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by zach 12y ago
From the article: "A handful of incidents involving SCOPs in Virginia and nationally have focused attention on the training and oversight of private police." Well, many incidents nationally have focused attention on the training a
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by zach 12y ago
Essentially, this is the way that Google sets the standard for acceptable web content. It's subjective, it's vague, and sometimes unfair but that's the burden they have to bear. Defining the "quality" of a web page
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by zach 12y ago
For Clojure enthusiasts, I highly recomment Zach Oakes' environment in the same vein, Nightmod (his Nightcode IDE specialized with his play-clj library). It's an experimental platform that is a tidy, simple way to experience game
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by zach 12y ago
Ugh, the comments for this article are a disaster. I was trying to start a conversation in a creative way, my apologies.
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by zach 12y ago
The future of Silicon Valley: "This internship really sucks. Just when I think there's nothing left they can ask of me..."
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by zach 12y ago
Indeed, the entrance of Uber has made taxi rides a market for lemons. The most pleasant and least avaricious drivers are better off within Uber's higher-accountability system. This is nothing specific to SF, either. This kind of nonsen
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by zach 12y ago
We're slowly coming to understand that antibiotics are very unkind to our gut flora and are a prime suspect in subsequent weight gain. Post-antibiotic diet could be a critical intervention to keep patients from falling into the grasp o
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The Manual by the KLF (How to Have a Number One the Easy Way) (1988)(freshonthenet.co.uk)
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by zach 12y ago
This is a great example of the value of test plans. This is basically technology to reconstruct missing test plans via the code. But of course someone already knew about the subtle "wall kick" feature since she or he wrote that co
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by zach 12y ago
And essentially all adoption in Sweden is international - only about 100 adoption cases a year involve Swedish births. Foreign adoptions are troublesome enough to make a womb transplant look like a reasonable alternative. Now you know why t
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by zach 12y ago
Yes, this also describes me - I have tried alcoholic drinks just twice (on my 21st birthday and champagne on my honeymoon), and thought them astringent and unpleasant. More to the point, I've never even sought out, uh, non-sobriety, ce
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by zach 12y ago
Including this page which should make things clear: alcohol consumption is just a placeholder for socioeconomic status, which everyone knows has a major effect on longevity. http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol/Controversies
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by zach 12y ago
I thought Experiment 2 was a great example of the pain of trying to fit your users' feelings into an "ideal" model. When we started LALife.com, it was with the idea of making a real estate site with lots of great statistics a
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by zach 12y ago
True, the top 0.01% is not going to work, but Los Angeles has a public school program that explicitly focuses on the top 0.1% (although recently they have rounded out their admissions with those in the top 0.5%): http://en.wikipe
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by zach 12y ago
The Los Angeles school district has run a program since at least the early 80s which, I kid you not, focuses on the top 0.1% in "intellectual giftedness". I attended this program in elementary school and met the most interesting p
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by zach 12y ago
We do have a lot more leisure, but it is distributed at the tails of our lifespan, the times of lowest productivity. We sure don't start full-time work at the age that kids on the farm do. And even a century ago, most kids outside of b
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by zach 12y ago
It's a good sign that there are no comments yet (less than 44 minutes after posted). I've seen the video version before, but it never fails to inspire me, so I think I'll go watch it now as well. Really gets you to think in t
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by zach 12y ago
Not everyone is so sanguine about the effect of the FDA's action. For example, NY Times food writer Mark Bittman: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/18/opinion/bittman-the-fdas-n... In California, thoug
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by zach 13y ago
Can you even autoplay HTML5 video on a page in, say, the platform I'm posting from, iOS 7?
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by zach 13y ago
Honestly, me too. I grew up in the Valley and used to live in Burbank and commuted to Hollywood and (of course) Santa Monica — which is, yeah, a harsh drive. It would be awesome if Disney could effectively bring technology startups somewher
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by zach 13y ago
I'm totally in on this. This is an amazing development for the LA startup community. As an LA native (it made the radio news here on Wednesday), I'm very curious where in the Los Angeles area this is. Santa Monica/Venice is t
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by zach 13y ago
This is probably referring to "SOD tips" or "SOD tip-offs", where intelligence-community information is "laundered" through a source that provides a tip to investigators, as discussed in this Reuters article fr
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by zach 13y ago
Fortunately, the United States appears to be at a two-decade low in new prison admissions: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/01/chart-lead-vio...
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by zach 13y ago
This seems like a great business to develop in the college market. The options students often have are overpriced and inflexible laundry service or schlepping their duds half a mile into town. Any college you can get access to will be a gre
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by zach 13y ago
The economist who helped Walt Disney's theme park dream become what it is today[1] said that the most important thing he learned through it all was the profound difference between a "no, because" person and a "yes, if&qu
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by zach 13y ago
Good point, and it is a long game, although Google doesn't yet seem to be incentivizing people to move to Kansas City. And the buses are a good testbed for an autonomous vehicle fleet, like how Uber dispatches human-driven cars today
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by zach 13y ago
Honestly, I'm surprised Jason Fried and DHH haven't picked up on this news trend to point out how bizarre it is that these companies still bus people around at 40 MPH instead of their communication at the speed of light. Isn'
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by zach 13y ago
Penalties are blunt instruments. The whole point of this penalty is that Google cannot trust the signals that are in its index when it comes to Rap Genius's site. And it sure isn't Google's fault that they can't. Can Goo
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by zach 13y ago
So it's hipsters versus nerds now? Has it come to this?
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by zach 13y ago
Well, of all places, an early version of the character of Doctor Who appeared on, The Canadian Howdy Doody Show (whose guest stars included a young Bill Shatner). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_in_Canada_and_

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