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by winstonsmith 4y ago
It gave me the punchline "We'll be back after a word from our sponsors."
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by winstonsmith 4y ago
My frustration is that you can't pass foo as an argument to another function.
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by winstonsmith 4y ago
>[In Ruby] There is good support for functional programming with first-class functions, anonymous functions, and closures. This seems like a blatantly false claim to me since as a Python programmer forced to use Ruby for Sketchup, I have
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What Happens When You Take 550 Doses of LSD at Once(vice.com)
5 points by winstonsmith 5y ago|5 comments
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by winstonsmith 5y ago
The article seems to be based on an 1850 report initiated by Patrick Brontë. It's available online: https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/sanitary-report-on-hawort...
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Can’t Find an N95 Mask? This Company Has 30M That It Can’t Sell(nytimes.com)
90 points by winstonsmith 6y ago|102 comments
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Predicting United States Policy Outcomes with Random Forests(ineteconomics.org)
2 points by winstonsmith 6y ago|0 comments
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There Are Many Ways to Map Election Results. We’ve Tried Most of Them. (2016)(nytimes.com)
2 points by winstonsmith 7y ago|0 comments
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by winstonsmith 8y ago
My experience has been very positive. I recently noticed that Firefox had become slightly slow to recover my session at start-up. I investigated and found I had over 1800 tabs open. With a few hundred tabs open start-up is amazingly f
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by winstonsmith 8y ago
The Ashton Manual is good resource, but the state of the art taper method as far as I know is the liquid titration (via suspension, not solution) micro-taper. See, e.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=benzobuddies+micro+tap
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U.S. Secretly Negotiated with Russians to Buy Stolen NSA Documents(theintercept.com)
3 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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Opinion: Valuation, liquidity price, and stability of cryptocurrencies(pnas.org)
1 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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by winstonsmith 9y ago
Oops. I have linked the original here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16239176 . Apparently I can't delete this post.
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Is the Marital Status of a 5 Year Old Child Important?(peds-mommydoc.blogspot.com)
2 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|1 comments
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Not just bad health IT, but spectacularly bad health IT(hcrenewal.blogspot.com)
4 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|2 comments
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Collective hallucination and inefficient markets: The Railway Mania of the 1840s [pdf](dtc.umn.edu)
93 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|18 comments
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Some Google Docs users are being locked out of their files (updated)(engadget.com)
2 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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How learning to share cakes could help stop unfair US elections(newscientist.com)
1 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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A partisan districting protocol with provably nonpartisan outcomes(arxiv.org)
2 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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by winstonsmith 9y ago
When the creation and representation of crappy products entails fraud or other crimes the result would actually include criminal prosecutions by the DOJ (in a world where the DOJ weren't captured by party A's industry). Tying the
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by winstonsmith 9y ago
I'll take a wild guess that he is alleging that Eric Holder's failure to prosecute any of the CEOs of the financial institutions that played a critical role in the financial crisis (by, e.g., making loans to people without incomes
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Category 5 Irma the 5th Strongest Atlantic Hurricane on Record(wunderground.com)
2 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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The mismeasure of ape social cognition(link.springer.com)
1 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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New Pneumonia in Chinese Hospitals Is Drug-Resistant, Deadly and Contagious(npr.org)
3 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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“Residual echo” of ancient humans in scans may hold clues to mental disorders(nih.gov)
2 points by winstonsmith 9y ago|0 comments
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by winstonsmith 9y ago
I really look forward to using this. It would be a great help to mobile users if uneeded options, e.g., 'header', could be made to disappear to save screen real estate.
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by winstonsmith 9y ago
Eg., AIG. The "magic" is that insurers can also be crooked, have CEOs with perverse incentives and effective immunity from prosecution, and be favored with bailouts.
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by winstonsmith 9y ago
> If the insurance is correctly priced then the banks that don't pass the cost of risk on to customers should be able to compete nicely against the ones that try to. This theory breaks down if you distinguish between banker and ba
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by winstonsmith 9y ago
> To show what we want, we must prove the stronger condition that F(n)φ - F(n+1) → 0. Noting that {F(n+1)/F(n)} is the sequence of convergents of the continued fraction expansion of φ, your stronger condition follows from Theorem 5
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Defending Uber's Growth Narrative Requires Ignoring Industry Economics(nakedcapitalism.com)
1 points by winstonsmith 10y ago|1 comments

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