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by salmonellaeater 10y ago
You are more likely to catch a cold when the weather is cold, because people stay inside more, viruses live longer in living spaces during dry winter conditions, etc. You are not more likely to catch a cold when you yourself get cold or c
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by salmonellaeater 10y ago
I wonder what will happen with visitors who don't use social media. I don't have a Facebook account. If I were a foreigner, would I be under extra suspicion because I can't provide an account like most people? Will people sta
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by salmonellaeater 10y ago
In the airplane situation, I think it's worth stepping back to consider whether peer pressure is the simplest explanation. I think it's much more likely that people are just free-riding on others' mental effort of evaluating
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by salmonellaeater 10y ago
> In my experience, faster development didn’t matter much. Developers’ speed mattered somewhat, but only to the extent that we made effective product design choices based on the valid understanding of customer, user, and stakeholder nee
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My sabbatical research pivot(blogs.uw.edu)
2 points by salmonellaeater 10y ago|1 comments
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by salmonellaeater 11y ago
The first bike is missing its chain stays, the bars connecting the bottom bracket to the rear axle and the ends of the seat stays. Wikipedia has a nice diagram with the names of all the parts of a bicycle [1]. There are real bike designs th
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by salmonellaeater 11y ago
I can sympathize with the farmers because it's really hard to have a rational conversation in the face of strong emotional reactions to graphic imagery. People feel empathy for many things they shouldn't, such as robots[1], and th
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by salmonellaeater 11y ago
"Now you are just sounding entitled. You aren't entitled to any of those things and there are plenty of people in Silicon Valley that are qualified and willing to take the job (which is why you had trouble)." If the company t
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by salmonellaeater 11y ago
> But they note that the boundaries of what counts as routine and non-routine are moving all the time. It was once thought that driving was a skill so complex it couldn’t be automated only to see it turned on its head by Google and other
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by salmonellaeater 11y ago
The article does mention the union. It helps that, despite the work’s fleeting nature, Hollywood is strongly unionized, which keeps wages high. I wonder how the unions interact with the automation also mentioned in the article, such as ro
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by salmonellaeater 11y ago
It creates incentives , but whether they're perverse is a matter of perspective. A perverse incentive is an incentive that has an unintended and undesirable result which is contrary to the interests of the incentive makers. [1] It&#x
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by salmonellaeater 11y ago
The salient information: Well, it seems that Nasdaq slipped up here after Twitter furnished the exchange with earnings details ahead of time ready for official publication. ... Selerity then made sure that everyone knew about it through
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
In concrete terms, imagine Foo looks like this: private T value; void test(Foo<T> f) { f.value = this.value; } You could then assign anything to a member that should only hold a String. This is the same reason why ar
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
What would really improve consumer bicycle technology is a standardized testing schedule like the EPA's "city test"[1]. You can standardize a course, but how to standardize the rider to be similar to an average person? Perhap
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
This story sounded really familiar, so the first thing I looked for in the article was the publication date. It was really hard to find. In small greyed-out print at the bottom, after links to other articles: CNNMoney (New York) January
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
The article doesn't mention anything about age. Age predicts happiness[1] as well as walking speed. I suspect it predicts economic performance, although I don't have any references. It's certainly common for young people to m
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
The issue is that Google's mail servers can't communicate with servers within China, so any user of a Chinese mail service will not be able to send mail to Gmail users (and vice versa). If you are within China using a VPN to acces
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
One way to reduce the chance of this problem occurring is to change the specification of the comparison function to only allow -1, 0, and 1 to be returned (or even better, use enums like LESS, EQUAL, GREATER). This makes doing the wrong thi
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
A major subsidy to the suburban lifestyle is free parking[1]. In heavily urban areas like New York, the space required for parking is priced (mostly) according to the market. In less dense cities with a higher percentage of car owners, stre
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The High Cost of Free Parking (1997) [pdf](uctc.net)
52 points by salmonellaeater 12y ago|20 comments
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
The author's point about memory access being non-constant still holds for a trie. Nodes that have been recently accessed will still be in cache and will load faster. The quest for a sublinear algorithm is futile in the face of caching.
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
C programming language is very high-level... This made me chuckle. The author has a very different perspective from most software developers I know. ...and it might seem that in many cases it should not matter how the control flow is des
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
Technical merits aside, 'tup'[1][2] is a poor choice for the name, especially since it's hosted on a site that includes 'git'[3][4] in the URL. It would be difficult to talk about the tool professionally without ris
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
Even if we entertained the XKCD comic and started training users to select four random words instead of a complex single-word password, I argue that it would not amount to a significant increase in security. People are not very creative
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
> Unfortunately, this conflicts with the (common, good) advice to make as many variables final / const as possible, since it separates the declaration of a variable and its assignment. In Java you can separate the declaration and as
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
Super Bowl ads cost about the same per viewer as prime-time TV slots ($35 per thousand in 2014). Both cost about four times as much per viewer as daytime TV. Primetime: http://www.tvb.org/trends/4718/4715 Daytime:
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
There's an excellent book called Rational Ritual[1][2][3] which develops this idea much more fully. The thesis is that common knowledge (I know something, and I know everyone else knows it too ) is very powerful and rationally drives
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
It's chilling that they explicitly mention parallel construction on page 12: When a complete set of CDRs are subpoenaed from the carrier, then all memorialized references to relevant and pertinent calls can be attributed to the carrie
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
There is even an example of how to write statically-checked non-empty lists at [1]. [1] http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Non-empty_list
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by salmonellaeater 12y ago
It's sufficient to just destroy the bitcoins by sending them to a non-existent address. Alternatively, they could be donated to a third party such as a charity or an open-source software foundation.

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