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by tfh 16y ago
Yes. Or that's at least the professor's theory.
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by tfh 16y ago
Correlation does not strictly mean causation. Our statistics professor brought this example once, he explained it that people who don't drink (in a western society) have often problems with their health or are taking medication. Statistics
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by tfh 16y ago
Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but rather when there is nothing more to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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by tfh 16y ago
This is an example of a bad misleading title.
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by tfh 16y ago
I think what helped him reset his sleep schedule is : - Exercise - The lack of artificial light You don't have to go camping to have that.
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by tfh 16y ago
These Germans, always chasing the neighbours.
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by tfh 16y ago
This reminds me of the story of Abbi Hoffman with his book "Steal This Book". The people who wanted it just did as title told them and stole it from the bookshelves. Bookstores didn't want to carry it if it's stolen half the time.
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by tfh 16y ago
It's almost impossible for someone with a decent job in Afghanistan (or a similar country) to get a tourist visa to the US or to Europe. The first problem is to afford the flight ticket. The second an more important problem is to get a tour
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by tfh 16y ago
Are they men or women?
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by tfh 16y ago
Yes. And coincidentally it's the same colors as the engadget color scheme.
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by tfh 16y ago
The ones I've read and find good: - Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean Paul Sartre : Very easy to read and is a very good introduction to existentialism. - Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Nietzsche - Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
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by tfh 16y ago
dupe : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492475
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by tfh 16y ago
The Internet: "Prince is completely over,"
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by tfh 16y ago
> What's funny about this one though is that over half of the comments say "she's cute" or something similar, it's a bit creepy. That's one of the main reasons because I like hn.
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by tfh 16y ago
It's not about _what_ he says but more about _how_ he says it. I'd rather read something like "Other companies don't take these things seriously" than "No other company gives a shit about things like this." .
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by tfh 16y ago
> No other company gives a shit about things like this. There was a time where I really liked John's articles. Now he's sounding like just another fanboy...
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by tfh 16y ago
> couldn't find a contiguous 30gb slot on my 80gb free drive I had the same problem last year and I used iDefrag to solve it. http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php
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by tfh 16y ago
Vimperator is the only thing keeping me using firefox and not another browser. The chrome version is just not as good.
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by tfh 16y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://cb.vu/unixtoolbox.... is your friend.
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by tfh 16y ago
The author is Chris Bishop... who wrote one of the "essential" machine learning books : http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Recognition-Learning-Informati...
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17 year old Ray Kurzweil on "I've Got a Secret" (1965)(youtube.com)
98 points by tfh 16y ago|11 comments
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by tfh 16y ago
The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.
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Reddit IAMA. An ex Google programmer switched to a job in the lumbering industry(reddit.com)
138 points by tfh 16y ago|87 comments
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by tfh 16y ago
I know some people who started smoking because of that. They only smoke at work. I contemplated starting too, but I know I won't do it because I really hate that smell.
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A Cover Letter To Penny Arcade(adventuringcompany.com)
175 points by tfh 16y ago|39 comments
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by tfh 16y ago
Very few companies make the effort to provide linux drivers for their laptops. That made me buy a mac in the first place. It would be nice if some distro were backed up by a hardware company and feature a "bootcamp-like" easy way to install
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by tfh 16y ago
From what I understood it's like this: class Universe: def __init__(self) self.time = [] self.space = [] our_universe = Universe() # <== Big Bang
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‘time’ is created by human beings to make sense of gravity [TED Video](tedxamsterdam.com)
48 points by tfh 16y ago|28 comments
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by tfh 16y ago
You should check out the alternative appstore : http://cydia.saurik.com/
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by tfh 16y ago
nice. I have the same mouse/keyboard combination :)

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