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by throwaway1980 13y ago
"Full CSS Nintendo NES" is a bit of a linkbait title. However, it's still kind of amazing, because despite knowing that CSS is not Turing complete, I still clicked on it hoping for an emulation. Which effectively means that I identified i
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Ever worked in construction?
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Strange, I've never heard the term "figure drawing" used in the context of comics or animation. Maybe it's common within the field, but the artists I know generally associate it with drawing human models. Wikipedia doesn't mention it eith
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
It is so refreshing to hear from somebody outside of the US.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Good point, the largest share ("majority") rule in democracy as we know it does tend to leave people out. Has anyone tried a political system where minorities are formally taken into account in the allocation of funds by percentage of the
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I didn't tell anybody what to do, I just said how it made me feel and asked some questions. If my spending made you or Larry Page feel awkward, yes I'd want to hear about it. And anyway, it's not necessarily the spending itself, but the wa
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
I agree, more or less, because certainly there's a long history of people creating charities to fill in the gaps left by government. It's the way he's doing it, on Google+ and as the CEO of Google that I don't like. Maybe it's just becaus
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
> So I’ve arranged to fund a significant research program through the Voice Health Institute, which he will lead. I find this rather awkward. Here we have someone with a ton of money giving a tiny fraction of it away in a very public m
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
This isn't limited to the Canadian government. Try to get a STEM paper published in a respectable venue in any field that has no appreciable economic utility. Nobody cares about finding things out simply because they are interesting (at l
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Space Oddity music video cover filmed aboard International Space Station(youtube.com)
6 points by throwaway1980 13y ago|0 comments
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Is preservation ever good?
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Sure, but the price is what makes the condition appalling.
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The Worst Room - Photos of Cheap Rooms for Rent in NYC(theworstroom.tumblr.com)
85 points by throwaway1980 13y ago|109 comments
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
What about genome sequencing? Or census taking? Or benchmark characterization? There is quite a bit of data publishing that is valuable to other researchers. Talking about what didn't work is good because it stops other people from repea
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
> In math there is only black and white, provably true and patently wrong. You'd probably be interested in Godel's incompleteness theorem. Also, exact reproduction of other people's experimental work is highly unusual in CS, despite the
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Your synopsis is more general than what I'm thinking of, so of course it's going to catch more things. It's really the specific story of: 1) protagonist's life sucks; 2) protagonist gains deeper understanding about how life works; 3) prota
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Mostly when you post it ends up being the top comment in a thread. I wouldn't have a problem with this except that all (or maybe 99%) of your comments are about the same thing: people in positions of corporate or financial power abusing th
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Thanks to you too!
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Excessive obedience often means you had overly needy parents who couldn't tolerate you acting out. So, you take care of their needs by not causing problems. This probably isn't recognized in the DSM as a disorder, since on the surface it
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Ok ok, the thing about the wobbling plate is that Feynman says the freedom to investigate a question that was only interesting to him was what led him to get the Nobel prize. Here's an excerpt from his book that's faster to process than th
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Yeah! Well, another point comes up here too. Do we really need to look at subway lines to find out if rich people live in Manhattan? It seems like you only need income tax returns to answer that one. It's more like, are the stops on sub
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Hey cool, thanks! Incidentally I think the time loop mechanic from Groundhog Day is also from a TZ episode.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
There are multiple questions here: What do the transit vs. income graphs for SF look like? How do the SF graphs compare to the NY ones? Is there a clustering of rich and poor stops in SF like there is in NY? And then finally, what are the p
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
In my experience, "A man who hates his life to the point of suicide is shown by a guardian angel how much the other people around him depend on him. As a result of seeing what the world would be like without him, he changes his mind about
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
There is no such thing as meaningless data. Data are just observations. Meaning is constructed from the interpretation of data. The primary questions of good science are what, where, when, and who. These are the questions you answer when
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Article says more about author's worldview than anything else. Motivation by guilt works really well, until it stops working, and then you're in trouble. What do you do when you simply don't feel guilty about doing something like sleeping
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Sure, but you're not "supposed" to. Or maybe you are, which is the problem. "Inconclusive" or "negative" results are just as meaningful (i.e. no conclusion is still a conclusion), but we're biased towards "positive" results showing identi
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Data aren't supposed to show anything. That's only if you're trying to push some kind of agenda, publish your work, or get funding.
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
It was a Thinkpad from around 1999, and my ethernet stopped working after an Ubuntu upgrade, sometime around kernel 2.6.8 if I remember correctly. I'm sure there'd have been a fix if I'd found the right forum or IRC channel, but having liv
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by throwaway1980 13y ago
Yes, also problems with wireless/wired network card drivers and DVD playback are common. These are the kinds of things where you've just gotten them working, then you upgrade your distro and they stop working again. In theory they all pro

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