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by panglott 11y ago
Would you like to play a game?
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by panglott 11y ago
It does sound like that's about zero-sum games, but there can also be competition for the rewards of positive-sum games. If we collaborate to produce 100 pounds of bananas and you take 70 pounds and I take 30, that's evidence of a
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by panglott 11y ago
Chomsky's main influence came not so much from any particular theory as from the fact that he offered a coherent research program to a generation of linguistics grad students. The resulting hangover is long and painful.
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by panglott 11y ago
The "poverty of the stimulus" is no more than a dubious hypothesis.
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by panglott 11y ago
Thanks, it's hard for me to understand why people complain about DDG's search results, which are generally fine for me (in the US), without elaborating on specific kinds of problems they have.
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by panglott 11y ago
This is a false choice. Apparently in Brazil, if you are suspected of a crime, you have no right to privacy at all. The reasonable alternative to that is not an absolute, unviolable right to privacy, but a limited right to privacy with a pr
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by panglott 11y ago
Why can't we just have a boom?
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by panglott 11y ago
Is this Web site accessible (say, via screen-reader)? Scanned PDFs can be a huge problem for people who are visually impaired.
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by panglott 11y ago
A recent issue of MagPi has an issue about building RPi robots... https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/issues/38/
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by panglott 11y ago
Mostly I think it's simply a boneheaded comment. Because it implies that hiring women means lowering your standards, except for a few exceptional individuals.
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by panglott 11y ago
'“In fact, we just hired a young woman from Stanford who’s every bit as good as her peers,” Sequoia Capital investor Mike Moritz said in an interview with Bloomberg, titled Sequoia’s Moritz: Looking for Women to Be Partners. “And if th
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by panglott 11y ago
Yep. Also, most of the cheap quadcopters don't list their weight, although the cheapest nano quadcopters will be well below the limit. This one is less than 12 g: http://www.gizmag.com/review-estes-proto-x-nano-quadcopt
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by panglott 11y ago
One problem with Amazon is the large number of items for which there is no review at all. There are a variety of reasons why there might not be a review (it might simply be obscure). But when the site has so many reviews of other products,
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by panglott 11y ago
The "real world" requires "learning" to be so intense and abusive that it routinely pushes people to mental health crises, drug abuse, and violence? If a professor abused his students in this way, they would rightly be f
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by panglott 11y ago
The difference is that in the US, if it was a picture he took himself, he was the actual owner of the copyright. The complaint was in the wrong if they simply confused their image with his. It is unfair, but based on the inequality of legal
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by panglott 11y ago
2nd-lang learners process pseudo-words more like bilinguals than monolinguals. Boom.
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by panglott 11y ago
Oh man, time to get organized. Who will do the lobbying on this? The EFF? Wiki says amici briefs to Eldred v. Ashcroft were filed by the Free Software Foundation, the American Association of Law Libraries, the Bureau of National Affairs, an
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by panglott 11y ago
I see something in there about a "hunchback battery", but where's the "debacle"?
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by panglott 11y ago
So trademark holders have to monitor and vigorously defend a trademark that is more limited than copyright. What's wrong with that, for an 80-year-old work? Is this really a worse system than one in which a huge volume of literature an
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by panglott 11y ago
I would say that it's university PR departments, but I suspect that often enough researchers are complicit as well. The researchers hype up their research to university pr copywriters who don't understand it at all, then a journal
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by panglott 11y ago
Making a mockery of Mickey is fine. It's parody!
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by panglott 11y ago
Sorry, I must have copied the link from the DuckDuckGo News search, rather than the redirect. It should point to http://www.cnet.com/news/japans-akatsuki-orbiter-sends-back-...
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by panglott 11y ago
The thing is, they can keep him as a trademark even if he is public domain. This is how the Edgar Rice Burroughs Estate keeps Tarzan and John Carter, for example. Maybe it should just be increasingly costly to maintain an old copyright, so
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by panglott 11y ago
Terrible headline. They found that Chinese children who were adopted into French-speaking families processed language in the brain more like Chinese/French bilingual children than like French monolingual children.
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by panglott 11y ago
"Wondering what will enter the public domain through copyright expiration in the U.S.? Like last year, and the year before…Nothing." So wonderful to see new works enter the public domain, and then there's the gutpunch. So dep
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by panglott 11y ago
The what now?
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Akatsuki probe successfully enters Venus orbit, returns images(cnet.com)
139 points by panglott 11y ago|31 comments
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by panglott 11y ago
"In the 1990s it became clear that microfinance, then the most exciting tool in development economics, was not reaching the very poorest people... BRAC came up with a scheme to help the ultra-poor. It gives them a small stipend for foo
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by panglott 11y ago
1984 was the year that CS majors began to drop off. You're not talking about girls that were begging their parents for a C64. You're talking about girls that were born circa 1962-1966 and after. Many early programmers in the 196
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by panglott 11y ago
Are males in tech really so easily offended?

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