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by lusr 14y ago
You may want to read Stephen Batchelor's secular book "Buddhism Without Beliefs". In there, meditation is a structured way to develop awareness (mindfulness) of your subconscious thought processes and beliefs (which determine your day-to-da
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by lusr 14y ago
Why use a pronoun at all? Why not use the noun "USSR"? It always freaks me out a bit when people use "we" to describe e.g. a team they supported in a sports game. Feels a bit strange to give up one's identity like that.
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by lusr 14y ago
Great post; I love seeing actual numbers being put to the test on HN. Something that doesn't sit well with me: how sustainable is this business model? How often can you find crates of records for $2,000 that sell for $10,000? How much t
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by lusr 14y ago
It rewards people who contribute to science, who in turn can use the reward as they see fit. It is logical to believe that allocating wealth to people who have demonstrated high quality results will increase the number of future high quali
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by lusr 14y ago
My problem was Twitter's API not having a more intelligent filter API. If you want to use it to filter all tweets with stocks (i.e. "\$\w{1,4}") you can't as far as I could tell. Instead you have to filter on '$' which gets you a ton of no
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by lusr 14y ago
Apparently there is at least <input type="date" /> ( http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html ) but support is indeed pathetic ( http://www.quirksmode.org/html5/inputs.html ). It's fascinating these other APIs receive higher pri
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by lusr 14y ago
> Probably the most famous of these was the IBM-originated quad-HD 3840 x 2160 22 inch panel. Memory fails but I'll say that this panel goes back at least fifteen years. OEM cost started out around $20K and dropped to about $6K with tim
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by lusr 14y ago
Not sure that would achieve much, except maybe make her feel (unfairly) guilty and the rest of the class potentially resentful (despite this not being her fault). But sending her away makes no sense either. Why not ask her to wait outside,
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by lusr 14y ago
What didn't you like about him? He seemed keen on a solid business principles and that's great. Only thing I didn't like is the desire for a 2+ person team, because ownership is everything, but that's hardly an unfair request - there's fa
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by lusr 14y ago
It is absurd to generalise like this and tell people not to try without knowing their background and goals. While I personally don't see the point in spending my time learning design skills, this is because my current goal is to move away f
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by lusr 14y ago
I skimmed through the rather extensive write-up at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_co... and could find zero evidence to support your claims of a "warmist mafia" conspiring to "spike publication of contrary res
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by lusr 14y ago
I'm no juggling pro but I've held conversations with people while juggling (3 balls). I don't think it clears my mind, but it does force me to focus the conversation or thoughts more precisely.
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by lusr 14y ago
Right but if you create a layer of plausible deniability you are still responsible for the consequences. If the head honcho says "Yeah you can kill the people on the list I haven't seen" I don't understand why seeing the list is a requirem
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by lusr 14y ago
I'm puzzled by this. As far as I can understand from your argument, a bunch of scientists didn't apply scientific method as well as they could. Meanwhile, another bunch did apply scientific method more objectively. And objectivity won
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by lusr 14y ago
Your comment seems to start off by agreeing with the parent but then diverges when you say: > Science is the scientists. > Science has hierarchies... No, scientists have human flaws which lead to biases, hierarchies, etc. Science,
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by lusr 14y ago
What puzzles me is why the person delegating authority is not considered responsible for the actions of those whom authority has been delegated to. Authority was delegated, not responsibility.
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by lusr 14y ago
You may be very different from the typical person, but most people do not exhaustively record their actions, observe consequences, compare with goals, reflect, plan new actions, etc. This is because we already have a good part of this bui
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by lusr 14y ago
Why do you believe emotion is useless? I cannot think of any aspects of our psychology that are useless (they evolved for a reason). Negative emotions are fundamentally indicators of a cognitive dissonance and are absolutely invaluable in
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by lusr 14y ago
> It's much more accurate to describe the perpetrators as cold, empty, detached. The article states that, according to the Secret Service, 78% of these school shooters are NOT cold, empty, detached (which would describe socio/psychopath
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by lusr 14y ago
How do you "know" that kind of language is not OK?
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by lusr 14y ago
Better luck than I've had. Topaz Labs just ignored me when I pointed out there'd been a breach (unique email address with their name in it); they lost a sale of an otherwise good software product.
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by lusr 14y ago
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Slow_Counting Are there DBMSs where this doesn't happen? I just did a SELECT COUNT(*) on a table here in our QA environment; 20.5 seconds to count 42385875 records from one table and 68.8 seconds to count
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by lusr 14y ago
One further observation: the original poster never said she alone could choose to spend more time with her child, yet many people are leaping to this conclusion. Both her and her husband are incredibly successful and both of them could
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by lusr 14y ago
Top job, no less. For somebody who's accomplished as much as she has, it must be difficult finding worthy new challenges. The VentureBeat article on another thread states she's worth $300m. She only continues to work because she loves th
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by lusr 14y ago
I'm not familiar with PG but I am planning on using it in my current project, which is why I'm interested in understanding whether these are really DBMS issues. In the .NET world, for all the database adapters I've used (MSSQL, SQLCE, Oracl
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by lusr 14y ago
A clause restraining you from engaging in your "profession, trade, or business", i.e. in general, is unenforceable. A clause restraining you from engaging with another party may or may not be unenforceable depending on the details. In othe
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by lusr 14y ago
> if your application is architected such that it leaves transactions, implicit or otherwise, open for extended periods. Can you give any good reason why you need to leave transactions open for extended periods? In my experience, it
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by lusr 14y ago
Awesome! I see they lost the Soviet Lunokhod 1 array for nearly 40 years!
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by lusr 14y ago
Interesting - how is it they can accurately target the puny "lunar laser ranging retroreflector array" but not see the landers?
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by lusr 14y ago
Very cool site. I'd love to send friends a link to your site and have the itinerary information visible right there on the site -- otherwise you're expecting me to send non-technical people a link into HackerNews to see the details. I know

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