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by mherdeg 13y ago
This seems like a case of the same idea evolving in parallel from first principles. I think that "Her" was written and mostly filmed in 2012, while the Black Mirror episode "Be Right Back" aired in Feb 2013.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
FYI, you can fit about 4370 bits in a Tweet ( https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/1st_international_lon... , https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/the_1st_international... ).
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by mherdeg 13y ago
In "Debt of Honor" and "Executive Orders", America survives this kind of catastrophe essentially okay, although it helps that they have Jack Ryan in charge.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Is Google loading these images when a user opens mail? (Have they just automatically opted users in to "read receipts"?) Or are these images pre-cached when mail is delivered (so that the fact that an image was loaded is just proo
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by mherdeg 13y ago
For the Scott Aaronson parody post, see http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1537
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Sounds like there's plenty of value to be extracted here! If only there were some kind of niche market where people could trade just these items, perhaps some kind of Magic: the Gathering Online Exchange.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Wow, ok, yeah, I am in GMT and it is time zone aware. My video ends at 13:18:22.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I think 12:47:30.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
And I think the journal article about this particular process is from 2009 ( http://icvts.oxfordjournals.org/content/10/3/360.short ). So, hey, points to the BBC for writing an article about something that co
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Yeah, I thought this was a Web page advertising an actual pencil.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Looking at a sample set of "Errors" ( http://demo.pa11y.org/52457e2b135a4b51b4000001 ), it would be interesting to be able to get "Why do this matter to users?" information. It may be obvious to a season
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Josie Long does a good send-up of this in her standup show "Trying Is Good", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Vwy9TL3pY#t=14m25s // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBsI4JAViQ "In th
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I thought this was a pretty cool story but was a bit bummed that the author didn't disclose the total cost of their trip. It would have been interesting to know how much they spent.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Of course that incentive is not unique to this equity structure — see "Zynga Leans On Some Workers to Surrender Pre-IPO Shares", Wall Street Journal, 10 November 2011.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
If you find this kind of tone off-putting, whatever you do, don't read the scsh acknowledgments ( http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html )!
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Well, now I am even more confused — here is what I see with the same inputs you said you used. You did say that this was a quote for a two-person household with a $60k income, right? http://i.imgur.com/CfWAAop.png
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Hmm. I see several subsidized plans offered with similar inputs: http://i.imgur.com/ZJpSGC4.png Do you have a screenshot of what you're seeing?
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by mherdeg 13y ago
In case anyone is curious to understand this comment thread, the original submitted title of this link was "Steal this book". It has since been changed to "Time Series Analysis and Its Applications: With R Examples".
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by mherdeg 13y ago
This is very cuil!
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Can I ask how you spend per day in Lanzarote? We were just there for a weekend and "splurged" on an €88/night property, but it seemed like we could have done just fine at €30–40/night. What an interesting place.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
FYI in these models accelerant is the long skinny pedal on the right.
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Something about the human instinct to pattern-match compels me to point out that this is the "reciprocity" principle of influence spelled out by Cialdini's 1984 book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", http:
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by mherdeg 13y ago
The User-Agent field is a great way to detect a polite robot (and even, if it supports robots.txt, to ask it to avoid certain pages). So this header field is a useful signal for analytics. It's not at all trustworthy, but in practice i
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I've always been partial to transformers.txt (it's robots.txt in disguise).
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Try not to let this article turn you off Weingarten's work — I think this story was meant to be a bit "fun". For something more serious, check out Weingarten's thought-provoking feature piece about dead children — "
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by mherdeg 13y ago
I think your assessment that grown-ups ignore fascinating things, because we have a filter that only lets us see the mundane, is spot on. This is probably unfixable. In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels, he gives this phenomenon a str
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by mherdeg 13y ago
This seems like a good place to leave a quick plug for the recent computer game "Papers, Please", which perfectly simulates the experience of being a clerk inspecting prospective entrants at the border of a dystopian republic and
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Huh! This phone number does not shop in Google search results at all right now except one hit: resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.eidm.error.e106'] = 'An error occurred when contacting Experian to verify your information. Call the E
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by mherdeg 13y ago
resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.forgotPassword.notReset.alert.description4'] = 'If you feel you got this message in error, please contact us at 1-800-XXX-XXXX (CMS Help Desk).'; resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.profile.upda
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by mherdeg 13y ago
Seventeen instances of the phrase "lorem ipsum": resources['ffe.ee.myAccount.security.info'] = 'We take security seriously. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam pharetra dictum nisl vitae

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