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by maus42 10y ago
recently when the article was written (which was in 2001)
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But even for the meatspace courses in our uni, the course materials (lecture notes and exercise pdfs) remain available on the public course web page to the foreseeable future after the course. Having predetermined time schedule might be rea
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by maus42 10y ago
Well, the early 1900s wasn't exactly an utopian golden age where people were not interested about stuff like sales revenue. Do especially 'beautiful' items really entice children better compared to, well, maybe bit worn but i
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by maus42 10y ago
You're not the only one. >Not long ago, Paul Saffo, of the Institute for the Future, said to me, “Bill Gates is an introvert. He is not the kind of person you want building the social network of the future.” Looks like Saffo got his
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by maus42 10y ago
I can see many potential problems arising if arxiv itself implements recommender systems or in some other way tries to be a gigantic journal or the primary social media for scientists or something alike. Tools that are strictly about making
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by maus42 10y ago
Finland doesn't meet the 2% GDP requirement (neither does Greece, though) and isn't NATO member, but we are the one the very few EU countries that maintain a relatively large conscription based defence forces with relatively moder
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>A lot of people living just within the north side of the border work in the south and vice versa - they would have to go through border control every morning and evening. It's just not that there would be border control, there&#x27
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by maus42 10y ago
I suspect some perception bias. There weren't that many artists and musicians around to have significant effect on the middle class whole (and artists and such weren't especially middle class).
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by maus42 10y ago
Well, the best way to accomplish this would be include an animation in the material that's mostly in the written form. Like this: http://acko.net/blog/how-to-fold-a-julia-fractal/
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by maus42 10y ago
Why it would be? I sometimes have trouble conversing in crowded places if there's lot of other people having their conversations loudly. Not much trouble, though, but listening to the only one thread of discussion requires bit extra
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by maus42 10y ago
Yeah, I can see where you're coming from. I might be critical as well, if I hadn't read it until adult and could compare it to other kind of humour. (Say, Monty Python.) Thing is, the Guide (the local translation of the radio play
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by maus42 10y ago
I treat it a bit like a RSS feed aggregator.
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Note: Interestingly enough, teachers in Finland (the country US is being compared against in the article) are fully unionised: 95 % of teacher workforce are members in the main union, OAJ. source: http://www.oaj.fi/cs/o
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Probably yes, but people will also keep valuing stuff created by other people.
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by maus42 10y ago
...extra tax for high-sugar products?
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by maus42 10y ago
I hope teenagers don't consider Internet polls as a measure of democracy.
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by maus42 10y ago
GSM (assuming that's what is used in Brazil) isn't free of patents, but at least everyone could (in theory) start their own telecom company and compete with the another ones. And I assume in reality (even in Brazil) customer could
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by maus42 10y ago
I knew some people who took the DnD ability score classification seriously, and had trouble accepting anything different (some other tabletop RPGs who dared to have different list of abilities...) because they were not "real". (
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by maus42 10y ago
>Evolution would be slower without intelligence but who cares, is there a race out there? I'm quite certain that does not have anything to do with "speed of evolution". I am not a biologist, so I can't come up with a
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Scanning and skimming is very ordinary thing to do, I believe many learn to do that without any special instruction, especially if they are in a field where they read a lot. (Humanities majors, people who read magazines or NYTimes...) It&#x
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But does the state level apparatus provide the best balance today?
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Looks like he did, the nick was MarcoMarsala earlier this week.
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Does this article anything else than paraphrase the Serverfault thread? On the first reading I thought they had contacted the poor fellow to confirm his identity or something, but rereading, it would appear that they didn't: no furthe
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I was commenting more the reaction the HN crowd seems to present when someone dares to say this sounds like something they would be uncomfortable with, because that's very much the same one I remember from school. Of course in school y
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>unkind response Some of responses in this comment thread look very much like blatant schoolyard bullying behaviour manifesting. "Why take things so seriously" "Spoilsport" et cetera ... Partake in the hazing rituals,
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by maus42 10y ago
You know, judging whether people are repressed or not, especially over internet, isn't very considerate. I wonder why the top comment in this thread is being downvoted so hard. I could see it being a legitimate concern for some people.
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by maus42 10y ago
Do you read Swedish media? I don't say there haven't been a blind spot regarding immigration, but lately the government ministers have acknowledged the current refugee crisis is a problem. Anyway, portraying the whole immigration
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Creating fake accounts to inflate perceived numbers of people who would answer in arabic sounds more like misrepresenting statistics...?
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Sure, it's a generational thing. However, I'm not sure if that's a matte of preference or realism. Our generation knows that "lifetime employment" at a single company does not exist any more. The only way to remain
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by maus42 11y ago
It also covers the lens from dust, smears, etc.

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