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by ideonexus 9y ago
This paper is spreading like wildfire in the science online community--not because of it's results--but because of how this data was obtained. It reveals that Facebook is monitoring everything you do on the platform. When you start to
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I love this idea. Is there an android alternative?
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Recommend this use the more accurate article title, "Radioactive Cloud Over Europe Hints At Accident Farther East." The expert cited said this doesn't sound like a nuclear plant accident, but a nuclear reprocessing plant acci
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by ideonexus 9y ago
This is my strategy. It's a very volatile, high-risk investment, but one I'll hate myself for missing out on should it take off. So I've bet what I'm willing to lose on it (<1% for me) and told myself I won't rea
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by ideonexus 9y ago
This is the point I wanted to bring up. As a pack-a-day smoker for 10 years, I got up from my desk for 10 minutes every 1.5 hours to smoke a cigarette. Later, as a non-smoker, a health-conscious manager told me he wanted me to get up from m
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Seconding this recommendation. A former hobby of mine was photographically cataloging museum exhibits and uploading them to flickr cc-licensed. I've pulled tons of cc photos from flickr for picture books and other projects. It's a
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I've been very happy with PIA. It's cheap with minimal impact to my bandwidth. The concern is that, like all VPNs, we are trusting them not to keep logs. PIA claims that they proved in court that they do not keep logs because they
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How the Russians pretended to be Texans – and Texans believed them(washingtonpost.com)
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I find this very important. I will find ways to turn competitive games into cooperative games just to keep my sons' interested in them. It works wondefully, and the increased engagement has a great payoff in seeing them get better at t
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Ohhh... I like these. I was thinking of an interface for exploring binary algebra one and the Zeckendorf Theorem would fit right into it. I think getting kids to think in other systems expands their appreciation of math.
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I really appreciate both of these comments. Thank you both.
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Thanks! I struggle to make them mobile-friendly since younger children have a hard time with using the mouse and touchscreens are much more accessible for them. I keep learning a lot of CSS on the way, but it's really not my specialty.
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I've been writing little one-page javascript pages to introduce my four- and six-year-old to various mathematical concepts like cardinality, place-value, sets, factors, equivalency, etc, etc: http://ideonexus.github.io/
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Took a look at the "trending" articles on this network. Most of them are about cryptocurrencies, followed by phishing-scam warnings, and finally a smattering of other content. This seems like a network built around the hype of cry
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by ideonexus 9y ago
It concerns me that we award managers all the credit for collaborative innovations. History remembers Thomas Edison as a great inventor with 2,332 patents. This is a distortion though. He was mostly a manager, who stamped his name on everyt
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I don't think we are really talking past each other. To me this an issue of self-determination as well. I lived in a small town completely lacking employment opportunities for 10 years. The kids who were able to move out got careers, t
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by ideonexus 9y ago
Actually, if I were proposing a "final solution," I would simply advocate that urban areas simply stop paying Federal and State taxes. Without government subsidization, rural areas unable to financially support themselves would va
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by ideonexus 9y ago
The problem is that you can't look up those stats. They don't exist. I'm not talking about Federal Budget alone or roads alone. I'm talking about Federal Taxes, State Taxes, and Local Taxes as they apply to roads, electr
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I've been thinking we should have a Federal program that helps people in small towns relocate into urban areas or suburban areas at the outskirts of cities. I think letting sparsely populated rural areas depopulate would save us billio
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I felt the same way, but then I have to keep in mind that the library of games for the C64 was pretty immense, and negotiating with that many software developers to get the rights would be a herculean task. This isn't Nintendo, where a
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I agree with you with one exception: when a youtube video is preceded by an advertisement. Youtube videos load very quickly, but I have had to give up watching some videos because the 30-second advertisement gets stuck in loading mode. I as
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I feel the core message of the article is that our online media are making us complacent. I know lots of people on social media who are really angry about politics and post furiously all day long. And I wonder, what are they accomplishing?
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by ideonexus 9y ago
The coolest augmented reality setup is UCDavis Augmented Reality Sandbox, which uses a projector, an Xbox kinect, and sandbox that lets you wiggle your fingers to create rain, dig rivers and lakes, and see how water flows through an environ
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by ideonexus 9y ago
An amazing example of the possibilities is the UCDavis Augmented Reality Sandbox, which uses a projector, an Xbox kinect, and sandbox that lets you wiggle your fingers to create rain, dig rivers and lakes, and see how water flows through an
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by ideonexus 9y ago
IFLScience is not "journalism in general." The acronym stands for "I F*%ing Love Science" and it got started as a Facebook page made popular for posting science-joke memes. The site and FB page, both run by Elise Andrew,
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"The Royal Surgical Society even issued a strongly worded Manifesto..." "the Department of Defence declared a moratorium on all funding of sterilization research..." I can find no evidence that such a manifesto ever exis
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This is crucial. I am concerned that #4 of the Terms of Use for this site does state that you give up your right to sue Equifax or join a class action lawsuit: http://www.equifax.com/terms/ I clicked on the "Enrol
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I appreciate the concept of the "Northeast Megalopolis" here on the East Coast, where we consider Boston to Washington DC one continuous city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
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by ideonexus 9y ago
I would expand on Go, Poker/Blackjack, and Logic Puzzles to taking up board gaming as a hobby. There is a renaissance in this hobby that started several years ago and is only growing in strength. I am fascinated with the wild variety o
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by ideonexus 9y ago
The author's experience strongly echoes my mother's experience getting a chemistry masters in the 1960s. One of her professors outright told her at the beginning of the semester that she would not do well in the sciences because s

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