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by schmittz 15y ago
My family's q7 has default cabin illumination when the headlights are on. It took me 2 months to notice that was the case. As long as the screen dims automatically when not in use, I think that most people won't mind, but I could be wrong.
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by schmittz 15y ago
While I think that anyone should be allowed to discriminate against anyone they want to in private forums (i.e. restaurants or businesses), laws prevent you from discriminating on the basis of sex although not appearance (with the exception
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Nerds and Male Privilege(doctornerdlove.com)
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Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement has Libraries(libraryjournal.com)
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by schmittz 15y ago
Yes, I apologize. I wasn't telling you off, I wanted to succinctly point out that there's more to the idea. To address your semi-rhetorical question, this model is easily adaptable to anything that you want to casually learn (excluding what
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by schmittz 15y ago
You're assuming the end game is programming.
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by schmittz 15y ago
That's an interesting concept. It would be helpful to see that other people are having the same issues in a given class. I wonder how successful an automated system would be based on key words. Something like a twitter stream for a live fee
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by schmittz 15y ago
A slight typo in the author's bit (which is fascinating), the Collatz sequence doesn't terminate in a series of 1's. By its definition, once 1 is reached, the series repeats {1,4,2,1,4....}. Thus, the number of steps required to reach 1 is
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New Speech Synthesis Could Make Roger Ebert Sound More Like Himself(scientificamerican.com)
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by schmittz 15y ago
For those interested, here's a list of the actual valued naming opportunities. Although, it doesn't include anything about naming spaces. (Scroll to the bottom) https://www.cmu.edu/campaign/about/endowment.html
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Top of Chinese wealthy's wish list? To leave China(news.yahoo.com)
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by schmittz 15y ago
People have a horrible misunderstanding of libertarianism. Libertarians believe people should be absolutely free to do what they want with their money. Libertarianism is not a fancy word for narcissistic hedonism. From a philosophical stand
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by schmittz 15y ago
I don't understand this at all. There's no direct bribing because of the ramifications, but there is a lot of post-office job offer and campaign contribution gamesmanship, as everyone recognizes. However, I'm not sure where you're drawing y
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by schmittz 15y ago
I'm not looking to debate this at all, but I'm not sure how program designed to prevent the insolvency of a major portion of US assets and the anti-competitive practices of one company are related or why you're singling out Republicans in b
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by schmittz 15y ago
I'll admit at the time I posted my comment, I wasn't particularly well versed in the history of computing. Thanks for the links, they are insightful.
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by schmittz 15y ago
Although, important to note that while Xerox invented GUIs, they were about to trash the project before Apple stepped in and nurtured it. Speculation about what would have happened if they didn't do this is mostly meaningless, but disregard
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by schmittz 15y ago
Naming Tim Cook as CEO makes a lot of sense. Obviously, it made the most sense to Jobs himself. People like to think that Apple's design alone is the only reason the company's grown so large. It's easy to forget that without the operational
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Rick Perry and Texas Job Numbers(politicalmathblog.com)
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Hollywood's First Digital Christmas to Cause Pain(hollywoodreporter.com)
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by schmittz 15y ago
Your point is murky. Usually investors are ahead of "the news." Some of the best examples of this are actually with Apple (go figure). The days after a major product launch the stock usually falls several percent. This can be attributed to
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LinkedIn Is Sending Us Far More Referral Traffic Than Twitter.com Now(techcrunch.com)
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by schmittz 15y ago
I completely disagree. A company can be frank and honest without revealing anything. Of course they needed to release a press statement in immediate response. The press release could have been written much better as to not sound so nonchala
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The UI Geniuses at Berg Rethink the Common Receipt(fastcodesign.com)
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Korean Store Uses QR-Enabled Virtual Stores in Subway Stations(wimp.com)
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by schmittz 15y ago
There is a not starving (though severely bankrupt) very small peninsula country on the atlantic that has not legalized, though "decriminalized" ALL drugs to measured success. That country is Portugal, which officially decriminalized all dru
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by schmittz 15y ago
Full PDF text of UBC study ("Happy Guys Finish Last: The Impact of Emotion Expressions on Sexual Attraction") here: http://ubc-emotionlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Happy-Gu...
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Happy Guys Finish Last Says New Study on Sexual Attractiveness(scienceblog.com)
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Why LinkedIn Wasn't Scammed(epicureandealmaker.blogspot.com)
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by schmittz 15y ago
It's weird that this article mentions the problem of graphene lacking a semiconducting form and then fails to mention carbon nanotubes at all. I don't do research in this area, so I'm unaware, but it seems that much more work is currently b
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by schmittz 15y ago
On a related note. Much of applied (primarily solid state) physics, materials science, and the engineerings are now designing new materials for use in many applications. Given the vast possibilities, limited funds, and recent development of

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