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by stolio 12y ago
Yes I have. I butted heads with them over this a while back. In their defense I probably could have handled myself better, I wasn't using bad language or all caps but few of us are at our best in the midst of an emotional argument. I
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by stolio 12y ago
I think it's (ballpark) safe to say a story that gets frontpaged for two days will have at least its title read by a million people.[0] Most of those people aren't going to attempt to wade through the comments section looking for
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by stolio 12y ago
You missed the point of my comment. I'm saying that much of the "science" is so soft that the process is still based on judgement calls. Not only do I disagree with some of those judgment calls, but I prefer transparent val
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by stolio 12y ago
I don't believe there's a comparison to be made between foie farms and traditional farms because they exist for different reasons, one for luxury and the other for utility. The reasons things are done matter: if you shoot someb
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by stolio 12y ago
I became really unhappy with the moderation of r/science. To me it's highlighted the inadequacies of the old "peer reviewed journal" litmus test and shown how many value judgements it can help to hide. Incredibly shaky
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by stolio 12y ago
So, here are the logical leaps I see here to make this "not unethical": * we must ignore the ethical implications of killing animals for food in general * we must ignore the ethical implications of keeping animals confined for the
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by stolio 12y ago
Here's how I took it: if you're just losing sensitivity at a particular frequency then you may only hear sounds in the 40-100dB range, below it's too quiet to register and above it's painful. That's a lot of infor
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by stolio 12y ago
I thought the bear picture was maybe the best part of the article. Compression is tricky, multiband even more so, and the type of multiband compression they're using is even harder to wrap your head around (there are two ways (that I
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by stolio 13y ago
you mean like a cloud based VRMS written in javascript? p.s. - http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/vrms
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by stolio 13y ago
relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/307/ relevant to the first xkcd: http://xkcd.com/917/
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by stolio 13y ago
from wikipedia: "Outlook.com has promised to respect user's privacy, specifically targeting Gmail's privacy practices.[45] Outlook.com doesn't scan emails or attachments for advertising information and personal conversat
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by stolio 13y ago
I've been looking to migrate away from the G for a while now, but aside from hosting my own what are the best alternatives? Or should I really just rent my own server space?
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by stolio 13y ago
Proving a false equivocation wrong doesn't help your case. There's a big difference between being charged with a felony for insider trading and then lying to regulators about it (Martha Stewart) and Aaron's case which was cle
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by stolio 13y ago
I don't live in as big a city as Manhattan so I can't really say, I've seen videos of some insane bike riding in NYC. Can't believe how some of them ride. I do think cyclists sometimes fail to give pedestrians the respe
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by stolio 13y ago
Traffic lights are designed to group cars together, but if you're willing to run (all of) them you get to ride in between the packs of cars where you only have to worry about cross-traffic at intersection and the occasional pedestrian.
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by stolio 13y ago
Speaking of EE educational material, for the basics this MIT OCW course[0] is really good . There's also an MITx version[1] that's super interactive and even features Gerald Sussman of SICP fame. [0] - http://ocw.mit.
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by stolio 13y ago
SciPy ( http://www.scipy.org/ ) is really amazing if that's the corner of programming you're into.
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by stolio 13y ago
Clojure stack traces in general are pretty verbose. A few thoughts from a fellow user (not ClojureScript specific, but remember we're doing all of this in a Clojure project): The top few lines of the stack trace have the most informat
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by stolio 13y ago
OK, thanks. It just clicked. For anybody wondering what clicked: I'd have Datomic running with one peer, and that peer would serve as many end-users as it could handle. If necessary I could add a second peer and double the read-query
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by stolio 13y ago
I guess where I'm getting lost is the terminology - I was under the impression that end-users are peers[0], so I'm worried about maxing out at two users. But if the limit is whatever a transactor can handle then I doubt I'd
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by stolio 13y ago
Can anybody explain how the 2-peer restriction works with web-apps? It's my biggest fear in making the jump.
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by stolio 13y ago
From what I can tell (and I really don't know) it's rooted in Section 4.5: 4.5 No Modification or Reverse Engineering. You shall not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based upon the Software. You shall not revers
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by stolio 13y ago
Since we're keeping it factual I accused them of blurring the lines between open source and spyware. I linked to Richard Stallman directly calling it spyware on the Free Software Foundation website. I think collecting, mining and shar
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by stolio 13y ago
ubuntu.com/about/about-ubuntu is literally link number two above, I realize it's a bit obfuscated The point I was making is how deeply the connection to Debian is buried on the ubuntu.com site and contrasting it to Crunchbang
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by stolio 13y ago
Canonical has been kind enough to not include the name "Debian" on their Debian derivative's front[0] or about[1] pages. It finally shows up in the about - about [short name of the Debian derivative from Canonical] page. [2]
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by stolio 13y ago
I'll respond, though I'm sure the reason nobody's responded is they're as tired of this conversation as I am. 1) Yet. When boiling frogs it's best to turn the heat up slowly. Canonical isn't providing a servi
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by stolio 13y ago
> It throws a lot of false positive and false negatives; it's not actually useful for any analysis involving rigor. If a tool carries a lot of weight, has little accuracy and is only used against one's opponents - that tool has
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by stolio 13y ago
That's fair, I've just had positive personal experiences with the intersectionalists IRL. As a guy, I've felt the conversations have been less adversarial and more productive. I can say it's a more nuanced critique of p
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by stolio 13y ago
The test has had almost 30 years to develop The general problem that I see in both the test and the problem it's designed to solve is this mental shortcut of an either/or grouping. Male/female, pass/fail. But if it help
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by stolio 13y ago
Having seen both the Swedish and American versions of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo I have to say Sweden is a bit ahead when it comes to gender representation, so they're doing something right somewhere. On the other hand, Harry Pott

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