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by ag80 10y ago
A much better writeup is here: http://sometimes-interesting.com/2013/12/04/concrete-arrows-...
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by ag80 13y ago
There is some indication that hand writing notes results in better retention: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wray-herbert/ink-on-paper-some... Some searching also pulls results from a few years ago with similar headlin
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Launching the Wolfram Connected Devices Project(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
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by ag80 13y ago
That doesn't make sense to me. I have a Sony I bought in 2010 that has Netflix on it. Never-going-to-get updated, slow interface Netflix, but it's there.
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by ag80 13y ago
Indeed, I was. An apparent false spam positive from my lone submission.
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by ag80 13y ago
>...I think the cruel part is that everything appears normal - but your are totally invisible... Indeed. I cannot for the life of me understand the logic behind this behavior. If you've been banned or had a comment killed, it woul
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by ag80 13y ago
Is anyone surprised that an organization which created user classes called "Bureaucrat" and "Oversight" has become difficult to manage? To the extent that reform is possible, they'll have to figure out a way to attr
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by ag80 13y ago
My threshold for the number mornings the cat on a diet begins the wake-up call is rapidly approaching the point at which I get around to building some sort of time-release RFID tag access-controlled (two cats, only one on a diet) feeder.
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Renewable energy choices in the Houston electricity market(mytruecost.com)
1 points by ag80 13y ago|0 comments
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by ag80 13y ago
They put a blog post up here: http://www.mytruecost.com/news/2013/10/3/how-green-are-truec...
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by ag80 13y ago
She mentions specifically the Ruby on Rails Tutorial by Michael Hartl. This tutorial has a section on creating secret tokens within the first three chapters (while leaving in-depth discussion of it for later chapters), and starts discussin
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by ag80 13y ago
>This is the first experience with a computer I can remember. I didn't really realize what I was doing at the time, I would have been 2 or 3. Whereupon I am confronted head on by the relentless progression of aging and mortality.
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by ag80 13y ago
Centerpoint has some overall price data they monitor at http://www.mytruecost.com , though at present it doesn't include distinctions between electricity sources. I submitted some feedback via their contact form suggesting