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by moioci 11y ago
Additionally, there's good evidence that principals of Prenda Law were the ones that uploaded the movies in question to bittorrent in the first place. These movies were never released through more conventional channels.
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by moioci 11y ago
I highly recommend "Krakatoa."
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by moioci 11y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versailles_wedding_hall_disaste... another Israeli example.
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by moioci 11y ago
The most relevant [ETA: US] case I can think of is the Hyatt Regency Walkway Collapse ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collapse ) in which over 100 people died and the engineers involved lost their l
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Lucasfilm Responds to 7-Year-Old’s Request to Let Jedi Marry(geekdad.com)
60 points by moioci 11y ago|38 comments
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by moioci 12y ago
The cost is measured also in reader's attention. The implicit contract with the reader is that if you just read the first paragraph, you won't miss the essential fact in para 5.
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by moioci 12y ago
Looks like it's the (Brazilian) Embraer A-29 Super Tocano: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_EMB_314_Super_Tucano
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by moioci 12y ago
Just as Secretary of State Clinton used a personal account, before the current regulations went into effect.
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by moioci 12y ago
The watch on the left in the first picture appears to show a heart rate graph labelled with "bmp", which is a file format. The unit of heart rate is beats per minute, or "bpm".
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by moioci 12y ago
The absolutely vital importance of fact-checking current news stories, AKA "the old story", is in forming a measure of the reliability and veracity of the sources of this information, which can be factored in to future reporting.
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by moioci 12y ago
Surely this is tongue in cheek. It substitutes "that's lovely" and "lol" for "work" in different places, producing nonsense.
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by moioci 12y ago
I don't know if it's an artifact of the webfilter at my job, but all the mathematical expressions in the discussion show up as "[Math Processing Error]" in red italics. (Win7, Firefox 35) Anyone else see this?
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by moioci 12y ago
The wikipedia article doesn't mention a date miscalculation. Probably the main cause of their fuel difficulties was having to launch 10 hours and 170 nautical miles before originally planned due to being spotted by a Japanese patrol bo
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by moioci 12y ago
Shouldn't that be "Scientists _identify_ quantum speed limit"?
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by moioci 12y ago
If, say, they were transformers which could go from a boxy robot shape to a more hydrodynamic form, then it might truly be conformation bias to see a preponderance of the nautical forms on the beach.
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by moioci 12y ago
The linked article glosses over the distinction between teaching hospitals, which did show a difference, and nonteaching hospitals, which did not see a significant difference. At teaching hospitals, there are research cardiologists and admi
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by moioci 12y ago
you only "think in language" when you're thinking about talking to someone else... This is certainly not my experience. I generally feel that I haven't fully grasped a complex thought until I've articulat4ed it in
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by moioci 12y ago
HackerNode serves the purpose, but I can't say I've tried any others.
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by moioci 12y ago
and the Hudson's Bay Company and the Roanoke Colony as well.
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by moioci 12y ago
Speaking of self-awareness, should there be a test akin to the Turing test to look for this? It seems that it would be fairly simple to simulate self-awareness, given that it is necessarily a subjective experience, so it seems you would wan
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by moioci 12y ago
likely Jon Skeet's aura
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by moioci 12y ago
I'm confused by this. Frank Church was a pretty powerful politician, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, I believe. Who did what to Frank Church?
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by moioci 12y ago
From the linked article: "First thing I tried, is to switch the user agent from Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0 (Firefox default user agent for me on Ubuntu Linux) to my Googl
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by moioci 12y ago
new meaning for separation anxiety.
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by moioci 12y ago
Some photos: https://scriptunasimages.wordpress.com/2012/11/23/inside-nas...
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by moioci 12y ago
Surely we all expect a charitable organization like ARC to pay market rates for electricity, paperclips, postage, clerical personnel, and medical technologists. Why should they not pay something approaching market rates for executive leader
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by moioci 12y ago
Not according to morsch two comments up.
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by moioci 12y ago
They mention the oldest depiction of a rhinoceros --- in a cave in France. Mind = blown.
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by moioci 12y ago
" But General Groves feared that would draw undo attention." Geez, the NYFT used to have copy editors. Dismayed to see that this goes back to 2007. I wonder if they were using voice recognition.
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by moioci 12y ago
Still have my Digi-Comp I in a box somewhere. Boy, did that thing make a racket. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-Comp_I

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