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by oscilloscope 9y ago
Litecoin also activated the segregated witness in the past week.
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by oscilloscope 9y ago
There often is a run on the exchanges, with people desperately trying to withdraw cash or cryptos before the exchange collapses. Often that's what pushes the price to the very top. On one or two exchanges there is a liquidity crisis, s
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
Patient satisfaction is positively correlated with mortality. It does not necessarily indicate superior care. https://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/newsroom/6223
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
From Nov 7-9 it does not. Source: http://www.nytco.com/the-new-york-times-to-offer-open-access...
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
Why do you expect anyone would pay for this article, when the NYT website is currently free with unlimited access?
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
Feedback loops aren't that abstract. There are many examples in the physical world, especially in the brain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback#Applications
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
D3 Version 4 has more utilities and examples of interactions with Canvas. Here's an example of a relatively small graph (~500 nodes, 10k edges) that SVG used to struggle with, but Canvas renders with ease. http://bl.ocks.org
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
It's a combination of wide-angle focal length and small sensor size. It is still possible to get a natural depth of field effect by getting very close to the subject, and that effect should be more pronounced with the 56mm equivalent t
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
Had to save+reset after bumping this up to 100000, but it only took a few seconds and now I have 6 million watts. Dropping my first Tater Tower. Beautiful, elegant cheat.
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
"Sparked by his lost love of insects, [Satoshi Tajiri] wanted to reawaken an awareness of nature in urbanized youth. Gameboy seemed the perfect medium. The communication aspect of Game Boy profoundly touched Mr. Tajiri and the fact tha
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Pokemon Creator Draws Creativity from Autism (2011)(autismkey.com)
3 points by oscilloscope 10y ago|1 comments
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
Here are a couple games you and your daughter might enjoy: FEZ - also a puzzle-platformer, featured with Braid and Super Meat Boy in Indie Game: The Movie Portal/Portal 2 - a first-person platform/puzzler with a sci-fi atmosph
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by oscilloscope 10y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess you've never brewed fine wine out of plump helmets, never carved the history of your race into the stone wall of the great hall, never scrambled after the goblin attack to remove decaying bo
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by oscilloscope 11y ago
https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/help/links.html
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by oscilloscope 11y ago
I've seen pie charts used particularly effectively in two areas of personal finance: 1) In budgeting apps, to show the distribution of monthly expenses across categories. 2) In investment tutorials and reports, to show a distribution a
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by oscilloscope 11y ago
The formula implies constant wage, not wage growth. But it can model growth in savings. An example: I save $200 per week. I have $800 saved already. How much will I have saved in 3 weeks?
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by oscilloscope 11y ago
Floraform is another tool for exploring differential growth http://n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/blog/?p=6721
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by oscilloscope 11y ago
Feels comparable to SlickGrid's 500k rows example http://mleibman.github.io/SlickGrid/examples/example-optimiz...
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
Several hundred of the examples on http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
Cognitive dissonance puts viewers in tension. Laughter resolves that tension.
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
That sounds like it covers all necessary expenses and taxes, which means there's $40k of discretionary income. A savings rate of 40% is excellent, especially if you can invest it for 10-20 years.
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
Diversification is considered to be one of the only "free lunches" in finance. It can both increase your return and decrease your risk, with almost no downside. For example, going from 100% bonds to 80% bonds and 20% stocks will s
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
Investing 90% of a portfolio in a large-cap US index fund and 10% in short-term treasuries is not considered a "conservative" asset allocation. It's missing a lot of low-hanging fruit in terms of portfolio diversification. Fo
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
I disagree that this is a better label. For a consumer, some violations of Net Neutrality might actually reduce monthly charges and increase their available bandwidth. For example, let's say T-Mobile's Music Freedom program (whi
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
My understanding is that most flagship camera sensors are made by Sony, so there may be less diversity of hardware than there appears to be.
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
They're pretty easy environments to make at home. The key ingredients are dry ice and alcohol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_chamber
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
It's an interesting environmental variable to track, especially if you get migraines or have mood swings. If it turns out increased pressure is correlated to your headaches, you can take extra precautions to avoid other triggers.
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
That's Satoshi Dice, one of the first popular Bitcoin gambling games. It's very similar but differs from Just-Dice in at least three ways: 1) The house edge is 1.9% rather than 1% 2) Every bet is a transaction on Bitcoin's bl
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
An interesting experiment in gambling addiction was the Bitcoin betting site Just-Dice. There were two ways to participate: 1) Choose your bet size and chance to win. The house always had a 1% edge, reflected in the payout. This edge is muc
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by oscilloscope 12y ago
This graphical schedule visualization is often called Marey's Trains. https://mbostock.github.io/protovis/ex/caltrain.html Another project that uses Marey's Trains is an interactive exploration of the MB

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