Resident_Geek

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by Resident_Geek 13y ago
The Camel Has Two Humps was not successfully replicated. The authors presented http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf in 2008: "Two years ago we appeared to have discovered an exciting and enigmatic new pr
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by Resident_Geek 13y ago
> Eventually, one day, you're trying to board a plane and you get denied because you've been known to disseminate "false or misleading information". That's absurd. How do you picture Facebook achieving control ov
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by Resident_Geek 13y ago
It's important to remember that the ads you're shown on Youtube videos are controlled by the channel owner, not by Google. Youtube itself doesn't have much control over how many ads you see.
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by Resident_Geek 13y ago
Between them, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt hold a majority of Google shareholders' voting power (about 2/3 is what I usually hear). I won't link anything because I don't really know the authoritative source
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by Resident_Geek 13y ago
Do you have multiple Google accounts? If you're signed in to one you don't use for things, that will cripple Now, because it won't have all the data it needs to do things. Same problem if you do all your searching and Youtube watching and w
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by Resident_Geek 13y ago
Sure, but recognizing a picture of one of your friends is a matter of searching O(100) people. Recognizing a picture of any Facebook user is a matter of searching O(100 million) people. It's a totally different problem, and there's no reaso
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
Objectively? That's a dangerous word; I hope you've got a better argument than this one. Hard drives are being rapidly replaced by SSDs, so their speed just jumped _way_ up (especially start-up and random access times, which affect sleeping
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
> We would never vote up a article where "father writes bedtime story for daughter, Sleeping Prince rescued by Princess". Because it is commonplace because literacy is commonplace, as are pens and paper commonplace and as are the legal
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
> With a standard combination lock all I have to tell someone is the combination I don't think that's fair. The standard combination lock interface is well-known, not intuitive. "6-38-16" is brief, but it assumes the listener already kn
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
Sure, but what indication is there that the comment is referring to her race?
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
> Calling her a monkey is unbearably and unquestionably racist How so?
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
A small bit of evidence to the contrary: http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee : 35,566 subscribers http://www.reddit.com/r/Wicked_edge : 26,612 subscribers
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
> I don't buy the taller buildings = more wealth, creativity and energy argument. If you haven't read The New Geography of Jobs, I highly recommend it. It gives an excellent explanation of why having a higher density of knowledge worker
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
My bad. Fixed.
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
I knew about Google's Ads Preferences page ( http://google.com/ads/preferences ), which lists the interests Google has inferred for me. This article taught me about the BlueKai Registry ( http://bluekai.com/registry/ ), which lists the same
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
More detail here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
Don't worry, I don't think there's any controversy there. Google is quite conservative, engineering-wise.
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
I think the fact that it's a positive review from MG Siegler means it's objective - since he's known to dislike Android devices. A negative review wouldn't necessarily be not objective, but a positive review must be objective.
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
> If the scalpers didn't exist, the eventual ticket-holders would still be able to purchase from the original vendor. A lot of them wouldn't, though. If the scalpers sell the tickets for, say, $500, then the people willing to pay $500 g
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
If I'm a person who's willing to pay above face value for a ticket but didn't get in line fast enough, the scalpers provide tremendous value to me.
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
Nobody uses "tar baby" as a slur in America. It's like "niggardly" - ignorant people use an incorrect interpretation to try to shut down people they don't like.
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
From the paper ( http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et... ), page 5-6: "Shalvi et al. (2011a) asked participants to roll a die under a paper cup with a small hole at the top allowing only them to see the outcome, and
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
In the paper in question ( http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et... ), it does. Chi-square test shows p<0.01 and p=0.02 for significance for the high and low time pressure groups, respectively.
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
Unfortunately, the paper ( http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et... ) doesn't say whether the lower mean for the people in the low time pressure group is because they lied less frequently, or because they lied with lo
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
The dichotomy exists regardless of your not acknowledging it, though. I have _had_ these conversations and made these comparisons. My current girlfriend and I switched from condoms to the pill, despite the extra responsibility for her and t
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
What I've described is why, in my opinion, birth control methods that target opposite genders are still mutually comparable.
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
All right, I see what you mean. I'll explain why I think there is a best method. For a single person considering the question on their own, the best choice is limited to what's available to them. Since there are (approximately) equal number
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
And I disagree with that. If it's the best at controlling birth, it's the best birth control. Since all sex acts involve two people, and I have a really hard time picturing a form of birth control which targets both parties equally, which p
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by Resident_Geek 14y ago
I don't see how this title trivializes birth control. Good birth control comes from controlling birth. I don't believe any other method can claim 10+ years of effectiveness, with practically no side effects and high reversibility.
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by Resident_Geek 15y ago
> I'm convinced that watching TV is harmful to a child's intellectual development. (And there's an established body of evidence to support that.) Is there? I dislike children being raised by television as much as the next guy, but the c

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