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by tbrake 11y ago
> If people were sentenced for a crime based on the fact that their DNA matched with the DNA found at the scene of the crime they supposedly committed, then surely there's a massive problem here? I get the impression - though I don&
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by tbrake 11y ago
> most of the time it's just being mindful of how you act in certain situations and if that behavior really makes sense I think if this comes naturally to you then you're perhaps more gifted in that area than you may want to gi
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by tbrake 11y ago
Very nice. I quite like the fan option; don't think I've seen it in other noise generators. The drone of it is good. A 'warehouse fan' option that's a little more bass-y and a little slower would be cool. For some r
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by tbrake 12y ago
> We all make fun of "One weird trick to lose belly fat" but how many articles have you read about pomodoroing, closed offices, meeting refusal, and the like? I've been reading them for years. I'm sure there are vets
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by tbrake 12y ago
I used to have a similar theory but personification of animals has been a part of human storytelling since the beginning of time. I'm just unsure if modern CGI is any more compelling in forming lasting notions of animism than, say, Bam
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by tbrake 12y ago
The advice reminds me of the article "How Doctors Die" ( http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/20/your-money/how-doctors-die... ). Having not read the book and the viewpoint it presents I do feel like
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by tbrake 12y ago
I think it would be pretty easy to show, similar to this article - Pre-computer era elite GMs and computer-era elite GMs have similar error rates[1], with the caveat that we presume disagreeing with the computer's top choice to be an e
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by tbrake 12y ago
Mass murder isn't a real life option/goal of very many mayors so in that respect yes it would be dissimilar, whereas very nasty guns for hire occasionally do very nasty things? There's an implied benevolence to being a sim ma
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by tbrake 12y ago
Looks like someone's got a case of the Mondays.
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by tbrake 12y ago
Viswanathan Anand himself had a quote which reflects this mentality and is a good way of looking at it : "[...] but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer
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by tbrake 12y ago
Cheers. If I could make a suggestion, I think this kind of history belongs with the bill text on a blog post; providing the 1997 version without commentary caused a bit of confusion. It felt a wee bit misleading/alarmist because that t
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by tbrake 12y ago
The document seemed to be a report (suggestion) to alter the SAFE Act to include those provisions. The GPO link I shared doesn't list those recommendations so it looked like they didn't make it in to the final draft. So I'm n
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by tbrake 12y ago
Am I reading this GPO link wrong or did that not make it in? Section 2804 here actually eliminates an enforced key escrow, so I don't know. http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-106hr850rh/pdf/BILLS-106
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by tbrake 12y ago
> As an aside, I wonder if they could get a military or relief effort contract? Seems like the type of product perfect for both, as you "just add water!" A lack of readily available clean water may be a challenge for use in rel
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by tbrake 12y ago
Yeah but what use is a model where you assume irrational actors? I'm not a huge fan of it but I understand the concessions that have to be made.
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by tbrake 12y ago
Your first assumption is a needlessly pessimistic view of the quality/quantity of intrinsic motivation in most people. By the same token something like "most people would drop out and enjoy the freedom of pursuing their passions,
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by tbrake 12y ago
I have never been in a mixed skittles/M&M scenario but would weight be easier than color in that instance? http://www.scientificameriken.com/candy4.asp
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by tbrake 12y ago
He briefly talks about Kasparov here as they were training together at the time. They later broke up. I wonder if some of the conflict they felt was was really Magnus's more organic, natural approach clashing with Kasparov's more
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by tbrake 12y ago
Derren Brown pulled this off but with 9 boards, scoring 4W 3L 2D. The strongest players he played "against" each other and was able to beat the weakest (relatively speaking) player there. Quite impressive. https://www.y
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by tbrake 12y ago
I'd be careful about overvaluing the mystique of the human element. In classical chess computers are absolutely, positively dominating humans. There was a time when perhaps the top, top grandmasters (2750+) could handwave about underst
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by tbrake 12y ago
It was a quote from The Big Lebowski. Out of context it's odd. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118715/quotes?item=qt0464814
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by tbrake 12y ago
It seems to be a philosophy endemic to embedded IT: "us" vs "the business".
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by tbrake 12y ago
Is this satire? The cliche of women being naggers being explained as an evolutionary trait sounds like introductory biology passed through a filter of 50 year old sitcoms and bad stand up comedy.
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by tbrake 12y ago
Two people at work have them. I found it just slightly too small when watching them use a 4x 1920x1080 setup with DiplsayFusion. I decided to try a 50" TCL 4k display. I find I don't mind the 30Hz refresh rate as I don't game
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by tbrake 12y ago
I didn't get that at all from the article; how did you arrive at the conclusion that discontent could only be valid if there were apps for both sexes on the market? It seemed to me like there was a whole lot of article giving ample gro
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by tbrake 12y ago
Joke is on them; I was already willing to drop $250 on an autographed headshot of Levar Burton.
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by tbrake 12y ago
Likely an explosion of opening novelties as a result of deep home preparation. edit: this would have been during the peak of the soviet chess machine's powers, which is what I associate with the first real period of intense analysis in
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by tbrake 12y ago
> "Have seriously considered" is not even "1 in 6 respondents excluding the respondents that answered 'Yes, have done so.'" Interesting. Yes, correctly excluding those 16, 11/84 isn't even close to
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by tbrake 12y ago
I think it should be made clear that someone sympathetic to Liebeck's case is not necessarily in favor of treating all coffee spills the same nor in favor of this transparently constructed slippery slope towards nanny-statism you'
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by tbrake 12y ago
Looks like the querystring was cut off : http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CROWDSOURCING_EVID... takes me to the story.

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