gmjoe

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by gmjoe 4y ago
Honestly, it's not a big problem. First of all, bloat has nothing to do with file size -- EPUB's are often around 2 MB, typeset PDF's are often 2-10 MB (depending on quantity of illustrations), and scanned PDF's are anyw
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by gmjoe 8y ago
This analysis doesn't demonstrate anything, unfortunately, except that ratings declined over time and that writers changed over time. Any factor could have caused the show's decline (like less time given for script writing, less
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by gmjoe 8y ago
This is just silly. News flash: software UX isn't perfect, and it never will be. When you have a phone that can do 10,000 different things limited to a screen a few inches wide, of course it's going to be harder to do some things
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by gmjoe 8y ago
I dunno... I find that on most sites which implement infinite scroll, I like it. Reddit lets me browse stuff without interruption, and it's not like I'm ever going to "go back" to somewhere earlier in the list... which h
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by gmjoe 8y ago
If you're treating that as their primary function, you're just throwing away money, tons of money. If you decide you want to work out and eat right, take responsibility for it and truly make the personal choice. Or buy a couple of
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by gmjoe 8y ago
But does density have to do with anything Kepler measures? Since it only measures how much light decreases, I assumed it's only measuring planet size, and that we're totally ignorant about planet mass and density?
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Sorryt that's what I meant, yes. The tip is in the price already. E.g. my coffee shop has $4 coffees when surrounding ones are $3. But no tip jar or tip buttons on the terminal.
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Is this a cultural thing? I was always taught there are 12 notes, while any standard scale contains only 7 of them. (The chromatic scale obviously being the exception which contains all 12.) Accidentals are just for notation -- obviously B-
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by gmjoe 8y ago
I think a lot of the frustration isn't from tipping... it's from tip creep . To many people, tipping feels like an unfair relic of the past that can be associated with negatives like racism (servers of color receiving less), pay
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by gmjoe 8y ago
How would the composition of a planet affect how much light it blocked of its star when passing in front? And signal to noise ratios are presumably quite easy to simulate. So not really sure what's so hard about it.
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by gmjoe 8y ago
At the very end, about a current implementation: > The free piston is magnetically coupled to the passenger modules above; this arrangement allows the power tube to be closed, avoiding leakage. The transportation unit operates above the
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Key paragraphs: > The food web appears to have been obliterated from the bottom. It’s credible that the authors link the cascade to arthropod loss, Schowalter said, because “you have all these different taxa showing the same trends — th
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by gmjoe 8y ago
What do millenials have to do with it? You think baby boomers don't use emoji too? Relax and have some fun. ;)
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Not sure I follow. If you're using 46.7/260 that's an 18% increase (not 10%), but that's all subscribers (including print), not just digital. So a yearly print subscription would go from $422.50 to $500 here in New Yor
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Good point. But since there's a paywall of 5 articles per month, while a subscriber presumably reads 100's per month (e.g. even just 5 articles a day = 150/month), it seems reasonable the majority of advertising revenue comes
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Some numbers for perspective [1]: Digital-only subscription revenue in 2017: $340 million Digital advertising revenue in 2017: $238 million Obviously some digital advertising is shown to print subscribers logging in too... but if we ignore
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by gmjoe 8y ago
That's exactly it. Nobody knows if it's impossible or not, but there's no way to find out unless experiments at least try, to whatever effort/cost we deem reasonable.
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by gmjoe 8y ago
By definition it's not baryonic, because we aren't detecting it and we would be detecting it if it were. "Dark" in this context means, in and of itself, non-baryonic. And please don't bring silly Star Wars reference
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Very true. It's not identity theft, it's financial fraud. It's not stealing music, it's copying music. It's not buying ebooks, it's leasing them. It's crazy how easily we (and journalists above all) accept
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Agreed 100%. Indeed, this is one of the best articles I've come across which covers several of the reasons we believe dark matter exists, as opposed to us just needing to modify the theory of gravity. For whatever reason, dark matter
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by gmjoe 8y ago
> prohibits passengers from using mobile phones to make voice calls during flight; Interesting... on 9/11 the voice calls from passengers to their loved ones are part of the history. Not like a law is going to stop you... but this
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Sorry but I find this page extremely off-putting... All these colored boxes following my cursor around makes it hard to figure out what I'm even supposed to do. And scroll doesn't work... I'm used to scrolling down to find ou
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by gmjoe 8y ago
You don't need to resort to crude sexual language or imply parent commenter's opinion isn't in good faith, rather than out of some blind corporate allegiance. You're supposed to be above this here on HN.
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by gmjoe 8y ago
> "If it doesn't hurt, it isn't a strategic decision." I can't help but feel that's a silly quote. There are plenty of strategic decisions that don't hurt (especially choosing between two future direc
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Online accounts (even free ones) increasingly seem like they should be viewed as property, that stealing an account like this should be considered theft, and that a company administering accounts (Sony in this case) should be held to a sta
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Isn't a notch necessary for a front-facing camera period, if your screen goes to the edges? The FaceID sensor array just coincidentally came out at the same time, no?
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by gmjoe 8y ago
The art world is mostly about building your reputation to increase the value of future works you make.
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by gmjoe 8y ago
Thank you... also I'm not sure people realize that you type the description of the transaction, it's not coming from a credit card or something, so you can be as specific/vague/nonsensical/misleading as you want..
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by gmjoe 13y ago
> Meanwhile, it is still socially acceptable for men to focus wholeheartedly on their career. Right, but so maybe the goal shouldn't be that women should be able to do the same... what if it could instead stop being socially acc
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by gmjoe 13y ago
Thanks, you're right. That is now #1 on my to-do list -- maybe just go straight to the artist page if there's an exact string match, or else try to suggest a list of closely-spelled artists? Any algorithms anyone can suggest for f

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