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Instagram's blue-ticks badges selling for a steep price in underground markets(firstpost.com)
2 points by merraksh 9y ago|0 comments
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by merraksh 9y ago
Maybe GP meant that a is 300% smaller than b when b is 300% larger than a, i.e. b = (1 + 3)a and hence a = b/4.
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by merraksh 9y ago
If $FISH is easier to farm or tastier or more valuable than $FISH2 and there are enough consumers in $CITY, I'd bet there will be a $FISH farm close enough to $CITY.
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'Environmental Nightmare' After Thousands of Atlantic Salmon Escape Fish Farm(npr.org)
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The 10 Most Common Mistakes That Python Developers Make(toptal.com)
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by merraksh 9y ago
I always thought this process was sort-of intended. I feel it shows some respect to the author of the code under review to comment on it, and not to change it–especially not if that would result in changes that are then merged without firs
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Why a Universal Basic Income Would Be a Calamity(wsj.com)
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by merraksh 9y ago
Seems like the trend is gaining momentum, though slowly. It's recent news that editors of a Springer journal (Springer is another large publisher) left and started their own journal [0]. [0] https://www.insidehighered.com&#x
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by merraksh 9y ago
Deep down in section 7 is the author's own TLDR: I think you’ll probably agree that the LaTeX version looks better than the word processor export version. Whether it looks sufficiently better to justify the additional effort is a judg
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Don't blame addicts for America's opioid crisis. Here are the real culprits(theguardian.com)
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Student's washing machine idea can save thousands of tonnes in carbon emissions(telegraph.co.uk)
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by merraksh 9y ago
Well, even with infinitely many greedy would-be EiC of a paid-access journal it just takes one open-access journal in the same area with some well-known editor to change things. The problem is not that at least one such paid-access journal
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by merraksh 9y ago
I hope this is just the beginning. What would make this easier is a free platform for article submission and refereeing. That usually takes away 90% of the menial work of inviting referees, storing reviews, managing revisions, etc. Some non
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China cracks down after investigation finds massive peer-review fraud(sciencemag.org)
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Python interface for the HDF5 binary data format(h5py.org)
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Ten surprises from numerical linear algebra(johndcook.com)
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by merraksh 9y ago
Off topic, but it seems to me that the "Python 3 by default" logo has cobras, not pythons.
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by merraksh 9y ago
His French counterpart would probably be Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though he was born later (1864). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec
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Kansas corn farmers awarded $218m in Syngenta lawsuit(feedstuffs.com)
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Anonymous Says NASA Is About to Announce Evidence of Alien Life(sciencealert.com)
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Theresa May makes 'fair and serious' offer on rights of EU citizens in UK(theguardian.com)
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US court grants Elsevier millions in damages from Sci-Hub(nature.com)
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Numeracy leads to more polarization when analyzing societal conflicts [pdf](scholarsbank.uoregon.edu)
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Wikileaks: CIA Stuxnet-Like Attacks Hacked Unconnected PCs via USB(forbes.com)
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Wikileaks Docs Show How the CIA Allegedly Infected Offline Computers(motherboard.vice.com)
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HAKMEM, 1972 tech report from MIT AI Lab “containing a wide variety of hacks”(en.wikipedia.org)
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Europe's top court rules that ISPs should block the Pirate Bay(engadget.com)
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Pirate Bay’s Content Treasure Trove in Peril After EU Ruling(bloomberg.com)
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by merraksh 9y ago
I was trying to find a pattern for the border between competence regions, and it's quite obvious that point (x,y) belongs to the nation closest to it, much as in a Voronoi diagram based on a continuum of points.
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by merraksh 9y ago
Apologies; I was unclear about what I wanted to be "less strict" (i.e. the dictionary, in this case).

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