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The Well-Pilfered Clavier(reason.com)
2 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
This is emphasized in the article, but it bears repeating: "Organized terrorists are long term planners and they do not play the same cards more than once."
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by splat 16y ago
Indeed, a typical desktop computer can make a few calculations in the time it takes the light from the monitor to reach your eyeball.
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by splat 16y ago
I find it rather strange that even predictions that should be fairly clear-cut and straightforward (e.g. "A ceiling on rents reduces the quantity and quality of housing available.") only get around 9/10 agreement. As a non-economist, I wou
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The Economics of Seinfeld(yadayadayadaecon.com)
1 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
The practice of printing titles top-to-bottom vs. bottom-to-top seems to be more than a Western Europe vs. Eastern Europe thing, though, because French books (and I think German as well) are printed bottom-to-top just like Russian books.
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by splat 16y ago
I've wondered about things like this. I once bought a print from the Getty Museum of a painting by Gerrit Dou (done in the late 1650s), and the Getty had a copyright notice on the back. Obviously anyone can reproduce the original, but is
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by splat 16y ago
True, and that's the definite advantage to publishing code. My point is just that if there's a lot of code and error is obscure, it will take a long time to identify the error and the mistake will be propagated in further research. Most s
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by splat 16y ago
While I strongly believe that scientists should publish their code along with their papers, I do think it has one potential disadvantage. Suppose a scientist writes a big piece of code to some complicated calculations, but makes a subtle m
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by splat 16y ago
I think many cops are in favor of it. If someone you give a ticket to files a bogus complaint against you, you can turn to the video to exonerate yourself. Nevertheless, there is a substantial fraction of police who are strongly against i
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by splat 16y ago
Here's an illustrated guide to firing an incompetent teacher in New York City: http://reason.com/assets/db/12639308918768.pdf
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by splat 16y ago
I believe many magazines make most of their money off of advertising, not subscriptions. In fact many magazines will subsidize their subscription prices in order to increase readership so that they can raise the price for advertisements.
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by splat 16y ago
That's not quite right. Einstein (and several other physicists of the time) inferred that the speed of light might be invariant in all reference frames from the structure of the Maxwell Equations where the speed of light enters as a true,
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by splat 16y ago
I can't help with pictures of MIT, but there are a few pictures of some interesting places in the Caltech steam tunnels in this essay: http://pandora.caltech.edu/~antognini/tunnels.pdf
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The Era of Copyrighted Cocktails?(theatlantic.com)
3 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
GE really is an incredible "behind-the-scenes" sort of company. When you first think of GE, you probably think something along the lines of "Oh yeah, don't they make light bulbs or something?" But the more you look into them, the more you
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by splat 16y ago
Try clicking the link to the zoomed in version: https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/softdrinkszoom.html
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Betting market for the next Clay Prize winner(smarkets.com)
1 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
It's an abstract from a Heritage Foundation report: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/07/Inflated-Fe...
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by splat 16y ago
Also related: Experimental Economist Bart Wilson on the Meaning of "Fair" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFpB7z5y3Y
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List of statistically superlative countries(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
Which, in turn, reminds me of "6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling" http://www.theonion.com/articles/6yearold-stares-down-bottom...
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by splat 16y ago
I think the original quote is attributed to Eugene McCarthy: "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
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Caltech's Underground History(pandora.caltech.edu)
3 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
I'm not so sure about that. I would assume that these laws mostly command support from those who consider themselves "Law and Order" types. They're often conservative, but I think it crosses ideological lines pretty well.
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Rumor has it the Tevatron may have found the Higgs boson(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by splat 16y ago|0 comments
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by splat 16y ago
Ditto to the second part. I'm pretty sure any astronomer could use IRAF to replicate his image processing in about five minutes.
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by splat 16y ago
No data is ever transmitted via quantum entanglement (at least, data from the perspective of the observer). Entanglement is simply when two particles exist in the same quantum state. (Or, to be more precise, in the same superposition of
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Bad Research as Spam(geomblog.blogspot.com)
2 points by splat 16y ago|1 comments
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How to Succeed as a Graduate Student in the Sciences(chemistry-blog.com)
66 points by splat 16y ago|16 comments

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