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by opminion 14y ago
Perhaps a digested, weighted, real-world-mapped version of Wikipedia's list of cognitive biases [1] would be useful as mantra. Just the kind of thing that xkcd does with posters, actually. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_biases_in
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And which of those falsehoods applies here? I might be a bit thick, but just stating the falsehoods does not imply that our base temporal objects should be full of presentational properties. Or does it?
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Slightly off topic: does anybody know why timezones are not firmly isolated within the presentation layer (more specifically, in the string formatting functions) rather than being part of the datetime object? (datetime in Python, DateTime i
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I see some sort of duality between this (feeding fake information to news sources to then show them up for not fact checking), and email spam. It comes at a small cost per news item, just like email spam costs, which added up would make it
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Because the diabetes researchers use Google.
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there is a particular connection or kinship of some sort. He was in the first batch of Y combinator.
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However, attempt this today According to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985100 it won't be today, perhaps tomorrow.
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That's what having a job means to most people in southern Europe. Everything that falls short of that, which are most jobs nowadays, is considered negative. That's one reason why many people think it is normal that one of the roles of the s
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Yes, pretty much like South America starting in Tijuana or the Far East being west of California. It is just a case of a relative description used as an absolute description, which is often quite convenient. Being capitalised is an indicato
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Similar to Opera Mini? or Readability. Opera Mini requests web pages through Opera Software's servers, which process and compress them before sending them to the mobile phone [...]. The pre-processing increases compatibility with web pages
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There is one in Hamburg [1], highly recommended. It consists of a tour with several rooms modelling a variety of features of everyday life, including a boat trip. There is also a bar at the end, where you buy a drink (paying for it was rath
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Note that I didn't say that European teenagers wouldn't understand the English lyrics, but that they won't care that much about the language, if only because they are used to listening to music in other European languages.
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Perhaps Gangnam Style is more of a novelty in the English-speaking countries, where foreign pop music is uncommon, than in those countries where it is common: Italian teenagers might not care that much whether it is in Korean or English, wh
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[...] It does that because, most likely, it is a gymnosperm, a fruitless tree. Its seeds are ovules not enclosed inside an ovary, which means that it does not need to yield fruit. Sorry for the diversion: it was a question in today's Triv
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Excluding inner city slums only in the US stats or elsewhere?
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And thanks for the downvotes. I expect the explanations to become visible soon and to be well grounded in sitee policies. I do not know why you wrote that in your reply to my comment. I cannot downvote, nor would I have downvoted you if I
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Cars are useful, to move people around, everywhere in the world. Guns are useful, to move people around, only in selected locations.
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A Popper-compliant claim must be phrased as an invitation to look for counterexamples No, a Popper-compliant claim must be falsifiable. It does not need to be phrased in any particular way.
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Sorry to provide questions rather than a concrete answer... When I was a kid nobody but adults liked "educational" games. They were the highbrow equivalent of today's buying a massive electric Vespa to your 7-year old, with support wheels [
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I see exploration, which in a changing industry is always essential. Compare with the steps Hollywood and the music industry take to adapt. Perhaps you find annoying that they are exploring without sticking to certain "principles": "free ac
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There's a joke to be made there about the helicopter crew being non German, given how many rules they broke to get the problem solved.
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The notebook interface is the natural generalisation of the REPL, and has the potential of being reused and copied by other languages (clojure, JavaScript) just as, in offline form, it has been used in Mathematica and Racket for years.
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It's a Stream Cipher, which is an approximation [1] of a One Time Pad, which allows the key to be much shorter than the plaintext. The hardest part is how to generate the pad from the key. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_cipher#Loo
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Answers to your question would be given by criteria which discriminate between science an theology.
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How about publicly available web scraping tools as a way to encourage sites to provide good APIs? Everybody wants efficiency, after all.
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Tried, for years, to get my lawyer friends to explain to me the legal system(s) in terms of Nomic rules, but they find it difficult to abstract law.
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Note that the hashtag they are using is #lsr, not #Leistungsschutzrecht . The irony is that they are not taking advantage of concatenation, in a language register where it is widely used (twitter), and in a tongue where it is idiomatic (Ger
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which is why the law proposal, called “Leistungsschutzrecht” (hashtag #lsr), is currently being discussed in the German Parliament Next time a German native speaker tells me his loves his mother tongue because of the possibility of concat
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Those who find Stallman's view of automatic updates against common sense should note that they are just the logical consequence of GNU's demand for "freedom to study and change the program in source code form". There's nothing more to it. F
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Interesting review of the different methods proposed for compressing pages by either using dictionaries shared by several pages and sending diffs of some sort. The review concludes arguing that the author's product is the best... so it feel

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