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IQ Matters: Understanding Your World So As to Predict the Future (alfin2100.blogspot.com)
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by hobin 15y ago
Yeah, that's sort of what I thought. This "On the flip side, Kim Dotcom will lose the ability to use the data to defend himself after pleading not guilty to piracy," seems very strange to me. Obviously, if the data were to be deleted, it wo
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by hobin 15y ago
I was kind of hoping this would be about accessing an external hard disk from my brain. I can't count the number of times I wished I could've saved a few seconds by not having to look everything up on the internet.
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by hobin 15y ago
That doesn't change the point though, does it? Obviously, not everyone has a tendency to underestimate how long it will take to complete a task, depending on both the person and the task. In fact, if an estimation group routinely did this
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by hobin 15y ago
I made a slight mistake there. I meant fundamental attribution error, not actor-observer bias.
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by hobin 15y ago
I have seen ducks in my garden. Why don't I get the domain?
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by hobin 15y ago
I think that's a problem.
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by hobin 15y ago
Neither of which I have. ;) And because you asked for information on size/weight and battery life without specifying a specific model, this was the best I could do.
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by hobin 15y ago
Agreed. A curious question that immediately popped in my head was: would it be ethical to use the fear of the public for disruption by global warming (whether it's true or not)? This fear could be used for good purposes, such as trying to i
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by hobin 15y ago
You can't. If you can, it means you don't give a carp at all what people think about you (as in NOT AT ALL), which means you're a psychopath. It's good to take some things personally. At least, I don't really see how one can improve him/her
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by hobin 15y ago
Well, of course people shouldn't take many of these things personally. What he describes is just slightly modified actor-observer bias (or asymmetry), a well-understood phenomenon in psychology. (For those who had not yet heard of the term,
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by hobin 15y ago
Just out of curiosity, but why don't you have a swap partition?
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by hobin 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrabook That should answer most of the questions you asked. You can find about the ultrabooks with backlit keyboards by doing a simple Google search (yes, 'ultrabook backlit keyboard').
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by hobin 15y ago
There may be some obscure things Excel can do that Calc can't, but I've never had to do anything on a spreadsheet Calc can't do yet. Besides, Calc can use Python macros.
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by hobin 15y ago
How is compatibility a problem? Google Docs, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice can all save their spreadsheets in .xls format. Also, if I have to worry about this kind of thing, it means I'm working with people who voluntarily use NT. Nothing
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by hobin 15y ago
Which country do you live in? I don't know about the quality of schools in general here (the Netherlands), but I've met too many people who say they "can't do math" to think very highly of our elementary educational system. Granted, though,
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by hobin 15y ago
That's somewhat misleading. It's true that in vegetables the carbohydrate:fat/protein ratio is much higher than in most other food sources, however the total amount of carbohydrates in most vegetables is still low. Vegetables are mostly w
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by hobin 15y ago
Make sure you're not simply stocking up on proteins. This can cause you to lose a lot of water, leading you to believe you're losing 'weight'. You might be, but in this case unfortunately, water != fat. Though if you're just 'eating as much
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by hobin 15y ago
This is absolutely brilliant.
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by hobin 15y ago
Are you sure it's not just that you or someone else is not good enough at explaining it? wink Seriously, though, while I'm of the opinion that people learn different things at different speeds, I have yet to encounter someone who was simp
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by hobin 15y ago
<.< >.> ...I always use that method when trying to get out of trouble. Shhh.
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by hobin 15y ago
None of the things you mentioned are, in themselves, illegal. Saving an image or an article to your hard drive is not illegal, but redistributing it can be. Writing negative stories about other people is (in practically all cases) not illeg
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by hobin 15y ago
I am inclined to think that this is one of those cases where people feel uncomfortable for some time. ...and then they get used to it.
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by hobin 15y ago
> One can claim they forgot the password. The judge might not believe them, so they can just slap contempt of court charges one after another? What the person has actually forgot the password? How can they prove that they forgot somethi
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by hobin 15y ago
I suggest reading this: http://www.medicinenet.com/jet_lag/page4.htm