memetichazard

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by memetichazard 7y ago
Linked[×] via that article is a similar story of obtaining access to the official scan of Rodin's Thinker. It's an interesting tale told in the form of email and official letters... [×] https://cosmowenman.files.wordpre
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by memetichazard 7y ago
Python isn't that strict about whitespace? It's just using indents to delineate blocks and newlines implicitly terminate statements (unless you have an unclosed brace). Anywhere else, you can add as much whitespace as you want.
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by memetichazard 7y ago
As a shareholder, what's the difference between 50 years and forever, anyway? Are you locked into the shares to the point where you're not even allowed to sell them? If not, what's the likelihood anyway that you would have ke
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by memetichazard 7y ago
N=9? For that second chart, remove the best performer as an outlier and it falls apart. This reads more as "Softbank is poor at making good choices" than anything concrete.
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by memetichazard 15y ago
One of the posts down the page references "The Great Weibo Unblocking of late-January 2012", and many of the posts show separate block statuses from November and February.
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by memetichazard 15y ago
No mention of the two Entrepreneurship classes? Were they not there originally? Technology Entrepreneurship: http://www.startup-class.org/ Learn Launchpad: http://www.launchpad-class.org/ -------------------- So what are these courses?
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by memetichazard 15y ago
We'll have to see what happens to the evaluation systems once the term ends, but at the very least you can sign up for all the classes and download the videos. More importantly, for evaluation purposes, the quizzes and exercises can be subm
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by memetichazard 15y ago
> Massive Preferences List - Looking at that screenshot, the list doesn't seem massive. I seem to recall Firefox (or maybe Opera, this was a while back) having a large grid of options that was several pages long. > Other Bookmarks -
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by memetichazard 16y ago
So, coal is the car, and nuclear power is the airplane.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
But that is how we experience them - though perhaps not with electrical signals, but chemical ones instead. e.g. dopamine. We're programmed to enjoy dopamine.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I assumed that all those garbled messages were from typing on an iPhone. One particular error reeked of autocorrect. If you've seen the things people post on Damnyouautocorrect... Still no excuse for not writing professionally and at least
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Try going at it through google. http://www.google.ca/search?q=I+make+getting+fired+look+good... ) Hm, not sure how to include that ) in the URL, but the shorted search term works anyways.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
"How is that" clearly refers to Bing's response. I'll admit that I interpreted your post "I think this response is convincing" as referring to lysium's response to your post. It may have been clearer if you had written 'the response', or mo
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I run into that quite a bit. It generally happens when you sit on a page for a long time - somewhere between half an hour and an hour, I'd guess. How should this to be fixed (if it does)? 5 second timer on the 'Unknown/Expired Link' page th
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I'm annoyed that I didn't even know about UBB until earlier today, when I stumbled across Reddit Montreal and saw something about the organization of a protest. Then again I'm getting all my news from here and Slashdot these days - haven't
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Amazon responds. Buy directly from Amazon.com and receive a 30% credit towards your next Amazon purchase!
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by memetichazard 16y ago
As a (windows) mouse user, having the tab tear off and sit right where I expect it to, directly underneath the cursor where I point it to, is desired behaviour.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I think the article intended 'secular zealotry' to mean something more like 'nonreligious zealotry' - the zealots are secular, not that the zealots are zealous about secularism. This is intended to contrast against the religious zealots ref
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Can't drop something you didn't have in the first place. As many have argued, it's disingenuous to treat Flash and the H.264 as being equal in this argument. One of these would be implemented into the browser rather than a plugin. One of th
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Tried this last year, couldn't get through to the site until it was all over. Or rather, couldn't get through the purchase part until it was all over.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Why is anything wrong? Perhaps the simplest form of morality is that of the Golden Rule. Thus, how would you feel if you were stolen from? If something of yours went missing? It might be anything from a small little toy to a family heirloom
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by memetichazard 16y ago
First define unpredictable. From your comment below, it seems to me you're saying that deterministic != predictable. Also, the halting theorem may apply.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
It doesn't seem like this is really an AI vs. Humans issue. Rather, it's saying, regardless if you have some optimal algorithm X for a class of "Full Employment" problems, it is always possible to have an algorithm that performs better for
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I know that Quebec, for one, is horrible for contests/competitions. Something to do with having to give the province 10% of the value of the contest prizes.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Google Translate is definitely far from perfect. I once saw this forum post that was in German, that Google translated "A: Nyet." to "A: Yes." Since it was a question and answer post regarding information for an upcoming game, there was qui
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Wouldn't life favor the flipped version because it has no natural predators? Consider it an invasive species [1], something there are many examples of and usually a serious problem. While life may favour existing right-handed life over deve
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by memetichazard 16y ago
See the effect of a downvoting cabal on Digg here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1579444 Upvoting a story keeps it on the front page longer. Downvoting a story makes it disappear before people can see it.
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by memetichazard 16y ago
When was the last time a petition actually achieved anything?
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by memetichazard 16y ago
I read http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2010/11/five-sho... today. GetSatisfaction and other major sites are using 'nofollow' (see the wikipedia article) and therefore should not be contributing to increasing the pagerank of t
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by memetichazard 16y ago
Actually the initial reception of MoR from what I was was that it was a crackfic/humor piece. The first few chapters are, after all, hilarious. And people expected more of the same. There was quite a bit of confusion later on when it became

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