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by smegel 11y ago
> Study after study has found that attempts – even by trained police officers – to read lies from body language and facial expressions are more often little better than chance. Yet juries in rape trials supposedly do it all the time...or
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by smegel 11y ago
Disconnecting from twitter was one of the best moves I ever made. Being subjected to a high volume/low quality stream of garbage is not good for the mind.
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by smegel 11y ago
Which seems to be like 90% of them. Good guy Google for once.
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by smegel 11y ago
> Trials often included inquiries into a woman’s sexual history, because of the notion that a woman who wasn’t virginal must have been complicit in any sex that occurred. I thought it was to counteract arguments that an apparently virgin
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by smegel 11y ago
> Tokyo is the world’s most livable city. This is a really bizarre claim. Tokyo, like Japan is special in it's own right, but it, like the rest of Japan, is very homogeneous, you are pretty much getting the same thing everywhere (or
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by smegel 11y ago
Wow that changed quickly. Yesterday it was all about data science and machine learning!
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by smegel 11y ago
I've heard of Dropbox.
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by smegel 11y ago
So long as they add a rule to PEP8 saying you can only use one of the string formatting methods in a given source file...
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by smegel 11y ago
Windows 7 seems to be getting better every day.
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by smegel 11y ago
I think their database-foo is somewhat lacking...
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by smegel 11y ago
The other will have his hand cut by a falling knife. Oops, did I just take sides?
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by smegel 11y ago
I am not reaching conclusions about Firefox today, I don't know where you got that from. I haven't used it because Chrome has been good to me and I haven't had a reason to switch back.
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by smegel 11y ago
I suppose if a bit of software crashes all the time, dumping it is a fair decision. But of all the software I use, Chrome crashes the least (single tab page crashes very occasionally). I stopped using Firefox years ago for Chrome because Fi
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by smegel 11y ago
But isn't rent in Tokyo still disgustingly high? Something doesn't add up.
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by smegel 11y ago
> the average American woman Well I'm glad they clarified American women.
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by smegel 11y ago
> was extensively used by the media to investigate instances of deception, corruption and ineptitude. Because getting an intern to hack up a 5 minute Python script to do the same is too much effort? OK maintaining a list of current polit
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by smegel 11y ago
My firewall can stop them talking to the Internet. I often use VirtualBox to run new downloads in isolation, sometimes with a VPN running as well. And who installs apps on their PC anymore, maybe after your initial setup? The point is you i
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by smegel 11y ago
The truly rotten egg here is Android (and Google by extension). Why a user cannot elect to nominally provide permissions to an app, but restrict the content of different grants (so an app may see an empty phone book by default or an empty P
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by smegel 11y ago
Time to flush the toilet.
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by smegel 11y ago
Just as likely all the scammers and malware distributors in the world are also getting in on the act.
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by smegel 11y ago
I think "Erlu" rolls off the tongue a bit easier.
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by smegel 11y ago
If you work with this sort of data a lot, you might want to look at R.
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by smegel 11y ago
> Initially, we experimented with using Ruby's threads instead of multiple processes Why, to be cool? Tests are a classic case of things that should be run in isolation - you don't want tests interfering with earth other or cra
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by smegel 11y ago
When I do this on Fedora 22: repoquery --requires python-ipython-notebook I get node.js stuff.
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by smegel 11y ago
Well it also installs Python Tornado which does event based web serving...and I would think iPython Notebook would be written in...Python. Maybe its just me.
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by smegel 11y ago
I just tried to install iPython on Fedora using dnf and it depends on Node.JS. Really?
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by smegel 11y ago
> the same terrorist rationale and collective guilt fallacies Collateral impacts on civilians is not the same as collective guilt. When did the US or Israel say they wanted to punish ordinary Gazans or Iranians for the crimes committing
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by smegel 11y ago
> Nobody is more familiar with what a curse airplanes can be when deployed for evil than the Japanese. Airplanes dropped the canisters that burned their cities, the mines that starved their children, and the nukes that instantly made vas
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by smegel 11y ago
Sadly, and somewhat paradoxically, many of those who lament the bombing of Japan probably feel that way. For example, quoting the article, how do you think the author of this passage would respond to your question? > the Israeli blockade
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by smegel 11y ago
The many millions of victims of Japan were just victims, so maybe it would be better to focus on them?

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