mindFilet

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by mindFilet 9y ago
Fun Fact: active shooter incidents (often spree-killings, culminating in suicide, capital punshment or life in prison) are still sensationalized, despite an awareness of this general principle being readily acknowleged. Is the viewer resp
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by mindFilet 9y ago
Well, that’s the effective exchange rate for converting Slashdot Funny scores into HN votes.
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by mindFilet 9y ago
Wow, that’s the first site I’ve ever encountered, that actually respects the Do Not Track setting, and actively prevents third-party content from loading!
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by mindFilet 9y ago
The statistics and probability are improperly applied to this situation, and fail to accurately model reality. The numbers are taken as abstractions and untethered from the complex subsystems that generate the results. This decoupling elimi
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by mindFilet 9y ago
IMAGINE a world in which you are manipulated by intelligent advertisements from dusk until dawn. It may sound outlandish, but this dystopia is increasingly what stockmarket investors are banking on. Except ads don'
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by mindFilet 9y ago
Even if it’s respectably higher than anything existing, it can only source passengers from hub origins and drop them at hub destinations, leaving last-mile problems yet to be solved. Spokes will be needed at destination hubs, that allow for
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by mindFilet 9y ago
From the linked study, those spectrograms seem to represent a frequency of nostril breathing versus... mouth breathing? The automatic analysis of the source data’s thermal video capture seems to look for hot nostril flares, from breathing t