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by sxv 8y ago
Nah. Huffing glue doesn't help one get laid. Or maybe it does but I somehow have doubts about the reproductive success of such a society.
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by sxv 8y ago
More recent IEEE post [0] links to a different version of the paper [1] than the arxiv preprint linked in previous comments [2]. [0] https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/software/new-o... [1] https:
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Why nobody ever wins the car at the mall(thehustle.co)
1104 points by sxv 8y ago|447 comments
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by sxv 8y ago
Marijuana can solve this for you.
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by sxv 8y ago
os.system() ( https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/238185 )
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Stanford physicist finds that swirling liquids work similarly to Bitcoin(news.stanford.edu)
4 points by sxv 8y ago|0 comments
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by sxv 9y ago
What this article overlooks is the indirect effect of this gravitation. Yes, the moon's effect on only my body is tiny, but the moon's cumulative effect on every particle on Earth adds up to substantial cycles which we observe as
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by sxv 9y ago
Point of clarification: there was no prior announcement that Coinbase would support trading of BCH. In the blogpost to which you likely refer, it is made clear in the last two paragraphs that they would enable withdrawal of existing BCH bal
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by sxv 9y ago
If by "good" you mean improved genetic fitness (likelihood of reproduction), then there is not going to be enough data to support such a claim, since this would require tracking and comparing the reproductive outcomes of hundreds
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by sxv 9y ago
A "throwaway" account means that he/she created a temporary hacker news username for this one-time post for anonymity. "Throwaway" does not refer to the degree or program.
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by sxv 9y ago
a decentralized, unseizable, cross-border, deflationary store of value. it's next-gen gold.
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by sxv 9y ago
How possible / appropriate would it be to utilize this library to create an interactive version similar to this example using d3: https://www.jasondavies.com/maps/rotate/
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by sxv 9y ago
that's a HUGE difference, no?
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by sxv 9y ago
I would have gone with RV vs car/tent vs backpack. But I guess I'm ok w/ wearing the fanny pack.
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by sxv 9y ago
2 million downloads as of September 2016: https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/26/zenly-raises-225-million-f...
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by sxv 9y ago
Think of the x-axis as the first child and the y-axis as the second child. One in fourteen chance of choosing a column and one in fourteen chance to choose a row. I fail to see how there could be any additional outcomes or that any square h
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by sxv 9y ago
I adamantly agreed with you. Then I made a simple spreadsheet that proves us wrong: http://cl.ly/kuQE
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by sxv 10y ago
If you were to modify the genome of a sperm cell and fertilize an egg cell with it, then the resulting individual will have the modifications in all of its cells.
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by sxv 10y ago
The emotional reference needs to go. Swastikas were around long before nazis and they'll be around long after. It's a pretty fundamental shape.
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by sxv 11y ago
And we shall call it.. WikiLeaks. Oh wait.
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by sxv 11y ago
This fails for dates prior to adoption of the Gregorian calendar (~1582).
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by sxv 11y ago
One way of solving this issue is serving pre-rendered image tiles rather than overlaying each data point separately: http://blog.cartodb.com/the-versatility-of-retreiving-and-re...
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by sxv 12y ago
| awk 'sub(/annoyingly clunky/, "pretty easy")'
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by sxv 12y ago
The legality may also depend on the type of data being collected. For example, it is likely safer to scrape Yelp to gather public facts like business locations and phone numbers versus if the data is "copyrightable" like customer