apmee

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by apmee 3y ago
Right. And how do we know his paper wouldn’t still have been accepted without his self-censoring? I’m not saying I don’t believe him, or that we shouldn’t take such concerns seriously, but he could at least have acknowledged that this is ef
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by apmee 3y ago
I don’t quite understand how you’re able to acknowledge the rarity of such a sensationalised case as Isla Bryson’s, yet still use it to justify your support for policy that would hurt the trans people you know.
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by apmee 4y ago
On the other hand, other parents may well wish to have access to cherished stories from their childhood to read to their own children _without_ first having to re-read them all in advance and prepare their own annotated versions. I'm n
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by apmee 4y ago
I don’t think this necessarily is evidence of his not being smart, as it could just as well be ascribed to malice. Perhaps this will finally prompt Paul to stop giving him the benefit of the doubt though. I’ve long been flummoxed as to why
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by apmee 4y ago
Bit of a long shot, but I don't suppose you'd happen to know where to find that post or what it was called?
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by apmee 5y ago
> Their FAQ on the topics simply says they'll block "medical misinformation" which they define as anything the WHO disagrees with This seems entirely sensible to me. > As the WHO has repeatedly disagreed with itself Unl
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by apmee 9y ago
> I have yet to see genuine criticism of [Jordan Peterson] which stands up to scrutiny. I don't believe Peterson is alt-right, but I do think there's a fair case for dismissing him as a source for anything but his specific fi
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by apmee 15y ago
I've often wondered to what extent my own password mnemonic "system" is either sufficiently secure or woefully misguided. Each of my passwords is made up of the same eight-character non-dictionary word, plus the alphabet-position numbers of
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by apmee 15y ago
Want to make your own? See this recent post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2877790
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Mobile Patent Suits (An interactive visualisation)(bl.ocks.org)
1 points by apmee 15y ago|1 comments
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by apmee 15y ago
Raphael is great at what it does, which is to provide a graphics framework -- a layer of abstraction in order to easily manipulate SVG to create custom shapes and graphics. Where D3 differs is in its focus. It's not just a graphics librar
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by apmee 15y ago
To be pedantic, Protovis did also use SVG; it just had a layer of abstraction that somewhat obscured this, whereas D3's lower-level syntax makes it feel like you're manipulating SVG directly (making it a bit more intuitive to learn if you
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by apmee 16y ago
Great as that is, it's not really a garden path sentence, as there's no element of being misled. It looks absurd from the outset.
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by apmee 16y ago
Interesting, thanks. But, without meaning to excuse it, I do wonder how much of that was a) tongue in cheek (given that it was an informal talk rather than an essay or article) b) just a reflection of the general attitudes of the era c) ind
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by apmee 16y ago
Really? Can I ask what you're basing that on? I'm not disbelieving you, just skeptically curious :)
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by apmee 16y ago
To be fair, the difference is that it's now displaying images by default, and this will simply have caught a lot more people's attention
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by apmee 16y ago
It's much much harder to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously, than it is to simply focus on one then the other. They are fundamentally at odds with each other: to lose fat, you need less calories; to gain muscle, you need more calorie
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by apmee 17y ago
"I’m not feeling that good about the design at the moment as it’s shit," made me laugh. Also it's always heartening to see even great designers like Mike have to scrabble and grab for inspiration.
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by apmee 17y ago
Or indeed consumers who are perfectly happy with the sound of 210 kb/s VBR mp3s on an iPod through £80 Grado headphones. I'm not trying to take any side myself here, but it does sound like you're implying that it's the "audiophiles" versus
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by apmee 17y ago
What's interesting is that antidepressants such as Prozac have a few established, proven and well-documented side-effects, one of which is orgasm inhibition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssri#Sexual_side_effects So I'd imagine that the me
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by apmee 17y ago
Ah right. I must be an outlier then.
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by apmee 17y ago
Forgive me if I'm missing something, I'm not trying to catch you out but I'm curious why you believe that one late night will affect the rest of your week. Surely a correspondingly early night the next evening will redress things?
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by apmee 17y ago
I wonder if the other fifth is just British expats who still think a trillion is a million cubed.
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by apmee 17y ago
They seem to spend a whole lot of time describing how Apple "launched a revolution", and very little on the key point in the headline which is that they've supposedly been "overtaken" (a couple of very vague and unenlightening closing parag
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by apmee 17y ago
Film critic Mark Kermode's thoughts on movie piracy: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/2009/04/piracy_240409...
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by apmee 17y ago
The ~10km/s figure refers to the speed an unpropelled object needs at the Earth's surface in order to escape gravity, so it doesn't apply to rockets and shuttles. Assuming it could keep the engine running, the shuttle could go into orbit at
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by apmee 17y ago
It's working fine for me, at the moment. Thanks.
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by apmee 18y ago
If the effects are anything like those encountered by William Hurt in Altered States then I'll be keeping well away from all beats, binaural or not, from now on.
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The Art of SATergy: Excerpt from game theory book concerning multiple choice(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
4 points by apmee 18y ago|1 comments
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by apmee 18y ago
For anyone as fascinated as I am by the orange-box-on-blue-background phenomenon in #4, I really recommend Josef Albers's Interaction of Colour. http://www.amazon.com/Interaction-Color-Expanded-Josef-Alber... It's educational and illumina

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