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by monkeypizza 15y ago
The constitution doesn't directly apply to convictions within google-world, but it does have some good ideas about justice: The right to know the specific charges lodged http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Amendment_to_the_United_S... "A d
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by monkeypizza 15y ago
There should be 3 levels of high score lists should be 1. personal 2. friends 3. global this actually applies everywhere you are showing group merged data related to a particular person. i.e. your height, your friends heights, and global he
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by monkeypizza 15y ago
This game is similar to Mortal Coil (flash frontend to a programmable backend) http://hacker.org/coil/ But that allows automated solutions. As far as I know, all of the best solvers there use a greedy algo, although there are some cases
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by monkeypizza 15y ago
It happens to me all the time - the "linked images" bookmarklet combined with EarthPorn reddit + autopager.
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by monkeypizza 15y ago
why don't you just change the margin color in OO?
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by monkeypizza 15y ago
from an open letter to the French Parliament in 1845: "We are suffering from the ruinous competition of a rival who apparently works under conditions so far superior to our own for the production of light that he is flooding the domestic ma
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by monkeypizza 15y ago
after reading this [1] I realized I no longer had to take Friedman seriously. [1] http://www.nypress.com/article-11419-flathead.html
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by monkeypizza 15y ago
A lot of these have happened in alternate universes. and evolutionarily, we dodged lots of bullets. Imagine if we used the alligator's method of sex determination - based on temperature of the egg at fertilization. Even in ancient times ki
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by monkeypizza 16y ago
I don't think you can say that these 50M guys simply won't get married. Have you thought about what would happen if china lowered the marriage age for women? 50 million+ new women in the marriage market. Problem delayed. There's already a
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by monkeypizza 16y ago
This is true. unproxied, gmail doesn't work very well, & chat gets disconnected every few minutes. Even with a proxy, they are somehow messing with it. So basically, gmail doesn't work in china anymore.
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by monkeypizza 16y ago
Ha. The ratio of buy/1 year rent is about 100 in Beijing. This despite the fact that you are not legally allowed to own property in the first place - and that the average lifespan of a building is 20 years.
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by monkeypizza 16y ago
well, handicaps can be arbitrarily large. so a bot could have beaten a pro with handi even 40 years ago, as long as you make the handi large enough. recently bots have gotten a lot better at go - they just passed 3dan rank, which is above
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by monkeypizza 16y ago
this looks like the stuff: (taobao link) http://item.taobao.com/item.htm?id=5777316505
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by monkeypizza 16y ago
seconding dewdney's planiverse. Also, I loved rudy rucker's spaceland. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceland_(novel)
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by monkeypizza 16y ago
So to summarize, even in an ideal equal world, inequality exists. Just pointing out that the top 20% owns more than the bottom 20% means literally nothing, because even in a totally equal world, that is true. If you introduce random variat