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by jcdreads 17y ago
Right, but her point is that had they (the author and her late husband) actually understood the costs at the time that they were making treatment decisions they might have made different ones. On the other hand, as you note, in a very real
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On the Timing & Duration of Sleep(nytimes.com)
1 points by jcdreads 17y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Am I Haiku or Not?(daghlian.com)
1 points by jcdreads 17y ago|1 comments
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by jcdreads 17y ago
No, it does not show that more people are finding jobs; it shows that people are losing jobs much more slowly.
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What we don't understand [about UI complexity](scripting.com)
3 points by jcdreads 17y ago|0 comments
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by jcdreads 17y ago
That, and he completely ignored coriolis forces, which apparently explain the divergence nicely.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
May we have a "try it out without first signing up" space where one can create and play with a list that only lasts for the session or something?
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by jcdreads 17y ago
I'm sure every credit and debit card company---who get to charge several percent of each transaction in fees---agrees with you.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
My recent favorite, Ebert's discussion of what it's like never to eat nor drink: http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01/nil_by_mouth.html
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Nah. There are all sorts of ways to suspend glass microparticles and a binder in some kind of solvent that evaporates after spraying, leaving a glass-particle-and-binder layer behind. The physics/chemistry of it are pretty easy (for those
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by jcdreads 17y ago
"The spray forms a water-resistant layer, meaning it can be cleaned using only water." This sentence does not lend the rest of the article much credibility.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Imagine a single thermonuclear explosion: one big enough to destroy a large city. The bomb doesn't weigh that much compared to the amount of energy released. A gigantic amount of energy comes from a small amount of mass. The c 2 in Eins
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Even if you assume a local mercator projection (centered on your business or whatever) you still need to know that the earth is spherical. Otherwise, you're likely to assume that an 0.1 degree change in latitude is the same distance as an
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Primary source: http://www.latexsearch.com/LatexTool/
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Somewhere, Cory Doctorow dances a little jig.
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Promoting books with free copies: On Kindle, Best Sellers Don’t Need to Sell(nytimes.com)
6 points by jcdreads 17y ago|5 comments
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Yes: I switched about 14 years ago. It took me about three (frustrating) weeks until my Dvorak speed caught up to my querty speed---it isn't noticeably faster for me---but my wrist and hand pain completely disappeared after about a week. F
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Security by obscurity: The No Lock People(nytimes.com)
22 points by jcdreads 17y ago|51 comments
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Well, the commissioner can't do that. Congress and the President do that (or don't).
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Terrible Boston highway signs(boston.com)
2 points by jcdreads 17y ago|1 comments
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Were he the _author_ of the tax code then this would be deliciously ironic. Since he is the commissioner of a large federal agency, I'd imagine (indeed, hope!) that he has better uses of his time than preparing his returns. Like fixing &#
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Here is a great description of how Alan Kay and friends wrote the Squeak (Smalltalk) VM using another (Apple) Smalltalk: http://ftp.squeak.org/docs/OOPSLA.Squeak.html Also consider that a bunch of languages (most?) consist of a kernel (or
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Perhaps instead of replacing our crappy mattress with a new one I can instead regale the lovely wife with group theory: "Look, honey. It's our old friend Z2xZ2xZ2." Won't she be pleased!
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by jcdreads 17y ago
In four lines of code he's hidden a ton of complexity and can now completely avoid thinking about all the low-level garbage. Markdown similarly hides (automates) all the details of how it generates HTML from source, and in exchange you give
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Here's raw data for doing your own (US) inflation adjustments: http://www.measuringworth.org/datasets/uscpi
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by jcdreads 17y ago
I can't believe no one here seems to be using http://urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com/
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by jcdreads 17y ago
AOL's branding problems (viz. the "Platform A" mess; you _do_ remember Platform A, right?) are emblematic of the larger problems they face as a company. They sit atop a great pile of technologies on the advertising side, and a great set of
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by jcdreads 17y ago
An article that combines the TSA, iPhones, and Ron Paul. HN gold! Edit: Geez, people. Lighten up!
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by jcdreads 17y ago
My guess is that it stopped because there are no longer any HN readers who both like xkcd and don't check it anyway. We reached xkcd-awareness saturation a couple of years ago.
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by jcdreads 17y ago
Logo was my favorite thing about 4th and 5th grade, and I've not touched Logo code since then. Having not touched it in the 25-odd intervening years, my memories of struggling to hold a whole program design in my head are relatively clear;

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