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by mjn 13y ago
This is a decent, accessibly written survey article as of 2004, from Nature Biotechnology : http://seahorse.louisiana.edu/biol224/Pdfs/From%202010/Thiel...
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by mjn 13y ago
The strategy of compressing RAM pages before resorting to swapping them out is a nice addition (discussed on p. 17 of the review). Something similar is in the works for Linux as well: http://lwn.net/Articles/545244&#x2F
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by mjn 13y ago
Google's 'crush-tools' have some similar design goals, fwiw: https://code.google.com/p/crush-tools/
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, this is a big problem with less rigorously covered subjects. If you think of Wikipedia as a summary of existing sources on a subject (which is what it aspires to be), and the existing sources suck, then the summary, by transitivity, a
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by mjn 13y ago
Out of curiosity, what do you find cheaper about the Swedish lifestyle? Moving from California to Denmark, I have sort of a vague feeling that's true for me also, but having trouble coming up with any specifics! I did get rid of my car
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by mjn 13y ago
A hope that's admittedly probably wildly optimistic is that Wikipedia could help people get better at critically evaluating sources, since everyone knows you are not "supposed" to take it completely uncritically on the basis
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by mjn 13y ago
A significant proportion of Wikipedians (and free-culture people outside Wikipedia) also have those views, which is why I'd guess suing is unlikely. It'd result in a big flamewar within the free-culture community, with various com
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by mjn 13y ago
Occasionally it does make its way back into their article, but ideally in the same way anything else does: as a factual description of something that happened, cited to third-party sources. For example here's one [1]: http:/&#x2F
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by mjn 13y ago
That's generally been my experience, that editing contentious topics on Wikipedia is roughly average for the topic, rather than having any strongly Wikipedia-specific characteristics. Sometimes better than elsewhere, sometimes worse. I
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by mjn 13y ago
Immersion helps, but it's pretty easy not to become immersed in Scandinavia, because everyone both speaks good English, and switches to it quite quickly when they realize you're a foreigner. It's possible to ask them to pleas
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by mjn 13y ago
Yeah, it depends on your occupation to some extent. If you're a software engineer, the rent:income ratio in NYC might be better: more expensive apartment, but you can pull down huge piles of money programming for a finance company. But
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by mjn 13y ago
I've found Scandinavians to be extremely paranoid about crime and (from my perspective, at least) massively over-estimating it, maybe because traditionally it was nearly zero. Coming from the U.S., cities in the Nordic countries are
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by mjn 13y ago
Whether 1800 USD/month for a one-bd apartment is expensive might depend on where you're coming from. That's not out of line with the going rates in many other major cities (SF, NYC, London, Paris), and might even be cheaper,
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by mjn 13y ago
Copenhagen is a bit more English-friendly in employment from what I gather, even outside tech, so could be an option for people who want to stay in Scandinavia but have trouble finding an English-language job in Sweden. For example the enti
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by mjn 13y ago
That's true, although I think it would cause a huge controversy to sue someone over it (rather than just banning them). It implicates all sorts of questions that are already controversial in the free-culture community, like to what ext
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by mjn 13y ago
I think it varies a bit; the German Wikipedia is actually considerably more strict on inclusion criteria than the English Wikipedia, but others are less strict.
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by mjn 13y ago
People tend to have those reactions even for stuff much less famous than Banksy. There is a bunch of artistic graffiti stuff painted all over the temporary walls around metro-station construction sites in Copenhagen, and it's frowned o
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by mjn 13y ago
Those are some really nice animations and diagrams! What do you use to make the 2d vector graphics? Inkscape?
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by mjn 13y ago
I do fairly regularly, since about 2003. I used to be very involved in meta-Wikipedia stuff in the early days (policy, mailing lists, meetups, dispute-arbitration, etc.), but sort of drifted away from that once it got more professionalized,
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by mjn 13y ago
This brings up an issue related to Wikipedia's policy that requires substantial third-party coverage for new articles. It is a flawed test for the importance of a subject. I don't think it's best interpreted as a test for t
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by mjn 13y ago
One mitigating factor (though not as mitigating as I'd like) is that PR fluff, at least of the direct-editing variety (versus placing positive media articles that then get cited in Wikipedia) tends to be most successful on the articles
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by mjn 13y ago
Nobody's hacked up a straightforward way to hook into SC2 externally afaik. It's less likely to happen in a stable way with a currently active game, because bot hooks can be used by cheaters, so game companies tend to change aroun
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by mjn 13y ago
If they notice, they'll probably complain. Nintendo is fairly hardline on this kind of thing, afaict. An academic conference in my area used to host an annual "Mario AI championship", where competitors submitted either Mario-
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by mjn 13y ago
It's disconcerting how fast the state has gone downhill. I went to high school there 1996-2000, and it was a reasonably sane place. George W. Bush was governor, but in his pre-presidency years, he was basically a moderate conservative.
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by mjn 13y ago
> What if the goal to this manual is altruistic? That doesn't sound at all out of line with a typical dystopian novel plot. :)
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by mjn 13y ago
On the latter part, this is pretty rare now in the US. Involuntary "holds" are almost always short-term, and only initiated when there's some disturbance that results in the police being called. In California, for example, a
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by mjn 13y ago
I read this piece as using the "what if the DSM was a novel" part mostly as a jumping-off point to satirize how we treat the idea of happiness and normality, rather than being explicitly a criticism of the manual itself as a dia
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by mjn 13y ago
Living in Denmark, I'd say 50% or so is fair. :) Half for my individualized personal needs, and half for the provision of general goods and services that everyone can use, including me (healthcare, parks, transit system, education, soc
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Usable Live Programming(research.microsoft.com)
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by mjn 13y ago
I think it's more what HN specifically pays attention to, than what gets attention in a global sense. My read is that the community here is focused on web-oriented, low-capital, low-time-to-MVP markets (Y Combinator's preferences

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