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by jbattle 12y ago
I've tried this with a couple of other sites that are well known but certainly less so than facebook and twitter. Poor results if any. I'm not sure how practical this is for anyone that's not an absolute giant.
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by jbattle 12y ago
this makes me sick, and in any other context I can't imagine how it would stand up.
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by jbattle 12y ago
But the Big Man (at least in other contexts) is conventionally generous. Lavishly so, but within conventions that impose, along with the generosity, certain obligations on the recipient.
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by jbattle 12y ago
There is a lot of information buried in the talk and history views of contentious pages like this - are there any sites or tools that help unpack some of that? What are the most frequently re-written bits of text? What parts of the articl
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by jbattle 13y ago
Even trickier - it sounds like the participants are giving probabilities. So if you guessed some possibility was 42% likely and then it did in fact happen - are you right or wrong? I don't think there is an answer to that question.
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by jbattle 13y ago
> At this point they will have no blood in their body, no breathing, and no brain activity. They will be clinically dead. Is this right? That seems to imply that brain activity can be restarted from a cold, "electrically" inac
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by jbattle 13y ago
If i were to place a bet on how the game gets changed for EV it is a battery swapping model like that explored by Better Place. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place They went belly up but there is something intu
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by jbattle 13y ago
A) How did AOL end up paying "a million dollars each" if they have insurance? B) Everyone close to those parents would know who they were. A baby in the hospital is something that people hear about. So now those parents get to f
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by jbattle 13y ago
It's a bottomless pit - prior to HG Wells were the various kriegsspiels, though of course they weren't games in the entertainment sense - but very much forerunners of Ruhnke's philosophy of learning through games http:/
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by jbattle 13y ago
Depends on the commute - I bought a small laptop so I could work on my side project while on the train. I've found that I can get a lot done in the 10 20-minute legs of my weekly commute. I'm sure it is less efficient than takin
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by jbattle 13y ago
I'm not sure unmapped (on google/OSM) cities are rare at all. My daughter was born in a town in Ethiopia and it's not on any map that I've been able to find while it is listed (without lat/lng sadly) in wikipedia.
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by jbattle 13y ago
I was surprised actually watching the show how ineffective the torture was. Once I started watching for it - in every single case using torture actually did get information out of the victim, but the information either came to late or was
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by jbattle 13y ago
Yet both noise-reduction and resolution-enhancement are both fundamentally about taking whatever information you do have and using that to interpolate/infer information that has been lost (or was never captured). Especially in certai
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by jbattle 13y ago
I expect big things in the coming decades coming out of computer vision & image processing. I wouldn't be surprised if algorithms to 'zoom & enhance' images reach the levels we laugh about in movies today. I'm n
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by jbattle 13y ago
Getting further afield, water's density actually changes considerably with a change in temperature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Properties_of_water#Density_of_... I'm not sure how common this is but I know L
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by jbattle 13y ago
Interesting, but how does humanity rise from a non-industrial dark age to high technology without any reserves of fossil fuels? I say we get only one shot at this - if we our our grandchildren blow it, we remain at ... ok this is stupid ..
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by jbattle 13y ago
If the raw number of DNA differences don't scale with genealogically and morphological 'similarity' - does that imply that the number of genes that get expressed in ways visible to us (facial shape, hair, etc) are really few
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by jbattle 13y ago
Something on the order of 40 million people are first generation immigrants. Obviously a lot of them are very well educated, but many others come with little formal education and little english. I know there are some literacy requirements
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by jbattle 13y ago
Your logic has you backwards. Most of those who are either lazy or unable to find work are poor. Many who are unable to find work are in that situation through no fault of their own.
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by jbattle 13y ago
What about a composite of 100(?) layers of this separated by proper insulation? Hypothetically, the insulation itself could be quite thin as well
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by jbattle 13y ago
I do know that orbits gradually decay - maybe that is the 'energy reserve' we would be drawing down. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave#Orbital_deca...
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by jbattle 13y ago
And presumably that 20 GW would require harnessing ALL the energy (e.g. bringing the current to a halt) - sounds suboptimal
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by jbattle 13y ago
How is that 10K date even possible? If the first migration to the americas happened ~16K years ago - then there were populations isolated for at least that long. Aboriginal Australians reached Australia something like 40K years ago. It&#
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by jbattle 13y ago
Medicare in particular is famous/notorious for low administrative overhead. Not sure how other social services perform
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by jbattle 13y ago
If they don't go they can't tweet about it and post a couple of pictures smiling for the camera
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by jbattle 13y ago
We had a similar problem here. I was frustrated when people felt like they had to stay home to get work done. We set aside one of the meeting rooms as a quiet work room (with monitors/keyboards/mice). Gives another option for
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by jbattle 13y ago
The end result of this inquiry is kind of interesting, but I found the process quite creepy. I'm not familiar with this journalist, but is his practice to find anonymous people on the internet and then stalk them, digging until he fin
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by jbattle 13y ago
Not directly related, but from HP Lovecraft.... "The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
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by jbattle 13y ago
Around Chicago we have problems with Asian carp making their way closer and closer to the great lakes. I've often suggested they be renamed 'river tuna' and our problems will be solved.
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by jbattle 13y ago
First off - thanks for the tip. Second - I'd suggest reconsidering the casual use of the word "rape". I understand what it means in this context but think such usage trivializes rape and in some sense normalizes it or make

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