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by jvm 14y ago
I was confused by your comment > I don't think it's just a problem for women. Since the paper provided clear evidence that this problem is worse for women. But then I kept reading and learned that you believe > The percentage of pe
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by jvm 14y ago
I'm surprised to see so much complaining about the length of the name. Do you guys not have auto-complete?
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How does regulation make taxis safer? As cars, they need to have a license plate you can write down and give to the police. I can't imagine what aspect of regulation offers protections beyond that. IMO taxi regulation in North America is ge
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> a big advantage of an electric plane is that it can fly at much higher altitudes since it doesn't burn atmospheric oxygen like normal jets. My understanding is that air is still the medium they use for propulsion so I'm not sure how b
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I'm sure you could cherry pick parts of Finland that have even lower gun violence. Conversely, unlike your cherry-picked states, parent actually chose Finland for its exceptionally high gun violence. Even if you broke out the 50 states few
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I can't believe this troll comment is the top comment. > Our team of the best eight Soviet students, during the month we had the problems, solved only half of them. Those questions weren't hard. They were impossible. The point was simp
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Obama Won With Michael Dukakis' Share of the White Vote(slate.com)
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I'm on the TMo $30 prepaid. It is awesome. HSPA+ is very fast and responsive. I'm in NYC though where I know they are particularly good.
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by jvm 14y ago
I see this issue from a completely different perspective. I see it as, we have a social problem: Some people use drugs that ruin their lives. Rather than using a lot of counseling and trying to actually help people get off their habit, we u
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I know, I'm waiting for the refresh. All told it's $200 extra counting the keyboard dock but I consider that totally worth it, especially since there's an extra battery pack in the keyboard.
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Sadly this all sounds quite correct.
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Apparently the TouchStream was beloved by its users before its designer, FingerWorks was bought by Apple along with all their patents and the device was chucked down the memory hole: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FingerWorks
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by jvm 14y ago
I believe this is what you are looking for: http://eee.asus.com/en/transformer-infinity/features I've never used one but a lot of people on HN seem to swear by them.
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by jvm 14y ago
CogSci PhD student here, I'm no fan of Chomsky but I'd still say his contributions were a lot more useful than Freud's. Freudian Psychology is mostly abandoned by practitioners at this point; the Chomsky hierarchy is still canon in CS.
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> It is the fact that there aren't ENOUGH people willing to pay enough of a premium. That's all I was trying to say. I think it's judgmental to say that the people who buy airplane tickets are "at fault" but their aggregate decisions ar
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> According to almost every other article it's because of aggressive expansion According to the numbers, they lose a ton of money on their existing flights: http://crankyflier.com/2012/07/05/virgin-america-posts-terri... So I think th
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by jvm 14y ago
But clearly there is a large market for direct flights from the Bay Area to Chicago, NYC, etc. If people trying to book such a flight always chose to fly VA and pay extra to do so, there wouldn't be a problem. But they don't so there is.
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Of course if there were enough people like you VA wouldn't be failing. But it is so that must mean there aren't.
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Airlines generally fill their flights by charging the fares that fill them up. But in the case of VA that doesn't add up to enough to cover their costs: people don't prefer them enough to make the costs of their better service worthwhile. T
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But there is still a transportation shortage. This provides an accessible option for those who are willing to pay. The alternative for most people is not finding a car at all.
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A lot of these things you're saying have to do with just being aligned with the Apple universe. > I can pick up one device where I left off on another one. I would argue that seamlessness across devices has historically almost always be
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by jvm 14y ago
> The yuan is displacing the yen as a key currency in Asia FTFY (well, at least fixed that for the Economist headline writers)
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Of course, web standards don't oblige browsers to not have features that aren't in the standard (it would be a harsh world if they did!).
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Would be cool if Vimperator integrated it though! E.g., :! could give you access within the Vimp command line itself.
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Isn't WebSQL supposed to be replaced by IndexedDB?(which FF has btw)
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I agree with what you're saying about pageviews as a metric for reader engagement, but it still seems like in an ideal world if the advertisers had a solid empirical measure of ad effectiveness rather than just a count of the impressions, t
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I've been thinking about this a lot lately since I have a new roommate who went to art school instead of a four-year university and doesn't seem to have any idea when he's saying something racist. People often seem to think that only STEM d
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> the most racist things don't target the race of anyone, just their income level. This is basically a denial that actual racism is a serious problem. I think that's worse than saying the n-word a thousand times. Even if Obamacare gives
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Man does that ever look awesome
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by jvm 14y ago
Remap caps lock to escape. After I did this I realized Esc is a really useful key in a wide variety of contexts.

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