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by nardi 12y ago
> Astronauts have claimed to see aliens Really? Which astronauts?
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by nardi 12y ago
I really hate how they show lowest and highest scores, and no median/mean/percentiles, or anything at all that would help you decide whether your score was good or bad.
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by nardi 12y ago
Which means in only 14 trials, there's a greater than 90% chance of passing the test. (Again, assuming the contestant is indistinguishable from the judges.)
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by nardi 12y ago
In particular, the edge of the mirror is the key. By optically putting the subject of your painting directly next to the painting itself, you can directly compare shapes and tones. And moving your head back and forth, you can "scan&q
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by nardi 12y ago
> One probability mentioned is that she is acting as a surrogate mother No, this doesn't make any sense. A surrogate mother doesn't RAISE the children she gives birth to. That would just make her a regular mother. Why would the
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by nardi 12y ago
Yes, this sounds great. I would love to literally be clothed in a powerful supercapacitor. What could go wrong.
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by nardi 12y ago
> From a PL / compiler standpoint it's pretty obvious that Swift is not going to match Objective C from a performance standpoint. This shows a deep misunderstanding of Objective-C and Swift. Swift has way more type information
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by nardi 12y ago
But what's the efficiency of the Hall–Héroult process? [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall-Héroult_process
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by nardi 12y ago
> Aluminum is the most abundant metal on earth Not technically true, since almost all natural aluminum exists in oxide form, not metal. The process of turning Al2O3 into metallic Aluminum is incredibly energy intensive, requiring tempera
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by nardi 12y ago
> - Interface types with implicit adoption (Swift takes explicit protocols from ObjC) Objective-C has informal protocols, and so does Swift.
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by nardi 12y ago
Oh, cool! Straight out of CoffeeScript. Yeah, that's pretty much the monad instance of Maybe.
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by nardi 12y ago
It's also apparently super fast, and implicitly typed, and designed for safety.
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by nardi 12y ago
For those interested, "A while" = since a few months ago, AFAICT.
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by nardi 12y ago
I love this feature, but it's not quite the Maybe Monad, which lets you assemble a sequence of (possibly failing) statements together, and fail the whole sequence if any of the parts fails (without if-statements or switching of any kin
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by nardi 12y ago
Yes. It's on the front page: https://developer.apple.com/swift/
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by nardi 12y ago
Haha, Elon always seems nervous. Have you seen him in other videos? I think that's just his normal persona.
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by nardi 12y ago
Is "faster than Nginx" fast enough for you? http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/hask03...
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by nardi 12y ago
In the article, Tim Cook says, "It's the people. It's the service." Are you saying you don't believe he's telling the truth about their motivations?
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by nardi 12y ago
In the context of ethics, "right" and "wrong" as judgement calls on the "goodness" or "badness" of a choice are basically given. Depending on your ethical standpoint, there are different things in the
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by nardi 12y ago
Love the last sentence of the article, quoting Wolf: "What a fucking legend." Indeed.
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by nardi 12y ago
Of course it's great. I wish everyone could make that much money. Unfortunately, if they're making more, someone else is making less, as their salaries are paid by taxation. And taxation hurts the poor more than the rich. You see
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by nardi 12y ago
The problem is that taxing entrants into the cable market creates a very high barrier to entry. The tax is not being levied directly on voters, but indirectly, by creating a monopoly that provides poor service, when they could instead hav
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by nardi 12y ago
Is this actually possible? Can they really make a 49-inch 4k screen with a Snapdragon processor, etc., for $640?
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by nardi 12y ago
This gist was what helped me finally learn Haskell, after failing on my first two tries.
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by nardi 12y ago
No, enormous tax increase regardless, with a balanced budget. If tax revenues are currently $2.8 trillion, and basic income alone would cost $3.8 trillion, then even if government eliminates all other spending , taxes would still have
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by nardi 12y ago
Certainly they aren't debated outside of naturalist circles. But even amongst "non-religious" people, it's somewhat of an open question whether our physical, observable universe is the only thing that exists.
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by nardi 12y ago
I was going to say the same thing. This has little to do with hotels or reflections. Any picture at all with a skyline in it, given a good enough 3D map and some software (maybe the NSA has some already?), should be enough to pinpoint you p
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by nardi 12y ago
GM is constantly saying that they don't think pure-EV vehicles are the solution. They still think it's going to be about hybrid vehicles. I don't know about the other big manufacturers, but I get the feeling they are similarl
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by nardi 12y ago
I think he's saying that Haskell programmers do this more than other programmers. I agree.
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by nardi 12y ago
Wow, I didn't think this could be done this transparently. This has the potential to be huge, if it's adopted. Crossing my fingers. Specifically, I can't wait till I can actually use my phone as I'm walking away from a W

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