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by goodside 17y ago
The drawback, though, is that you can only use this to generate HTML quickly the first time you write it. Changing the code once it's generated is just as painful as it was when you were working with just HTML. This kind of write-only codin
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by goodside 17y ago
You do realize WP:N, WP:ATTP, WP:RS, etc. are all links to the policies being referenced, right? You're complaining that they're linking to policy pages to defend their opinions. If lawyers provided hyperlinks to every law they mentioned,
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by goodside 17y ago
TLDR: Touchscreens are different from desktops. I don't have an iPad, but I doubt Apple considered this.
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by goodside 17y ago
Yes, really. Pure ethanol is more expensive than methylated alcohol (which has both ethanol and methanol) even before taxes are applied. Denaturing existing pure ethanol with methanol is wasteful, as the constituants are more valuable separ
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by goodside 17y ago
In most US states, methylated alcohols, along with most household cleaners and automotive fluids, are required to contain substances like bitrex to make them so extremely unpalatable that the risk of consumption is negligible. In some count
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by goodside 17y ago
The impact of light exposure on circadian rhythms is, as far as I can tell, entirely mediated through melatonin. Until evidence to the contrary appears, why should anyone worry about phototherapy for advancing circadian rhythms when melaton
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by goodside 17y ago
Just a warning since it's not obvious at first glance: That link is over a decade old, and might no longer represent the views of the authors listed. Yudkowsky's contribution notes that it was specifically repudiated in 2001.
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by goodside 17y ago
Those interested in the (extensive) science of framing biases in human reasoning will want to consult Kahneman and Tversky's classic "Choices, Values, and Frames": http://amzn.com/0521627494 Yes, it's dry and scholarly and will require th
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by goodside 17y ago
Recklessness and lack of foresight doesn't make you inhuman. If you forwarded this post back in time to the Buzz engineers, they would try to fix it before launch -- not laugh maniacally at the thought of an innocent woman fearing for her s
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by goodside 17y ago
A currency with zero nominal inflation translates to effective deflation in a growing economy. If you own x% of the moon, and no more moon can be printed, you'll hold your lunar notes under a mattress waiting for their value to rise and not
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by goodside 17y ago
This is already available as a javascript bookmarklet from BackType, a YC-funded startup: http://backtweets.com/api (link is on the right) This Chrome extension uses the BackType API, so either should return the same information.
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by goodside 17y ago
This well: http://grab.by/2eT3 That's from the Mac OS X zoom function. Interestingly, it's far more readable than the zoomed-in graphic on their page.
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by goodside 17y ago
Getting the current URL of an embedded frame showing a page on an external domain is (or at least should be) impossible due to restrictions on cross-site scripting. This is the same reason why when you view a page that's trapped in a Diggba
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by goodside 17y ago
It's important to note (the article does, but it's worth emphasizing) that the correlation for coordinated dance moves is not with present testosterone levels, it's with pre-natal testosterone exposure. The first is measured with blood test
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by goodside 17y ago
Perhaps I should have been clearer on this: my example wasn't meant to imply that the authors of the study were lying. All I meant was that for some abstract proposition A, evidence of a benefit B gained from believing A is not evidence of
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by goodside 17y ago
The implied message, that one should advocate the malleability of IQ not because it's true but because it's motivational, is a little troubling. If you're coaching an 8th-grade gym class, everyone will probably perform better if you pull ea
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by goodside 17y ago
The answer depends entirely on what kind of startup you're trying to make and who your audience is. If you want businesspeople and grandparents, having a snappy dot-com is crucial. If they're more tech-savvy, what they remember to punch int
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by goodside 17y ago
Wonderful idea, but I'd like to see this with: * Objectively ranked categories based on word usage, not author-provided tags * Legible graphs with fewer colors * Analysis that weights comments by karma (or, better, a reasonable non-linear f
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by goodside 17y ago
Myst 4 is played exactly like this, actually. You're surrounded by panoramic pre-rendered video, and clicking where you want to move to takes you to a new panorama, analogous with the movement in the original game. (Myst 3 is similar, but i
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by goodside 17y ago
The actual studies by Kahneman and Tversky mentioned at the start are more interesting and solid than this handful of anecdotes. If you're not familiar with them, they might well be one of the most important things you've ever Googled for.
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by goodside 17y ago
I'm not getting the humor. Are they saying you shouldn't worry about the iPhone or Kindle squeezing the other out of the market? If that's the punchline, it fits entirely in the title. You don't need three screenfulls of random sarcasm to c
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by goodside 17y ago
My first impression: I love the idea, but I'd never give $6,000 to a site that looks like yours. I generally don't like criticizing without some constructive advice on what to fix, but in this case you don't need tips from random commenters
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by goodside 17y ago
It's the latter. I'd kindly request that cwan or a moderator change the headline to something less misleading.
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by goodside 17y ago
"Why do stimulants like Ritalin turn ADHD kids normal but turn normal kids into hopped-up screaming meamies?" The second half of this, that normal kids on Ritalin and Adderall will be overstimulated and unable to concentrate, is just plain
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by goodside 17y ago
This is right. Readers, please mod down my comment above for being simultaneously snarky and dead wrong.
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by goodside 17y ago
'The central problem is that people don't understand what "heritable" or "genetic" really means.' Apparently so. Heritability does not mean genetic causation. Language is extremely heritable (that is, children almost always speak the same
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by goodside 17y ago
The worst is the Walmart brand, which is controlled by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. They use both forms in their communications depending on which is being referred to.
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by goodside 17y ago
I more or less follow this rule. I'll mention iPhone or TextMate without pause, but SpongeBob SquarePants is asking a bit much and (PRODUCT)RED, which is audacious enough to require a superscript, is just plain silly.
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by goodside 17y ago
Apple hasn't filed the patent to implement it, but to stop others from doing so. It damages the Apple brand if third-party crapware like that mentioned in the patent shows up on the Mac, and they just want another tool in their pockets to g
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by goodside 17y ago
A slot machine's payout changes all the time, but it's still not worth it to feed it quarters. If it paid out the probability-weighted average of what you would expect it to pay out every time (that is, slightly less than you put in), nobod

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