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by jewbacca 12y ago
Partial transcript of featured speaker, Dr. Michael T. Osterholm's, session: https://www.reddit.com/r/ebola/comments/2jgyuz/partial_trans...
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Johns Hopkins Dean’s Symposium on Ebola: Crisis, Context and Response [videos](jhsph.edu)
2 points by jewbacca 12y ago|1 comments
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by jewbacca 12y ago
1. The Nexus line is supposed to be something like Google's Android reference device, and implements the minimum common set of features -- up-to-date computing hardware and screen, reasonable-resolution cameras, standard set of sensors
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by jewbacca 12y ago
My total layman's impression of this has been that it doesn't matter if the virus mutates to something "worse" -- that, short of some currently politically impossible action several orders of magnitude beyond what is cur
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by jewbacca 12y ago
jnsk: you are shadowbanned (but solid point)
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Facilitating arguments about Star Trek was one of the primary motivating factors in the development of the internet.
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by jewbacca 12y ago
It's not like "Ferengi as Space Jews" is an original point this author has devised: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3AFerengi#The_Jews_of_Spa... Though he has overlooked / omitted contradictory r
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by jewbacca 12y ago
This is going to be wonderful for the popular appreciation of the history of computation. But inaccurate in the specifics (eg, the Bombe, the machine depicted, was not Turing complete, and if you were to stretch the definition of "comp
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by jewbacca 12y ago
Good point. I would amend that to "large events and tournaments with subscriber-only chats are poisoning their own hype."
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by jewbacca 12y ago
The Twitch chat is half the value of the stream-watching experience for me. The "character" of the Twitch chat is valuable. The manically insane hivemind, with all the juvenilia and "shittiness" that is inherent to it,
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by jewbacca 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_prescription
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by jewbacca 13y ago
Someone on Reddit seems to be claiming to have contacted the researcher behind this story: ---- Right technical post/description of how not to use technology coming up. TL; DR I guess if you can't operate a box then there isn&#x
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by jewbacca 13y ago
* This is from the scene where Khan has caused Kirk (along with his son David, David's mother Carol, and his officers McCoy, Saavik, and Chekhov) to become apparently marooned without hope of rescue inside an artificially habitable cav
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by jewbacca 13y ago
Not many of the people commenting in this thread, to say nothing of the general population, are founders of security research firms. We may have seen noisy rumours of these things, and even noisier hints at their scope and extent, but we&#
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by jewbacca 13y ago
I find it amazing how often supposedly substantive discussions about Wikileaks and Julian Assange go on without any explicit mention or acknowledgment of what I've always considered his central thesis: ---- "The non linear effects
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by jewbacca 13y ago
I know it's a profoundly different area of the industry, but it's reasonably common practice in videogames (PC gaming, at least) for official spokespeople, even designers, and very occasionally developers, to engage with the commu
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by jewbacca 13y ago
This SEO-looking site does credit Nikolai Lamm, who's also posted the content on his personal site, with no further attribution for the photos: http://nickolaylamm.com/art-for-clients/what-do-cats-see/ I was
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by jewbacca 13y ago
From Julian Assange's old blog: http://cryptome.org/0002/ja-conspiracies.pdf http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/#The... ---- Sun 31 Dec 2006 : The non
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by jewbacca 13y ago
Evidence?
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by jewbacca 13y ago
Seeing as how the internet's original purpose was to facilitate Star Trek debates, I think it's relevant to the contrived title of this article to point towards what the semi-canon materials have to say about Kirk's Kobayashi Maru: ---- fro
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The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster(theatlantic.com)
7 points by jewbacca 14y ago|1 comments
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And I'd imagine a successful prosecution will render her completely beyond political reproach and put her on the fast track to higher legal leadership (which she must already be on to be assigned this case). So, if nothing else, an HN angle
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Similarly. Chrome 26.0.1410.65 on OS X 10.8.2. Not so much a crash as a lockup -- no mouse movement, except for a single frame update about 45 seconds in. I assume it's a WebGL problem. My logs are spammed with "kernel[0]: NVDA(OpenGL):
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Why "outside of the sub-Reddits"? Are they missing something you can offer? I'm only peripherally aware of the scene, but I know there's at least 3 massive, established online social fitness communities, for links and otherwise: http://re
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Having some suspicions of what Stallman's wider goals are, I wouldn't assume that these "injustices" are the reason for his objection in isolation. I see from a quick stalk (sorry, I wanted to see if there was some common ground to build o
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by jewbacca 14y ago
That is certainly the default position. I use an iPhone as well, because I like it, and I could make that same statement, but it would be with significant self-deprecation, and the "currently" would be loaded with subtext. I'm curious about
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by jewbacca 14y ago
On its own? No more than the sun coming up in the morning. Which isn't saying "it's as certain as the sun coming up that there's a startup bubble.". I'm mean that, as far as startup-favorable actions go, this seems way too benign to signa
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by jewbacca 14y ago
> When I want to learn about the distinction between declarative paradigms and functional paradigms I talk to people who specialize in drawing that distinction. Since the blog post is prima facie drawing a distinction between functional
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by jewbacca 14y ago
I'm not sure we have the necessary language in common to communicate here. Functional programming is not just about stateless pure functions, it's also about composing computations. I'm curious if you've ever written in a natively lazy fu
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by jewbacca 14y ago
Okay, if you require an appeal to authority, here is Oleg Kiselyov deriving Iteratees in Haskell, a more general formalization of "futures"/"promises": http://okmij.org/ftp/Streams.html If you insist on setting up semantic games: if Oleg

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