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by jpwagner 14y ago
They need to publicize this more. It was really fun in 2010, and I didn't even know they decided to do it annually since!
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Exactly his point. Read the history...
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Eating is not only for sustenance. Here's a book recommendation: http://www.amazon.com/Never-Eat-Alone-Relationship-ebook/dp/...
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Amish view on Technology(www2.etown.edu)
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Remember that this is over the positive integers. I think if you were interested enough to give it deeper thought, you would not be so disappointed.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
This presentation suggests noticing problems that have inelegant solutions over "thinking up startup ideas", synonymous with [thinking of ideas for companies that have nothing to do with solving problems or providing value]. Either this pre
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by jpwagner 14y ago
This is just terrible. Couldn't have been someone affiliated with the institute; MIT hacks are creative and witty.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
People said the same thing about the huge, bulky cell phones that came out in the 1980s. Wait, bulky cell phones did not catch on. Cell phones became ubiquitous once they became practical. Go back in time and introduce a modern cell pho
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Can you elaborate on what you think the implications of China's involvement are? I mean, "one country, two systems" seems to be allowing HK to be very free.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
" We humans excel at understanding and replicating what nature did - then at improving it. " Do we?
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by jpwagner 14y ago
...are almost certainly going to get the lion's share of this new money. Not sure why you think that. Here's the pdf for your link (I can only guess that you find this paper convincing): http://bit.ly/Y2AXtz
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by jpwagner 14y ago
President: we will spend more money on science! HN: Meh? The cynicism is that all "science" is not equal. Correct or not, cantastoria's criticism is that giving money to charlatans takes that money away from basic research. A good
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by jpwagner 14y ago
feature creep
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by jpwagner 14y ago
A lot of times I think I'm not interested from the title, only to find that an hour later a submission has 950 pts and 65 comments, so then I end up checking it out.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
There are plenty of js/html frameworks for mobile. That mission was (and is??) the _promise_ of webOS. So I don't see how you can say "even in the unlikely event that Firefox OS itself disappears in the process, if web-apps become mainstr
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I have plenty of respect for Berklee, have been friends with, worked with (musically and not) many of their students or affiliates. But just so there's no misconceptions of elitism, their acceptance rate is roughly 50%. It is joked among
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by jpwagner 14y ago
this is not scalable :P
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Is this really a common use-case? When I travel it's always driven by the "where" not by the "now"...
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I think Stephen Stills (of Crosby Stills and Nash) would agree.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
Thanks for this, very interesting. For more background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift
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by jpwagner 14y ago
you can also just add &t=2m50s to the query string
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I don't necessarily doubt the scientists' competence here, but they're just playing the fundraising game when they talk about "disease" in this context.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
a "jury of your peers" is no more infallible
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by jpwagner 14y ago
That's why the question is silly. The absurd answer illustrates a point. Fiction can illustrate a philosophy.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
That's a fair point. I would argue that we're not trying to optimize time in prison but benefit to society. Your argument relies on a linear(ish) relationship between the two.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
how are you quantifying it It's a silly question, so I'll give a silly answer. Suppose we have a man who, from the ages of 30 to 60, is likely to kill a person each year with probability 1/$age. Now suppose he's on trial for murder (a cr
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by jpwagner 14y ago
...rather a guilty man gets off than an innocent being wrongly convicted... obviously. but you have to actually show that the possibility of a "plea bargain" trades one-for-one (or anything unreasonable) for your argument to be convinci
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by jpwagner 14y ago
I doubt anyone disagrees with your idealism, but take the example of a guilty man who has a small but real chance of avoiding any repercussion due to mistrial. It benefits the prosecution, the defendant, and society if there can be a way
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by jpwagner 14y ago
the 5 previous posts in this thread are so perfectly stepwise, it's making my head explode.
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by jpwagner 14y ago
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-435j-quantum-compu...

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