The Camel Has Two Humps was not successfully replicated. The authors presented http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf in 2008: "Two years ago we appeared to have discovered an exciting and enigmatic new…
> Eventually, one day, you're trying to board a plane and you get denied because you've been known to disseminate "false or misleading information". That's absurd. How do you picture Facebook achieving control over…
It's important to remember that the ads you're shown on Youtube videos are controlled by the channel owner, not by Google. Youtube itself doesn't have much control over how many ads you see.
Between them, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt hold a majority of Google shareholders' voting power (about 2/3 is what I usually hear). I won't link anything because I don't really know the authoritative source…
Sure, but recognizing a picture of one of your friends is a matter of searching O(100) people. Recognizing a picture of any Facebook user is a matter of searching O(100 million) people. It's a totally different problem,…
Objectively? That's a dangerous word; I hope you've got a better argument than this one. Hard drives are being rapidly replaced by SSDs, so their speed just jumped _way_ up (especially start-up and random access times,…
> We would never vote up a article where "father writes bedtime story for daughter, Sleeping Prince rescued by Princess". Because it is commonplace because literacy is commonplace, as are pens and paper commonplace…
> With a standard combination lock all I have to tell someone is the combination I don't think that's fair. The standard combination lock interface is well-known, not intuitive. "6-38-16" is brief, but it assumes…
Sure, but what indication is there that the comment is referring to her race?
> Calling her a monkey is unbearably and unquestionably racist How so?
A small bit of evidence to the contrary: http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee: 35,566 subscribers http://www.reddit.com/r/Wicked_edge: 26,612 subscribers
> I don't buy the taller buildings = more wealth, creativity and energy argument. If you haven't read The New Geography of Jobs, I highly recommend it. It gives an excellent explanation of why having a higher…
My bad. Fixed.
I knew about Google's Ads Preferences page (http://google.com/ads/preferences), which lists the interests Google has inferred for me. This article taught me about the BlueKai Registry (http://bluekai.com/registry/),…
More detail here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
Don't worry, I don't think there's any controversy there. Google is quite conservative, engineering-wise.
I think the fact that it's a positive review from MG Siegler means it's objective - since he's known to dislike Android devices. A negative review wouldn't necessarily be not objective, but a positive review must be…
If I'm a person who's willing to pay above face value for a ticket but didn't get in line fast enough, the scalpers provide tremendous value to me.
From the paper (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...), page 5-6: "Shalvi et al. (2011a) asked participants to roll a die under a paper cup with a small hole at the top allowing only them to…
In the paper in question (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...), it does. Chi-square test shows p<0.01 and p=0.02 for significance for the high and low time pressure groups, respectively.
Unfortunately, the paper (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...) doesn't say whether the lower mean for the people in the low time pressure group is because they lied less frequently, or…
What I've described is why, in my opinion, birth control methods that target opposite genders are still mutually comparable.
All right, I see what you mean. I'll explain why I think there is a best method. For a single person considering the question on their own, the best choice is limited to what's available to them. Since there are…
And I disagree with that. If it's the best at controlling birth, it's the best birth control. Since all sex acts involve two people, and I have a really hard time picturing a form of birth control which targets both…
I don't see how this title trivializes birth control. Good birth control comes from controlling birth. I don't believe any other method can claim 10+ years of effectiveness, with practically no side effects and high…
The Camel Has Two Humps was not successfully replicated. The authors presented http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf in 2008: "Two years ago we appeared to have discovered an exciting and enigmatic new…
> Eventually, one day, you're trying to board a plane and you get denied because you've been known to disseminate "false or misleading information". That's absurd. How do you picture Facebook achieving control over…
It's important to remember that the ads you're shown on Youtube videos are controlled by the channel owner, not by Google. Youtube itself doesn't have much control over how many ads you see.
Between them, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt hold a majority of Google shareholders' voting power (about 2/3 is what I usually hear). I won't link anything because I don't really know the authoritative source…
Sure, but recognizing a picture of one of your friends is a matter of searching O(100) people. Recognizing a picture of any Facebook user is a matter of searching O(100 million) people. It's a totally different problem,…
Objectively? That's a dangerous word; I hope you've got a better argument than this one. Hard drives are being rapidly replaced by SSDs, so their speed just jumped _way_ up (especially start-up and random access times,…
> We would never vote up a article where "father writes bedtime story for daughter, Sleeping Prince rescued by Princess". Because it is commonplace because literacy is commonplace, as are pens and paper commonplace…
> With a standard combination lock all I have to tell someone is the combination I don't think that's fair. The standard combination lock interface is well-known, not intuitive. "6-38-16" is brief, but it assumes…
Sure, but what indication is there that the comment is referring to her race?
> Calling her a monkey is unbearably and unquestionably racist How so?
A small bit of evidence to the contrary: http://www.reddit.com/r/coffee: 35,566 subscribers http://www.reddit.com/r/Wicked_edge: 26,612 subscribers
> I don't buy the taller buildings = more wealth, creativity and energy argument. If you haven't read The New Geography of Jobs, I highly recommend it. It gives an excellent explanation of why having a higher…
My bad. Fixed.
I knew about Google's Ads Preferences page (http://google.com/ads/preferences), which lists the interests Google has inferred for me. This article taught me about the BlueKai Registry (http://bluekai.com/registry/),…
More detail here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/CamelsandRubberDuckie...
Don't worry, I don't think there's any controversy there. Google is quite conservative, engineering-wise.
I think the fact that it's a positive review from MG Siegler means it's objective - since he's known to dislike Android devices. A negative review wouldn't necessarily be not objective, but a positive review must be…
If I'm a person who's willing to pay above face value for a ticket but didn't get in line fast enough, the scalpers provide tremendous value to me.
From the paper (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...), page 5-6: "Shalvi et al. (2011a) asked participants to roll a die under a paper cup with a small hole at the top allowing only them to…
In the paper in question (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...), it does. Chi-square test shows p<0.01 and p=0.02 for significance for the high and low time pressure groups, respectively.
Unfortunately, the paper (http://home.medewerker.uva.nl/s.shalvi/bestanden/Shalvi%20et...) doesn't say whether the lower mean for the people in the low time pressure group is because they lied less frequently, or…
What I've described is why, in my opinion, birth control methods that target opposite genders are still mutually comparable.
All right, I see what you mean. I'll explain why I think there is a best method. For a single person considering the question on their own, the best choice is limited to what's available to them. Since there are…
And I disagree with that. If it's the best at controlling birth, it's the best birth control. Since all sex acts involve two people, and I have a really hard time picturing a form of birth control which targets both…
I don't see how this title trivializes birth control. Good birth control comes from controlling birth. I don't believe any other method can claim 10+ years of effectiveness, with practically no side effects and high…