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by snth 12y ago
Yes, but intelligence isn't magic either.
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by snth 12y ago
Yes.
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by snth 12y ago
> As an aside, I marvel that some defensive imbecile keeps coming deep into this thread to downvote me. Comments like this are the "rotting meat" of Hacker News. Please just leave them out of your posts.
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Project Euler partially back online(projecteuler.net)
2 points by snth 12y ago|0 comments
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Lost Pig(grunk.org)
46 points by snth 12y ago|9 comments
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Project Euler is offline(projecteuler.net)
117 points by snth 12y ago|19 comments
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by snth 13y ago
Haha, I think you meant "hide the sausage making ".
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by snth 13y ago
> Nowadays if you are from the school of 'steel is real' then you are going to have to buy a cheap 'bicycle shaped object', get something custom handmade or go for something deliberately hipster-retro. Not entirely.
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by snth 13y ago
Well, credit cards are a lot more widely used than bitcoin. So base rate fallacy.
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by snth 13y ago
I really wish we could edit submission titles to be more informative.
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by snth 13y ago
Wow, thanks for pointing out that paper. > We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of
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by snth 13y ago
This isn't a dichotomy: "no one will work with the NSA" or "this is totally pointless". This approach can at least decrease the quality of people the NSA has working with them, specifically to people who can't
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by snth 13y ago
Heh - spoilers for Cat's Cradle.
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Bugger - Maybe the real secret is that spies aren't very good at their jobs(bbc.co.uk)
33 points by snth 13y ago|11 comments
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by snth 13y ago
>That has little to no effect on me. But private companies do - they lose the data; they're open to blackmail or corruption; they're insecure; they inaccurate; etc. How do those issues not apply to NSA / GCHQ?
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Bjarne Stroustrup: Why the Programming Language C Is Obsolete [video](youtube.com)
2 points by snth 13y ago|1 comments
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by snth 13y ago
Not updated for Mac yet?
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by snth 13y ago
But no AirPlay (or anything like it built in), which is a pain. There are a couple of hacky third-party solutions.
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by snth 13y ago
> One of the major parties would have to do some truly outrageous shit and alienate their base before this dynamic changes. For me, recent events qualify.
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by snth 13y ago
I was also very, very skeptical about this. But I have to say, it worked for me. I read this book in desperation after learning Dvorak, getting a fancy Kinesis keyboard, and getting expensive physical therapy (massaging of my forearms,
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by snth 13y ago
Haha - this reminds me of 50K Racewalker! http://www.videlectrix.com/racewalk.html
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by snth 13y ago
Ha! How about that. Thanks for the link.
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by snth 13y ago
> Lists are largely for homogeneous collections, whereas tuples are heterogeneous. What? What makes you think that?
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by snth 13y ago
"I hope" isn't much comfort.
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by snth 13y ago
How long ago? Do you think it was different when you were there, that it was better in your group specifically, or that it's better in most other groups?
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by snth 14y ago
I liked BibDesk better myself, and some of my non-Mac colleagues had success with JabRef.
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by snth 14y ago
We're veering pretty far off topic here, but consider that, rather than attacking atheists or agnostics, we should just be more precise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_of_theistic_probabili...
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by snth 14y ago
Ah, but we do know more about the world in many ways than the original Stoics did. William Irvine's book recasts the Stoic teachings a bit: we don't believe that we were created by Zeus, for example, so he talks about how to interpret Stoi
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by snth 14y ago
"Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be." - Garry Kasparov http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che...
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The Curse of Cow Clicker: How a Cheeky Satire Became a Videogame Hit(wired.com)
1 points by snth 14y ago|0 comments

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