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by mxcrossb 7y ago
This is a really important point, a lot of comments in this thread seem to think the article is related to proposals for new laws of physics.
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It seems like this is the us equivalent to me. The nice thing about this approach is you don’t have to use so much wrapping paper like in the linked article’s video. Both the banana and sandwich come in their own case.
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
I bought a plant for my office about four years ago. Recently I was looking at it, and just thought “I don’t recall the like this anymore”. But what am I going to do? I can’t just kill my plant. I have no yard to put it in. It looks like we
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
So many comments in this thread are saying that scientists are bad programmers, but even a great programmer can make mistakes like this. The solution isn’t related to better programmers, but instead for users to treat codes as instruments,
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When looking at these radar systems, I always notice there are hurricane like spirals south near Antarctica. Does anyone know if those are actually as powerful as hurricanes, and do they make landfall?
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What alternatives do you like?
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While I think discussing whether military research should be patented is an interesting question, I think the nature of this particular patent (that is, that it’s total nonsense) kind of trumps any speculation here.
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The best defense against a scam is familiarity. Thanks for sharing this, hopefully it protects someone else.
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I’m not sure why any company would pay money to advertise there, when you can easily buy upvotes instead. Sure it takes a little more creativity and a longer investment, but if the current front page is any guide, there are plenty of organi
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I don’t think it really does work? When I search, the hidden story appears again.
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Particularly when a company is only months away from an IPO. How much equity could you actually expect?
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
The main goal of restricting a governments power isn’t to stop corruption, but to prevent tyranny of the majority [1]. A government elected by the populace is little comfort to minorities. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Basically, think of divesting as an advertisement. Every time a major player does it, the public hears a pro environment message, and leaves thinking climate change is something to act on now, and that green energy is the future. And public
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Agreed. I do know some projects that do a lot of code generation that end up with huge files, though this is probably largely caused by C++’s templates forcing too much into headers (which newer versions fix). It’d also be nice if parallel
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Wikipedia articles like this bug me. It is a well written introduction to the project, but why is that on the Wikipedia? Put that on your own website! I wish more people would follow wikipedia’s very clean and easy style. This is of course
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The peculiar world of private-label products(theatlantic.com)
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
I don’t know about calling it manipulative. I remember taking the ACT, and struggling to plan out one of my essays. It was something like “tell us about a book that inspired you”. So I changed details about the plot so it all fit nicely and
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Even if phonics are not used when reading, they still have an advantage for writing. Rarely in my adult life have I found myself sounding out a word in a book unless it is deliberately ridiculous (as your example). But I definitely sound ou
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
In the article they mention an experiment where they showed readers words in and out of context, to determine whether cues are important. It seems they could repeat this with phonetically simple and phonetically difficult words, and see if
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
David Epstein kind of makes this point in The Sports Gene. We think modern training and diets make us better athletes then our ancestors, but really much of the progress on world record times have come from better tracks and shoes.
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It’s baffling to me that anyone would believe this post. Do people here not have an ounce of skepticism?
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
This reminds me a bit of CyberRebate [1], who also seemed to preset on the “make it too complicated for the customer to get what we owe them” system. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberRebate
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
The PSP was hacked by pirates when a bug was discovered in its image app (I think for tiff files). It makes me wonder if security should be baked in to a data format.
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While we’re doing “as well as”s about Elsevier... I hate how soulless the journals feel. Recently, I wanted to read a quite old paper as it connected to my recent research. It was published in the 60s, in a journal that has housed some extr
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This Rio Journal seems to pride itself on letting you publish non traditional papers. In this case, we have something that seems clearly marked as a hypothesis. I won’t comment on the value of such an approach. But I will say that it’s frus
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I think with a one off it’s better just to outsource it. But the benefit of the automatic approach is that you could iterate a design over the course of a few weeks, getting quick turn around on each tweak.
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I disagree. The gold standard is if outside groups subject your findings to new experiments and reproduce the same results.
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It seems like someone could start an insurance company, where all customers had to claim they had no insurance, but then sent the bill to be reimbursed.
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It’s because actually determining how often average people bathed is hard, requiring evidence from many different sources across a huge time span and geographic area. Instead, he went for the secret knowledge approach. People tend to believ
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The law firm seems to claim the compromised data was hosted on github, but in the article it seems like it was only the hacking tools?

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