bugsbunnyak

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by bugsbunnyak 10y ago
> Both of these served to discover the real market value of things - Airbnb served to discover that someone always pays the cost of negative externalities. - Uber served to discover the above, plus that in an environment with low inter
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by bugsbunnyak 10y ago
If a Rick Santorum or Mike Huckabee presidency would change your opinion on federal control of education, perhaps you should reevaluate the underlying principles.
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Berkeley Comedian W. Kamau Bell Visits the Ku Klux Klan(mercurynews.com)
3 points by bugsbunnyak 10y ago|0 comments
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What ISIS Really Wants(theatlantic.com)
6 points by bugsbunnyak 12y ago|0 comments
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
This. 1000 times this. It's not even about automated diagnosis. The software used by most radiologists is more than two decades behind the state of the art, lacking even basic image registration and segmentation capabilities. (source:
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
Because she may not be the one actually making that "choice", and even if she is directly, it is made under massive cultural duress?
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
Excellent policy: now non-indigenous sub/urbanites can learn about indigenous history from `Pocahontas` and `Dances with Wolves` instead.
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
Don't be daft. It might be possible to take you seriously if anyone, ever , had made the same complaint about an article entitled "The Woman Who Will XYZ". In fact, such articles are celebrated as encouraging more STEM awa
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
this web site ( http://visadoor.com/ ) has been blocked because it has been determined by Web Reputation Filters to be a security threat to your computer or the corporate network. Indeed!
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
AGPL with Contributor License Agreement, just to be crystal clear.
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
I am continually surprised that Netflix has failed to play any real hardball. Seed (ie: astroturf) a class-action lawsuit against Verizon for breach of contract. Make a big PAC donation to the attorney general in a consumer-friendly state l
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
Sex-selective abortion is abhorrent, but it's not at all unbelievable. The others are mostly hypothetical - for now - but amniocentesis and genetic testing for specific diseases is a very real thing, and the steady march of GWAS means
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by bugsbunnyak 12y ago
Abortion ban: government-imposed restrictions on the right to terminate genetically-undesirable fetuses. Which of these criteria should not be allowed: Gender? Height? Lack of physical strength? How about, say, statistically-probable homose
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by bugsbunnyak 13y ago
> in our country's cabinet http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/20120730-cabin...
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Since apparently I can't reply at that depth: 10th: there is no Federal interest here. Any assertion of justification by nexus would be laughable: these crimes are by users and end-sellers. If the US attorney had evidence of an ongoing inte
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Amendment_to_the_United_S... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_amendment
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
I've been looking for a way to get around this for some ADC chips I'd like to use in a one-off. Proto-vantage SMD-to-DIP boards look great for that, if slightly spendy; Radioshack even sells a few varieties.
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Wasn't that NKS? Seriously though, he did seem open to the idea of at least partially open-sourcing Mathematica during a recent AmA: http://sx.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/qisot/im_stephen_wolfra...
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
How much would it cost to run a full-page ad near the front of The New York Times and Boston Globe, and some local tv ads in Boston? A targeted media campaign and the resulting echoes could easily put a stop to any political aspirations (I'
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
I am a little puzzled because the two Best Buy stores close to my house were seemingly sold out of almost every Win8 laptop after Christmas. Though I suppose this could be explained as Best Buy reading the tea leaves well and intentionally
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
+1. Sikuli was a dream find a few months ago when I had to upload 100s of images for a rater survey to a locked-down LimeSurvey instance (no ftp allowed). 20 minutes and I had a functioning script that pushed all of the upload buttons and p
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
> Dislin (Looking for a replacement, since it's a real pain to use) Have you tried MayaVi?
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
I bought it specifically for the quadro 2000, for volume-rendering and cuda. Thanks for the heads-up, I didn't realize the W series was created post-IBM.
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Sadly, Lenovo cannot be relied on as they once were (even for the first few years post-IBM). My W520 has been to warranty depot three times - still not fixed - for this problem that has been known for 1.5 years: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
"Productivity Software" page in the customization dialog. A large banner displays "MS Office - Get tools to express ideas and solve problems with full functionality". However (obviously) there is no possibility to actually select MS Office!
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
Kind of odd that they have a Microsoft Office ad on the 2nd screen of the customization wizard... :/
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DICOM Essentially all modern medical scanners export data in this format. This fantastic site will let you view (after upload) DICOM images in a web browser: http://slicedrop.com/ There are a number of acces
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
I thought this sounded familiar - AlexMuir called it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2902749 and score one for Larry Ellison: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3051730
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
His website: http://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/Welcome.html As speculated, he did indeed build a fusor: http://sciradioactive.com/Taylors_Nuke_Site/Neutron_Sources....
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by bugsbunnyak 14y ago
No kidding: http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/W-Series-ThinkPad-Laptops/W520-s... Already sent mine back once - mb and fan replaced, no change. Warranty service says they will replace the cpu next. Avoid the W520.

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