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New Hulu player includes volume normalization to fix loud ads.(blog.hulu.com)
2 points by stellar678 16y ago|2 comments
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by stellar678 16y ago
We already have that - it's called mycoremediation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoremediation Oyster mushrooms (yep, the ones you can buy in the store) do a great job.
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by stellar678 16y ago
If our end goal is to offer everyday guides on what foods to eat, nutrition science has a really hard time offering anything useful. The predictions are necessarily minutely targeted at particular nutrients in isolated trials. It's really n
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by stellar678 16y ago
That's the whole point though - science so far can't give much useful advice on what to eat, the topic is just too complex. Science can give hedged explanations of what's been observed in relation to a particular nutrient, but that's a far
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by stellar678 16y ago
This is also the reason that fields like nutrition science aren't generally all that useful if what you want to do something like offer diet advice. There are just too many shifting pieces to offer a systematic explanation of what's going o
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by stellar678 16y ago
Granted, this is on a massive scale that I have a hard time even imagining...but Paul Stamets has shown phenomenal results using oyster mushrooms to do mycoremediation.
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by stellar678 16y ago
Bruce Sterling wrote about simplifying possessions a couple years ago on signaling the end of Viridian Design. Basically useful, sentimental and beautiful things make the cut. Everything else goes. His unique recommendation was to photograp
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by stellar678 16y ago
Do you know if Google does this with products other than AdSense? I guess for search ads a user's intent is more explicit, but it's probably still a useful signal. Analytics in particular seems like it could provide a lot of data to them. I
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by stellar678 17y ago
Yeah, I was wondering about that. I found an explanation of "fractional medians" at http://www.stata.com/statalist/archive/2009-01/msg00662.html - that might be how they came up with the number. Not sure how relevant it is though because
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by stellar678 17y ago
It only took a few days of recreational learning to get the basics down. I found a number of lame flash typing games online that helped a lot. There are also a few sites with dvorak-oriented typing tests that can help too. To get started, I
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by stellar678 17y ago
Well, it seems reasonable to postulate about the future since we're talking about living forever. The potential impacts include whatever might be happening before you die. And, like the first link I included, it's interesting to consider th
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by stellar678 17y ago
This essay seem reasonably well-informed, but completely unwilling to tread even close to, let alone outside, the possibilities of our current technology/framework of thought. It seems to me a complete presumption that it will forever be im
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IPhone, Firefox, Safari, IE8 Hacked at Pwn2Own Contest(mashable.com)
2 points by stellar678 17y ago|1 comments
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by stellar678 17y ago
I'm impressed you got a college to accept your application without some kind of high school equivalency certification. How'd you manage that? A few years out of school, however, and it's become very clear to me that "I just worked on this p
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by stellar678 17y ago
So you're saying there are at least ~6,500 identifiable stupidities in this article? Of course you're not. Point being: hyperbole has value, for this author and for you.
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by stellar678 17y ago
Do you find it reasonable to burden a 5-year-old with the responsibility of maximizing the public education he is being offered? A 10-year-old?
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by stellar678 17y ago
I'm among those students who dropped out of high school to accelerate my escape. I guess the phrase drop out hasn't dropped its negative connotations, so the author was using it to grab attention. But the essay is really about alternative p
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by stellar678 17y ago
It's couched in pretty exciting/revolutionary/utopian language, but are the ideas really more likely to become mainstream now than at any time in the past? Seems like today's spin on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turn_on,_tune_in,_drop_out
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by stellar678 17y ago
Well, clicking around for two minutes I ended up seeing a group of map points that all resolved to...a domain specifying the res hall of a major university. I'd say that destroys any hope of quasi-anonymity.
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by stellar678 17y ago
There is a freelancer's union: http://www.freelancersunion.org/ Not sure how much the focus is on organizing around pressuring potential client companies, but there is some issue advocacy, along with group insurance and retirement plans,
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Crop Mob - Landless farmers helping sustainable farms.(cropmob.org)
1 points by stellar678 17y ago|0 comments
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by stellar678 17y ago
Posted this because of it's absurdly distorted claims aimed at misguiding readers for whatever reason.
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Bee Vs. Car: Who Gets More Miles Per Gallon?(npr.org)
2 points by stellar678 17y ago|3 comments
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by stellar678 17y ago
I've heard of at least one large-scale system outside of Guadalajara: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1zv_TUTbGY It seems funny to presume that our large-scale food industry is any better at operating in an efficient and economical manner
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(#1 - Farmer) Ten Best Green Jobs for the Next Decade(fastcompany.com)
3 points by stellar678 17y ago|0 comments
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by stellar678 17y ago
Your response is correct in the context of later 20th century farming when mechanization and subsidies allowed less labor to be involved, allowed food to become a commodity product, and vastly reduced market prices. Of course it's pretty we
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by stellar678 17y ago
Cool article! I have no idea on the true scalability of it to billions of people, but Havana is a good example of low-tech high-yield food production that helped out when lots of people were going hungry in Cuba after the Soviet Union colla
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by stellar678 17y ago
I think the iPad does its best to _not_ inspire creators of any type. It's a device focused almost entirely on content consumption. For a few years there Apple put much of their effort into creating tools that gave more people access to the
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by stellar678 17y ago
Misdirected cookie? What does that even mean? Sounds like web session data is stored on a mobile browsing proxy instead of on the phone devices, and that proxy forgot what session mapped to what phone.