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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Seconded. Rating TV episodes on IMDb is a very useful feature, especially now that it supports sorting episodes by rating, e.g., http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098904/eprate?ref_=tt_eps_rhs_s...
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
> My rights existed prior to the Bill of Rights and the government "Existed" in what sense!? Are they deducible by pure reason? Were they written on stone tablets? Seriously though, the Constitution and the Declaration of Indep
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
there are indeed universal properties of correct code that you can learn from one set of applications and apply to another set of applications Pardon the speculative thought, but wouldn't a program that detects
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Really!? I feel like this would be scandalous if true
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Short answer to why people are orange: simplistic color correction schemes, overzealously applied during video editing. Priceonomics did a wonderful exposé of this trend recently. http://priceonomics.com/why-every-movie-look
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
I don't see the rest of the article being treated with this level of skepticism.
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
The stuff about him overpaying himself is bad enough, but why isn't anyone talking about his ex-wife's allegations at the end of this piece? (Charitable interpretation: people didn't make it that far bc this thing is so poorl
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
What shocked me about this article was the poll showing 77% of people in Mexico are opposed to legalization. Why? Social conservatism? Do they not understand that prohibition benefits the cartels and funds their violence?
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Mine is CT... does that entail a lower risk?
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Hmm, I thought Google Play (and possibly Spotify as well) used OGG. MP3 is a very old format at this point.
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
>[CSS] has been horrible, failing for decades to provide the most basic blocks to build layouts, and having people use hacks like "floats" to do so. Co-sign every word of this. When I first started developing I hated JavaScript
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Terrible analysis. > Over the past four years, Google’s annual revenue growth has plummeted from 30% to 10% while expenses have ballooned from 69% to 75% of sales. And 90% of its $66 billion in sales still come from online advertising. T
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
The aesthetics of these "interactive art" apps always leave much to be desired. Any image I make with this one looks like e-cigarette packaging.
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Is Wired's CSS utterly broken for anyone else? On Ubuntu and Chrome 44, I get navigation elements hovering over the article text.
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Exactly. This is what I was hoping for from an investigative piece on Theranos. Even an n=1 sample where the author had his or her blood tests done with Theranos and a competitor would be worth more than all the speculation in this article.
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by sowhatquestion 11y ago
Uh... did you read the article you just linked? "McLuhan frequently punned on the word 'message', changing it to 'mass age', 'mess age", and 'massage'; a later book, The Medium Is the Massage was
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Wow--I don't think I've ever (knowingly) helped change someone's mind by writing an online comment before! It's a nice feeling, thanks. :)
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
> I think you'd be insane to make [Soylent] more than 30% of your daily calories You can't make claims like this without context. There's 85th-percentile health, and then there's 99th-percentile health. Plenty of foo
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
I'll check this out, thanks.
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
You're absolutely right. I'm not sure why this didn't come to mind immediately. I guess I was just trying to get at the distinction between people employing servants in order to enjoy more leisure vs. employing them in order
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
I don't have the historical knowledge to do it myself, but it would be fascinating to read an in-depth comparison between these services and the economy of servants in the 19th or early-20th century. The image in my head (from movies a
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Bravo to this post. Whether or not you agree with Aubrey de Grey, you have to admit that he is a true radical, whereas the man portrayed in this article strikes me as little more than a conceited tinkerer--one of our contemporary capitalist
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Yes, this is a pet peeve of mine. People assume that because (for example) the human tendency towards selfishness hasn't changed, that "human nature" is a reliable constant. But as philosophers have been pointing out at least
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Instead of empiricism? Probably some variant of pragmatism in the direction of Wilfrid Sellars and Robert Brandom. Try this on for size: section two of Brandom's article "Pragmatism, Inferentialism, and Modality in Sellars' A
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Seriously, it's uncanny.
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
As a philosophy grad who finds this stuff mildly interesting, I wish the "rationalists" had chosen a different name for their movement. While "rationality" brings to mind Plato or Descartes, this movement appears to be a
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
It's kinda lukewarm, but I don't mind. I tried it with iced coffee once, and that worked better, but I'm too lazy to brew iced coffee all the time.
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
Yes, sadly, Soylent is made from the world's most fragile ingredients. If you modify it in any way that you would normal food, it becomes useless, nutritionally inert goo that even Oliver Twist would reject.
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
P.S. Weirdly enough, I crave it most in the morning. There's no better breakfast than a simple Soylent and coffee (roughly one part Soylent, two parts coffee). Somehow, Soylent ended up being the best non-dairy coffee creamer of all ti
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by sowhatquestion 12y ago
"Click-bait headlines" may have claimed it, but Rob Rhinehart himself was always clear: Soylent isn't the end of food, it's the end of having no alternative to food . I eat Soylent about 50% of the time, so I'm not

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