colonel_panic

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by colonel_panic 14y ago
Exactly. So far they've demonstrated nothing more than a camera.
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
McNulty really wasn't very good at covering up his accent: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg_3ZSeHL4g
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
One Intrade commenter from London claimed he was set up to earn about $20,000 in arbitrage against Betfair. If you expect the manipulation to continue over a period of time (which I certainly did, and wished I could register on other bettin
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
Google doesn't teach your kids the narrative structure against which they measure their own lives.
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
But what happens once people get used to the new duration of the yellow light? Do they approach it based on what they're used to from all the other yellow lights they've ever seen? Then the longest yellow light in the country is the safest
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
Given that three people posted a link to the same parody video within three minutes of each other, I'm forced to assume that Adam Curtis is a brilliant filmmaker.
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
Sued by who? Holders of CRT patents?
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
I had no idea you could get faculty from another institution to be on your thesis committee. More importantly, I had no idea PhD students could do summer internships to supplement their measly stipends. If I knew that I might have applied t
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
What separates Rothko and Pollock from the artists in the link is that other people have tried to capture what they captured, and failed. I never got it until I finally saw other rectangle blobs and other paint drippings. There is at least
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
Tell me when they can grow me a new inner ear and cure tinnitus. I want to experience the tranquility of true silence, and I want it from something other than the cold embrace of the grave.
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
I think he's referring to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPILhiTJv7E
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
Does he mean he's writing a book about this experience? I guess it will be like Flowers for Algernon, but inverted.
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
It's easier than general relativity, is that good enough?
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
I've been wondering how easily a situation could arise in which an underdog could try something like this on Kickstarter and give up, and end up having done nothing but provide free research into market demand that a bigger player with more
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
More importantly, it explains why both the world and the overlays appear in focus. I have yet to see an explanation for how Project Glass does the same. Apparently it's based on the same technology that went into Babak Parviz's contact lens
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
I purchased your fancy new razor but the blade snapped off when I tried to slice Korea in two. I want a refund.
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by colonel_panic 14y ago
I think that one could be interpreted as merely warped.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
I don't think the exclusivity was a long-term strategy, but rather a natural progression from its beginning as a site for Harvard undergrads. It was really useful at providing specific needs for college students at the start. It was easy to
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
"there are good perks (company issued iPhone!)" That sounds like a source of stress right there. If the company gives you a phone I assume it means they own your ass every moment of every day.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
Maybe it would work if you designed a language with structured editing in mind from the start.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
Now I'm disturbed by the lack of parens. What about situations where I have one pair of parens exactly contained in another, like in a one-argument defmethod? Edit: Now I see that I didn't notice that this situation happens in the "let ma
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
"... they are encouraged to exercise and build up their strength by being given their own gym equipment (pieces of Velcro to which they can anchor themselves in order to stretch and relax spontaneously)." Creepy. Do they give these cells an
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
That documentary showed pretty well that the MPAA is harsher on films with gay themes, but it wasn't convincing in other areas. There's a good reason that sexual content is more likely to lead to a stricter rating than violent content: pare
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
You can see R movies as long as there are no Mormons in your class. Poor Mormons... I bet none of their friends called them for at least a month after the big movie-watching week at the end of each school year.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
Bit rot is a feature. It allows genes that don't impact survival to attain greater diversity within the population so that, if the environment changes and the gene becomes relevant, some part of the population may be better able to adapt.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
I'd like to see a controlled experiment. Are you willing to take the Pepsi Challenge?
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
Why now? It doesn't escape my notice that an influential British magazine is majorly dissing the Argentine government just as Britain and Argentina are getting into another tiff over the Falklands and a bunch of oil is found there.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
Nobody's mentioned tiling? And then also tiling. And then tiling and more tiling, and then the good part is coming up and--tiling. And here's the big play and it looks like they might just make a touchdow--tiling. I miss analog.
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by colonel_panic 15y ago
Maybe it's like FFVIII, where the monsters level up as you do.

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