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Webtendo: a game console for the internet(webtendo.herokuapp.com)
2 points by tricolon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tricolon 10y ago
This article manages to spell the ship's name three ways: "Maku Pahu", "Mako Pahu", and "Moku Pahu". Only the last way is correct.
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by tricolon 10y ago
That $65k may very well be the "prevailing wage" determined by the Department of Labor.
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by tricolon 10y ago
I am aware. I thought explaining my experience might be helpful.
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by tricolon 10y ago
Finnish: (my first, heritage language) Had the right set of phonemes and the right pace of speech, but no discernible meaning. It confounded me and would have irritated me had it been longer. English: (my second, dominant language) See abov
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by tricolon 10y ago
Ah, but they do reverse something... here, listen to Feynman. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msN87y-iEx0
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Facebook launches standalone Events app(venturebeat.com)
2 points by tricolon 10y ago|0 comments
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Learning to Segment(research.facebook.com)
2 points by tricolon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tricolon 10y ago
I think the national average is the baseline. ...which raises the question: what about foreign markets?
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by tricolon 10y ago
I've felt similarly since middle school. I keep coming back to poor education as the root cause of many problems worth fixing. Sometimes, the root cause is more basic: poor public health. Most hard problems are going to be solved very
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The Spherical Droste Effect, with added twist and recursion(youtube.com)
2 points by tricolon 10y ago|0 comments
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by tricolon 10y ago
It was the three sons of the son of Charlemagne, Louis the Pious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Verdun
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Silicon Valley style doesn't fly at London's Ritz(money.cnn.com)
4 points by tricolon 10y ago|1 comments
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by tricolon 10y ago
> the point on a capsule closest to a plane will always get closer to the plane, unless the capsule is moving away What if the capsule is spinning like a boomerang while moving toward the plane?
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by tricolon 11y ago
On the face of it, your first statement seems to be false. New York's 15th congressional district is the poorest in the country: http://talkpoverty.org/cd-year-report/new-york-cd-report-15-...
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by tricolon 11y ago
Finn here. How else are you supposed to slice cheese?
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by tricolon 11y ago
Elon noted that they got more than 115,000 orders so far.
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by tricolon 11y ago
Having never spent more than a few days in DC, the only reason I know about slugging is because of "Slugline" in House of Cards.
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by tricolon 11y ago
The author keeps referring to "Gak", with which I'm unfamiliar. Is it this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickelodeon_Toys#Gak Is it just because of the color?
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by tricolon 11y ago
They definitely included a slide featuring measured battery life.
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by tricolon 11y ago
Just three years ago, someone I knew had to find another gynecologist for the same reason.
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by tricolon 11y ago
I'm glad they've fallen out of favor. Every time I come across one, it's a year after the fact and there's already a full-fledged community with a forum, mailing list, and meetups run by people who quit their day job to
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by tricolon 11y ago
That was a reference to a meme: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/has-anyone-really-been-far-eve...
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by tricolon 11y ago
My understanding of USCIS's definition of "work" is "doing something for which one would generally expect to be remunerated". You can't do a job and take no salary. You can't work on your own pre-revenue s
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by tricolon 11y ago
> Where is there free parking? In New York, there's free street parking practically everywhere except Midtown and FiDi: https://smoothparking.com/ If all street parking were metered or for commercial use only, I thi
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by tricolon 11y ago
Obligatory link to Nolst Trenité's "The Chaos": http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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by tricolon 11y ago
Doing anything for which one would normally expect to be remunerated counts as work. If you volunteer for a project for which no one is paid and will not be paid (and no one ever expects to be paid), that's not work. But "working
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by tricolon 11y ago
That would be the equivalent of structuring. It might work, but if USCIS ever investigated you and then found out about this little scheme, you would most likely be banned from the US for 10 years or life.
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by tricolon 11y ago
That's an excellent example of loss aversion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
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by tricolon 11y ago
That's why Elon has a few companies

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