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by mshron 15y ago
Put an LED behind the temporal cloak. Look at it from the outside. You see an LED. Look at it through the temporal cloak. You see an LED. Now turn the cloak on and blink the LED (very fast). If you're looking through the cloak, you won't se
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by mshron 15y ago
Strangely encouraging analogy. Microsoft is still a hugely dominant player, but eventually new technologies caused their lead to erode and other, more innovative companies like Google started leading the pack. If you're tired of Google-as-p
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by mshron 15y ago
There is such a project already, called PhoneGap: http://www.phonegap.com/
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by mshron 15y ago
This is really neat. I was under the (mistaken) impression that there was not much for sale in BTC.
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by mshron 15y ago
Right, I misread it. Also, I'm playing with it right now and you can put people into multiple circles.
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by mshron 15y ago
I haven't seen the demo, but the indications from the press is that circles can (and should) include groups of people.
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by mshron 15y ago
Maybe Google will be smart enough to let people through in groups that they believe to be socially linked by their online exhaust. They've got a decent sense of these things already. Otherwise, it's really not the same thing at all.
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by mshron 15y ago
I've never lived in Amsterdam, but I have spent time there as a tourist (and not in the Center, where you expect people to interact with tourists all day long). Everyone spoke excellent English, even older and crustier looking Dutch whose E
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by mshron 15y ago
Got it, thank you. I'd love to see a good pointer to worked out examples of natural selection happening at non-organism levels if you have one handy. It sounds pretty fascinating.
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by mshron 15y ago
What does it mean to say that natural selection is observed at the level of an organism? I'm not a biologist, but I was under the impression that natural selection on all of the 'levels' of biology all shook out to being natural selection o
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by mshron 15y ago
ITA are actually the technology behind Orbitz, Kayak, and various airlines' own search technology. IIRC one of the few (and proud) Lisp shops making money hand over fist.
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Coiner of "disruptive innovation" on fixing health care(forbes.com)
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by mshron 15y ago
Here you go - bicameralism on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicameralism_(psychology)
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by mshron 15y ago
Interesting, I've had exactly the opposite re: black beans and chickpeas. White beans have caused me far less gas. Perhaps we have different intestinal flora?
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by mshron 15y ago
I believe OP is not concerned about bogus chains, but imbalances in computing power. This is not a serious problem but it looks like one on the face of it. If a massive amount of computation suddenly went into computing bitcoins there are t
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by mshron 15y ago
Thanks for the link, and well said that anonymity is basically always proportional to sophistication. What worries me is that other, related systems people will have experience with (like anonymous file-sharing, public-key encryption, onion
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by mshron 15y ago
Here are instructions for turning Blender files into RepRap instructions. I would pay to hang something like this on my wall. http://objects.reprap.org/wiki/Using_Blender_for_making_prin...
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by mshron 15y ago
As far as I can tell, the only way to actually stay anonymous and have a foothold in the bitcoin economy would be to exchange bitcoins for cash in person with someone. Even then, once you tried to combine that account with any other you own
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by mshron 16y ago
What about an experiment? PG could take a few dozen people he wants to be exemplars for the community, pick some semi-popular articles before and after the change, and ask the test subjects to rate which article had better comments. For bes
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by mshron 16y ago
"Without," because the lack of points on this comment has led me to have to think through my objections to it. Rather than, e.g., noting that it has a smallish number of points and so therefore my opinion is already shared by the community
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by mshron 16y ago
Friendly (non-technical) introduction to bitcoins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo&feature=playe...
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by mshron 16y ago
We do and we don't. Knowing how to look closed off is very helpful for dealing with people trying to hand you things, but smiling at wait staff has always seemed to help me. Then again, very few people I interact with in New York are actual
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by mshron 16y ago
AppEngine offers memcached support baked in. https://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/using...
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by mshron 16y ago
That's exactly right. I did a similar quiz for my current job, and now I administer something similar when I look for new hires. It's amazing how many people with solid-looking resumes flub basic questions once you ask to see actual code th
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by mshron 16y ago
Citation? I haven't seen this before.
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by mshron 16y ago
Thankfully, the original study (linked to below) gives a summary. The diet was composed for each kid individually, but the basic "few-foods" diet was rice, meat, vegetables, pears, and water. Potatoes, fruits and wheat were added for some k
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by mshron 16y ago
The conclusion of the original study is that it isn't an allergic reaction that is causing the symptoms, but that somehow restricted diets still work. Their "few-foods diet" was rice, meat, vegetables, pears and water. Then, based on the ne
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by mshron 16y ago
It may be too late for this to be seen, but there's another point I expected to see somewhere on here that should be said. Read other people's code. Find small pieces of software that do the kind of thing you would want to do that are writt
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by mshron 16y ago
I would buy this argument if it wasn't for the fact that he managed to not only correctly call the timing but also the cause of the recession. It sounds to me like he's a good person to listen to for potential trouble spots. The economy is
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by mshron 16y ago
Thanks. I actually teared up a bit towards the end. A good reminder of some perspective when you're knee deep in a project.

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