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by nevinera 16y ago
>"It’s fundamentally impossible to improve on jet fuel because it would break the laws of physics", pronounced Laughlin. "You can’t have airplanes unless you make hydrocarbon fuel." This guy's a physicist? The claim is absurd, unless he
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by nevinera 16y ago
It boils down to 'cynicism is not science'. It seldom occurs to us to pick apart the things we already know are true , so our logical and rational strengths become torches with which to defend our held beliefs rather than lights to shine u
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by nevinera 16y ago
>I honestly don't think it's placebo. Well if you did, it wouldn't work!
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by nevinera 16y ago
Using the word 'addiction' to refer to things that are not physically addictive is one of my pet peeves. He addresses this point somewhat and I realize that it is a very common colloquial use, but it shouldn't be. It strongly conflates the
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by nevinera 16y ago
>Are the women targeted by the ads not actually the ones making body-wash-related decisions for the men in their life? Those ads are clearly not targeted at women.
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by nevinera 16y ago
No, applying statistical methods to this instance is unreasonable. Observing that selection bias skews the probabilities involved is perfectly reasonable, and indeed almost necessary to rational discussion.
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>That doesn't make the studies cited any less accurate. No, but it does make it statistically more likely that they are inaccurate. It's known as 'study selection bias'.
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by nevinera 16y ago
They offer 'basic html' mode, which turns off the bells and whistles (and makes it load much faster). It plays much more nicely with vimperator that way.
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by nevinera 16y ago
I love craigslist as an apartment finding tool. Most of the ads for apartments include a google maps link, so I can figure out if it's really in the area I'm interested in. But every time I move I wish constantly for a service that would le
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by nevinera 16y ago
So you have this huge, powerful, not particularly sturdy hose sticking out of the middle of your yard. You decide that you need to stop it up, so you place the top of a bird-bath over it, upside down. How well do you think that will work? T
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by nevinera 16y ago
That depends on whether they build in incentives for the trunk providers to cooperate.
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by nevinera 16y ago
I haven't read the bill, but the one being referred to is S.3480 It got sent to committee, and will most likely never come out. Just like the last three bills that do almost the same thing. If you want to follow it, here: http://thomas.loc
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by nevinera 16y ago
>Not because of the technical accomplishments but because of the ideas. It should judged as that. It should be judged by whatever criteria the judge deems important, just like everything else.
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There is one problem with your analysis. The team that gets scored 'on' is the one that gets the ball for the kick-off. Since different teams get the initial and half-time kick-offs, it boils down to which team is capable of scoring the mos
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by nevinera 16y ago
This was my first thought as well. Actually, my first thought was "Pass to keeper, own-goal, drop to my team, repeat". I can't see any way to lose.
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by nevinera 16y ago
Yeah, tr was my instinct as well.. Thanks for quotemeta, it helps with something I'm working on right now!
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by nevinera 16y ago
if '\0' was a legitimate member, it was not a string, it was a character/byte array, probably of fixed size.
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by nevinera 16y ago
>it is a bit weird to say they are null-terminated Yeah, it would be. They're NUL-terminated.
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by nevinera 16y ago
Bad boy! >hello|goodbye >| >>Result is 'hello|goodbye' >That's a nice dog you have there. >. >>Result is '' I usually handle this with: my $pattern = '\\'.substr($in,0,1)
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by nevinera 16y ago
>I like the fact one of the features for this app. is: "Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division are all supported". If this thing ever gets traction, it will be because of this new 'multiplication' feature. Nobody I know uses
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by nevinera 16y ago
In xmonad (and I'd assume most other tilers), there is not only a fixed tabbing order, it is the visual order. I am almost unable to use alt-tab on a more standard window manager now, because it doesn't behave sensibly; it requires you to k
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by nevinera 17y ago
>should drastically reduce our confidence in any generalization of even the seemingly more relevant result. Oh, absolutely! I certainly didn't mean that you should go trusting the scientist to vet his own research; most studies say exac
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by nevinera 17y ago
Scaling for mass is not a particularly useful measure. Their metabolisms are much higher..
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by nevinera 17y ago
>The rats fed HFCS for 24 hours per day, which should be expected to be fatter, were not. They weighed less (470 grams) than the rats fed sucrose for 12 hours per day. So these results are inconsistent. I don't see why you would expec
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by nevinera 17y ago
>You see, whenever an object increases in size linearly, its mass increases exponentially. Polynomially? I see your exponential equation below, but it doesn't make sense (and I have no idea where it came from; what's a "mass differentia
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by nevinera 17y ago
The comments system here at HN reads more like a tree of information - these 'threads' are not conversations. It's the densest presentation of actual information and thought I've seen anywhere, and long-time posters are rather devoted to
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by nevinera 17y ago
>start up that very calculator to do some quick calculations. I suspect that had more to do with purity of work flow - I often open up a second python shell to do math in so I won't have to scroll the stuff I'm working on off the screen
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by nevinera 17y ago
> People are resistant to sudden and dramatic change. Small changes over time often go unnoticed, like the proverbial frog in a pot of boiling water. This is true, but the physical calculator interface is so old that it would take decad
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by nevinera 17y ago
>first calculator should have made his product look as much like an abacus as possible, so he wouldn't confuse the new user. No, he should have made it look as much like a calculation sheet as possible, and he did (calculators were made
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by nevinera 17y ago
He's missing the point. That calculator app isn't there for him , it's there for new users. If you sit down at a computer for the first time, and need to do a calculation, you want something that behaves exactly like you're used to - a cal

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