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by rflrob 9y ago
Any bar that someone put across your screen as a Dick move that makes it harder to read the text. https://daringfireball.net/2017/06/medium_dickbars
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> State freedom-of-information laws generally allow requesters who believe they are wrongly denied records to file lawsuits seeking to force their release. If they succeed, government agencies can be ordered to pay their legal fees and c
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Cannabis, while undoubtedly a medicinal product, is one with a very high possibility of being used recreationally. Nobody is going to consider batting down a drone carrying chemotherapy drugs being delivered to a reservation, whereas the ri
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For the attribution bar at the bottom of the figure, why not use the text() kwarg xycoords="figure points" or "figure pixels", which both enforces the semantic distinction between the axes (where the data goes) and the f
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Legitimate is as legitimate does. Mao was terrible, but Nixon shook hands with him and paved the way for US recognition of the PRC under Carter. There are some nasty people in charge of nations, and it's not clear to me that not acknow
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If the North Korean government collapsed, I would assume that huge numbers of refugees would stream over into China, which is certainly not something they want to deal with.
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I occasionally drive up by Point Reyes in California, and on the weekends, Highway 1 near there is a popular cycling route—packs of Lycra-clad cyclists along a narrow 2-lane, winding road with hills on one side and a short cliff to the ocea
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Do you think that naming things the "Tunguska event" or the "Chelyabinsk meteor" unduly favor Russian sites? It's an accurate descriptor of where it happened. You could, I suppose, take issue with the "Great&qu
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The Damore argument as I read it said not only that women are less aggressive in general, but was premised on the idea that the reason for that difference was primarily biological, and that therefore efforts to promote diversity in CS were
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What's the worst is when they tell you the rules when you try to reset the password, and then you know what your password probably was, but a) they won't cancel the password change process, and b) they won't let you reuse the
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by rflrob 9y ago
This is not my experience with HBO Go, however. There's one skippable "here's what else is on HBO" promo (I think it's skippable—usually I just queue it up while we're settling in to watch), then right into the
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Even though there were no explicit rules requiring something, there were nevertheless unofficial norms that were followed. If (almost) everyone does something without a rule, then making a rule is pointless. But when you get enough people
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While W|A doesn't come close to making the field level, I think there's an argument to be made that it makes the field more level than it was. The perfect being the enemy of the good...
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Not just thrown around though—you can get crafted looking things through natural geothermal processes (which probably are no longer happening on Phobos); columnar basalt is one of my favorite examples https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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Another useful tool is Sim Daltonism ( https://michelf.ca/projects/sim-daltonism/ ). I always try to spot-check figures I'm making for scientific publications to ensure that I'm not excluding too many of m
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Even though it's more characters, I usually use perl -pe 's/search/replace/' instead of sed in pipelines because it understands /n (and other escape characters I don't remember). Because all it takes
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One thing I recall reading is that rebar-reinforcing concrete is a major factor in concrete deterioration. So while concrete structures today don't last nearly as long as the Roman Pantheon (poured in the second century AD), they'
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Then perhaps you'd like to pay for the premium subscription. https://scottscheapflights.groovehq.com/knowledge_base/topic...
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Or C3PO is just a stodgy old frequentist: https://www.countbayesie.com/blog/2015/2/18/hans-solo-and-ba...
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Most of the criticism of a house on MMH is of the interiors. While there often are bizarre nubs that are mocked, these are usually consequences of interior architecture choices that then spill out. Furthermore, Street View photos aren&#x27
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>Also, most of us run a load just before going to bed I don't do this, but perhaps more relevant, I have never discussed laundry habits with friends, so either a) I am unusually tight lipped about laundry, or b) I have no way to kno
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Agree here, but I'd also be in favor of some method of requiring gun owners to undergo this kind of course as well. While accidents are a small fraction of total gun deaths [1], they seem especially preventable by creating a well-reg
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Experiments disproving the hypothesis are usually deeply unsettling, because in most cases, we have a pretty good reason for having that hypothesis to begin with---often lots of other experiments from the giants in your field. Those really
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Can Bitcoin’s cryptographic technology help save the environment?(sciencemag.org)
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> This implies that we should expect limited Lamarckian evolution anywhere it leads to greater fitness than Darwinian. Not necessarily... evolution is good at finding local maxima, but not necessarily global ones if there's a deep v
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These brains are a lot smaller than a human brain---only about 2-5 mm across. While it's almost certainly a mistake to conflate size with complexity naively (songbirds are capable of pretty complex behaviors), I think it's much s
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According to [1, probably paywalled], it's present in both vertebrates and invertebrates, but not plants or fungi, indicating that it's animal specific, but still quite ancient. What the authors have found is not that cephalopods
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Ianal, but my sense is that as long as they keep trying to hold back the tide, they're eligible for trademark protection. Once they give up, there's nothing to stop Google Docs Photoshop mode, Microsoft Office Photoshop, or rflrob
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In a lot of the Western US, water usage is based on decades-old interstate compacts, where future water rights are based on a use-it-or-lose-it system. I'm not necessarily in favor of the extreme unregulated end of the free market eith
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This would be my first thought as well, but the original article says that they are near-orbitally resonant. It seems possible to me that the regularly passing nearby planets could apply enough of a torque to counteract the tidal locking---

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