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by plg 12y ago
Rigorous, well-concieved hypothesis-driven research with lots of controls, ought to be considered as valuable as studies that show positive findings. The sad fact is that they are not. There is also a chicken-and-egg problem here with chang
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by plg 12y ago
for a uniform sphere maybe
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by plg 12y ago
sure that makes sense, I wasn't aware of the similar dates
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by plg 12y ago
Just asking (not trolling, really), but what are the reasons for using markdown and not emacs org-mode? Is it simply that you don't have to use emacs? I like markdown and all but it seems redundant since org-mode already exists.
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by plg 12y ago
this is great, I hope the authors keep a .pdf version available for dl once its done
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by plg 12y ago
What's the big impediment to just making all websites https, all the time? Technical? Financial? Honest question.
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by plg 12y ago
"A surge of p-values between 0.040 and 0.049 in recent decades" hmm ... what are the chances of that? ;) Seriously though, why is the null hypothesis not considered? Wouldn't it strengthen their case, to reject the null hypot
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Founder of 4Chan Chris Poole, the 'anti-Zuckerberg' – podcast (guardian.co.uk)(theguardian.com)
7 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
I thought that OpenCL was supposed to be the "open" standard for GPU computing... why is everyone rallying around CUDA instead? (seemingly)?
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Lower Your Car Insurance Bill, at the Price of Some Privacy(nytimes.com)
28 points by plg 12y ago|61 comments
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by plg 12y ago
For me the problem isn't packing things into my brain in a way that keeps them from leaking out ... the problem for me is figuring out what are the right things I want packed into my brain
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Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet(theatlantic.com)
435 points by plg 12y ago|197 comments
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BitTorrent Sync Apps Offer Escape From Big Brother(wired.com)
4 points by plg 12y ago|1 comments
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Surveillance as a Business Model(schneier.com)
3 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web(theatlantic.com)
215 points by plg 12y ago|118 comments
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Is a Hard Life Inherited?(nytimes.com)
122 points by plg 12y ago|64 comments
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“Balloons” Swift playground from WWDC 2014(developer.apple.com)
4 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
"Best" == "trending" ???
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by plg 12y ago
I've forgotten the quote's origin but The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat
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Why This CEO Happily Just Quit The Best Job He's Ever Had(businessinsider.com)
6 points by plg 12y ago|5 comments
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by plg 12y ago
Is there any reason why we can't design a federated (non-centralized) version of twitter that doesn't depend on a business model of monetization? Every ad I see on twitter contributes to (what I assume is) my eventual abandonment
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by plg 12y ago
As long as an academic researcher's personal career progress (and pocketbook) depend on a seemingly never-ending flow of "novel" and "significant" findings this will continue.
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by plg 12y ago
the game space is VERY crowded for mobile if I were to think about mobile apps I would aim for some specialty market segment, e.g. doctors, or lawyers, or construction, or weddings, etc. not games. too crowded. too many voices.
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by plg 12y ago
Not much better on OS X ... my brand new laptop with the most current OS X is totally unreliable about connecting to wi-fi on wake from sleep. Even on reboot half the time it fails. Maybe different cause from that highlighted by the OP&#x27
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by plg 12y ago
Ironic that the spreadsheet linked to on the Apple Press Info page ( https://www.apple.com/pr/pdf/q3fy14datasum.pdf ) is a pdf created not by iWork/Numbers but by ... ... Excel doh!
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by plg 12y ago
LaTeX source code would be nice
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by plg 12y ago
true! and I'm old enough to remember that in school (pre-laptop) we used to sticker the crap out of our looseleaf binders and lunch pails (I was particularly proud of my collection of Star Wars stickers)
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by plg 12y ago
it's not about the stickers, people it's the idea that people love their macbooks air so much, they adorn them with flair to personalize them, to incorporate the laptop into their own personality
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Create, edit, and run IPython notebooks on your iPad(computableapp.com)
1 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
"Have you considered creating an app which has a barcode scanner which populates the item database? It was my understanding that barcodes were unique to each item. Is there not a way to pull the item name from a barcode?" -->

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