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by rflrob 15y ago
People above are mentioning how super injunctions violate an American's conception of the right to free speech, but I think this is the more troubling aspect: that it violates the journalist's right to due process. I'll grant that ignoranc
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by rflrob 15y ago
I had my most recent "I live in the future" moment when I, between getting off of public transit and arriving at the food truck, received the menu from a friend, picked what I wanted, then paid the same friend for that food, all through my
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by rflrob 15y ago
My understanding is that they do charge some fee to places like food trucks. The way it's structured, though, they encourage the users to keep some amount (c. $20) in their Venmo accounts, so that when you pay someone, it gets taken out of
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by rflrob 15y ago
I think independent trials is not an obviously good assumption. Any properly designed major will have later courses build on earlier ones, so one might have predicted that performance in the first course was more predictive of GPA than SAT
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by rflrob 15y ago
>When I asked Feal and Carol Saller, who oversees the Chicago Manual of Style, if there was a chance their organizations would go over to the other side, they both replied, in essence: "How about never? Is never good for you?" It seems
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This is What Irony Tastes Like: Capcom and the PSN Outage(shamusyoung.com)
197 points by rflrob 15y ago|27 comments
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by rflrob 15y ago
Any good explanation for why it maxes out my CPU, even when it's just displaying the end-of-level score screen? This game works fine on a smartphone, but somehow makes use of everything my MacBook Pro can throw at it?
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How to check your car for a GPS tracker(wired.com)
6 points by rflrob 15y ago|6 comments
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by rflrob 15y ago
> The (slightly) more interesting legal question might be whether AT&T could ask a prosecutor to bring criminal charges. My uninformed guess is they could, based on something like "theft of services." If I charged $20 a month for yo
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by rflrob 15y ago
> It is therefore rather "symbolic politics" with politicians trying to get a "greener image" on this issue, rather than actually fixing the environment. I'd be surprised if this is actually the case. I haven't looked up the actual reg
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by rflrob 15y ago
I wonder if there's any way to use this scheme as a distributed computing tool. Maybe give out 3 work-units, one or two of which you know the result for, and the 3rd is unknown. The two known answers could be used to do the check, and the
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by rflrob 15y ago
I've only ever had a handful of connections where I'm on the same plane. More often, I have to haul my stuff halfway across the terminal (and the Availability heuristic* tells me that it's almost never the next gate over) to get on a diffe
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by rflrob 15y ago
It may depend on the journal. I've definitely downloaded PDFs from Web of Knowledge, with the Cell journals seeming to use it instead of having their own archival facilities facing the web.
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by rflrob 15y ago
Probably not, but some number between the two seems reasonable. Depending on what goes into it and how much staff it needs, $1m wouldn't surprise me.
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by rflrob 15y ago
> My iPod only holds 30GB of music, and I already have that much on there. So, every time I want to add a new album, I have to get rid of something else. I already chopped my music collection down to the 30GB limit in the first place.
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Why I Need Help From Scientists for ILearnedToProgram.com Data(itmoves.wordpress.com)
2 points by rflrob 15y ago|0 comments
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by rflrob 15y ago
Not the only machines by a long shot. While it's certainly conceivable to think of memory and thought as one gigantic state machine, it's impractical to model it that way. What makes FSMs neat is that they are incredibly useful, in spite
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by rflrob 15y ago
Sure you can test it. While any parent will try to minimize the number of new injuries their child receives, it's hard to imagine that the number will ever reach 0. So the next time the child hurts herself, just try the crib state transit
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by rflrob 15y ago
It would actually be pretty easy to do without (explicit) multiplication or division: just convert it to a string and check text properties. Whether or not it would be any faster is another question, to which I'm almost certain the answer i
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by rflrob 15y ago
It's not obvious to me how to automatically classify stories as (a)temporal. My understanding of the way submissions work is that if Bob submits something that Alice also recently[1] submitted, then it just gets counted as an upvote for A
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by rflrob 15y ago
The thrust of this article seems to be not so much that the science is bad ("I could discern nothing rebellious in his careful work as a scientist"), but that the book doesn't portray a balanced view of the good science that's out there on
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by rflrob 15y ago
Anyone else bothered by the fact that there are no pictures of a bike actually locked to something?
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by rflrob 15y ago
In the video on the linked site, I think he draws too strong of an analogy to life. While you can think of the 1's and 0's that make up the code for the 3D printer file as a genetic code, the key difference is that every living thing carri
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by rflrob 15y ago
> This is a regular user with some coding skills I love that there are communities where "regular user" and "coding skills" overlap.
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by rflrob 15y ago
I don't think binary is really subtle enough to have a fine gradation of shades of grey. I interpret "Understand binary" to mean something along the lines of "be comfortable with the notion that the numbering system we use has an arbitrary
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by rflrob 16y ago
> They sure knew how to engineer stuff then. Arguably, the current generation of engineers aren't too shabby themselves. Spirit and Opportunity were designed to last 90 sols, with their actual missions lasting some 25 times that, and Op
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by rflrob 16y ago
More than 175.000 things have been flattred almost half a million times This implies that every item has been flattred, on average, just under 3 times. Does this seem a little low to anyone else? I suppose the real question is how many t
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by rflrob 16y ago
If, as many articles seem to be suggesting, we decrease the number of grad students, then that just means that the ones left will teach more, which distracts them from the research and (presumably) lengthens the PhDs. It's not a completely
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by rflrob 16y ago
I've found Two-Buck Chuck to be highly inconsistent. It can definitely be very good, but it's also not unusual for it to be pretty bad. On the bright side, when you only spent $2, it's not a huge loss if turns out you got a bad one.
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by rflrob 16y ago
The article says nothing about the previous experience of the participants. I've been led to understand that many wine critics have highly consistent palates, able to give the same score to a wine within a couple of points even under blin

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