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by narkee 15y ago
I'm having a hard time following the scala. Do you mind writing out what you're doing in pseudocode or in words? Intuitively, this result doesn't seem obvious to me. Imagine where you have a one line scenario - you watch which register peo
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by narkee 15y ago
The entire thesis of this essay is based off of a false premise. Being less busy doesn't cause you to become the creme de la creme. He has the causal relationship reversed. More than likely, they feel less busy and stressed because they are
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by narkee 15y ago
I think that's the difference between academic education, and vocational training. I've made this point before, but people often conflate the two, and are unable to separate them in their minds. What this person is saying is "these things d
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by narkee 15y ago
This made me wonder if it was illegal to bombard people with x-rays? If I had an x-ray emitter gun of some sort, and I walked around blasting people with unhealthy doses of ionizing radiation without their knowledge (it would be silent and
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by narkee 15y ago
I've never heard of Path before today - why use Path instead of Facebook/Google Plus? It seems like an instance of "Yet Another Photosharing app", which is getting tiresome. Sometimes reading mobile development news makes it seem like photo
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by narkee 15y ago
I imagine there's a market out there for hardware "plugins", to upgrade connectivity and functionality of these expensive, dumb systems. Imagine a small, lightweight raspberryPI type device that can plug into your car, or boat, or into the
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by narkee 15y ago
New battery press releases are like the "win a free iPad" ads of the tech world. It seems like every single research institution in the past 10 years has announced some battery breakthrough, via metamaterials, carbon nano-tubes, super-capac
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by narkee 15y ago
Actually that's exactly racism. In this case, the assumption is that asian are a homogenous group, and that having a class full of asians in necessarily not diverse. That's in line with the "violin playing automatons" perception of asian st
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by narkee 15y ago
I haven't read much on the subject, but the idea that races can't be separated based on genetics is either false, or due to the fact that we don't have enough sensitivity in the measurement. Phenotypically, I can easily identify a black per
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by narkee 15y ago
I understand they're overrepresented. What I meant was why is that a problem? According to the article, that degree of over-representation (relative to population) is below what it would be, given a completely blind admissions process. So w
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by narkee 15y ago
I don't understand why they require ethnic proportions to stay close to population averages. They don't reject high-performance black athletes for lower performing, asian athletes. I've never once heard anyone complain that their university
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by narkee 15y ago
Not that I disagree on your main point about buying carrier subsidized phones, but many unlocked phones you purchase for full price still contain bloatware installed by the manufacturer, and still need to be rooted.
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by narkee 15y ago
I have a Galaxy S2, and it's a great phone, but why should I have to do that? I can't get rid of bloat-ware or even stop it from running without rooting my phone and voiding my warranty. I don't have root access to a device I own, which see
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by narkee 15y ago
I wonder how many people make this error while A/B testing their websites...
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by narkee 15y ago
>The sudden explosion in shorting caused by this drop in cost to borrow is probably seen as a negative signal and making some investors nervous, causing the stock to drop as they sell it off. I'm still trying to learn how investing and
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by narkee 15y ago
Wow, with my 2010 13" Macbook Pro, using Chrome 17 (canary) I get 400 using canvas, and 430 using webgl.
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by narkee 15y ago
I don't understand the methodology undertaken in this study. The whole point of having political ideologies is that you believe yours is correct. They asked politically polarizing questions to conservatives and liberals, and each answered a
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by narkee 15y ago
Are you suggesting that in this case the blogger is similarly misinformed or deluded? I don't think it's unreasonable to think that China is manipulating its map data, particularly when other people here in the mapping industry have already
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by narkee 15y ago
Is it just me, or do other people find IRC logs incredibly hard to follow? Even IRC chats in real time are hard to follow. You have N people, with up to N*(N-1)/2 different interactions/conversations, all serialized onto a single interleave
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by narkee 15y ago
If 1 pt = 0.75 pixels, then there is no meaningful distinction between the measurements. It's a scale factor. It's like advocating for mm over cm. I don't quite understand the point of the article. If he's worried about terminology, then re
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by narkee 15y ago
This democratization of language isn't necessarily correct. There's a reason why we don't declare the existence of God as truth just because a majority of the population believes it. There's a reason why majority rules isn't always appropri
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by narkee 15y ago
It seems like a solution looking for a problem.
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by narkee 15y ago
Why would you ever listen to anyone (or any company) trying to sell you something? Generally, I find the best things in life are those that don't spend enormous amounts of money trying to convince you they're the best. I mean, if they were
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by narkee 15y ago
Not to say that this is malicious, but if it was, they always make excuses like that. "It was inadvertent, and we're working to fix the problem". And by the time the problem is fixed, the damage has been done and the desired censorship in t
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by narkee 15y ago
How would Al Jazeera becoming a popular news source be a good thing, if you now know that the network is a US gov't shill? There's no progress, only perceived progress, where the US gov't gave you the illusion of choice of news networks.
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by narkee 15y ago
Isn't the term R&D being overused? I don't think any research actually happens. Almost by definition, hacking and building things is just development.
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by narkee 15y ago
Low fat is not synonymous with healthy. Someone else made the comment that often "Low-Fat" advertised products are jammed with sweeteners or sodium to replace the lost flavor that fat provides. I think it's funny that the American consumer
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by narkee 15y ago
Really informative, thanks!
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by narkee 15y ago
>And most economic theory says that the more people spend money the healthier the economy becomes Doesn't that seem like a bizarre theory since the economy is in shambles and debt-financed spending seems to be getting higher and higher
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by narkee 15y ago
As far as I know, Indonesia and East Timor are two different countries.

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