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by shasta 16y ago
The study also found that love increasingly makes you ignorant of what decade it is and where you put your hearing aid.
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by shasta 16y ago
So they get in trouble for doing a shitty job and they also get in trouble for not doing their jobs? Wow, that's a catch 22.
873.
by shasta 16y ago
Interesting, thanks. It seems plausible that it isn't possible to redirect light from a uniform temperature black body to produce a higher temperature somewhere else. I'll have to think about it more, though. The thermodynamical argument
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by shasta 16y ago
Right. Cuz the photons are the same temperature as the sun. That's why sun photons feel warm.
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by shasta 16y ago
In other words, there's no problem with software (or other) patents in theory, but currently the pragmatics are out of whack. Software patents are no different than other forms of patents except that many of the coefficients involved are v
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by shasta 16y ago
So you're saying that if you trip over the cord while your hair dryer is plugged into an American socket, it doesn't fall off of whatever ledge it's on? Do you use an industrial hair dryer or something?
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by shasta 16y ago
> The credibility of the author is relevant to the author's argument/results/conclusions to the extent that the argument depends on points whose plausibility requires faith in the author's honesty and ability. Unless you personally have
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by shasta 16y ago
Wow, this is a gonna be a $2.5K pay cut for us, straight up. We used to take our kids to the doctor whenever they were showing signs of sickness - fever, cough, runny nose, skinned knees. Now we're going to have to weigh whether they're s
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by shasta 16y ago
Given your stated use case, one thing you could do to improve this thing is to filter out obscure homophones of common words. Calling out "aweigh" over the table is just going to produce confusion.
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by shasta 16y ago
Unlikely to run out for a while due to good faith usage, but it would be pretty trivial to exhaust the word pool with an attack. Currently, it doesn't even check for dups - successive requests for the same URL produced different code words
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by shasta 16y ago
The article discusses half a dozen things that "improve" or "increase" brain function, without ever reporting on the amount of the improvement. Rather than with numbers, a finding of improvement is followed by a quote from the researcher m
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by shasta 16y ago
This technology could be amazing. Currently, about 50% of the time, if I spell something wrong or type a name that's not in the dictionary, my phone replaces my entry with something radically and comically different. With four additional
883.
by shasta 16y ago
This is why I hate people quoting sociology studies. A comparison between wearing helmets and wearing long blonde wigs gets summarized as: > research has shown that cars drive closer to people with helmets than they do to people with
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by shasta 16y ago
The version of the quote I've heard has "from time to time" at the end of it. With more context: > Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or al
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by shasta 16y ago
Two corrections to your non sequitur: 1. The quote you've selected doesn't mention second, third, or eleventh generation "immigrants", it mentions "second and third generation children". 2. Many of the "first generation immigrant children"
886.
by shasta 16y ago
The way I read your link, he was sued for something else, and this practice came to light during discovery.
887.
by shasta 16y ago
Maybe "save" refers to shipping
888.
by shasta 16y ago
Digging further into your link on [4] we find the following: > To acquire such evidence, Joshua Aronson and I (following a procedure developed with Steven Spencer) designed an experiment to test whether the stereotype threat that black
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by shasta 16y ago
> I consider it deeply offensive and am baffled that anyone would consider it germane in 2010. What exactly do you find "deeply offensive"? Because I think your tone isn't helping your cause. If you wish to argue that race and/or gene
890.
by shasta 16y ago
I think you may have missed Hilbert Spaces' point (as halostatue may have). His thesis is not that "diversity" is a cause of low performance, but rather that genetics is. Holding up Canada as an example of another "diverse" country with b
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by shasta 16y ago
> The ethnic make-up of Canada is similar to that of the U.S. as we're both immigrant countries According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat... , the US is over 15% Latino and over 12% black (as of 2008).
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by shasta 16y ago
For those who don't have the time to read it, "The Great Zucchini" is about a world class clown who goes unrecognized while performing his famous mime routine undercover at a local mall.
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by shasta 16y ago
Well, I've been around for longer than that, but your point stands. I don't hate Haskell in the least and often enjoy "technology X in Haskell" articles. I now notice that dons was even the submitter of some articles I enjoyed. This parti
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by shasta 16y ago
Oh joy, the Haskell propoganda machine has made it to Hacker News.
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by shasta 16y ago
Don't let all of these naysayers slow talk you out of your crackpot proselytizing. Here, have a downvote.
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by shasta 16y ago
I think your comment was reasonable, but the point of the "silly locovore" link above is that insisting on locally grown food isn't the way fossil fuel conservation should be implemented, as locally grown does not imply fuel efficient. Rat
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by shasta 16y ago
Yes. Good point.
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by shasta 16y ago
That's a bullshit answer. In the real world there are deadlines that arise for many reasons: - any external event like getting a product out before Christmas - change in circumstance like a coworker quitting or getting sick - the problem i
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by shasta 16y ago
If you can move it, it isn't a deadline.
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by shasta 16y ago
I'm pretty sure it's that she pays a higher rate than he does. He pays more taxes every year than she'll earn in her lifetime.

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