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by hs 13y ago
i did something like it 6-7 years ago with friendster when it got 'who looked at me' new feature then. i scrapped million ids of teenagers to below-age-30 women. my friend list went from below hundred to full 3000 (the max at the
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by hs 15y ago
ember -- flame that burns bugs
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by hs 15y ago
there is trend in the 'key cause of cancer' down in the article, throat and colon cancer follow power distribution, while breat cancer kinda follows uniform dist for breast cancer: the highest offender = obesity is 8.7%, only a multiple of
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by hs 15y ago
i find it interesting that 'meat' is not written (thus not searchable) in the main article (it's down there in 'key causes of cancer' as icon) FTA (scroll down): Colorectal / Bowel : meat 21.1%, obesity 13%, lack-of-fibre 12.2% it's not sur
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by hs 15y ago
what happens when luxury becomes comodity?
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by hs 15y ago
i'm actually switching to archlinux after using mint for a year or so
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by hs 15y ago
or what if there exist many goods with same unique barcode, scattered around the world. this requires a mean to identify where the unique good is (if it exists at all). would rfid fix this? hmmm shrug
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by hs 15y ago
for you who don't have flash and don't feel like clicking to download, you can download an xml format file from http://metated.petarmaric.com/metalinks/TED-talks-grouped-by... then we can script to extract the xml file get the ted videos
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by hs 15y ago
Can OpenBSD use Android USB tether? (I use Android Wifi Tether but my milestone battery runs too hot)
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by hs 17y ago
of the three countries that have highest (and surprisingly parallel) slope: japan, south kore, mexico ... it suggests that #visit correlates with LE ... and health coverage is unimportant but there are countries that have less #visit but mo
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by hs 17y ago
the graph gives an important ratio that's hard to capture in scatter plot age/cost (the slope) also, how do you identify your datapoints in scatter-plot neatly? to me this graph gives surprisingly rich information packed
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by hs 17y ago
it's because the y axis is linear ... i don't sense any overdoing
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by hs 17y ago
i always ask myself, "would woz (or any other heroes) better off using these luxuries 'back then' when he first did apple ?"
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by hs 17y ago
i wrote about masturbation back in high school. i got 4/10 mark with a big red X across the page corners :D
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by hs 17y ago
your china emperor story only suggests that the parent post's averaging scoring scheme consist of reviewers who dream about a 'test-taker' and then give a score (repeat as many as test takers there is) ... if they have access to takers' ans
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by hs 17y ago
using chickenfoot in firefox: //begin include('~/jquery/jquery.js'); b=new Button('hide comment heads', function() { $('.comhead').hide(); }); insert(after('add comment button'), b)); //end click the new button injected to hide comments.
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by hs 17y ago
these great doers who shape the world don't seem to like unit testing. i'll follow them, at least because they are smarter than those bloggers.
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by hs 17y ago
0) no test is perfect
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by hs 17y ago
car insurance doesn't automagically make you accident-proof. driving defensively is a better approach -- you probably will never need insurance. that's why insurance companies give discounts to those who took defensive-driving course.
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by hs 17y ago
i'm delighted to see that solidworks (cheap) was used while other unis were still using pro-e/i-deas/catias (expensive) maybe it's a stretch to say that schools which use cheaper, alternative resource tend to be of better quality compared t
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by hs 17y ago
activating from preferences doesn't always work, i ended up installing tightvncserver. eventually i'm frustrated with ubuntu (i needed to use bluetooth) and goes back to openbsd. but maybe the article is intended for enabling remote deskto
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by hs 17y ago
no have you read the china study yet? if you haven't, please restrain from commenting, thx
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by hs 17y ago
i'm more impressed with how much conflicting misinformations floating around while seemingly scientific claims like x improves y are abundant. sadly we don't often see the %quantitative improvements and fall into "every little bit helps" t
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by hs 17y ago
no discussion about cancer is complete without mentioning "the china study" by Collin Campbell conclusion? eat whole food, plant-based diet and we don't need labels like vegetarian/vegan. why? because eating fried fries, potatoe chips, smo
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by hs 17y ago
i used math notations <for intro> when i applied to grad school something like ... there exist <my-name> such that bla <insert math mumbo-jumbo describing me as a unique subset of engineers> result? i got in and stud
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by hs 17y ago
what's refreshing is that each OpenBSD release has its own theme, song and artworks it seems they really are having fun !!!
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by hs 17y ago
"A perfect 800 on GRE math is just 87th percentile." percentile of what? of general population or of those who took GRE? i assume the latter is much more accurate, a perfect 800 on GRE math equals to 87th percentile only means that test is
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by hs 17y ago
it's affected by dietary factor: cancers are caused by animal-based protein such as meat, fish, milk, and egg cancers are not only preventable, but also reversible -- see ch3 turning off cancer, especially starting from the indian report on
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by hs 17y ago
when i ride a motorcycle, i rarely use turn sign ... i literally use my head to turn i don't even use the mirrors because turning my head eliminates blind spots car and bike riders here understand (and accustomed to) what it means when an o
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by hs 17y ago
another disadvantage for homeowner: in unstable countries, the new government that replace its old one will try to steal the land from owners if the new gov is democratic, it only honors those who can show certificate on ownership (even the

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