patrickyeon

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by patrickyeon 16y ago
As fodder for discussion, where should the government's influence stand on issues of medicine or circumcision, as practiced by children's parents? At what point can the government say "your freedoms matter less to us than taking care of _yo
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
It seems to suggest to me that you're getting ready to fire back, in a legal manner. Getting ready to call their bluff, as it were.
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Your Roger Corman Future(ascii.textfiles.com)
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
Alright! I can't wait until I, as a passenger, can't use my phone! Or I can't use it while walking near running cars (as in, every city street)! Or my new car comes with a free cell phone blocker I bring in to the theater (some disassembly
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
Nothing. I hate it. If I may, a case study of how to make a shitty office: * Find space based mainly on price. Who cares if it's nearly a different city from where your whole team lives? * Don't worry about natural light (or even worse, due
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
I think the story comes from GEB, but I've heard that good chess players (not even anything-masters) can recreate boards from actual games from memory much better than non-players, but are no better than non-players when dealing with random
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
For those of you wondering, as I did, how to make this amazing pie crust: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2007/11/cooks-illustrated...
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
Because you're going to get it wrong. No offence intended, I would too, but if you haven't been sleeping, eating, breathing security for a while, you're going to make a mistake, and it'll cost people. And all the other points about it needi
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
A possibly more practical use would be to invert this setup. I have a big window that faces west, which means I have to close the curtains if I want to work in my apartment in the afternoon. This system could be set up to block the sunlight
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
That's what I thought of immediately as well, but I'm not sure it's even pseudo-context. Pseudo-context would be "if Hermione cast 5 spells yesterday, and two today, how many in total did she cast?" This is just math drills (another 'techni
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
The LHC has beam dumps, where they re-direct the beam if they need to shut it down quickly. http://lhc-machine-outreach.web.cern.ch/lhc-machine-outreach... "Each beam dump absorber consists of a 7m long segmented carbon cylinder of 700mm
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
$300 is a whole lot of suppers you (and your siblings, parents, and whatever other dependents) won't need to skip.
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
> However, in this case, his work is breaking the business model of an innovative startup. I would argue that an innovative startup has bet on a broken business model. I didn't feel bad when the Xbox got hacked and Microsoft was selling
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
Thank you, again. I like to think I'm pretty good at ignoring sunk costs (the "I've already invested, I'd better keep on trying here" mentality), I think a bigger trap is that I'm an EE, and there is not much opportunity to be involved in r
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
Company-wide, with some occasional exceptions (but 'company-wide' refers to a dev team of four people). It is a boot-strapped startup so there isn't money to throw around either. (edit: the more I think about it, the more I want to claim th
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by patrickyeon 16y ago
Thanks for the story. There were some very good lessons in it. > every time I managed to fix something[1] I proved him right in a way deepening the misery and the complexity of the next challenge I have a similar situation with the star