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by nagrom 13y ago
Evidence of nominative determinism?
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by nagrom 13y ago
>>> I feel so empty and like I am fake. It has been two years. I haven't said this to anyone before now. When I last felt like that, I did the same thing. I said nothing to anyone for about 18 months. Eventually, I did talk to
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by nagrom 13y ago
I'm an academic and attend conferences maybe 3-4 times year, as well as lecturing. I see a lot of bad talks. Point one is crucial for me. I'll go over the actual talk or lecture 5-10 times beforehand, more if I'm nervous for whatever reason
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by nagrom 13y ago
Ahah! I missed that; thanks very much for the info!
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by nagrom 13y ago
Question: I've been evaluating ST2 for a couple of weeks and I'm thinking of paying for a licence. Do I get a licence now, or do I wait and get a licence for ST3?
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by nagrom 14y ago
It's essentially a threaded HTML-box overlay for a certain part of text. I think that's how you would implement such a system, isn't it? Just because RG uses it for explanations doesn't mean that it can't be used for exposition/comments. In
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by nagrom 14y ago
"For instance, I want inline comments. Putting everyone's comments at the end is pretty lame. Even worse, most blog packages these days don't even seem to have Slashdot-style threaded commenting. Instead, the comments a
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by nagrom 14y ago
Are you sure? I employ PhD students to work on commercial products and there is a strict rule in the university that any work done by the student is owned by the student. We are granted an irrevocable, fully transferable licence to use thei
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by nagrom 14y ago
Can you buy an N4 simply yet? :-) I hope that they have sorted out the supply chain and web store before launching a new device. The specs on that thing look insane for a $300 price point; a handheld device now has more power than a laptop
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by nagrom 14y ago
Funnily enough, in most countries where 'soccer' is popular, it is called by some local direct translation of the word football: football (UK, France), futbol (Latin America, Spain), and Fußball (Germany). And this makes sense, because in '
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Tesla Needs a Tim Cook(technologyreview.com)
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by nagrom 14y ago
"when ordinary matter meets anti-matter, it's an Angels and Demons style explosion" Oh goodness me, no. They annihilate to create a lepton pair. There is no explosion, really. Subatomic physics is much more boring than popular science would
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by nagrom 14y ago
That really depends on why you think Priuses (Priusi?) sell. Certainly some sold because they 'help the planet', but I would wager that a lot sold because a Prius was an external statement about a fashionable cause. Brad Pitt drove one! Loo
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by nagrom 14y ago
It's not immediately obvious from the exterior that the feature exists or not. You'd have to market the hell out of it and that costs money, which puts the price up, etc.
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by nagrom 14y ago
Nope, because then you couldn't park facing a wall in the first place.
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by nagrom 14y ago
Sure, but people are only limitedly altruistic (see the tragedy of the commons). If this system was free, then it should undoubtedly receive a huge uptake. But it's not free! So is there a way to encourage uptake without compulsion? Reduced
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by nagrom 14y ago
Oh, I'm plentifully aware of the possibility of the possibility of regulation (see other comments). I guess, having debated this back and forth up and down the thread, my underlying question is: are there mechanisms other than insurance red
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by nagrom 14y ago
Interior airbags are mandated by regulation, you don't actually have a choice about it oftentimes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbag#Regulatory_specification... Plenty of people value the lives of others very lowly - or, really, they j
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by nagrom 14y ago
Driver and passenger airbags directly protect the purchaser, or the family of the purchaser. The purchaser cares specifically about these people and will be more likely to pay to increase their safety. In a sense, it's an easy sell. This sy
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by nagrom 14y ago
Best response to my comment so far :-) I would think that Volvo would look to work with insurers to show that the V40 should benefit from preferred premiums that payback the cost of this system in X years, based on some typical profile.
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by nagrom 14y ago
Yes, but the vast majority of these benefit the purchaser immediately . This system doesn't. It seems (to me) to have limited potential for crossing over in the same way as audio jacks, heated seats, HUDs, parking sensors, active lightin
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by nagrom 14y ago
Well, I agree that it is a nice system and that safety systems that protect pedestrians are worthwhile. But millions of vehicles are marketed based on how economical they are. How do you spread the usage of such a system into those vehicles
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by nagrom 14y ago
> Let's say I'm a rich Dad... And if we don't want to limit this option to a tiny segment of the population, how do we encourage its uptake for the millions of vehicles that are marketed on the basis of economy and not on protecting the
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by nagrom 14y ago
No, not at all. The majority of drivers think that they are better than average and very few ever expect to be in a crash. Of course it is entirely likely that you wish that you would have fitted this system after the fact, but how many peo
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by nagrom 14y ago
The automatic braking system is likely turned off below a certain speed. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to reverse out of a parking space that faces a wall.
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by nagrom 14y ago
Enough to sway you towards the Volvo at a cost of (guessing) $500? Would you not be better served to deliberately drive more slowly and carefully at points in journeys that are the riskiest and/or to go on an advanced driving awareness cour
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by nagrom 14y ago
Hm. My point was that I cannot see that the people most likely to use this system are also the people most likely to pay for it. I don't deny that inexperienced careful drivers may be interested - but the majority of careful, inexperienced
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by nagrom 14y ago
Hm. This seems odd to me - the system certainly costs some money to install, and the person paying for it (the driver) derives minimal (no) benefit from it. Why would the driver pay for this system if not forced to by a regulator? Does it r
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by nagrom 14y ago
I think of electric cars a little bit like smartphones. I used to leave my old Nokia uncharged for a week. I used to use it in the rain. I used to stick it in my bag and not give a damn about scratching or damaging it. The two main problems
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by nagrom 14y ago
I don't agree. You start work at 7am and leave work at 7pm. This takes twelve hours from your day. That leaves you twelve hours for: sleeping, eating, hygiene, commuting and personal time. Say you sleep the normal 7.5 hours per day (to keep

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