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On a related note, I had a very early account (probably one of the first 1000 on the site). Years later reddit said they lost some laptop with account info, and so they reset all t…

I was surprised to learn recently that there is a cheap and easy to take action that will reduce your exposure to air pollution while driving: Replace your passenger-compartment ai…

I was a little apprehensive, but decided to try this. I called my representative as well as both senators. In all cases (3:30pm on a thursday) I just got a voicemail. I left a shor…

Would you mind elaborating? I'd love to hear more.

Honest question: what if those self-driving cars have multiple people in them? With 4 people you quadruple the throughput, and this seems technically achievable with technology. Mi…

Some feedback -- this looks great! I'd love to have some kind of (la)tex support.

I sympathize, but do keep in mind that it would be very difficult to teach all the math at the same time. Imagine trying to run a course in French on analytic philosophy. If your s…

Just a reminder, I'm still eagerly awaiting this-- I check your site everyday! :)

Any way you could make this available outside the Mac App store? Apple seems to have decided I did something horrible and unforgivable by moving to a different country after creati…

To be a little optimistic, it does seem to me that the ESTA system (where an electronic check is done for visitors looking to use the visa waiver program before they travel) has gr…

To build on fny's answer, there is one school of statistics (Bayesian statistics) where there basically is a "right" way to do analysis for any problem, provided you make the neces…

I'm sure they would! But there's a pretty strong argument it's a step in the right direction. Actually, this link makes a more modest proposal that papers should report likelihoods…

For those who might not realize how amazing this is, take a look at how you can do these things manually: https://tminka.github.io/papers/matrix/minka-matrix.pdf

Could you give more details about how you combined these? I'm aware of both of these tools, but wasn't sure how they could be used together. At the moment I heavily use mosh which …

I believe that LLVM 6 has finally introduced this, e.g. see http://llvm.org/docs/Vectorizers.html#vectorization-of-funct...

Would you mind sharing which tablet you bought? I had the idea this still wasn't practical!

I think you're making the argument that with more guns, countries tend to have fewer gun deaths per gun. This makes sense, casually. However, I doubt that anyone cares about the nu…

The project cost £1.66m. With a total of 83 residents, that's about $25,000 per person. It would be interesting to compare this to the total investment needed for a typical non-ren…

Can anyone explain the logic behind having lots of small batteries, rather than the power company buying a Big Battery and offering this as a service? Two reasons occur to me: 1. S…

They prevent that by hosting it somewhere that no one can find it's associated with you. Not saying that's ethical, but it does prevent immediate harm to your brand, unless people …

Note that the machines have many tolerances that can be set to trade-off theft vs. annoyance of the customer. (E.g. the product weight when placed in the bagging area.) The machine…

It's a massive book, but it really is very entertaining as well. Give the first chapter a go, and if you're totally sucked in and laughing, you might be just glad that the book is …