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by idupree 14y ago
For each viewer, that seems likely to me. For viewers collectively, there is more information; some viewer's girlfriend is going to be someone who studies trees, and another viewer is going to think some character looks kind of like the Pr
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by idupree 14y ago
Practice writing that has an observable effect. For example, write Facebook statuses and see who "likes" or "comments" on them. Think about how you write emails and to whom. See what styles and contents tend to be effective. Try differe
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by idupree 14y ago
Actual paper: https://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6034/1170 Abstract: "A consequence of the quantum mechanical uncertainty principle is that one may not discuss the path or “trajectory” that a quantum particle takes, because any measur
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by idupree 14y ago
Info I've found so far on rate of water capture: (MIT, 2011) "In some field tests, fog harvesters have captured one liter of water (roughly a quart) per one square meter of mesh, per day. Chhatre and his colleagues are conducting laboratory
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Planet Money's Fake Presidential Candidate(npr.org)
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by idupree 14y ago
Not in the US it isn't -- a wall socket is typically only rated to provide about 15 A * 120 V = 1800 W peak usage (* 80% = 1440 W long-term), which is less than their 2.5 kW vacuum cleaner. http://michaelbluejay.com/electricity/maxload.ht
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by idupree 14y ago
Machine learning.
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by idupree 14y ago
"Authority The optional authority component may assist applications in accessing the object named by an ni URI." They give this example: ni://example.com/sha-256;f4OxZX_x_FO5LcGBSKHWXfwtSx-j1ncoSt3SABJtkGk ( https://tools.ietf.org/
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by idupree 14y ago
http://rosedu.github.com/techblog/from-0-to-cryptography.htm... , perhaps!
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by idupree 14y ago
It's "Ctrl-Shift-R twice". Hit it, wait a few moments for the page to start reloading, then hit it again. Otherwise it doesn't reload everything. Verify this by watching the Developer Console's Network section. I can only assume this i
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by idupree 14y ago
"We've limited requests for old items. If you're running a crawler, you can get this data a lot more easily from http://hnsearch.com/api. Google, Archive.org, and my best attempt at HNSearch API ( http://api.thriftdb.com/api.hnsearch.com
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by idupree 14y ago
Yeah, 72/96 is shocking, but look: We're only just now reaching the point where I can count on my friends having 64-bit CPUs. Intel's first 64-bit mobile processor was released in mid-2006. That is only six years ago. The manufacturing tr
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by idupree 14y ago
Yep. Google probably knows my address, phone number, email, and name, not because I've told the Internet , but because I told a friend how to drive me home and he entered it in his Android smartphone's address-book. Or was it Apple..then
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by idupree 14y ago
99% or so of humans experience sexual attraction. I have a couple friends who don't experience sexual attraction. If "pervert" insinuates "weird", then they're weird for not being weird... Isn't our sex-phobia funny. Also, I/we needn't ha
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by idupree 14y ago
The actual Internet-Draft: http://tack.io/draft.html Unlike Ars, this has the information you need. Each server that implements this TACK draft has a TACK key at any given time, as well as their usual TLS key. Conforming clients get sor
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by idupree 14y ago
Python borrowed list-comprehensions from Haskell et al. Lexically scoped closures are from Scheme* and virtually all modern languages have them now. (Well, C++ and Java are late on the lambda boat, but C++11 and it seems Java 8 are getting
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by idupree 14y ago
Or have "value" exponentially decay over time (e.g. continuously & adding up to 50% decay per year. Which is equivalent to the value of a vote being 2^(year the vote is cast).)
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by idupree 15y ago
Recently I made a new password for some random site (and keep an encrypted record of it). Then I was relieved I did, because the site turned around and emailed the password right back to me. Unencrypted. In plaintext. Hmm, that is wrong en
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by idupree 15y ago
I don't use Facebook applications, but I use Pidgin to Facebook-chat (using Facebook's XMPP interface). This requires* "If I'm Online" to be shared with apps (even though Pidgin is not a Facebook application). I have everything else unche
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by idupree 15y ago
I found a list of VPN providers http://lifehacker.com/5759186/five-best-vpn-service-provider... It is kind of terrible though: all the cheaper ones are PPTP-only, and PPTP is insecure. Security is why I'd want a VPN! Some of the comments
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by idupree 15y ago
Who do you (anyone) suggest as a reputable VPN provider?
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by idupree 15y ago
The spec example For example, to do a 32 bit add of 0x12345678 and 0xaabbccdd, do this: SET [0x1000], 0x5678 ; low word SET [0x1001], 0x1234 ; high word suggests he's thinking in little-endian. I don't think it's r
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by idupree 15y ago
I found a friend who's had magnet rings; he pointed me to some info: http://hackaday.com/2012/01/02/give-yourself-a-sixth-sense-o... (follow the links; it links to "Holy Scrap" blog which links to a couple online magnetic-ring-sellers). I
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by idupree 15y ago
I do mindfulness meditation, because I like it. "Insight meditation" is another name for a same/similar kind of meditation. It helps me be in touch with my emotions/body/appetite etc. Even when they're unwell. I would otherwise shy away
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by idupree 15y ago
Where's a good place to get magnetic rings for this purpose? I searched Amazon and found things like magnetic bracelets marketed as alternative medicine to cure you. None of the reviews I found mentioned using them as an electromagnetic s