PeterBB

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by PeterBB 13y ago
T-Mobile is great in Chicago. The network goes to shit as soon as you try to go downstate, though.
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by PeterBB 13y ago
Not that it matters at all, but socialists were using the word "libertarian" long before the American free-market liberals picked it up.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
Eh, I sorta agree. But applying some basic math to this page[1], we find that 4% of American households that rent, are renting an NYC apartment. That's a pretty sizable chunk. [1] http://www.nmhc.org/Content.cfm?ItemNumber=55508
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by PeterBB 14y ago
I'll usually try the unsubscribe button first, if I recognize the name of the sender. But if it is difficult to unsubscribe, or doesn't work effectively, then the SPAM button it is.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
It seems like about half the people are getting an "internet connection not found" error, and the other half are furious at the idea of a blind dating app.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
And just to head off the inevitable shitstorm at the pass: No one is saying that assault or stalking cannot happen to men. It does happen, and is tragic. However, women are more systematically threatened by such things in our society, and m
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by PeterBB 14y ago
This is the precise reason for the "individual mandate" in Obamacare. The two provisions only work in combination.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
That's true in this case, but only because we have other results showing that various problems are NP-complete.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
Yeah, that's about the size of my current apartment in Chicago. We just call them "studio apartments", nothing especially "micro" about them.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
Of course it is. You may think that the parent-child relationship is a place where authoritarianism is a very good idea, but that doesn't change the word used for the basic power structure involved.
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New capture-the-flag AI competition from aigamedev.com(aisandbox.com)
3 points by PeterBB 14y ago|0 comments
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by PeterBB 14y ago
This picture will be a core part of the conspiracy theories in five years.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
> the ACT (and by association the SAT) As someone who nearly aced both, the ACT is a noticeably better test. The SAT has a lot of dumb and predictable tricks involved. The ACT requires more actual ability.
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How to add 5.5 petabytes and get banned from Costco during a hard drive crisis(gigaom.com)
2 points by PeterBB 14y ago|0 comments
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by PeterBB 14y ago
> Cheating degrades the quality of education at any level. Not in the least! You can argue that it degrades the prestige or something like that, but the education remains the same.
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by PeterBB 14y ago
I definitely sympathize with this. I used to be (and to some extent still am) the sort of person who would get in a lot of social trouble for being too blunt about things, or for focusing on results rather than social niceties. But I’ve com