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by rweba 9y ago
Should say 2015
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by rweba 9y ago
We Americans do tend to overuse superlatives. It's just part of our culture. A restaurant you enjoyed can't just be "good" or "decent", it has to "great". A nice vacation can't just be "rela
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by rweba 9y ago
I just randomly came across this very relevant TED talk given by a prison inmate yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F89eycANUrQ I definitely feel that American prison policy leans way too far on the side of moral jud
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by rweba 10y ago
This article makes me respect Bill Gates more. You never hear of him being involved in cringy stuff like this. Yes, it may be legal, but it definitely doesn't look good. Also, is it just me or is Zuck becoming rather paranoid about his
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by rweba 10y ago
There are 3 possibilities: 1) Russia hacked the election 2) Russia did not hack the election but the intelligence community wrongly believes they did 3) Russia did not hack the election and the intelligence agencies don't believe they
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by rweba 10y ago
I went to their DC location on Friday. It's really not THAT different than any other fast food place in terms of the speed of service or the number of staff. Even the price ($6.95) was about the same as what a typical fast food meal co
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SpaceX Makes History | MARS(youtube.com)
3 points by rweba 10y ago|0 comments
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by rweba 10y ago
I actually LOVE reading biographies, in fact this year I made a special point of reading as many biographies as I could. And yes, like this guy I read biographies with the very specific goals of learning life lessons and ideas that I could
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by rweba 10y ago
The bottom line is: how well do these "progressive ideas" work in practice? I couldn't find much evidence online that they're more effective in general than the "traditional" approach. I have been a college pro
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by rweba 11y ago
I think there is a cultural disconnect to some of the complaints about Wolfram's post. Wolfram and Minsky both have backgrounds in academia. In academia "self-promotion" is actually not generally frowned upon. People really d
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by rweba 11y ago
I really find myself disagreeing. Yes, I do believe Wolfram went overboard with his claims for "A New Kind of Science", but I don't think this very sweet blog post was in any way inappropriate. It's not rude to reference
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by rweba 11y ago
I did not find it to be inappropriate. He was noting his interactions with Minsky and the connections between their work which is a standard and useful thing to do in this kind of situation.
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by rweba 11y ago
1) "The first half seemed utterly naive (apparently nobody was sexually assaulted in the golden age of the 60s?)" - But should she be subjected to an investigation for writing a "naive" article? I think not, as surely th
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Sitting is the new smoking – Even for runners(runnersworld.com)
4 points by rweba 12y ago|0 comments
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What is a Frobenioid?(mathoverflow.net)
1 points by rweba 12y ago|0 comments
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by rweba 12y ago
"Can a biologist fix a radio?" http://www.protein.bio.msu.ru/biokhimiya/contents/v69/pdf/bc... Funny and inspirational, and shows how primitive a lot of biological research really is: Almost ra
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by rweba 12y ago
The current threshold is 100,000 and the petition only has 61,040 votes.
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by rweba 12y ago
Important quote from that article: “Increasing the supply is not going to increase the number of affordable units; that is a complete and utter fallacy,” said Jaimie Ross, the president of the Florida Housing Coalition. As the article expla
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by rweba 12y ago
Thank you. I think people are far too quick to imply every problem is caused by bureaucratic over regulation. Manhattan is also the counter example that always comes to mind for me. If you have a lot of relatively well off people chasing th
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by rweba 13y ago
(1) The California budget crisis was as much political gridlock as anything else and appears to be currently resolved. Certain people used it as a an opportunity to attack public services and public sector unions. (2) These particular salar
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Particle accelerators: Small really is beautiful(economist.com)
40 points by rweba 13y ago|10 comments
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Will Couchsurfing Implode?(medium.com)
2 points by rweba 13y ago|0 comments
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by rweba 13y ago
1.5 hours is NOT a lot for an entire day's trip. Two weeks ago I took a much shorter 240 mile trip and we stopped for about an hour to fill up gas, rest and eat. The bottom line is this is a very typical usage pattern, many people like
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by rweba 13y ago
Lawmakers already had health insurance so the Affordable Care Act didn't really affect them in any substantial way. In general the ACA won't have a huge immediate impact for those who already have health insurance.
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by rweba 13y ago
(1) Exercise everyday (2) Try to get enough sleep (3) Make a very conscious effort to get out of your comfort zone and try unfamiliar things, even if you only try them briefly. (4) Understand and accept that sometimes it takes years before
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by rweba 13y ago
What is so difficult about promoting it via the usual channels? Advertisements, (legitimate) posts on appropriate forums, mailing lists, blogs, etc. Assuming they are presenting an attractive value proposition I don't see why it would
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by rweba 13y ago
A lot of skeptics here (as usual!) Well I use both Google+ and Facebook every day and to me Google+ seems VERY active with a lot of high quality content as well. I can't really say if it is more active than Twitter (which is also very activ
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by rweba 14y ago
As I expected most of the HN comments are criticizing it for one reason or another but I like this just because solving simple chess puzzles is FUN which is not true for the tasks in the typical CAPTCHA. Yes, there could be a concern over a
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Growing a Language meets Strunk and White(wadler.blogspot.com)
2 points by rweba 14y ago|0 comments
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by rweba 14y ago
I haven't seen anyone note that the person who replied to Marx's letter in his role as US Ambassador to the United Kingdom (Charles Francis Adams) was the son of America's 6th president (John Quincy Adams) and grandson of the 2nd president

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