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by qzw 7y ago
>It’s unclear if civilization started because we could ferment things, or we started fermenting things and therefore civilization started... Wait, aren't those two ways of saying the same thing? I would think the alternative would
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by qzw 7y ago
Maybe it’s little discussed because that’s the intended effect? A lot of simple things can create positive changes in aspects of your personality, such as meditation, a consistent exercise routine, enough sleep, etc.
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by qzw 8y ago
I think it would help if you named your dealbreakers. Imagine if in an OS discussion you said that you like Linux but won’t adopt it due to a couple of unspecified dealbreakers and just left it at that. Most people here would probably consi
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by qzw 8y ago
Dredging up memories from high school chem: not actually impossible odds. Half-life means the time it takes for half of the atoms out of a given quantity to decay. There are 6.02E23 atoms per mole, and about 8 moles per kg for xenon. So wit
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by qzw 8y ago
I don't think the bullshitter problem is at all limited to the tech industry. In the financial industry there was Madoff, and not just him, but the surprising number of people who were ostensibly running their own funds who just put al
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by qzw 8y ago
No, I haven't, but will definitely check it out. I did finally read Neal Stephenson's Seveneves before I started the Trisolaris Trilogy. I find them excellent at conveying the sense of vastness of space and time and how truly frag
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by qzw 8y ago
Thanks for sharing the photos. It's an incredible tragedy. I had the privilege of visiting Notre Dame twice, but I'm deeply saddened for all those who will not have the opportunity to see it in its former magnificent form, includi
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by qzw 8y ago
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu. Just finished it; great read.
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by qzw 8y ago
It really depends on the type of debt. Don't pay down your mortgage by $10k. It will probably do nothing to lower your monthly payments. Do reduce high-interest credit card debt if possible. If you don't have high interest debt, s
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by qzw 8y ago
SEO...
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by qzw 8y ago
My local DMV is also surprisingly great: most things can be done online, and if you do have to go in, there are online appointments as well as quick walk-in service. I actually have longer waits at Chipotle than at the DMV.
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by qzw 8y ago
I have no doubt this works, but if the majority of couples did as you suggest, I imagine the cost of "engagement parties" will rise to something similar to weddings.
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by qzw 8y ago
Very good points. Reminds me of the DeBeers-sourced "average cost of engagement ring" and the auto-industry's "average cost of new car" figures. It also takes advantage of the colloquial interpretation of "aver
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by qzw 8y ago
Now for a different context: consider Russian cars vs German cars.
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by qzw 8y ago
For literally centuries, people thought that number theory had no practical applications. Same for a number of other fields of mathematics. Is quantum computing somewhat overhyped at this moment in history? Undoubtedly (but way less so than
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by qzw 8y ago
“As fast” in the big-O sense. Here’s what Scott Aaronson says in reply to one of the comments on his blogpost about this paper: I should point out, though, that in many cases (Simon’s problem, period-finding, Forrelation, quantum walk on g
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by qzw 8y ago
Not sure if you’re being serious, but there are already quantum algorithms that have been mathematically proven to not be dequantizable, i.e. have no possible classical version that's as fast.
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by qzw 8y ago
Not the OP, but this reminds me of a similar experience I had with a book called Space Opera a few months ago. Don't remember where I first heard of it, but it was being touted as comparable to the Hitchhiker's Guide. All the revi
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by qzw 9y ago
Dealers don't usually volunteer it, but you can just ask your salesperson for the money factor. Take the number and multiply by 2400 to get the interest rate. My current lease rate is 0.75%, while the interest rate on a loan would&#x27
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by qzw 11y ago
Are they only doing this if your IP belongs to a well known university? I'm sure lots of people here are googling programming topics everyday, and I'd assume it would've come up before this.
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by qzw 11y ago
This is a town that once booed Santa Claus. What would you expect?
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by qzw 12y ago
Very cool of you to share your thoughts. I sympathize with your dilemma. It seems that the people who end up making money out of free/open source software are often not the ones who write the code. And I remember reading back in the da
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by qzw 12y ago
Yes, but watch out if you've already pushed to remote branches or even done merge/rebase with other local branches. You're rewriting history.
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by qzw 12y ago
I often get strange looks when using my fingers to eat sushi, but it works so much better than chopsticks! I can usually convince whoever is eating with me to follow suit after their sushi crumbles into their soy sauce dish and creates the
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by qzw 12y ago
Uh, that's a chart of the total cumulative sales, so just by the nature of the chart, it's going to make the early years look terrible. The raw numbers[1] were: 376K in 2002, 937K in 2003, 4.4M in 2004, and 22.5M in 2005. That&#
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by qzw 12y ago
There are at least 3 types of "something people want". The first is the obvious, you-see-it, you-want-it, you-know everyone-and-his-cousin-will-want-it-too something, like the original iPod. There's the it-doesn't-seem-t
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by qzw 12y ago
Forget cameras, I want the bionic eyes we were promised. I hope this gets us a step closer.
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by qzw 12y ago
Ok, I think you're assigning me to a camp in your head that I do not belong to. I'm not the corporation-loving, lawyer-hating, "tort-reforming" droid you're looking for. If you believe in the rule of law, which I do
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by qzw 12y ago
Same here. I just ordered a Lenovo desktop 3 days ago for a family member. Seriously thinking about canceling the order now even though that machine should not be affected. I've been recommending Lenovo to lots of people, and I persona
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by qzw 12y ago
The implementation may be mostly stupidity/laziness as they probably just used Komodia's ad injection SDK: http://www.komodia.com/ad-injection-sdk/ But if you look at what Komodia says on that page regarding

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