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by jackcarter 9y ago
The blueprint was Corbusier's "Radiant City" proposal [0]. It took hold in the US in the form of lower-income housing projects. It turns out that it combines the worst of city life (anonymous neighbors, no personal outdoor sp
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by jackcarter 9y ago
Yes.
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by jackcarter 9y ago
As a counterexample, see Paul Reubens on writing "Pee-wee's Big Adventure": "I bought the Syd Field book on writing screenplays, and me, Phil, and a guy named Mike Varhol did exactly what was said in that book. I mean, e
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by jackcarter 9y ago
Worst-case, the effect could be that they don't protect eyes properly, causing blindness.
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by jackcarter 9y ago
There's a hack to sort-of disable the keybind: Go to chrome://extensions/ and open "Keyboard Shortcuts" (bottom right). Pick an extension you don't use anymore (or install one), and set the shortcut for &q
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by jackcarter 9y ago
At first, I interpreted the image as a mockup of a self-driving car broadcasting warnings about upcoming hazards, so that cars to its rear could know about them before directly observing them. I wonder whether that will ever be possible acr
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by jackcarter 9y ago
How does a meal-replacement lollipop work? How many calories does each lollipop contain?
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by jackcarter 9y ago
Your local gym will probably have classes for beginners. They may also have guided outdoor excursions. Also, most gyms are very social, and after climbing for a while, you'll meet some people who are making a trip outdoors.
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by jackcarter 9y ago
Linear doesn't mean slope = -1, though.
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This is Sparta, or is it?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by jackcarter 9y ago|0 comments
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Couldn't you just as easily use a balloon on a tether?
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Google Maps does do this in "Earth" mode (formerly "Satellite").
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Mercator is the default projection for most schools in the USA.
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by jackcarter 10y ago
The "style" image (tar23.png) is a symlink to the input image[0], so I guess it's intentional. I'm still not sure why that ended up swapping the colors in the output, though. [0] https://github.com/luanfu
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24M would lose insurance under the G.O.P. health bill within a decade(nytimes.com)
8 points by jackcarter 10y ago|4 comments
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by jackcarter 10y ago
The multiplication by 365 to get the annual number.
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Dynamic pricing to incentivize trips that bring bikes back to high-demand origin points?
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Using "to be" isn't necessarily the passive voice. The author doesn't use the passive voice in those sentences. http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/passive-voice/
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by jackcarter 10y ago
And my all-time favorite, for the title: "Law Firm Accountants Were Bad at Accounting, Law" https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-03-06/law-firm-...
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Fischer did not play the King's Gambit. http://www.academicchess.org/images/pdf/chessgames/fischerbu...
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by jackcarter 10y ago
I hope they release a private enterprise version, like they have for StackOverflow[0]. I'd love to host this on-prem to document my company's codebase. Anyone know of a similar solution that's available now? [0] http:/&
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by jackcarter 10y ago
http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/guilty.htm '"Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer," says English jurist William Blackstone. The ratio 10:1 has become known as the "Bla
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by jackcarter 10y ago
In checked bags, they're only looking for bombs. In carry-on bags, which you have access to during the flight, they also screen for weapons.
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Here's a video on soda can design: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUhisi2FBuw
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by jackcarter 10y ago
I use it for exactly 3 things: * Weather (do I need a jacket or umbrella?) * Music (I never used Prime Music before) * Checking how long until my train arrives. This is by far the most useful application for me; I use it every morning. I bo
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by jackcarter 10y ago
Chicago tried: https://www.wbez.org/shows/dynamic-range/the-short-sad-life-...
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by jackcarter 10y ago
I built a similar app for Chicago's CTA trains, called CTA Tracker. There seem to be train tracker apps for most major cities, since they're easy to implement and legitimately useful.
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by jackcarter 11y ago
Regression to the mean historical growth of X%, then.
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by jackcarter 11y ago
Yes, but as you look deeper into the night sky, you see more and more stars (proportional to the square of the distance). These two factors cancel exactly.
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by jackcarter 11y ago
Dolphins found a way to con a similar system: "When people drop paper into the water she hides it under a rock at the bottom of the pool. The next time a trainer passes, she goes down to the rock and tears off a piece of paper to give

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