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by ddt 12y ago
> (Aside: I am intentionally sticking with U. S. customary units of pounds, miles, etc., to be consistent with much of the related literature.) From the article, it sounds like dietary science in the US is done with imperial units. It wa
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by ddt 12y ago
Especially with how close the precinct station is to Cal Anderson. We're talking ~3 blocks. Maybe it's a case of understaffing and/or suboptimal allocation of officers? I imagine Pike from 12th down past Broadway becomes a pr
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by ddt 12y ago
Sounds like they're doing something closer to URVs [1] than Bitcoin. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidade_real_de_valor
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by ddt 12y ago
My understanding is that dumbwaiters and laundry chutes fall under a fire code which boils down to "Nah, dude. Don't do that" just about everywhere. Vertical passages are great for fires, and bad for people who like not being
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by ddt 12y ago
There are complicated ways of doing this, but the naïve way is as follows: First you need a corpus of text that's grammatically correct Each node in the chain is a word or piece of punctuation. Each word has a certain probability of be
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by ddt 12y ago
Oh man, so many memories of giving motion sickness to my friends and parents watching me play Descent.
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by ddt 12y ago
My big takeaway from the Chomsky quote is that it's useless to ask if computers can think because one of the fundamental properties we associate with thinking is some biological/spiritual aspect. For a computer to "think&quot
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by ddt 12y ago
I guess my point was that hipster is such an ill defined word that trying to understand why a particular thing is or is not hipster is futile.
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by ddt 12y ago
The term "hipster" has become more or less a catch-all for words such as * pretentious * egotistical * artsy * self-involved * preachy * irreverent * trendy and many many more. My favorite thing about the linguistic history of &qu
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by ddt 12y ago
While the name "Uncle Tom" comes from the book, the character of Uncle Tom from ~1865 onwards was portrayed almost exclusively in minstrel show retellings of the novel. Minstrel show's didn't quite... capture the anti-sl
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by ddt 12y ago
I haven't read any books specifically on this topic, but it's a fairly common thing in non-academic (and sometimes academic) discussions of history. There's a subreddit, http://reddit.com/r/badhistory , t
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by ddt 12y ago
I love this. Do you happen to know of any good reading materials on pre-Enlightenment or even pre-printing press scientific history? It gets boring hearing that there was no academic advancement from the fall of the Roman Empire until Galil
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by ddt 12y ago
Partly, it has to do with the role of the church pre-enlightenment. The modern secular university didn't exist in the 13th Century. The concept of a teaching body that granted degrees, certifications, and did research was barely off th
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by ddt 12y ago
I think the second reason you listed to be much more compelling than the first. It could be argued that the space race was about ensuring that the US had missile superiority over the USSR, but I'd wager a significant number of the aero
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by ddt 12y ago
This and Twitch Plays Pokemon have taught me a lot more about group efficiency than The Mythical Man Month
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by ddt 12y ago
@moron4hire: It's a good point. But there are side effects of reducing residential property. What happens to the city's economy when everyone's commute is doubled because housing in the city is becoming prohibitively expensiv
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by ddt 12y ago
I think she's taking the position that there's inherent value in providing affordable residential property in New York which exceeds the value in extracting maximum tax revenue from every square inch of the city. At the very least
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by ddt 12y ago
I think this is where the argument for short term whole-residence rentals breaks down. In the beginning, Airbnb was for homeowners and renters to provide a spare bedroom to travelers. In that case, they're facilitating a private transa
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by ddt 13y ago
The "graph moving in the right direction" doesn't have to be impressive in absolute terms. If I can prove that I have 100 paying, engaged customers this week, 50 last week, 25 the week before, etc. I've proved that the i
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by ddt 13y ago
I can't possibly recommend Rdio enough. The design is simple and intuitive. State transfers nicely between devices. Even little things are pleasantly surprising. If I have my laptop hooked up to speakers at a party playing through Rdio
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by ddt 13y ago
It tells the sender if you screenshot. It's not enough to prevent it from happening, but it adds a pretty big social incentive not to do so.
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by ddt 13y ago
I don't doubt that they're smart and nice. I'd be shocked if they didn't want to do right by their customers. It seems like they have a pretty good track record of being good to their sellers and buyers. My friends who sell on Etsy have not
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Cloudant raises $12 from Rackspace, Devonshire, others(gigaom.com)
4 points by ddt 13y ago|1 comments
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by ddt 14y ago
I think anyone who doesn't provide programmatic access to their analytics app is going to fall by the way-side so quickly there wouldn't be much demand for them to be integrated into Segment.io. I'd be interested to see an example of an ana
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Sports Hack Day in Seattle(tito.io)
9 points by ddt 14y ago|0 comments
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by ddt 14y ago
I use Zapier to send me text message digests of certain kinds of tweets. For something so easy to use, it's incredibly powerful.
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by ddt 14y ago
My team of four got into YC with not a college degree between us. Two of us had most recently gone to community college, one of us dropped out of the University of Washington, and one of our teammates had just done six months at USC. Grante
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by ddt 14y ago
The moment Zynga decided they were going to make their money as a me-too game studio, they sealed their fate. You can get people in the Skinner Box for awhile, and get them to peck you millions upon millions of dollars, but eventually your
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by ddt 14y ago
It's mostly just the master-bath, too. The house I'm currently renting has a master bath and walk-in closet that a person could comfortably live in, while the other bathrooms barely have enough room to stand in.
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by ddt 14y ago
Every time I've talked to them they describe themselves as Torontonians.

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