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by mertd 10y ago
That's not how fake news work. They make claims that are untestable or require the proof of negative. - Politician X has reptilian DNA. - Candidate Y wants to instate communism. - Protesters are hired actors by Z.
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by mertd 10y ago
And quality of life, democracy and individual freedoms work out wonderfully broke states.
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by mertd 10y ago
I think nom-nom is trying to imply that if you're passing GBs of Json around, "human readability" isn't probably a concern. Therefore you could go for an efficient binary format.
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by mertd 10y ago
Perhaps because it would be biased? Cyclist population who wears fitness trackers might look different than the population of all cyclists. So now you have sampling bias to deal with.
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by mertd 10y ago
If it makes you feel any better, the actuators of the physical actuators haven't been physical for more than a decade now.
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by mertd 10y ago
#2 is because it is more "pythonic" to ask for forgiveness than permission (EAFP). For example, rather than checking if a dictionary has an element before accessing it, you just try to access it and handle the KeyError if it does
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by mertd 10y ago
Bob is correct when they both have the same card, Ava is correct when they have opposite cards. That covers all 4 color combos.
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by mertd 10y ago
Can you explain why those are contradictory? Surely some people will opt to not have a job at all, if they didn't need to worry about maintaining a minimum quality of life and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
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by mertd 10y ago
Why do you think this particular wildfire is due to climate change?
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by mertd 11y ago
That's only true in the lower half of Manhattan. Good luck hailing a random cab in the middle of the night elsewhere.
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by mertd 11y ago
You are also ignoring the social aspect of education and just focusing on the learning part.
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by mertd 11y ago
I wonder if Amazon (and other e-book reader vendors) can do something about this. Add a feature to trim the book only to the pages or sections that people have highlighted, shared, spent time on the most.
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by mertd 11y ago
It would be naive to think Reddit doesn't already have people dropping product suggestions for marketing purposes.
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by mertd 11y ago
That would turn the competition into an exercise in overfitting.
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by mertd 12y ago
I could recommend another two wheeled vehicle which you can safely ride in both cities and has cardiovascular benefits, too!
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by mertd 12y ago
You deadlifted less than a 12 year old girl but squatted 280lbs? Something doesn't add up.
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by mertd 12y ago
Defensive riding does not mean running away from cars. Taking the lane when it is unsafe for others to pass is in fact one of the most important rules of defensive riding.
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by mertd 12y ago
Those are for application specific mapping of the special keys. They might appear mandatory, but aren't. Keyboards and mice run fine without any extra drivers. I own four different models.
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by mertd 12y ago
WhatsApp is/was an XMPP client in disguise. Facebook sits on top of different data at a different scale with a different problem definition.
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by mertd 12y ago
> Lynne Sneddon of the University of Liverpool, for example, found that bold rainbow trout learn better and more quickly than shy ones. Life lessons from a rainbow trout...
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by mertd 12y ago
Look carefully. Except for the eggs, none of it needs to be cooked fresh, including the pastry. Cheeses, olives, halvah etc go from fridge to the table, back to fridge, and get restocked on the weekends...
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by mertd 12y ago
What kind of decentralized storage are you proposing? How should a bank keep track of costumer accounts?
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by mertd 12y ago
Once or twice a year, I go to http://www.charitynavigator.org/ to do my own research and donate to a charity that I think will make good use of the money. Lump sum method has two advantages: 1) Easier to keep track of for t
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by mertd 12y ago
It is a 13 year old OS.
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by mertd 12y ago
Why is it sad?
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by mertd 12y ago
Only to be repurchased 10ft later for an exorbitant price, because the contents of those bottles went through the most thorough examinations possible and are perfectly safe.
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by mertd 12y ago
Click through the link provided to see the raw data. Murder figure looks a little cherry picked. It went from 17 to 9. It was a very cold winter on top of that. Temperature is highly corralled with crime.
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by mertd 12y ago
Hey, Uber is buying the last round :)
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by mertd 12y ago
Coffee is brewed at ~200F. Water boils at 212F. There is not much room there. Most likely, their containers were too hot, not the brewers.
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by mertd 12y ago
If he were to invest his entire net worth on SP500, he would own about 45M shares of MSFT. So, relatively, he still has a lot of MSFT.

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