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by svantana 14y ago
I have the same problem, but I have found a solution that works pretty well for me. Whenever I find myself procrastinating, I do a short workout routine - 10 burpees, or as many chinups as I can - about a one minute high intensity routine t
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by svantana 14y ago
on the contrary, having good efficiency leaves headroom for applying a passive electronic filter, effectively flattening the frequency response.
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by svantana 14y ago
Really? Most people use macs or windows pcs, and neither of those have Chrome preinstalled. Nevertheless, Chrome has plenty of users...
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by svantana 14y ago
I agree, but on the other hand I'm impressed that google services are so tolerant of ad blockers. I've never even seen a single ad on youtube for example - although they could easily "trick" the ad blockers, or even worse, block the content
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by svantana 14y ago
I am one of those few people who enjoy having my beliefs being disproven - and I guess there are plenty of us here on HN. Most likely people with this predisposition are drawn to science; after all, refuting hypotheses is what science is al
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by svantana 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. The reason we don't have flying cars is not a lack of innovation, but rather that we don't really want them in their feasible form.
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by svantana 14y ago
> if you throw out an incandescent bulb, it's really just some glass and a little metal Actually, one of those metals is lead (Pb), which is highly toxic, so be sure to recycle your incandescents! If nothing else, to lower crime rates..
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by svantana 14y ago
> that the automation starts appearing in their countries Well automation is already happening there - do you think the ipads are built entirely by hand? Automation will continue to increase globally whether they unionize or not, those
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by svantana 14y ago
You mean the star wars type font? It's pretty bad, I assume it's only there as a play on the whole "rebel" spin.
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I think the main problem there is that they render graphics on the cpu. Also, an android desktop machine would most likely use an ARM architecture, making the point moot.
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Because in desktop apps we're expecting resizable windows, right-click ability, menus, mouse-over etc. Apps made for fullscreen touch devices would feel a bit crippled.
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by svantana 14y ago
Actually, it is most likely possible, it's just very difficult. For example, it is likely that the data file was generated using a deterministic computer program. And that program is most likely a lot smaller than the outputted data. Theref
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by svantana 14y ago
A minor point here, but relevant since the OP is emphasizing the importance of understanding the Poisson distribution - if the mean really was 10,000, any observation outside the range [9,500, 10,500] would be extremely unlikely. http://en
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by svantana 14y ago
Is it only me that finds this ironical to be on the HN front page along with the one where Carmack laments games being only 30 fps?