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by raphman_ 10y ago
it's also quite stable. We never had an issue in ~ 2 years with ~ 20 users.
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by raphman_ 10y ago
A few years ago there was a discussion about making bike helmets mandatory in Germany. At least one scientist [1] did a cost-benefit analysis and argued against such a law. For example, while fewer people would die of head injuries, many mo
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Here is a nice explanation of the reasons for secrecy: https://www.quora.com/Why-are-trade-agreements-like-the-Tran... tl;dr: two reasons: if each minor step in the negotiations is made public, lobbyists and NGOs will const
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by raphman_ 10y ago
> I don’t recall the author now, but the gist of the argument made was that we’re too protective of our code - if you give someone responsibility, show that you trust them, more often than not, your intuition about people abusing their
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Source: https://replicationindex.wordpress.com/2016/04/18/is-replica...
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Thanks for the tip and the vouching - as schoen suggests, it seems like I need a little bit more karma for this.
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by raphman_ 10y ago
For those without `showdead` on: (@dang / @sctb: this seems to be a false positive) > XORcat 18 minutes ago [dead] [-] > In my lab, re-enabling did not kill the current connection, so it could be a very quick switch flick, login,
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by raphman_ 10y ago
The screenshot indicates that it is indeed a wrapper around Google Chrome's speech recognition capabilities.
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Hmm, I found it a rather distracting inside joke. I can happily live without reading Reddit memes in this forum.
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Funny, there does not seem to be a Null Island in Google Maps but a whole lot of subsea supermarkets in close proximity: https://www.google.de/maps/@0.0612621,0.4003209,12z
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by raphman_ 10y ago
This sounds promising. Is anyone already using Matrix as an event server/queue for interactive environments and/or sensor networks (similar to the Stanford Event Heap [1])? What is the minimum latency for Synapse/Ruma? [1] h
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Requesting exactly three reasons sounds quite trollish... A Leave vote would probably negatively affect many European research projects. The EU's framework programmes [1] are funding many collaborations and exchange programs. If the U
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by raphman_ 10y ago
While I would identify as Wikipedia inclusionist [1], I find this article quite problematic. It is (quite) impossible for a reader to verify any of the claims made in the article. Five years ago, someone (probably Ken Dakin) wrote this art
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Thanks for the insightful list. Bunnie Huang has been arguing for some time that the end of Moore's Law also means that Open Hardware and maintainable hardware in general might become more common: > "Also, as Moore’s law decel
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by raphman_ 10y ago
(apparently no longer)
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by raphman_ 10y ago
off-topic: gangadhargs, FYI, your comments are shown as [dead] (since about four years ago).
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Somehow related: https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-informati...
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by raphman_ 10y ago
FWIW, there's already https://github.com/gurgeh/selfspy which seems to offer the same features as your tool (and a little bit more).
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Hmm, the press release mentions that only " a single layer of electrophoretic fluid" (and also only a single backplane) is employed. Therefore, the mechanism must be a little bit different than the one described in the patent.
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Yes. I just wanted to clarify that code that "compiles to nothing", e.g., build instructions, may still be copyrightable. Therefore, I do not think that Page wanted to extend his definition of "non-code" to anything besi
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by raphman_ 10y ago
I'm not sure if this interpretation of his words is what he meant to say. I'd argue that code that "compiles to nothing" can be protected by copyright, too, even if it is not distributed to customers. E.g., extensive doc
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by raphman_ 10y ago
I agree with your general perspective. (I have publicly vowed to never act as a reviewer for Elsevier, for example.) However, ignoring the traditional role of publishers does not help our case. Regarding your individual points: - Peer revi
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by raphman_ 10y ago
Sure, there are other ways. Arxiv is certainly an option. However, someone still needs to develop and organize this (and pay for that). There is no free lunch - either you are paying a publisher for this service, or a university library to
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by raphman_ 10y ago
> What value does the publisher's work add to the work the author generated? - organizing peer review - spell-checking and fixing layout problems - making sure that the paper stays available for a long time - handling complaints and
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by raphman_ 10y ago
For reference, there's also autorandr [1] and x-on-resize [2]. [1] https://github.com/wertarbyte/autorandr [2] http://keithp.com/blogs/x-on-resize/
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by raphman_ 10y ago
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11493927
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by raphman_ 10y ago
This has nothing to do with the Schengen treaty. Schengen == "there are no passport controls at border crossings" Visa Waiver Program == "you do not need to apply for a visa in the destination country's embassy"
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by raphman_ 10y ago
> "In this trove there are administrative documents that could actually be brought to public knowledge, such as records of incorporation, shareholder registers or directors or creation of bank accounts. But there is especially a lo
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by raphman_ 11y ago
Indeed, there is no culture of replicability at CHI (and even less so at UIST). Reviewers usually reward novelty and cool PoC videos, not thoroughness. It is quite rare (especially for U.S. labs) to also publish source code, schematics, or
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by raphman_ 11y ago
Previous unmasking (without naming him) based on screenshots from his account: https://syrah.co/joshdickson40/5604e5e10fc1786b0152a51a

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