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The Psychology Behind Games(gamasutra.com)
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Check out "The C10K Problem" ( http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html ) for a high level discussion of some techniques for high performance servers. For basic info on Epoll: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Linux-Files-and-the-Eve... epoll so
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If you want to learn about some more advanced strategies, you may also benefit from this classic: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
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"I wouldn’t have been able to have the conversation with Max that prompted this discussion if he hadn’t seen my Facebook status and chatted with me after noticing I was online." Communication is not Facebook. Non-Facebook users have an equ
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Because they obviously did not. Camps varied in cruelty quite a bit. It's worth learning about how a modern society like Weimar Germany could have been influenced to take the course of action that it did. Similar things continue to happe
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LSD is actually a fairly popular party drug. At certain types of electronic music events it tends to be more popular than MDMA, even. With psychedelics, the environment has a profound effect on the experience. As such, people using it as
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Eliezer and others on LessWrong have authored a treasure trove of articles on using your brain more effectively. For a high level map of some "tracks" of articles elaborating common themes, check out http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequenc
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Assumptions are a funny business. Think of them as a kind of cache. We absolutely must cache most of our beliefs about reality. It would quickly overwhelm us to compute every thought response to everyday stimuli. Many people think of the
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We are always learning how to learn more. Destroying the specimens would destroy an opportunity to learn about an organism that has had a significant impact on our own species.
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While you are absolutely correct that nanoparticles need to be used with caution, it might be difficult for a superhydrophobic particle to enter a body that it is so repulsed by. But I can imagine them being quite harmful when they neverth
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To be honest - it is actually somewhat important for racist people to be able to communicate in the open like that. You don't want to sweep your problems under the carpet and pretend they don't exist. Facebook has shown a lot of people ju
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That kind of content is televised precisely because it is a controversial spectacle that "normal" people aren't engaging in. They post photos they take at interesting parties. Pretty standard for college but enough to twist any of them int
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You are absolutely free to share anything you want with whomever you choose. Just make sure you properly define who all that is and use basic crypto to keep out the unintended. It's not the public sector job so much as the ability to parti
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Facebook yields a lot of value for a lot of people. Most of the people I am friends with use it extensively, and post things that will make it harder for them to get a public sector job that requires any kind of background check. They are
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People tell Google incredibly intimate things on an hourly basis, many of which Google then sells to pesterers or gives to three letter agencies. People may catch on eventually, but most simply don't think they need to care what the conseq
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Here's an interesting lecture (sorry, I couldn't find a non-split version) he gave at a university in Sweden (where Erlang has a much greater influence, ahhh the sanity of Northern Europe ;P) note - the sound is dim for the first few moment
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People tend to learn things the hard way. I feel that if I were to be myself on facebook, it would disservice me down the road immensely. Because I cannot be myself on facebook, any goal I may have has to be cast through an obfuscation pr
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"Staggering possibilities managed by rules: that's also a description of natural language. The difference is, when it comes to natural language, we've had lots of time to deal with it. Our brains have evolved pockets that just do language-y
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"Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it" - Schopenhauer
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I can imagine a large percentage of first uses being friends intentionally trying to send their friends on horrible dates as a gag. Having a 2-sided suggestion may work well, where you can suggest a date, D, for one of your trusted friends
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Have they come up with a way to incentivize following through with plans, or reducing the fear of spending time with somebody you haven't had some contact with? There seems to be a very low social/emotional cost to abandoning plans you mak
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Language is stronger than you imagine. When you tell yourself "I have failed at X," you are telling yourself that it is no longer possible. You stop trying, and your lower mind stops presenting you with ideas for how to proceed or potenti
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It takes work. It's about listening to your pain and guiding your life away from it. I can't emphasize that enough - pain is a profound teacher. It tells you when you need to fix something. It takes work to understand pain, and then to
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As with filter bypassing, what prevents splitting one big indictment into several smaller ones?
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There are also several OTA's that decide to carry fewer hotels, and actually send an employee there undercover to check it out first before doing business with them. At the one I work at, we also look for hotels that cause lots of people t
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I bring people together with great hotels. I work at a place very different from Expedia, but yes, I am absolutely shameless about what I do. May your December 26th be better than your Christmas :)
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It sounds like you dealt with a rotten hotel, sorry for your experience. Unfortunately, the OTA is only as accurate as the hotelier filling in information about their property.
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FD: I'm at an OTA/Central Reservation System specializing in boutique hotels. When you book with a respectable OTA, it is basically like purchasing comfort insurance, but you pay nothing for it. You are being backed by their brand and your
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Full disclosure, I work for an OTA and CRS (central reservation service) specializing in boutique hotels. 1. Often the hotels themselves charge the customer, and pay the OTA commission on a monthly basis. 2. Many contracts between hotels an
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The winner will probably employ a similar hopping technique combined with "chirping" to transmit condensed bursts and phase modulation to better evade jamming.

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