jamii

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901.
by jamii 16y ago
Yes, and there's a difference between dying and causing yourself to feel shitty for a few days :-P
902.
by jamii 16y ago
Hangovers cause severe dehydration. It's an extreme case, but a British soldier died last year from a combination of a severe hangover and punitive exercise. Just fell over on the running track and didn't get back up.
903.
by jamii 16y ago
I feel like they acted the way they did because they thought the public wanted to see some kind of action in response to the threat. It's as much the fault of the British public for being so ambivalent about politics that the government is
904.
by jamii 16y ago
Stupid lawmaking aside, I was really proud the day after the London bombings to see so many people commuting to work regardless. There were a fair few white faces and it was deathly silent but the place was still packed. You can blow up our
905.
by jamii 16y ago
Besides the fact that most of the Al Qaeda members involved in the London bombings were British citizens, if you stand out then the IRA style attacks are easier to perform. You don't have to get through airport security or pass a background
906.
by jamii 16y ago
As I understand it the processing model is similar to Yahoo pipes or good old unix pipes, except with easy support for parallel processing, distribution and fault tolerance.
907.
by jamii 16y ago
The model is very similar to the one argued for in this paper: http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2007/papers/cidr07p15.pdf That paper was a big inspiration when we were redesigning the betting exchange at smarkets. It's a very well reasoned expo
908.
by jamii 16y ago
Britain didn't react any more sensibly though. We had arguably even more erosion of civil liberties as a result eg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/8...
909.
by jamii 16y ago
Not inefficiency as such. Many houses were empty because the occupants were forcefully evicted. "Another feature of the political violence was the involuntary or forced displacement of both Catholics and Protestants from formerly mixed resi
910.
by jamii 16y ago
Al Qaeda also seem to keep throwing themselves after hard targets. PIRA (and the UVF, UDA etc) left bombs on trains, dropped them in shopping centre bins, posted them through letter-boxes. The really terrifying thing was that nowhere was sa
911.
by jamii 16y ago
I hate to keep making a point of this, but it has happened in the past and the solution wasn't pretty. Wikipedia says: The Troubles' impact on the ordinary people of Northern Ireland produced such psychological trauma that the city of Belfa
912.
by jamii 16y ago
Martial arts have an extra motivation bonus as well. You're much less likely to give up and stop moving when your opponent is still trying to hit you.
913.
by jamii 16y ago
I ran into the same problem last year and wound up building a personal search engine. It reads in listings from rss feeds and mailing lists and runs them through a simple ML classifier to filter out the dross. The classifier is seeded a lis
914.
by jamii 16y ago
I would think that flag-waving nationalism is almost entirely unrelated to tearing up the stadium and eating the seats.
915.
by jamii 16y ago
I have been using ocaml for about 5 years and earning moneys with it for the last 2 years. I love the language but for scientific work its hard to beat python. Ocaml just doesn't have the libraries or the community support to even be on the
916.
by jamii 16y ago
There are a lot of interesting jobs open in the UK. Startuply has a fair few, as does the cufp job board. Language specific job boards (haskell, erlang etc) are also useful. The best method I found is to watch videos from conferences (cufp,
917.
by jamii 16y ago
> People are good I can't emphasize this one enough. Travelling is a great way to restore ones faith in humanity. > Many people travel with their own supply of water and an industrial vat of hand sanitizer. Germs aside, you should s
918.
by jamii 16y ago
The IRA managed to cause plenty of fear by bombing shops and train stations. From Wikipedia: The Troubles' impact on the ordinary people of Northern Ireland produced such psychological trauma that the city of Belfast had been compared to Lo
919.
by jamii 16y ago
> Are you aware of how many services Google provides for free that make my life (and probably yours) better? Are you aware of how many services the NHS provides for free which make my life better, despite being cripplingly underfunded?
920.
by jamii 16y ago
Developing code, especially complicated algorithms and data structures, is all about proofs. Not long, formal proofs but the kind of informal proof you do in your head to convince yourself that your code will work. Studying maths will give
921.
by jamii 16y ago
Evolution requires mutation. If the name occasionally got garbled then it would be evolution.
922.
by jamii 16y ago
I had a friend at school with anger problems. People would wind him up until he exploded and ran into them, fists flailing, shouting "Die! Die!". And then they would beat the crap out of him, because he was terrible at fighting. This was so
923.
by jamii 16y ago
In a vaguely similar vein, the recent Mirage paper showed impressive GC improvements by running ocaml on xen without an operating system in between. It allowed them to use a much simpler allocation algorithm. http://anil.recoil.org/papers/
924.
by jamii 16y ago
The surgery is easily reversible without leaving permanent damage. That's the main advantage it has over laser surgery. Its not exactly a contact lenses though, its a ring of plastic that stretches your cornea. It also only works for low pr
925.
by jamii 16y ago
> it scales linearly with the number of direct connections established Yes, assuming that the overlay algorithm actually establishes direct connections with a small number of peers. That's the way most overlays are designed because they
926.
by jamii 16y ago
You mean something like this http://libswift.org/ ? I think I understand your point now. What we need is a standard mechanism for addressing devices. I'm not sure that building another layer on top of IPv4 would be any cheaper in the long
927.
by jamii 16y ago
> P2P is a nightmare because every application is expected to provide its own connection fabric Well someone has to write the connection fabric, even in a content-addressed overlay. Writing a DHT that performs NAT traversal is just as
928.
by jamii 16y ago
> don't agree with the view that NAT is evil NAT is a nightmare for p2p applications. For algorithms that send short messages to many different peers the overhead of using STUN for every connection is enormous. See eg http://citeseerx.
929.
by jamii 16y ago
3d printers are just one tool in the box. Traditional cnc machines are also dropping in price and the software is getting easier to use. The MIT Fab Lab demonstrated building a house in a few weeks with a set of tools that fits inside a shi
930.
by jamii 16y ago
I avoid the privacy flip-flops by simply making my entire profile public. That way I'm never tempted into writing something I wouldn't want the world to see. To be honest I think I would be a better person if I never held an opinion I wasn'

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