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by xlm1717 11y ago
Or like trying to play a video game one keystroke at a time. If it turns out anything like the "Twitch Plays" series, it will probably start chaotic but become more coherent as time goes on, usually because the troublemakers get b
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To add to this, I thoroughly recommend reading Smolin's paper on the "limited, and hence reasonable, effectiveness of mathematics in physics." He expands on one of those mis-steps (quoting from the paper): >This is in cont
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Hey, if I could get a napping desk (and be allowed to nap during the middle of the day) I would be all over that. As it stands, if I want a nap in the middle of the day, I would need to go to the car during lunch break, which isn't exa
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It is completely random, and I'm inclined to think the author took some liberties with embellishing the article.
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It sounds like a joke, but there are so many times I wish I had something like this near my office!
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But that's what the commenter was saying, Google has been putting work into making the experience less terrible. Also, Motorola and LG both have flagships with expandable storage. Everyone runs out of 32GB, and having an SD card handy
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I would hope so. Once the specs all start to converge, then durability will be one of the last selling points they could use.
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>Assuming of course you didn't starve to death or other common ways of dying. This is part of the reason why people were desperate to give up subsistence living. Urbanization happened over the past couple hundred years because peopl
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by xlm1717 11y ago
Hmm, what I describe is what I learned when taking the SAT years ago. Never took the GMAT though, not sure how different it would be. The suggestion does sound ridiculous, although they are telling you how they design the test. I would hope
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If you think about it, this is often the case in the working world too. It often matters less whether you know something than whether you know how to strategically derive something. This involves an element of risk. In tests specifically, y
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I use a few of them in javascript. In fact, Venus can be shortened to just "+", ie. +"123234" +"1e29" +"abc" // -> NaN
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It doesn't presuppose. It asks the question: what is a sustainable public debt? Then, it goes on to answer that question. The paper referenced reaches the conclusion that three different models used to analyze debt sustainability raise
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I'm curious, what argument would there be for why we shouldn't? This is the first I read about outerra, and it actually looks really cool!
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If art itself was never worth much, then I don't see a future where we as a culture are willing to pay a lot more for it.
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Really, using victim blaming? Everyone should be paying attention on the roads. That means pedestrians too. Walking across the street completely oblivious to your surroundings is just plain stupid. Walking just on the sidewalk completely ob
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It's as MarkCole said, just introducing a shorthand. So, there really is no point to using this.
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Seems the problem is they are confusing "reliable" with "tried and true". The onerous approval processes have more to do with sticking with "the devil you know".
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>TLDR: At this point in time the existence of both life and intelligence must be assumed to involve ancient, god-like extraterrestrials. Surprisingly, that assumption (and that it must be assumed) is a touchy subject at this point in tim
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We are all thinking it!
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PhantomJS is a headless browser. It's still running webkit, but it loads pages just like a regular browser and allows you to run custom JS scripts on pages, making it useful for QA and TDD. The only snag I've hit with PhantomJS is
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This isn't so bad when the battery is removable. The idea that they are pushing for planned obsolescence is more believable when they deliberately make it difficult to replace the battery.
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To be fair, the IE we see as really crappy today was revolutionary in what features it gave web developers back when Microsoft had over 90% market share.
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There are a few interesting questions here. My gut reaction was to say, it doesn't restrict access to Android, anyone can fork it at will. But the specific issue they address is Google's suite of Android apps. I know for me as an
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This is what is really frustrating about the article. It spends the entire first half boosting print books like there is something magical about them that prevents them from being disrupted like movies and TV were. >E-books’ declining po
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What I found striking was how much I could agree with the list of music considered the worst, but following the footer link to the list of songs considered the best I disagree with 90% of the songs on that list.
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It does have criteria for listing. >A piece of music needs to have been notable, popular, or memorable to be deemed the "worst ever", or it would be unlikely to top all-time public polls a few years after it was released. That
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It's funny how everyone has a conspiracy theory on Trump. The right wants to believe he's employed by Clinton to split the Republican vote, and the left want to believe he's employed by the RNC to safely pander to the racist
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It is hugely misguided. Obviously, there is strong demand for ad-blocking. Someone else will move into this space and serve that demand. He didn't make a statement, he made a headache for all the people who downloaded his app, and for
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Those are great. I wish PHP had borrowed eq and ne. It does have . for strings, which makes things a little easier. Since JS doesn't have any of those string operators, you end up with the fun example that was posted in the article. It
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I've been seeing this pop up on all the major news outlets and science websites, but still have not seen one mention of the side effect that may be behind both increased risk of suicide and increased risk of violent behavior: akathisia

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