yakiv

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by yakiv 13y ago
> some futuristic chip implant in your head to prevent you from committing it Just curious, are you thinking of The Alliance ?
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by yakiv 13y ago
> Never blame on malice what can be blamed on incompetence. So, does the early bird get the worm or do good things come to those who wait? We're maybe too inclined to just assert these sorts of things as fact. (This includes me.)
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by yakiv 13y ago
Would every drawing have to loop? Pi doesn't. I personally don't actually know if there's something about this specifically that would force every drawing to loop, though.
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by yakiv 13y ago
Or you could consider both.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Even if you can't measure someone's creative thinking ability very well, that doesn't mean that it can't improve with practice.
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by yakiv 14y ago
I think strait is right. "Elite achiever" only (directly, anyway) has to do with performance, not intelligence.
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by yakiv 14y ago
I was hoping that the neutrinos were actually going faster than light. Confirming established theories is boring, but breaking them is exciting.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Do you know any specifics of how the standard model breaks down at high enough energies?
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by yakiv 14y ago
This (probably) won't discuss the technical problem, but http://www.bitcoinity.org/markets will let you track Bitcoin prices.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Bitcoin seems to be picking up again. From Mt. Gox: > Last price:$45.00000 > High:$48.46900 > Low:$36.65000 Edit: It could go back down a lot. We'll see what happens.
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by yakiv 14y ago
I'm no expert on bitcoin, but I've read that you can have as many addresses as you want. You could generate a new address for each time you order through bitspend and never give them your "main" address. Overall it may or may not be a bette
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by yakiv 14y ago
Can't be. Has to say "0" sometimes.
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by yakiv 14y ago
This is just speculation. California has this: > California’s Master Plan for higher education, adopted in > 1960, guarantees a place in college for every state > resident who can benefit. The historic blueprint pr
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by yakiv 14y ago
> I thought it was basic enough to be studied at about that age in the rest of the world. Where do you think GP went to school? Neither the post nor the profile indicates a location. Edit: I should say that I don't know for sure that yo
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by yakiv 14y ago
Does anyone here know why the Einstein cross has 4 of the repeated image instead of being a continuous repetition around the lens object? It seems to me like you should see the magnified image as a sort of circle instead of having a finite
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by yakiv 14y ago
Or to not give an individual power in the first place.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Actually, if you're curious, there's matter that isn't made of atoms, such as neutrinos.
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White House Petition: Eliminate price floors on agricultural products.(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
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by yakiv 14y ago
> Human beings are irrational and sometimes do things that > aren't in their economic best interest out of principle > or ethics. Humans might be irrational sometimes, but this isn't one of those times. "Ration
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by yakiv 14y ago
I use Ruby some, but I'm not sure I'd describe it as clean exactly. I've used Python a bit recently and was struck by just how clean it seemed. (I'm not sure Python has anything that quite replaces blocks, though. I don't claim Python's all
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by yakiv 14y ago
How about Sugar? ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_%28desktop_environment%29 )
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by yakiv 14y ago
It's like Facebook.
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by yakiv 14y ago
(I'm an American.) I'd be interested to hear what dangers Americans seem to be oblivious of.
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by yakiv 14y ago
I don't know if we've gotten there yet, but Fizz Buzz specifically may not always be an effective weeding-out tool: once enough people have heard of it, they may prepare specifically for it. Perhaps a better approach would be to come up wit
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by yakiv 14y ago
"How dare you digitize books from the library of Alexandria. That's theft!" No idea what I'm trying to say here, by the way.
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by yakiv 14y ago
Genuine question here: when are multimethods useful in practice?
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by yakiv 14y ago
Why does it matter here if the tax-exempt organization is religious or not? Pretty much every tax-exempt organization is going to have an agenda---if it didn't, it probably wouldn't exist. Why are religion-based agendas less tolerable here?
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by yakiv 14y ago
What's the difference between a smart phone and a laptop? A smart phone can go with you everywhere to a greater extent than a laptop can. I think that glass would push that farther.
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by yakiv 14y ago
I'm going to make an utterly irrelevant comment here, but I think that in general it's better to not use "former" and "latter" like this---it often forces the reader to look back earlier in the text if they want to figure out what you're sa
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by yakiv 14y ago
From dictionary.com: flammable: "easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable." inflammable: "capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable." [Standard boilerplate about dictionaries being imperfect reflections of what words actually

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