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How is that ironic?

I've heard from a person that they like purposefully slam the door (not pull the handle down and close it silently) in order to alert other people that someone walked in/out. Is that not abnormal?

You could also just find a book that tells you another way of getting out, no?

Thanks! Does that mean that you're only able to work in a very specific environment?

I'm considering ordering a new laptop, and am very sad to think that i won't be able to use its laptop/portable functionality, since more than 30 mins without a special keyboard results in pain.

Thanks. Does this not feel like a "band-aid"? Do you notice your pain getting progressively worse with time?

Suggested reading: "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Le Guin. It's a short read.

> The fact that they would have no choice if they were subject to China's jurisdiction.

Wouldn't the reverse be true in the US? Assume that actually supported China's radical opinions, while being subject to US jurisdiction - wouldn't they be forced out of business? Isn't that what's going on now?

> You can't choose to do something you're being forced to do, therefore if you do it, it wasn't your choice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_cases

How is this different to - making a note for every idea in an article - putting a hashtag of the article name and the idea name in the note ?

Has anyone had any experience trying to prove the authenticity of a signature? I remember reading somewhere that there are only three universities in the world, that have a department specializing in detecting signature forgery.

Also, am I correct in the assumption that U.S. doesn't have access to non-dubbed versions of foreign series?

I meant streaming platforms, where the cost of providing original voice over is close to zero, compared to the benefit of learning a new language.

Right, ok. So, SouthPark's parent company has to pay for being able to stream the original, English version on their website? (just clarifying what distribution rights means in this case) Is there any way to justify such practice, from a utilitarian perspective of a net-benefit for society?

The question is about removing the option to watch it in the original.

How good a job did Justin Timberlake do in portraying Sean Parker?

Proofread the title. Pay attention to articles...

> Kare also developed the icons, such as the trash can for discarding files, that helped define graphical interfaces. She and Jobs hit it off because they shared an instinct for simplicity along with a desire to make the Mac whimsical. “He usually came in at the end of every day,” she said. “He’d always want to know what was new, and he’s always had good taste and a good sense for visual details.” Sometimes he came in on Sunday morning, so Kare made it a point to be there working. Every now and then, she would run into a problem. He rejected one of her renderings of a rabbit, an icon for speeding up the mouse-click rate, saying that the furry creature looked “too gay.”

This is my reasoning about blockchain. It was the first time I realised that just because I'm disposed to understand something better than the average person, doesn't mean I have to. Even if that something will be part of everyday life for every person. Society will just take care of packaging it into a familiar interface, e.g. credit card.

I then however realised that it would be a shame to let my advantage go to waste. So I use this:

> a lot of the monetary rewards

to partially motivate myself.

This was used as an example to question artistic intentionality in aesthetics, in Crash Course Philosophy: https://youtu.be/gDL4Zf2yEa4?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtNgK6MZucdYldNk...

Does anyone know the reason for Chrome not supporting plugins on mobile devices?

I love how accurate the proposals for missing samples is.

I wonder what this will do to the strong ties between SAP and Microsoft.

>we see 'new evidence' stories almost every day that flush whatever last week's 'wisdom' was.

I guess the process you are talking about involves creating a new model which is able to account for the causal relationship for a larger set of observations, compared to the previous model. In this way, the previous model can be either flushed, or if the conditions under which it fails are known, we can use it for specific cases. Isn't physics prone to the same effect, only to a lesser frequency? Which might be worrisome, because if the opportunity to revise a model comes every 100 years, that might mean that you'll spend your whole life interpreting the world through an inferior model.

> They had done the chemical reaction that blew up the lab 175 times before without incident; then, suddenly, something went wrong and the lab went boom and real, actual people died.

I really wish the author would expand more on this. Maybe due to my shallow knowledge of statistics, I've recently become baffled by the fact that an arbitrary number is used as a confidence interval, to state that something is true or false. And I'd guess most of today's world depends on these confidence intervals. Why is it that we're OK with stating that something is true, if it's true 95% of the time? Or is it the case of good enough, it it ain't broke, don't fix it (until it isn't)?

Ah, still remember the school nights spent on getting Win95 to run on my Nokia 5800. After finally getting it to run, I, of course, realized that it had no practical value to me. Luckily, my friend was a HOMM2 fan, so that DOSBOX install found it's use. I only wish we payed more attention to French class...

Could anyone explain how this, if at all, relates to the Yerkes–Dodson inverted-U[1]?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes%E2%80%93Dodson_law

>A criticism VARs face is that they are atheoretical. They are not built on some economic theory that imposes a theoretical structure to the equations. Every variable is assumed to influence every other variable in the system, which makes direct interpretation of the estimated coefficients very difficult.

This is maybe me needing a refresher, but in what way does this make interpretation of the coefficients difficult?

I'd much rather side with Sims on this: Sims advocated VAR models as providing a theory-free method to estimate economic relationships, thus being an alternative to the "incredible identification restrictions" in structural models. [1]

I was also expecting a bit more material on Granger causality, as I remember using that as the final nail in testing predictive validity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_autoregression#Applicat...

> "Having the serifs on makes things more difficult to read, there's more for the eye to take on," says Steel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif#Readability_and_legibili...

> Serifed fonts are widely used for body text because they are considered easier to read than sans-serif fonts in print. However, scientific study on this topic has been inconclusive.

From a TechCrunch article: "It is true that, as Jonathan Libov has observed, “developer interest in messaging/bots has far, far outpaced consumer interest thus far”."

What are your experiences using RN with Angular? It's interesting to see that the Angular team are in some way endorsing RN.

While I'd agree with this phrase, when it's taken out of context, the analogy the author is making is a horrible one. Skipping past the fact that it completely diminishes the near infinite complexity of the human brain, the clear problem is the ease of root cause determination for both situations.

A analogy which would make more sense, albeit still horrible would be: you feel pain in your arm, and decide to wait, until it gets so unbearable, that you see the doctor. The doctor asks you to try and think what could be the cause, and after some time and much thinking, you finally remember that you broke your arm that one time in the 3rd grade, but didn't go to the doctor, because it healed up itself.

Hence, you have a improperly resolved (cured) childhood trauma, that manifested itself after many years, without my immediate recollection of the root cause. In this case, I would only go to the doctor with the symptom. And, while there is one primary root cause, I'd need some pain relief to at least start thinking straight.