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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Really? The article's suggestion that a good-looking woman should consider her looks her most employable asset sure set off alarm bells for me.
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
In this case "than" seems correct because it's short for "affect boys differently than [it affects] girls", right? In order to re-order that to use "from" you'd have to do something like "... the
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Many of us believe that killing is never justice, whether it's committed by the state or not.
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Sure, or you can tax people that have money and spend that to invest in infrastructure, education, health care, etc., which also creates jobs.
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
So what does that leave? Do you need the licence to mine?
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
People should get outraged when presented with outrageous information. Still, this would probably be more appropriate for HN if it showed interesting statistical information like police violence per capita, violence against minorities norma
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Here's a similar method using a piano: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
On the other hand, the name "Intermediate Python" is so generic that whoever wrote the book shouldn't be surprised there are other documents using the same name.
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
PlayStation Portable, the predecessor to the PS Vita.
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Also watched the video, that description is not accurate. The officer attempts to open the driver's door. The driver holds onto the door with his left hand to keep it shut while starting the ignition with his right. The officer yells &
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
You're not wrong, and I think we're coming at this from a very similar place. I hope I'm not coming off as divisive. There is a fundamental difference between the experience of being prejudged against when you're a membe
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
I don't think anyone is saying that we can completely eliminate the gut reactions we collectively have -- but it's precisely because they are so pervasive that it's important to talk about them and be aware of their existence
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
At the root of the whole problem is that we collectively have an idea in our heads about what a "computer science nerd" looks like, and then we make judgements about people based on whether or not they fit that image. In cases lik
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
That is some amazing info! I found this video where you can see the effects of the sub-pixel vertex precision issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrFcYbwz_ws
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
People have been meditating for at least 3,500 years, I wouldn't call it a fad. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_meditation
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Better trumpets are actually often more difficult to play because of extra weight and wider bore. Depends on the model of course, and in other ways they'll be easier to play, like for intonation, smoother valves, etc. A player might al
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
1) Sounds produced by analog equipment cannot be reproduced exactly in software. You can get very close but so far nobody has gotten it 100% right. 2) The physical controls on hardware make the process of creating music more tactile /
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Consider reading the rest of the piece, there is some good content past where you stopped. I think you understand what the author was trying to get at with the "White" comment, even if you weren't happy with how they phrased
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
> "internet in the system" I don't know if that's a typo but I really like it.
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
Do you drink coffee? Wine? Smoke cigarettes? Take Aspirin? Are those immoral? Sure, some drugs are worse for the user than other drugs, but you could make the same argument for eating sugary foods or not exercising enough. A bad idea, proba
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by mtinkerhess 11y ago
I don't totally understand the math, but davmre is suggesting calling randn(), not rand() -- so sampling from a normal distribution instead of a uniform distribution.
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
I grew up in Ann Arbor and remember when this rally happened. I wasn't at the event but I remember a lot of people being really angry that the Klan was speaking. I also remember there was a group of people that took non-violence traini
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
That's a cool-looking video. It looks like it isn't AR though -- it looks like they're taking the real-world position of the phones and using that to drive the positions of the players in the game. They've modeled the ga
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
Sorry for mixing things up with a ninja edit! The article says: > This is the video of a real-world, first-person shooting game that Magic Leap says it was going to show at TED this week. At first I parsed that as saying Magic Leap was g
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
If that footage is in-engine I'll eat my hat.
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
> The island, about 65 kilometres south-west of the main island of Tongatapu and the nation's capital, Nuku'alofa, started forming in January after a volcano began erupting.
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
> btw: feed EMI Beethoven, and "she" produces Mozart. i.e., when probabilistically combining several key-signature-normalized Beethoven snippets, some of the results were identical to larger snippets of Mozart (who was, as you
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
> Mulhern had taken guitar lessons from Martino and often, to Martino’s aggravation, had played a major seventh chord when Martino wanted a minor ninth. This is an instance of the Picardy Third, a trick that sounds really hilarious when
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
While a belief that everything will be okay can be an important tool to help an individual lead a happy life, we have to be careful not to let acceptance become complacency. The precariousness of health insurance in the United States is unj
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by mtinkerhess 12y ago
More in-depth article at http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/katinka-kleijn-daniel-d... The unit they're using is the EPOC Neuroheadset.

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