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by joeyo 14y ago
That's right. There are a variety of different schemes that have been devised by the pool operators to enact fair compensation for the pool workers. Most pools pay proportional to the amount of work that the worker accomplishes with a fee f
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by joeyo 14y ago
Here is a related thing that I haven't full wrapped my head around: if I were to lose the key of my hypothetical bitcoin wallet, any bitcoins contained within are lost from the economy ... forever. So it is actually a finite and slowly decr
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by joeyo 14y ago
> ... in a woefully finicky home oven ... This is a very good point. Older ovens often have inaccurate thermostats. Getting a cheap ancillary oven thermometer can make a big difference.
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by joeyo 14y ago
Thank you so much for pointing out xpra. I've been wanting this exact feature for years. I frequently use Matlab on remote servers (they're closer to the data and faster than my laptop). I've been mostly able to get by through a combination
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by joeyo 14y ago
It depends on the level of the amputation (and which muscles Myo is capable of recording). The muscles that move the fingers are conveniently located in the forearm, so a transradial amputee could potentially make use of it.
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by joeyo 14y ago
Exactly. That's what Make is still used.
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by joeyo 14y ago
I am pretty sure that the Quake 3 demo was released for Linux first and my memory is that this was an intentional move by Carmack to promote Linux [1]. 1. Wikipedia lists the release dates for the full game, which were in Dec 1999 for both
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by joeyo 14y ago
> It seems like the real issue here is prestige, which then > translates to funding. "Publish or die" is how most > researchers seem to live. Thus I think if we are able to > show that self-publishing/distribute
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by joeyo 14y ago
From the RAND report [1]: "Some exceptions prove this rule. One of most successful health IT systems in use today is the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, which actively engaged
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by joeyo 14y ago
They could have simply provided a standard USB-A port. Trying to put all possible connectors on the thing sounds like a fools errand, regardless of Apple's stance.
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by joeyo 14y ago
> The disbelief came when it was time to listen to singular > words. With the screen turned off, I got 0%. With the > screen turned on, I got 8%. That’s crazy! It's really amazing how pervasive (putatively Bayesian) multisensory
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by joeyo 14y ago
> With the implants though, they don't try to stimulate via > pressure, they just send electrical impulses through the > electrodes. The resulting electric field is what > stimulates the nerve. Yes, it is true
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by joeyo 14y ago
There are several ways to approach this, but one of the more common ones is to use minimum-jerk trajectories: http://www.shadmehrlab.org/book/minimum_jerk/minimumjerk.htm
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by joeyo 14y ago
>[1] The US Constitution does not provide the same levels of > protection to non-Citizens, which is why drone-strikes on > foreigners is still disgusting but not as terrifying (from > the perspective of a US ci
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by joeyo 14y ago
Before you get too excited, (from the IBM article): It is important to clarify that we have not built a biologically realistic simulation of the complete human brain. Rather, we have simulated a novel modular, scalable, non-von Neum
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by joeyo 14y ago
Interesting. Do you have a citation for the Brock's region damage?
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by joeyo 14y ago
> The gmail analogy is a little off, a closer one would be > to compare to gtalk. Do google scan gtalk messages? Unless you specifically select "Go off the record" I strongly suspect that they do.
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by joeyo 14y ago
The 6th Circuit covers both Nashville and Detroit and therefore has been the source some music-specific copyright case law. For example, about sampling. See: Bridgeport Music, Inc. v. Dimension Films for an example.
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by joeyo 14y ago
Another similarity between Hacker News and early Slashdot (I'm user #173) is that both, despite being link aggregators, felt like primary sources due to the commentators. For a time Slashdot was read and commented on by all of the primary O
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by joeyo 14y ago
> 1. You were searching for an airport, left out the word > "airport", which is the most important word, and it's > Apple's fault? Yes, it is Apple's fault, in a sense, because the customer is always right. Moreover,
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by joeyo 14y ago
Very true. I don't remember the exact date I switched to Google [1.] but I permanently switched after a single search. It was simply that much better, even at the beginning. 1. I first found out about Google way down deep in a /. thread, pr
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by joeyo 14y ago
> It has, or should have, no bearing at all on the > actions of state legislatures; Almost all of the Bill of Rights, including Amendment I, have been held by courts to be "incorporated" against the states as a consequenc
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by joeyo 14y ago
Not just the capybara, but beavers and muskrats too! It actually makes some sense when you consider that Thomas Aquinas' Aristotelianist classification of animals more to do with habitat as anatomy.
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by joeyo 14y ago
Quarks carry fractional charge (e/3) [1]. And Quasiquarks seem to be able to carry any fractional charge with an odd-denominator (e/3, e/5, e/7, ...) [2,3] which would seem to indicate that the universe has quantized space yet has no lower
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by joeyo 14y ago
I think it's because of the airport code (Raleigh-Durham/RDU). Because of that, people who aren't from the area think that the two cities are a lot closer than they actually are. As a former Durham native, I've always said Durham-Raleigh. :
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by joeyo 14y ago
C. elegans (a type of nematode) is even simpler, with exactly 302 neurons and ~15k synapses. But despite having the complete connectome, there has to date been only limited success at simulating the whole worm. Although see: https://code.g
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by joeyo 14y ago
You're right that adding AJAX was a small, straightforward change, but it caused a disproportionate improvement in usability. I personally went from using MapQuest exclusively to GMaps exclusively after a single use.
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by joeyo 14y ago
You experience discontinuities in consciousness every day: when you sleep. Why is it that we feel like the same person after we wake up from sleep, from anesthesia, or even a prolonged coma? You could go to sleep, have arbitrary operations
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by joeyo 14y ago
I don't see how the length of use has any bearing on the appropriate response to something (potentially) being a health hazard.
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by joeyo 14y ago
That's very true, but you can't use a mirror to grasp an object.

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