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by rubidium 10y ago
"The 2016 US Presidential election feels like the most important one so far in my lifetime." -sama I'm the same age as Sam. But I must confess I don't see why he sees this one as the most important. Both candidates are t
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by rubidium 10y ago
Console wars aside, it's interesting to note that they put a lot of hope into arcades/movies/amusement parks... all of which have not seen nearly the growth rates as home entertainment. http://www.theverge.com&#x2F
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by rubidium 10y ago
Here's the 2014 article referenced (it's a good summary): http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/MPR/article-full-tex... After a particularly intense few weeks of work of computer-based work, I started
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by rubidium 10y ago
The closer you are to actual research, the less helpful anything in print or online will be in answering your question. SO is for questions that have known solutions or quickly knowable solutions. Sounds like you're actually looking fo
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by rubidium 10y ago
Nicely done on the game! Reminded me of the long nights in the lab setting up optical fibers, cavities and lasers. But the game makes it much easier to align :)
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by rubidium 10y ago
So let's say I'm going to set-up a small business with an online store and other content (blog, etc...). Let's also say I don't care about the tech stack or want to be doing custom css/html. Weebly looks promising f
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by rubidium 10y ago
Since it's the best source on Tolkien's view of his stories, let me recommend his "On Fairy Stories" for those who have not read it: http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~bakovic/tolkien/fairy_stories.pdf
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by rubidium 10y ago
"Siri makes its debut on Mac"<- because cortana received such positive reviews? Siri has been in iOS since 2011 and still can't handle basic parsing/questions. There was that demo of something that looked a lot better
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by rubidium 10y ago
Here's the 2nd: http://images1.kalzumeus.com/blog-images/ab-test-manual/ar-s...
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by rubidium 10y ago
Now you understand the job of systems engineering :) Verify components, validate the entire system is the typical approach.
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by rubidium 10y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'm pretty familiar with the area, and it was fun to see the different approaches and styles of the three groups in the papers. Zwierlein = "we're doing solid state physics" (disclaimer: with ultracol
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by rubidium 10y ago
http://xkcd.com/1735/
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by rubidium 10y ago
I despise the Michigan Left. There's one by a critical gas station (i.e. "I'm often running out of gas when I'm near it"). But I can only get to it if I'm going the correct direction. Otherwise I have to wait f
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by rubidium 10y ago
Totally hear you. But Yang's whole point was accelerator measurements are not what we should be focusing on for the next "x" new big experiments. I tend to agree.
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by rubidium 10y ago
Yang's point wasn't that there should be no large scale projects, just that they shouldn't do accelerators. "Yang argues that high-energy physicists should eschew big accelerator projects for now and start blazing trails
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by rubidium 10y ago
Alan Kay AMA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11939851
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by rubidium 10y ago
"So despite all the cheerleading from the Bill Gateses and Mark Zuckerbergs about our recent innovations, Silicon Valley and even many economists have failed to take into account something crucial: The economist’s basic measure of tech
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American Growth Has Slowed Down. Get Used to It(politico.com)
3 points by rubidium 10y ago|2 comments
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by rubidium 10y ago
For anyone interested, the from a laptop computer (macbook, chrome browser) this game was buggy and nearly unplayable. It took up 900 MB of memory and 50% CPU. Age of Empires was more responsive in 2002.
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Teardown: A tiny camera drone for $15(edn.com)
3 points by rubidium 10y ago|0 comments
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by rubidium 10y ago
As a single person, yes you can live very comfortably on 35k a year (I wouldn't quite go so far as "rich"). Raising a family, not so much.
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by rubidium 10y ago
Reality check (no idea where you live... but your blithe statement reveals some serious lack of understanding of the situation of most people in the US): The U.S. Census Bureau reported in September 2014 that U.S. real (inflation adjusted)
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by rubidium 10y ago
I've often wondered about returning to more rural, subsistence-farm living. I'm very likely naive about a number of factors involved, but with the massive agricultural advances of the last 100 years it seems like setting up a subs
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by rubidium 10y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your encouragement towards the skilled trades, but please do be realistic with your information. Median salary is $40K. http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Welder/Hourly_Rate
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by rubidium 10y ago
If intelligence = information, then I agree. If intelligence = analysis, then I must disagree.
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by rubidium 10y ago
Let me answer a different question: where do you go for civil, insightful commentary? I recommend gathering a group of "morning cup of coffee" people with an intellectual bent. This works particularly well among more academic neig
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by rubidium 10y ago
Uber actually transports people. Ford actually builds cars. Google... likes letting smart people do smart things. While Ford may be the underdog in the race, I like its chances. It has the operational experience to take a "works-in-con
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by rubidium 10y ago
I'd never heard of the 2-week grade strike at Yale. That's bold. My experience at a state-school, tier 1 research university was that the grad student TA workload varied greatly by department. I calculated I was making just under
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by rubidium 10y ago
There are many, many great charities that would suffer greatly from your simplistic solution. As a middle-classer giving >10% of income to charity, it's helpful to not have that be taxed and enables more to go to the charities. A mo
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by rubidium 10y ago
Modern solution to campus exercise requirement: Put the dining hall 1 mile away from the dorms.

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