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by thras 17y ago
Hmm. Try this Google search: "integrate 1/log(x)". Not very useful, huh? Sorry, but Google and Wolfram Alpha are different beasts. Wolfram Alpha is aimed at a much smaller audience than Google. That doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be
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by thras 17y ago
I grew up with it too, but I'm not rude enough to talk on the cellphone or text or otherwise ignore the people I'm physically with.
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by thras 17y ago
I have to do this fairly often to both Windows and Linux machines. The only safeguard is to encrypt your disks.
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by thras 17y ago
Was there a hard way? I just ssh to the machine and type 'screen -Rd' The article seems like needless complication.
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by thras 17y ago
There was a lot of discussion when New Kind of Science came out. It was...long. Some people wondered if there was some tidbit hidden within the excessive girth to justify all the hype. Most people assumed that if Wolfram really did have a g
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by thras 17y ago
Rephrased: Diversity sucks.
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by thras 17y ago
It turns out that you can reduce the number of surgical instruments left in patients by 33% by implementing checklists. Surgeons won't do it because it feels beneath them.
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by thras 17y ago
I just wrote 20 pages of papers on Google Documents. It was nice to have them available everywhere. Other than that, it was really awful. Open Office would have been better even. Microsoft Office blows away Google Documents in every way as
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by thras 17y ago
"Founded in 1998, The Venture Company is a catalyst for disruptive innovation; helping entrepreneurs, corporations and investors innovate." I noticed a similar article yesterday. I'm skeptical that Hacker News will weather the upcoming stor
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by thras 17y ago
The only people that are better off for antitrust are the lawyers. It is theoretically possible that breaking up big monopolies could improve consumer welfare if done right. Our legal system has proven itself incapable of the "done right" p
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by thras 17y ago
Throw away the bun and it's probably reasonably healthy. If you eat too much meat, I've found, you just won't eat very much the next day.
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by thras 17y ago
I've done low-calorie dieting many times before. I know exactly what my basal rate is and know about what I burn in calories through exercise. This isn't low-calorie dieting. And I'm not hungry. Trust me. Look into the insulin hypothesis. T
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by thras 17y ago
"That's huge and someone who is on a 500 calorie deficit per day will have a much different experience than you." Maybe they will, maybe they won't. I haven't seen any studies that support that common contention. And I have seen at least on
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by thras 17y ago
Why don't you read Taubes' book? Let me count up my "low-calorie" eating from yesterday. 1 whole chicken, baked: about 2000 calories. 1/2 pound of 83% lean ground beef, grilled, with 3oz cheese: about 800 calories Chocolate Mousse (made fro
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by thras 17y ago
I was pleasantly surprised. Triglycerides went down and HDL went up after about two months on the diet -- the ratio improved immensely. Total cholesterol was up a bit, but I had expected that. I'm going to get my cholesterol checked again i
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by thras 17y ago
No you're 100% wrong. How do I know? Because I lost weight on a low-calorie diet. They are a terrible thing to do to oneself and your brain will fight your new weight forever. I became a good-looking normal weight man after having been 150
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by thras 17y ago
Indeed. I take it you've read Gary Taubes' "Good Calories Bad Calories"? Overfeeding studies show that it's very hard to get people to gain weight on protein diets. Carbohydrate overfeeding, on the other hand, can get up to 10,000 calories
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by thras 17y ago
The only way to deal with these people is the same way you'd deal with the Soviets: through MAD. Explain to them that without API access, the only possible use of the domain to you would be as an anti-Zillow news site.
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by thras 17y ago
Pekosz is an idiot. Where did they find him? Swine flu is killing the young and healthy in Mexico. This is dangerous. They've probably got a few 10s of thousands of cases right now, and a death rate of 1%. By winter, absent a strong vaccina
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by thras 17y ago
Well, if you'd like to apply actual numbers to the discussion, take a look here: http://www.lagriffedulion.f2s.com/math.htm He comes up with an expected upper bound of 29% participation in the technical workforce by women given current be
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by thras 17y ago
You have proposed a mechanism. Now Occam's razor it! You have replaced a simple explanation for which abundant evidence exists with a complicated explanation. You could spend time inventing even more complications for your theory to explain
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by thras 17y ago
Oh, the gap isn't anywhere near as big as 10%. Men and women differ by only a few points on average when you test for mathematical ability. The problem is that ability is distributed along a Gaussian. Small differences in the norm make for
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by thras 17y ago
Interesting that the article you cite seems to claim that women are far more likely to go to pieces under the pressure of "stereotype threat" than men are. What a sexist you are.
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by thras 17y ago
Okay. What is your mechanism for all this equality? I assume you're some sort of young earth creationist, right? Sure, if God made men and women absolutely equal, then we're equal. The big guy can do anything. Probably right after he got do
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by thras 17y ago
Women aren't as mathematically inclined as men. They're also shorter. Anyone who tells you that we're all equal is trying to win votes.
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by thras 17y ago
Needs a better description of "dynos" than the help section gives. Also, what is a backup "bundle"? Finally, no mention of bandwidth, only storage. Are there any guarantees here?
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by thras 17y ago
I don't run virus protection on my Windows machines, but I am a stickler about automatic updates. At work, where I manage a few hundred Windows machines with virus protection and updates (managed through WSUS), I'm able to see whenever our
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by thras 17y ago
Suffering? It runs more than one application at once. You don't get viruses if you keep it up to date (unless you're an idiot). Copy and Paste works. There is nothing else out there that I need an OS to do for me. Everything else is in appl
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by thras 17y ago
Is he right? There are places in the world where democracy doesn't work very well. I'd say that this is the sort of question that deserves actual thought instead of the regular "Democracy Uber Alles!" platitudes that we get so often. (Yes,
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by thras 18y ago
I think that they should each use their private SSL keys to double-sign a document stating that they're married.

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