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by lmkg 10y ago
> I was able to be fully funded through the research that I performed You performed work that benefited the institution, in exchange for goods and services. This is employment. I get what you're saying, and you're not totally
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by lmkg 10y ago
Gawker is not being destroyed because they broke the law. Many companies, including media companies, do that on the regular. Gawker is being destroyed because a billionaire didn't like them, and decided to devote enough time & mone
873.
by lmkg 10y ago
Which style is more readable depends on whether in practice you end up with more sequence-like structures, or more tree-like structures. Chaining makes sense for sequences. For tree-like structures, they get confusing because the nesting le
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by lmkg 10y ago
The word 'infinity' refers to a few different concepts in different branches of mathematics. Some of them have been well-defined and well-understood for a long time. The point named "Infinity" as a limit in analysis&#x2F
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by lmkg 10y ago
There is no infringement of free speech going on. Celebrities are free to make endorsements, paid or otherwise. Companies are free to market their products in this fashion. The only requirement is that paid endorsements are labeled as such,
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by lmkg 10y ago
> just pick an arbitrary, possibly randomized answer in certain situations. Based on the explanation in Footnote 2, it sounds like the "certain situations" are ones that "almost never" occur, in the measure-theoretic
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by lmkg 10y ago
After the trial period is done, it doesn't stop working, it just becomes nagware. All the functionality is there, but it will close itself after 30 minutes, and every once in a while will pause for five seconds to ask you to buy a lice
878.
by lmkg 10y ago
War has always been economic. The ability to win wars is not the ability to inflict losses, but the ability to sustain losses--both economically, and politically. You might make an argument that for a brief period around modern times, wars
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by lmkg 10y ago
I agree that this part is scary, but it isn't news . I first heard about license-plate readers back in 2008, and at that point police could already take a wired-up squad car for a cruise through a grocery store parking lot, scanning a
880.
by lmkg 10y ago
One potential solution is ahead-of-time decision making. When young and lucid, make the decision of what criteria would cause you to prefer physician-assisted suicide. Write that down in a document. Allow that document to have legal force.
881.
by lmkg 11y ago
Actually, one valid answer is "That's illegal in the state of California." It works best if you're actually in California, but even if not, it might give them pause.
882.
by lmkg 11y ago
> - the surname of a US presidential candidate for the 2012 republican nomination That one is a bit of a special case. His name is a swear word because it's his name. As a protest against him, people decided to make his name into
883.
by lmkg 11y ago
It's not just files. Anything originally designed as a temporary stop-gap has a habit of becoming permanent. I first learned this about portable classrooms, then laws, then organizational practices. By comparison, the temp directory
884.
by lmkg 11y ago
Quick rebuttal to the quick rebuttal: - Many advertisers pay by the impressions, especially "premium" ad slots. They treat ads as billboards and pay for "reach." - (1) If you're using a CDN, hits don't got to y
885.
by lmkg 11y ago
"Everything" is the intersection of all types (rather than the union , which is "Anything"). It does not means that it contains the values that all types contain. Rather, it contains the values that belong to every
886.
by lmkg 11y ago
A friend of mine (from the US, native speaker) spent a year in Japan as a schoolteacher under the JET program. We kept in touch via message-boards and such. His written English notably deteriorated over the course of the year. It's p
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by lmkg 11y ago
My personal experience is that, after sending out a resume in PDF format, many recruiters (~25%?) will ask me to re-send it in Word format so they can edit it. The barrier of "use a piece of software outside the Microsoft Office Suite&
888.
by lmkg 11y ago
> 1. Feeding infinite HTML is not the same as feeding > tape. A million tape cells can keep a typical Turing > machine running indefinitely. A million rows only keep > this running for a million execution steps
889.
by lmkg 11y ago
From what I read when Adobe changed their process, when they say "performance reviews" they mean "the traditional bureaucratic 12-month employee review cycle." Employees are still being reviewed. The big change is contin
890.
by lmkg 11y ago
To be fair, rice farmers have scaled back their crop by (iirc) 25% this year.
891.
by lmkg 11y ago
> NAUTY (and SAUCY) were good practical implementations > that found solutions efficiently (except for some > harder class of graphs, maybe). There are good practical implementations of SAT solvers as well (except deg
892.
by lmkg 11y ago
> What proof is there that these people were "losers" and slackers as you put it? VPN usage statistics. We have to take Y!'s word for it, but most news stories about the policy change say that Mayer looked at usage statist
893.
by lmkg 11y ago
The article implies (but does not state) that these students struggle once they're in. Getting in to Stanford has only marginal value on its own, the majority of value is in graduating and receiving a degree. If parents are optimizing
894.
by lmkg 11y ago
I might give them a tip if I'm a regular customer, but it's not as obligatory as tipping waiters. I think it is customary to tip the dealer when gambling, though.
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by lmkg 11y ago
Shot in the dark: Killing organisms is not sufficient. The corpse of a bacterium is still a contaminant: It still has organic compounds that can be measured by our equipment, and potentially interact with organic compounds on Mars. For our
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by lmkg 11y ago
That's not the same thing, though. They're not just talking about the fact that some items are more common than others, or even the correlation between power and rarity. What Diablo did (that M:tG didn't) was that the same we
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by lmkg 11y ago
A good deal of Lovecraft's works involve something that is definitely technological. Several of his crazy "alien" races (sometimes Earth-based) have their extreme powers due to technological progress, such as the Elder Things
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by lmkg 11y ago
Could be that the installer needs a certain amount of swap space. Alternatively, it could be "we tested it with this much free and it worked, we don't have time/budget to test again with less space."
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by lmkg 11y ago
The current plan is to write a new browser called Servo in Rust, which is not intended to supplant Firefox. Servo is currently classified as a research project, not product development, with the goal of exploring parallelism and safety in b
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by lmkg 11y ago
Yeah, that's how science works. We start from a position of ignorance, and we incrementally gain new pieces of knowledge. Years ago, we learned about the health risks of saturated fats and moved away from them. More recently, we learne

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