seano

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by seano 18y ago
In your volume example, imperial units only divide cleanly for certain factors (e.g. 2 in your example), from certain starting points (e.g. two pints) and within certain ranges (keep dividing a cup by 2 and it stops dividing cleanly).
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by seano 18y ago
and http://etherpad.com/ljwzgV6xks
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by seano 18y ago
It's a huge market but how much they will be able to tap into it remains to be seen.
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by seano 18y ago
Maybe, but 15 years ago "just google it" would have sounded strange too.
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by seano 18y ago
The word is cheapskate not cheapstake.
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by seano 18y ago
They have the 40 minutes rule for reasons of efficiency, the policy is clearly stated so I don't see why you were upset - you should arrive earlier. As for the fog, not much Ryanair can do about that I'm afraid.
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by seano 18y ago
So this straw man driver swerves for unexpected road markings but not for unexpected cyclists? Not only is he drowsy but insane too?
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by seano 18y ago
Standing charge in the UK? Not sure where you get that idea - treatment with the National Health Service is free.
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by seano 18y ago
Why the hysteria? This is a useful tool in detecting and preventing serious crimes in the modern world. I think it's a good thing.
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by seano 18y ago
You can get a decent knife for $10 and I've honestly never had a knife put me in a fowl[sic] mood.
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by seano 18y ago
"This usually leads me down a path of questions that result in me having to teach myself something to build something to solve a particular problem which fulfills a need." - but better make a quick post to hacker news first.
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by seano 18y ago
Which makes more sense: owning one quality $100 knife for 30+ years, or going through 10 $20 knives over the course of 30 years? It depends. The $100 knife could become lost, stolen or damaged. Improved or cheaper knives, or even a new tech
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by seano 18y ago
"Or another example that I think speaks more directly to your post: you see a woman with a T-shirt reading "Proud Mother of Two" next to a girl who is obviously her daughter. What is the probability of her other child being a boy? Again, si
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by seano 18y ago
Think about it this way: I take two coins out of my pocket and hold them inside my hand so that neither of us has seen them. I show you the coin in my left hand and you see that it is tails, what are the odds of the coin in the other hand b
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by seano 18y ago
No, that is not it. With G'g and Gg' you are repeating the same permutation in your set above! It makes no difference if they have distinguishing marks or not. It matters if you are told that a particular child is a girl (50%) or if you are
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by seano 18y ago
Exactly - the difference is between "at least one is a girl" and pointing out a specific child as a girl.
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by seano 18y ago
The difference is that you have specified that the child picked up from the police station is a girl, thus only the sex of the other child is unknown. This other child is either a boy or a girl, presumably with a 50/50 chance either way, re
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by seano 18y ago
"Both of my kids are driving me crazy! Just yesterday I had to pick one of them up from the police station--I grounded her for a month!" - given just the information in your quote, the odds are 50% of a boy and a girl.
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by seano 18y ago
His point is that a person telling you they have one girl would be accepted as referring to a particular child. Thus, BG and GB merge and the odds are 50% of a boy and a girl.
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by seano 18y ago
"To the contrary, the warning labels backfired: they stimulated the nucleus accumbens, sometimes called the 'craving spot,' which lights up on f.M.R.I. whenever a person craves something" - maybe they were craving to be non-smokers.
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by seano 18y ago
Lampard and Gerrard paid £10,000 a week? They wouldn't get out of bed for that, closer to £150,000.
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by seano 18y ago
I see, it was really the non-smokers making bad decisions - they should have all stayed at home.
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by seano 18y ago
"the individual makes a poor decision which affects the individual" - except in the case of smoking where the poor decision also affects anyone else in the vicinity of the smoker, including those who have chosen not to smoke.
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by seano 18y ago
Lots of people do not live within walking distance of a supermarket.
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Build your own web server for $130(ddj.com)
17 points by seano 18y ago|2 comments
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by seano 18y ago
You could get the same knowledge from watching a video.
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by seano 18y ago
You can just get the API key for your domain name, http://panoye.com/ , and it will work for all directories in that domain.
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by seano 18y ago
I made a little site along these lines a while back but other stuff came up and I never got around to finishing it. I've just put it up here - http://www.yamooki.com - if you want to take a look. Never got around to adding a review featur
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by seano 18y ago
You can already do this through a CNAME.
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by seano 18y ago
I think they were a novelty item and not intended to actually be used.

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