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by zck 17y ago
You have to be careful about the false positive rate vs. the incidence. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox . It might not be a good idea to do this kind of widespread screening.
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by zck 17y ago
I'm not sure that he is. How many times are psychics booked on shows to prove that they are psychic? Instead, they appear on shows like Montel Williams to tell parents of missing children what has happened to their child. They get a lot of
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by zck 17y ago
The reddit comments for this article pointed to a letter Randi wrote regarding his cancer. It's light on details, but hopeful. http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/jref-news/663-announceme...
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by zck 17y ago
Wow, I hadn't heard that Randi has cancer. I can't seem to find any more detail than is in the article, but this is obviously very bad news.
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by zck 17y ago
The comparison to homeschoolers seems a bit off. First, there are very few other students in a homeschooled kid's class. It makes sense that a kid will do better in a class of two or three, rather than eighteen or twenty. Additionally, kids
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by zck 17y ago
Think of it this way -- the difference between your salary and your market value is effectively money you're donating to the nonprofit. If you don't want to donate that much, either ask for a raise, or quit, get a new job, and write a check
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by zck 17y ago
Google cache has it, but at least for me, it's just as slow as the site itself: http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:_OIX7VMqqToJ:deepaksurti...
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by zck 17y ago
Scott Adams (the Dilbert guy) wrote a blog entry about how, whenever someone asks him how he is, answers "fantastic". http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/self_talk/
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by zck 17y ago
>Not being content with your coding ability is healthy and natural. That's true. I wonder if realizing that and still feeling like one's sub-par is also natural.
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by zck 17y ago
I applied to this past summer, but won't be applying this winter. I (and the people I applied with) graduated, and got jobs. Well, they did. For some reason, my resume must be screaming "don't hire". So no co-founder. Also, I can't seem to
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by zck 17y ago
As a result of the Photoshopping, notice the duplication of the window ledge right behind the guy's head.
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by zck 17y ago
Some Japanese scientists did a study to show how traffic jams can appear of of nowhere. They told 22 drivers to drive in a circular path at 30 km/h. A traffic jam appeared, and moved backward. The video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watc
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by zck 17y ago
Ok, I see that we're not really having a conversation anymore, so I think I'm just about done. Two quick points: one -- if your job is to find bugs, finding lots of bugs is doing your job well. Two -- I'm not saying this behavior is rationa
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by zck 17y ago
As I see it, there's a single disagreeing study: Cameron, J. (2001), and that study found that people increased intrinsic motivation when they were rewarded for either beating others, or when intrinsic motivation was low to begin with. Neit
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by zck 17y ago
My links constitute some of the research done about this issue. Do you have any research that disagrees with the data I've provided? Of course people work for money, for sex, for food, etc. I wasn't saying they don't. What I am saying is th
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by zck 17y ago
I listen to psychologists on this because they're the people who have done rigorous studies on the issue. Seems like a good reason to listen to them. Why are you railing against this? The data are against you.
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by zck 17y ago
I read this article last Tuesday at the auto mechanic, after I finished the book I brought. So it's probably the September issue, which comes out before September.
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by zck 17y ago
Humans are not rational when it comes to money. There are many studies that illustrate this. For example, if you give someone a choice between a candy bar and $1.00, they will choose the candy bar with greater frequency than if you give the
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by zck 17y ago
>P.S. The Lisp "DO" form is for iteration; PROGN and BEGIN are the main block-structure forms used in Common Lisp and Scheme respectively. I think mst's using Arc's do, which is progn.
890.
by zck 17y ago
Their "global average" is under 40 minutes. I guess they're only counting the 73 cities in the study for the globe.
891.
by zck 17y ago
Assuming that was his account (it seems like he'd be more likely to register _why), this is consistent with him deleting his account, and someone pouncing on the now-free username -- note that this account was created today.
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by zck 17y ago
This idea seems contrary to Gates's goals. He's said that he wants the money he's giving to charity to be spent in his lifetime. Endowing a school would necessarily prevent this goal.
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by zck 17y ago
The problem comes when you make a typo on your password at registration time. Then you're left trying to reset your password.
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by zck 17y ago
You could have some sort of "degraded" resume version in .rtf. It seems like .rtf is decent, but doesn't have as much customization as a word document. Of course, I could be wrong. It's not the best solution, but it is something that can be
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by zck 17y ago
I took some time and put my .doc resume into LaTeX, figuring that with judicious use of functions, I could easily change styles and formatting. I used pdfLaTeX to output to pdf. Of course now, very few job boards take a .pdf, and of course,
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by zck 17y ago
Well, people could be buying from Tesla because they got money from the government, but as the article says: >The $20 million in revenues and $1 million in profits do not reflect any proceeds from that loan, the company tells us.
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by zck 17y ago
But you're already allowed to quote the AP for fair use reasons.
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by zck 17y ago
By not filing a suit in the USA, Sethi can say that he's won all his lawsuits, or, more meaningfully, Arrington has lost. Sethi might consider it a good trade to not get any money from the lawsuit in return for tarnishing Arrington's name.
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by zck 17y ago
For almost two months, exclusively Colemak. I had used QWERTY, and never tried Dvorak. I'm enjoying it. http://colemak.com/
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by zck 17y ago
I'm guessing Octopart ( http://octopart.com/ ) might've helped with getting some of the parts.

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