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by kbutler 9y ago
Where did the jet stream previously get the cold to bring to the Arctic?
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by kbutler 9y ago
Note that this page should be considered a "cheat sheet", rather than an explanation. For explanations, see the reference section lower in the page.
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by kbutler 9y ago
A lisp program will tend to have fewer parentheses than an equivalent Java program has parens + braces. They just stack up at the end of the expression. For example, see https://gist.github.com/coding4food/1248505 Par
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by kbutler 9y ago
If you can identify the recipient, then it doesn't provide privacy. If you can't identify the recipient, it is open to fraud by the principals.
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by kbutler 9y ago
And suddenly the principals of the lottery company start spending huge amounts of cash...
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by kbutler 9y ago
"Amazon's dominance in the emerging area of voice search is a threat to Google's general dominance in search." (Like the Apple's iPhone platform is a threat to Google, which Google is attempting to counter by promot
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by kbutler 9y ago
Minimum wage makes that expensive milk (though probably less expensive than doing it yourself!)
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by kbutler 9y ago
Before getting a dairy animal, consider: do I want to spend 30 minutes every single morning and every single evening, regardless of weather, vacation time, desire to travel, or illness, to get 1-2 gallons of milk per day? Small-scale dairy
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by kbutler 9y ago
Hoped I'd see they were working with Steven Brust, author of the excellent Vlad Taltos fantasy series, who wrote a fan fiction Firefly novel, "My Own Kind of Freedom" http://dreamcafe.com/2008/02/05&
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by kbutler 9y ago
Absolutely the worst news for everybody on the internet!
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by kbutler 9y ago
Performance of Python driving UI components implemented in C beats performance of JavaScript driving UI components implemented in JavaScript on top of the DOM.
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by kbutler 9y ago
That's his point. With a web app, his experience tells him he can run the code within an environment that he's used to. With PyQt, he needs to download and install PyQt. When ready to ship, he needs to figure out how to build it
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by kbutler 9y ago
> Mechanics in games, much like things in user interfaces should be discoverable without reading a manual. I tend to believe this, too - and am amazed at how Minecraft knowledge spreads. I don't believe there is any documentation,
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by kbutler 9y ago
I met some East Germans in the US in July 1989. I asked them if the wall would come down. They said the prime minister said, "Not in the next 100 years." 100 years vs. 5 months. Pretty close...
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by kbutler 9y ago
Going to call "urban legend" on the terrorist angle. Texas is putting it back into the municipal system. https://www.texastribune.org/2012/06/11/texas-gets-creative-... Basically, water treatment pl
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by kbutler 9y ago
I'm curious how you've determined "most US States". I cited CA above - 3 or more, Washington wants 4 seconds above 35 mph. Florida says 4 seconds during normal weather and traffic conditions (more if hazardous). Utah d
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by kbutler 9y ago
So you are willing to reduce your safety to stay ahead of the guy in the other lane. Traffic flows best when drivers allow merges, not when they try to close gaps to prevent merges. Most aggressive mergers will quickly merge out as well. Yo
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by kbutler 9y ago
> Suggested highway following distance is two seconds. Suggested by tailgaters? 1) A two-second rule is insufficient. 2) You need more time if you can't see around or through the vehicle ahead of you (and various other reasons, like
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by kbutler 9y ago
Satellite insurance is probably cheaper (though rates may rise?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_insurance http://spacenews.com/space-insurers-warn-that-current-low-ra...
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by kbutler 9y ago
2 minutes to midnight in 2018: "The world has seen the threat posed by the misuse of information technology and witnessed the vulnerability of democracies to disinformation." 2 minutes to midnight in 1953: "from Moscow to Chi
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by kbutler 9y ago
“A statesman is a politician who’s been dead ten or fifteen years.” - Harry S. Truman This "warmongering" was the rationale for advancing the clock dramatically under Reagan, but Reagan's policies led to the collapse of the s
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by kbutler 9y ago
Payday Lending http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/fact-sheet... "annual percentage rates averaging 391 percent." (That's not a typo) "Average borrowers earn about $30,000 per yea
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by kbutler 9y ago
...like the irresponsibly risky gamble of not changing. (Innovator's Dilemma) But yes, in many ways it is less risky for a big company to try to acquire successful innovative small companies rather than trying to do the innovation in-h
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by kbutler 9y ago
There are already more than 2000 bitcoin ATMs https://coinatmradar.com/
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by kbutler 9y ago
Given that demand growth has outstripped discoveries, how is it that we've continued to grow production for these last 40 years? The answer lies in the metric "proven reserves" - oil that we have the technology to recover tod
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by kbutler 9y ago
In 2010, Cringely promoted her "mobile-magazine-based-on-RSS" solution https://www.cringely.com/2010/03/11/the-94-percent-solution/ and included the statement: "this same content can be re
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by kbutler 9y ago
Yes, it does. If you want to be completely stateless, you need to send the authorization info on each request, probably as basic auth headers. This is actually simpler than implementing the Bearer token, for both client and server, but requ
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by kbutler 9y ago
Interesting math story problem, but probably not much use for real lifeguards. Is there any observational evidence that lifeguards choose paths this way, rather than the direct line or shortest water path? Perhaps they do some optimization,
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by kbutler 9y ago
CES and E3 exist because many people, especially the press, are willing to go. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have a big enough draw that people (the press) will pay to go see what they provide. Smaller, less-dominant companies don't ins
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by kbutler 9y ago
I understand "optimally" to emphasize concision and clarity. Profanity is either seeking to evoke an emotional response, or basically just "very" as DoreenMichelle says. As such, profanity is semantically a really poor i

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