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by mazelife 9y ago
Seconded on the Aeropress. It beats the French press, which it most closely resembles, in pretty much every metric: you can grind the coffee more finely which gives you better extraction, and you can use less of it to get coffee of the same
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by mazelife 9y ago
Before I even read the article, I wondered how may of the bugs detected would be due to JavaScript's implicit type coercion rather than specifically dynamic vs. static typing issues. Sadly the article doesn't seems to say, but I t
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by mazelife 9y ago
There's a good blog post as a kind of follow-up to this one that talks about how thinking in terms of monoids helps enable flat architectures and composability in Haskell: http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/04/
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by mazelife 9y ago
I uploaded a picture I took of an Amanita flavoconia, and it correctly identified it as the #1 choice. The mushroom wasn't particularly well visually isolated in the photo either, it had sprung up among a bunch of moss and twigs and on
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by mazelife 9y ago
> Medicaid options vary much more (and they're different in every state, because Medicaid is administered at the state level), but the equivalent private plans for Medicaid coverage also typically perform much better than the public
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by mazelife 9y ago
> and serves as an employment subsidy for many small businesses that would, otherwise, not employ anyone It would serve as a generous subsidy to _any_ employer that doesn't want to pay a living wage. It's not clear to me why th
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by mazelife 10y ago
There are two separate issues in play here. You're conflating the static/dynamic dimension of language classification with the strongly-/loosely-typed dimension of languages which is what the poster you are responding to was
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by mazelife 10y ago
I don't believe it's even doable. Could I pick up an instrument and learn to noodle around on it from watching YouTube videos for a few weeks? Possibly, although for some instruments I doubt even that's possible. But to attai
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by mazelife 10y ago
It's really not. Intonation, posture, attack, phrasing, proper breathing... technique in general for singing or any instrument cannot be taught without being right there with the student. If you are at all serious about learning to pla
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by mazelife 10y ago
...or art and music. Good luck learning to play the violin over the internet.
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by mazelife 10y ago
Dan Golding's response seems pretty on-the-nose to me. Although I think he's right to cite Zimmer as someone who pioneered a certain method and style that has become prevalent in a big chunk of movie genres, I think the real culpr
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by mazelife 10y ago
This doesn't necessarily take away from some of the points that the article was making about how film music is used as a status symbol or method of signaling how a film should be received, but there's a nice simple reason why &quo
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by mazelife 10y ago
I fully agree with you on that. Pulling research out-of-context is still a go-to move by anti-science politicians [1]. Frankly, I'm half-tempted to track down that $84k study on why people fall in love. That's a fascinating topic
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by mazelife 10y ago
The fact that the paper is meant to be taken somewhat facetiously is signaled right there on the title page: "This research was supported by a grant from the Committee to Re-elect William Proxmire." "Proxmire was was noted fo
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by mazelife 10y ago
This has to be the ne plus ultra of Python scaremongering. It describes some sort of bizzaro world of a doomed language which it populates with Machiavellian Python maintainers, brainwashed developers, and a small group of heroic holdouts w
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by mazelife 10y ago
Did you even read the article? They searched his home twice after he had already shown he wasn't a danger to himself or anyone else and wasn't inside the house. The second time they trashed the place. The whole point of the articl
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by mazelife 10y ago
I've seen variants of this argument made up and down this thread, and I don't think it holds any water. And I say this as someone that thinks the NSA's mass surveillance is morally wrong, unconstitutional, and probably ultima
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by mazelife 10y ago
The problem with relying on journalists is that when everything is just dumped out there, the decontextualization and misrepresentation comes so fast and furious that it's uphill battle to counter once it's out there. Jonathan Swi
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by mazelife 10y ago
I don't believe the passage you quote from supports your assertion in any way. Here it is in full: "I'm certain the poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the conventions are over, but I thin
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How Facebook’s foray into automated news went from messy to disastrous(slate.com)
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by mazelife 10y ago
Maybe my understanding of what you mean by "shooting the lights" is wrong, but based on what I believe you're saying, this is not permitted under an Idaho stop law either. Cyclists may treat a red light like a stop sign. So t
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by mazelife 10y ago
(Sorry, I should have "straddle" rather than "dismount". ) > For an experienced, physically fit cyclist, riding in good conditions? Perhaps. But isn't this the case with all traffic laws? For example, the law may
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by mazelife 10y ago
Although the article alluded to studies that show this approach is safer it didn't bother to cite any. Here's one based on results when the law passed in Iowa: http://docplayer.net/1126976-Meggs-jason-n-stops-harm-
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by mazelife 10y ago
Not all arguments from expert opinion are fallacious. In this case I think that those authors are recognized, themselves, as excellent prose stylists. Therefore it's reasonable to accord their opinions more weight than the average pers
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by mazelife 10y ago
Well, you're welcome to your opinion, but the statement "Proust (sometimes) writes long sentences" is a fact, not a value judgement. Whether the prose can be understood or not is how we separate good writing from bad, and in
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by mazelife 10y ago
I don't know The Dillinger Escape Plan too well, but I like that! It's funny, but I've noticed that as my musical tastes have broadened over the years, the line between what sounds "beautiful" and "ugly" h
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by mazelife 10y ago
Other commenters here have done a good job picking out specific problems with the author's arguments. It's always frustrating when someone who is capable and knowledgeable about one subject decides to try their hand in a different
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by mazelife 10y ago
Yeah, his discussion of the tritone was where any remaining sympathy or interest in his argument evaporated for me. His discussion of it is completely simplistic and not grounded in any way in the complex historical context of that interval
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by mazelife 10y ago
Well, as I mentioned in another comment, that means that companies that actually bother to reach out to communities they are involved with and cultivate relationships with members may have a competitive advantage. I have no illusions that t
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by mazelife 10y ago
Second this. I'm in my 30s now, and I've realized that companies that treat people with respect don't hire this way and that's the kind of place I'm happy at. If that limits me to work for companies under a certain

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