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modzu
10y ago
based on the obvious banding from the side i always assumed the top might in fact look like a hexagon.. looking forward to seeing more!!
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modzu
10y ago
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modzu
11y ago
looks great on paper, but the 2015 xps13 had some serious issues like useless webcam and trackpad... it's the laptop that flipped me to mac. wont go back.
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modzu
11y ago
i agree the reviews left to just the angry people would be unbalanced, but an actual solution needs to be unbiased. perhaps rather than just "purchasing good reviews" a vendor could encourage [more] reviews by including a voucher
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modzu
11y ago
the point is that (1) the reviews are biased. even if the reviewer tries to be truthful, the fact that they received the item for free may impact their rating. the fact that at the few samples i checked, every rating was 5 stars, suggests a
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modzu
11y ago
i was just looking for a power bar and noticed all these 5-star reviews were done by users who received it for free: http://www.amazon.com/APC-C25B-Outlet-Saving-Filter/product-... sketchy. its like back when google&#x
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Amazon full of sponsored reviews
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modzu
11y ago
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modzu
11y ago
"The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
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modzu
11y ago
why is this news
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11y ago
My understanding was that a retainer or cage for bearings simply allows you to use less bearings -- otherwise typically the bearings fill the cup and are all touching. In other words I'm not sure I even buy the premise... Also the grea
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modzu
12y ago
they suggest it could be a cell phone tower :(
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modzu
12y ago
to be clear, part of what makes glass the genius that he is comes from how he is able to do so much with so little.. so to come across a supposed criticism of his work sprawled across thousands of words just made me chuckle a little
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modzu
12y ago
2200 words to explain how glass' music is empty? hah, stfu
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modzu
12y ago
lol for real.. title is a bit misleading one thing i did find interesting is their intent/ability to evaluate the effectiveness of the course by the subsequent use of the tools, rather than traditional assessments. i know ive aced exam
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modzu
12y ago
TEMPEST SECURED
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modzu
12y ago
we're running spectrographic analysis etc but we don't know the color of the surface? it strikes me as strange we don't have color photos. is it to save bandwidth?
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modzu
12y ago
are these photos in B&W or is the comet really that gray?
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modzu
12y ago
very interesting issues, but indeed the wapo article is garbage.. for those asking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value-added_modeling
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12y ago
I didn't mean to turn this into a discussion about evolutionary linguistics, taxonomy or nomenclature, and i wasn't positing any conspiracy theories... my point is that when you think about 'bacon', what is salient are o
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modzu
12y ago
Interesting, thank you. I didn't really know much about the etymology, but yes, I think the current language certainly perpetuates a convenient cognitive dissociation
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12y ago
I suspect that in the not too distant future, we will look back at ourselves eating this highly intelligent and emotional animal with disgust. Why do we call it "bacon" instead of "pig belly"? To keep consumers from reme
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modzu
12y ago
Its 2014. People are still toting the "videogames lead to violence" crap? Sorry, but no.