m-photonic

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by m-photonic 16y ago
>COICA is the digital equivalent of a lynching The analogy isn't obvious to me.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
"One in seven?! rtm, you jerk! Why seven?" Excerpted from the book Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier (published 1991). The quoted speaker is Paul Graham.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
The study does address that possibility: >Even more intriguingly, they discovered that people's feelings of happiness had much more to do with where their mind was than what they were doing. Only 4.6% of a person's happiness could be at
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>how often do people have to react to only eyes as opposed to all facial expressions, supported by body language and words? Not often, but supplying only the eyes is a good way to bring the scores down into a more useful range for the t
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by m-photonic 16y ago
It would be nice if they'd tell us the standard deviation in addition to the averages. I got 19, which puts me below the mean for the Asperger/HFA population, but I'm fairly sure I'm not in that category. Really, the two averages are bare
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by m-photonic 16y ago
I think that's rather the point of the test.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
I read somewhere that there was a period in the 18th century when Venetians started wearing Carnival masks year round (ie, not just during Carnival). I can't find my original source, but Wikipedia offers something along similar lines: "It
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Wow, I don't think anything else that's been posted in this thread gives such stark results as that. It seems almost like you broke it.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>I spent the next 90 days building a Rage Against the Machine fan site with my friend at home Is it still around? ;)
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Don't you mean a wretched hive of scum and villainy?
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>If we want to keep HN purpose-focused, then perhaps we should just stop growing How?
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Great, thanks. And what percentage of the site is male/female?
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by m-photonic 16y ago
I don't think it's that surprising. Not everyone is scientifically literate, and there's always going to be a certain percentage of people who will come up with the wrong answer when queried on a basic scientific or historical fact. And t
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by m-photonic 16y ago
You don't think it's likely that the stigmas attached to male same-sex experiences lead fewer of them to have them in the first place?
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by m-photonic 16y ago
It would be nice if they would tell us what percentage of their site fell into the different gender/sexual orientation categories.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>It's also interesting, but not nearly as incredible as a literal new society in russia that is living with bronze age technology. I don't think too many people read it that way.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>The big question, it seems, is what exactly the constants are at each question mark. I hate to do this, but mathematically it wouldn't matter what those individual constants are since they're all being multiplied together. The equatio
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Combat, as the launch game for the 2600, was designed simultaneously with the hardware itself. It had some influence on the way the hardware design evolved; in a way, the 2600 hardware is kind of optimized for playing Combat. That might b
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Also, a large segment of the market for TI calculators is composed of high school students who wouldn't be able to use an iPhone app on a test (teachers often ban phones from tests since they could be used to get answers from a friend).
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by m-photonic 16y ago
All the parent comment is really saying is that "young, childless women" aren't an equivalent demographic to "young, childless men." In addition to the arguments already stated, I imagine that more men than women in the relevant age group
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by m-photonic 16y ago
"Their research shows that a woman earns 5 percent less the first year out of school than a man who goes to the same college, gets the same grades, has the same major, takes the same kind of job with similar workplace flexibility perks, and
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by m-photonic 16y ago
While the save-quit approach would be a fairly pointless way of playing Galaga, save states could still be legitimately useful as a means of making it more convenient to practice playing the higher levels.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
I can understand the article's placement of libertarianism at the top of the political triad, but at the same time it does seem like (in online arguments at least) people with nuanced positions more often make an effort to distinguish thems
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>it would be impossible for the average sedentary person not to gain weight eating the Michael Phelps diet. Seems like it would be pretty impossible for the average sedentary person to eat the Michael Phelps diet in the first place.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Not everyone would agree with your conclusion. >Jayne Dallas, a senior studying advertising who was seated across the table, grumbled that the population of male undergraduates was even smaller when you looked at it as a dating pool. “O
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by m-photonic 16y ago
>I'm pretty sure there are lots of people that played video games a lot and turned out well. Not only that, there are lots of people who had access to video games restricted and ended up worse off for it.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
So far.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
List a few for me, if you don't mind.
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by m-photonic 16y ago
Another one is "phased" in place of "fazed."
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by m-photonic 16y ago
This webpage has some nice musical examples. http://www.oldskool.org/sound/pc/#digitized

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