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by screwt 15y ago
tl;dr: Building waste is mostly rubble (not really necessary to recycle); these stats are by weight (density of rubble >> density of household waste). Treat these stats & suggestions of "no point doing any household recycling" w
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by screwt 15y ago
You need to take into account that test scores don't tell you enough. Currently roughly 8% get the top grade (A star) at A level, per subject [1]. I can't find a number for what %age of students achieve all-A star grades, but I expect it's
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by screwt 15y ago
I'm not from the US. Is there anything I can do to help oppose SOPA/PIPA? So far I've assumed I'm not eligible to call US senators/ congressmen, or sign the whitehouse.gov petition. Am I wrong about this? Is there anything else I can do ins
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by screwt 15y ago
There is a strong case to be made that 37signals should have access to this data for debugging purposes or similar. And as others have suggested, customers trusting 37signals with data should expect this at some level, unless the customers
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by screwt 15y ago
My soln to "HN-linked page is down" is just to search cache:<link> from Google. Works fine 95% of the time.
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by screwt 15y ago
> This isn't bayesian, this is just counting boxes on a permutation table. It's the same thing. Bayes' theorem allows you to shortcut straight to the answer without having to draw out a full probability tree / permutation table. But the
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by screwt 15y ago
The article says it's an extrusion printer, so gravity isn't needed. Current machines would probably work without further modification (e.g. as others have noted, the RepRap can print upside down). In terms of what parts can be made, multi-
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by screwt 15y ago
You can never do this 100% reliably, but depending on how important it is to you, there are measures that can be taken. To go to the complete extreme, you could employ someone to shadow every one of your current employees, and report to you
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by screwt 15y ago
I had to write essays for subjects other than English from middle school onwards. IIRC mostly for history, with some geography as well. Key point being from my education, essays have always been about making a structured argument, and not e
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by screwt 15y ago
I think that's just a function of power. I have a daylight box that runs at 400W; it lights the room fine, and so does the 600W halogen. Funnily enough a 60W regular bulb doesn't really compare.
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by screwt 15y ago
I don't think you're right about incandescents - light from them is much yellower than from a full-spectrum bulb. Question: wouldn't an incandescent have to be at the same temp as the sun to produce the same colour black-body output? (Happy
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by screwt 15y ago
It's not paying 90 days 'late'. It's completely standard in manufacturing for payments to be agreed as due 30, 60 or 90 days after delivery. 90 days fairly long, but not particularly unusual. It's also not unusual for companies to pay lat
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by screwt 15y ago
That's exactly the one I had ( http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=3186671 ). I was pretty sure it was non-unique, but I'm glad you checked it properly!
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by screwt 15y ago
Didn't give me a score ... I'm fairly certain that for my Q8 (2 squares, 2 circles & 2 triangles on each), there was no unique odd one out. For A & C the triangles pointed opposite directions when assembled, and B & D they point
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by screwt 15y ago
Struggling to reconcile the following two points, one from the intro and one from the section on Alignment: - "Research shows that people believe that more attractive designs are easier to use than less attractive designs even when they
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by screwt 15y ago
In my experience, 'engineer' has closer connotations to janitor than 'programmer'. Certainly in the UK, engineering as a profession has a big image problem because the average person doesn't distinguish between e.g. a heating engineer (who
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by screwt 15y ago
I don't think I would say any of those groups act better than others. As a driver, cyclist & pedestrian in London I second this. Some cyclists are dangerous jerks. Some car drivers are dangerous jerks. Some pedestrians have thei
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by screwt 15y ago
It does. "Linus Torvalds ... reinvented Unix for the internet age" "Unix-like systems power several hundred million Apple and Android mobile devices, most internet firms' server farms" Given the massive amounts of attention shown t
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by screwt 15y ago
Would be nice to show the port you've accessed in the body (useful for scripting etc).
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by screwt 15y ago
Possibly interesting, but without data I'm thinking more likely to be chance / propaganda.
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by screwt 15y ago
I'm worried that the girl will leave a loaded shotgun for someone else to shoot themselves in the leg by writing code that relies on order of evaluation rather than by using parantheses. The girl clearly knew her stuff, but I'd be much happ