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by iak8god 12y ago
Don't the millimeter wave machines perform a 360 degree scan? That would at least eliminate the really facepalm-inducing "put your gun on the side of your body" attack.
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by iak8god 12y ago
I'm neither elderly nor very very busy (maybe ~.5 verys), nor wealthy, but I'd gladly pay 30% more for my groceries if I could order them via a typical online shopping interface and have them show up at home at a set time (within
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by iak8god 12y ago
Hi Stranger. I noticed that this book isn't all that well reviewed (3.5/5), and that Amazon's 'Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought' includes a few higher-rated titles. Can you say a word or two on what you li
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by iak8god 12y ago
> I don't think in the context of Spain, at least, the various versions of libertarian socialism saw themselves as that clearly distinguished. I don't disagree. Reading in 'Homage' about the wide variety of affiliatio
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by iak8god 12y ago
> He was a communist for a long time, then got disenchanted because of Stalin (he wrote 1984 in this period). This is wrong. It's hard to succinctly characterize Orwell's political views[1], but it's simply incorrect that
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Just use a little sense... If you see some old lady get robbed, that's not coming back on you. Unfortunately, "just use a little sense" may be dangerous advice. Here's a story from earlier this year about a guy who
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by iak8god 12y ago
Could you recommend some good maths MOOCS at the level of undergraduate math major courses?
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by iak8god 12y ago
Nexus 5 looks great. Tried it on a Nexus 7 and got the Snowden head floating over pages of black.
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Horrible to scroll on mobile as well That's interesting. I came here to say that it looks and works great on mobile, specifically chrome on android. Sounds like it's wildly inconsistent between devices.
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by iak8god 12y ago
That's not been my experience: I use cards for every single purchase, which adds up to hundreds* per year, and have never been asked for ID. In any case, it's true that they're not allowed to require it. The link I gave above
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Plus in the US you often have to show your ID They're not allowed to do that: "Both Visa and MasterCard prohibit merchants from requiring customer ID as a condition for accepting their credit or debit cards. All you need is a
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by iak8god 12y ago
I (USian) recently visited the UK and knew from previous experience to use only visibly chipped cards (staff will sometimes refuse to take run a swipe-only card -- not sure if the machines don't even support it?) Anyway, the systems n
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by iak8god 12y ago
>I fail to see how you could write an algorithm if you don't know how to code. I teach introductory programming to college freshmen. We usually spend the first few classes talking about, writing, and refining algorithms in clear and
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by iak8god 12y ago
Does anyone know what happened in Physics in the early 2000s? The number "Employed" spikes from ~30% to ~40% in a very short time span and then falls rapidly to ~20: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Aren't HIV or Hep C worst threats than ebola? They've certainly killed more people, but the terrifying thing about ebola is how very contagious it is.
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by iak8god 12y ago
> The way capitalist societies are structured doesn't really allow for income distribution that way, the way I understand it. In the fully-automated future, these societies will violently implode if they aren't reconfigured to
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Isn't the main impulse behind pushing the button simple curiosity rather than boredom? I thought this too at first, but it turns out they exposed everyone to the shock along with a bunch of other stimuli in preparation for this pa
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Make Your Own Vacuum Tubes (2008)(makezine.com)
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Teachers who don't engage students -- and lecturing will rarely engage anyone -- are the problem ... If you didn't engage the students, no amount of banning things they care about more than you droning on in front of them wil
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by iak8god 12y ago
Well, good. I'd probably even pay a reasonable monthly fee for that to offset their lost ad revenue.
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by iak8god 12y ago
You might like this: http://literallyunbelievable.org/
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by iak8god 12y ago
Google makes money on GMail by reading your email and serving related ads. They will never support built-in encryption.
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by iak8god 12y ago
Wow, their advice is terrible too: "86% Exceptional" http://www.getsafeonline.org/themes/passwrdcheck/results.htm...
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by iak8god 13y ago
> In this, as in so many areas of business, the consumer (the student in this case) might wonder where all the money is going. The student has no idea what an adjunct is, and doesn't particularly care. If it occurs to the student to
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by iak8god 13y ago
> Is there just enormous waste in the system That depends on your point of view. If you are a part of the metastisizing university bureaucracy, then you might think replacing full-time faculty with more administrators and staff is a grea
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by iak8god 13y ago
In terms of my favorite unit for this kind of discussion, that's a mere .01 - .03 Iraq Wars[1] [1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-annive...
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by iak8god 13y ago
Driving is heavily subsidized. What is the farebox recovery ratio for spending on roads?
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by iak8god 13y ago
I think cryptocurrencies are neat and I'd like to be a part of the bitcoin economy if it's possible to do that without radically changing my life. One way to do that without taking on much risk would be to buy a noisy little machi
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by iak8god 13y ago
I ordered one of these (5GH/s "Jalapeno") from BFL in March because it seemed like a really good idea at the time. Received it in October, putzed around with it for a couple of weeks, and sold it on eBay for a small profit la
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by iak8god 13y ago
I use Slate for this: https://github.com/jigish/slate

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