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by socksy 16y ago
I don't see why you have to be chronically negative to believe that a smile that isn't genuine is necessarily "false". When referring to a genuine smile, we usually refer to a Duchenne smile[1] — one in which the muscles around the eyes als
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by socksy 16y ago
How many social smiles are actually genuine?
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by socksy 16y ago
Anonymity allows for online markets that were previously a lot harder to achieve: https://ianxz6zefk72ulzz.tor2web.org/
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by socksy 16y ago
For a more minimal system, one might want to check out SliTaz: http://slitaz.org/en Under 30mb (compressed, in RAM — just over 100mb uncompressed), and quite fast. No Ubuntu distribution, but packages available for it should be at least a
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by socksy 16y ago
Is there really any good reason for this, or is it just asserting dominance? I know it's often ignored, but I think with a site as important (and as entrenched in links around the web) as Sun's old site really should heed this: http://www.
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by socksy 16y ago
Download the Vimeo movie (using one of the many sources on the internet, google finds this: http://clipnabber.com/ ) set as your screensaver (make a quartz composer thing, or use an app like this: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/ic
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by socksy 16y ago
The Sunday Times' article here seems to relate more to the fact he's about to get on their rich list ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Rich_List ). From their (paywall'd) article: 'Jonathan “Jonny” Ive [...] is set to reap an £1
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by socksy 16y ago
Sorry, I don't understand how that relates to what he said? Could you explain further?
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by socksy 16y ago
It might have been a genuine mistake - University and school are not really interchangeable terms here in the UK.
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by socksy 16y ago
And get rid of the huge sleep deficit that everyone in the western working world appears to have accumulated. 9+ hours might seem a lot, and you might feel like you're wasting time - but really it's your body trying to catch up. Let it.
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by socksy 16y ago
For Computer Science, it also necessary to pass a Maths test in the beginning of November, which goes into the decision making process for whether you get an interview or not. http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/prospective-students/undergraduate...
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by socksy 16y ago
I have found from my own experience that ICT teaching is quite shoddy, and a waste of time at best. This has been confirmed by accounts from friends and family at other schools. Most teaching revolves around the ability to use certain micro
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by socksy 16y ago
The attitude taken reminds me of the scientific like precision Heston Blumenthal goes through to create his food... I can't find many videos online, only the results of the various experiments. For example chips (as in Fish & Chips): h
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by socksy 16y ago
Not the most helpful of advice for those that can't remember which way round the cp command takes its arguments either...
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by socksy 16y ago
A smear campaign seeding 4chan with fake posts, and orchestrating a LOIC attack?
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by socksy 16y ago
What's Edinburgh like? I was under the impression that a few companies had started up there from the university.
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by socksy 16y ago
You are still supposed to use plural declensions despite talking about a single person. For instance: "if such a person existed, they were very quiet about their existence". Note that it's not "they was", which is grammatically incorrect.
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by socksy 16y ago
That's interesting, I don't think it makes one seem anymore uneducated than any other piece of correctly used grammar (correct use of the word "one", "none of them is" etc). I wouldn't regard my self as uneducated, having had the privelege
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by socksy 16y ago
Thanks, that explains it, though it does seem somewhat odd to my UK based musical training, where we regard a crotchet as a whole note...
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by socksy 16y ago
The grass is greener here but only because of the bloody rain.
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by socksy 16y ago
I find it interesting they refer to notes as quarter values or eighths. I can quickly see myself getting confused by that (is that a quaver? Did I do it right?) - does it change if you change the time signature from 4/4 to 3/4? (forgive the
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by socksy 16y ago
In my household, we've found that place names can be useful for memorable and informative hostnames. Servers in the garage: Japanese cities. Upstairs northern places (being English we use Scottish cities), basement Australian, and the centr
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by socksy 16y ago
Hah, I never thought of Pascal's wager in terms of contestability before.
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by socksy 16y ago
I'm not here to support the pirate bay or their party, but you do realise that ad homs from Orlowski thrown at one supporter of an organisation isn't a good basis for a strong argument?
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by socksy 16y ago
I think your second statement does a nice job of counter-acting your first. I was going for naïve hope followed by the crushing realism of politics. Even if any of these ideas did persuade the deputy primemi ister, what's he going to do?
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by socksy 16y ago
Firstly, I'm really impressed by the idea, and think it would be an excellent way to have public feedback - if this had existed during washup, would the digital economy bill (now act) have passed? But I have a few reservations - no. 10 has
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by socksy 16y ago
To an extent, you're right. The Harrod-Domar model of development suggests that the amount of growth of an economy depends on the savings ratio over the capital output ratio. The reason for that is a bit mathematical, so bear with me: When
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by socksy 16y ago
This isn't really much use to anyone but US tourists if it won't take in to account purchasing power parity...
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by socksy 16y ago
It seems a little absurd that trademarks can be used like this - I can understand for product names, and slogans, but surely if the words are different - then you're just trademarking the _idea_. So, if I get it right, if you refer to any m
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by socksy 16y ago
It's interesting that the value of a degree is measured in increases in income later on in your life. The traditional role of universities was as a place of learning and for the advancement of knowledge through academia, not as a social eng

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