago|11 comments
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Ladies, look at your data(goodside.net)
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by goodside 16y ago
I work for a company in the insurance sector that has a few divisions that rely on mainframe programs from the 1970s. Most of the actual hardware has been replaced, so everything's now running on z/OS instead of OS/390, but I believe we hav
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by goodside 16y ago
Counterexample: Being overweight.
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by goodside 16y ago
'Peter J. Boettke, shuffling around in a maroon velour track suit or faux-leather rubber shoes he calls "dress Crocs," hardly seems like the type to lead a revolution.' The Austrian school is not new. Why does Boettke have to be leading a '
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by goodside 16y ago
You have to keep in mind that unspecified elements of SQL are not guaranteed to be random. There is no situation in which the two queries you supplied, executed sequentially as you "expect", would be guaranteed to produce different results.
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by goodside 16y ago
The article's conclusion is absurdly misleasing given the information presented in its source. The US Attorney did not claim that spying on students is legal, nor did he claim that the school staff did not intend to spy on the students, n
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by goodside 16y ago
The only thing silly about the bookkeeping example is that people who enjoy bookkeeping are rare, and a manager with that policy would have trouble finding anyone for the job. If I were hiring a bookkeeper, and I actually did find someone w
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by goodside 16y ago
Look into the RExcel plugin for Excel. There are other ways to get data between the two programs, but they usually involve importing and exporting CSV files. With RExcel, it's only slightly more complicated than copying and pasting.
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by goodside 16y ago
I work in a statistics-related field and use R daily. Most R books emphasize applications for statistics, not R itself; they're written for non-programmers. R in a Nutshell overviews R itself and assumes basic programming experience. I pe
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by goodside 16y ago
Encrypt the data with a key long enough that, by Moore's law, you'd expect computers to be able to break it in 50 years. Submit the data to Wikileaks. Destroy the key.
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by goodside 16y ago
1) The former. 2) Not easily. The biggest problem is that the people who most need help finding friends are the ones you least want to find on a friend-finding site. Every dating site seems to be drowning in this problem, which means they h
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by goodside 16y ago
Even if the idea is great, for the sake of argument, it doesnt count for as much as you seem to think it should. There are several products that I thought of before they were released, but I didn't see them as good enough to throw my life a
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by goodside 16y ago
The present theory concerns the elimination of dark energy, not dark matter. The existence of dark matter has been demonstrated beyond any doubt through observations of a collision between two galaxy clusters. In a nutshell, the clusters we

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