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by sidww2 13y ago
Maybe you want to have another option for people who don't own a 3d printer but have access to one?
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by sidww2 13y ago
I go to CMU (where he was professor) and we got an email about this yesterday evening.
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by sidww2 14y ago
It wasn't an April Fools joke http://blog.jetbrains.com/objc/2013/04/c-ide-an-april-fools-...
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by sidww2 14y ago
Sensory deprivation has already been used as a form of torture by the US. See the case of Jose Padilla for instance.
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by sidww2 14y ago
Relativity & Quantum Mechanics were massive paradigm shifts. In contrast, any flaw in the Standard Model, while exciting, will likely be orders of magnitude smaller in terms of impacting how we view the world. Also we already know the S
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by sidww2 15y ago
Siri actually makes it rather simple to query map directions
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by sidww2 15y ago
Indeed. And not just those subjects. Computers are still a very long way off from judging the correctness of say a human written proof or solution to a physics problem. Even in technical subjects universities will be impossible to replace w
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by sidww2 15y ago
You do know that's fake, right?
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by sidww2 15y ago
They'll probably do some racial/religious profiling in regards to how extensive a background check they give to a person. Since my guess is most that most people who apply for this will not fall into the bracket where they do extensive back
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by sidww2 15y ago
This could work. To make an analogy, PhD students usually don't have a project to work on when they start and if they do, that usually changes. Yet many of them become excellent researchers and leaders of their field in the future.
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by sidww2 15y ago
> That's a standard technical person bias. First of all - I wouldn't count being a businessperson as liberal arts. One way you can look at it is how many people drop out of technical subjects because they find them too hard to move to h
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by sidww2 15y ago
> "* Increasing amount of specialization; liberal arts majors can be very smart and have broad understanding, but get shafted because paying for on-the-job training is expensive." Liberal arts majors can be smart and have broad understa
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by sidww2 15y ago
Not true. Immigration laws are a huge barrier, an insurmountable one for some.
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by sidww2 15y ago
But he wanted the world to know that there was a Kira. His ambition was to be the God of the world. He could anonymously send instructions to the world to do what he wanted only if people knew there was a Kira.
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by sidww2 15y ago
Don't forget that 46% of the country still voted for John McCain - a person was extremely terrible academically even after the Republican Party had launched two disastrous wars, exploded the deficit and their lack of regulation and oversigh
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by sidww2 15y ago
That used to be the case in the past. However with the increased government expenditure on basic science in the wake of the cold war, more of the fundamental science did happen in the US (foundations of CS, foundations of Crypto, lot of AI
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by sidww2 15y ago
A lot of the learning occurs outside the classroom too. Going to an good university helps facilitate that. Not to mention the possibility of working on research with some of the best minds in the world.
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by sidww2 15y ago
This is a court threatening the block. I'm not sure if the government can just ignore a court decision.
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Hate SOPA? 6 things you can do to stop it(gigaom.com)
1 points by sidww2 15y ago|1 comments
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by sidww2 15y ago
>> If you read a site like Daily Kos and see all the action going on there, it would seem that any successful legislator would have to necessarily build a tolerance to negative emails/letters/calls. I wonder if calling/sending lette
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by sidww2 15y ago
They still support PIPA though which is almost as bad.
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Ask HN: Feasibility of setting up a fund to oppose SOPA/PIPA
10 points by sidww2 15y ago|1 comments
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by sidww2 15y ago
I don't mean to imply that the number of letters has decreased. But if the majority of the community chatter is about boycotting GoDaddy, then that will decrease the focus on other (much much much more important) parts of the campaign which
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by sidww2 15y ago
While boycotting companies supporting SOPA is important, I feel the excessive focus on GoDaddy is distracting the community from the important issue of actually defeating SOPA/PIPA. The tech community really does not have the size and influ
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by sidww2 15y ago
That is the purpose of the government but you do agree that certain policies can make accomplishing that purpose much much harder, maybe even impossible? A nice car is not a good analogy since 1) buying one is a matter of choice and 2) kidn
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by sidww2 15y ago
The difference is that currently the amount a kidnapper could extract from an average person is not very high. If selling organs is allowed, suddenly the body of every person walking in the street is a worth a lot of money. It will drastica
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Congress about to undermine our basic constitutional rights(blogs.ajc.com)
6 points by sidww2 15y ago|0 comments
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by sidww2 15y ago
A good autosave mechanism seems to be a much better solution than this. While that would mean the loss of a little bit of data, it seems better than saving a potentially corrupt file or incorrectly inferring that a loop is infinite.
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by sidww2 15y ago
Are the number of votes for a posts available? It could be interesting to use the metrics given to compare posts with high vs low number of votes and could also help validate the use of given metrics.
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Vint Cerf IPV6 propaganda poster(cs.brown.edu)
6 points by sidww2 15y ago|0 comments

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