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Linked[×] via that article is a similar story of obtaining access to the official scan of Rodin's Thinker. It's an interesting tale told in the form of email and official letters..…

Python isn't that strict about whitespace? It's just using indents to delineate blocks and newlines implicitly terminate statements (unless you have an unclosed brace). Anywhere el…

As a shareholder, what's the difference between 50 years and forever, anyway? Are you locked into the shares to the point where you're not even allowed to sell them? If not, what's…

N=9? For that second chart, remove the best performer as an outlier and it falls apart. This reads more as "Softbank is poor at making good choices" than anything concrete.

One of the posts down the page references "The Great Weibo Unblocking of late-January 2012", and many of the posts show separate block statuses from November and February.

No mention of the two Entrepreneurship classes? Were they not there originally? Technology Entrepreneurship: http://www.startup-class.org/ Learn Launchpad: http://www.launchpad-cla…

We'll have to see what happens to the evaluation systems once the term ends, but at the very least you can sign up for all the classes and download the videos. More importantly, fo…

> Massive Preferences List - Looking at that screenshot, the list doesn't seem massive. I seem to recall Firefox (or maybe Opera, this was a while back) having a large grid of opti…

So, coal is the car, and nuclear power is the airplane.

But that is how we experience them - though perhaps not with electrical signals, but chemical ones instead. e.g. dopamine. We're programmed to enjoy dopamine.

I assumed that all those garbled messages were from typing on an iPhone. One particular error reeked of autocorrect. If you've seen the things people post on Damnyouautocorrect... …

Try going at it through google. http://www.google.ca/search?q=I+make+getting+fired+look+good... ) Hm, not sure how to include that ) in the URL, but the shorted search term works a…

"How is that" clearly refers to Bing's response. I'll admit that I interpreted your post "I think this response is convincing" as referring to lysium's response to your post. It ma…

I run into that quite a bit. It generally happens when you sit on a page for a long time - somewhere between half an hour and an hour, I'd guess. How should this to be fixed (if it…

I'm annoyed that I didn't even know about UBB until earlier today, when I stumbled across Reddit Montreal and saw something about the organization of a protest. Then again I'm gett…

Amazon responds. Buy directly from Amazon.com and receive a 30% credit towards your next Amazon purchase!

As a (windows) mouse user, having the tab tear off and sit right where I expect it to, directly underneath the cursor where I point it to, is desired behaviour.

I think the article intended 'secular zealotry' to mean something more like 'nonreligious zealotry' - the zealots are secular, not that the zealots are zealous about secularism. Th…

Can't drop something you didn't have in the first place. As many have argued, it's disingenuous to treat Flash and the H.264 as being equal in this argument. One of these would be …

Tried this last year, couldn't get through to the site until it was all over. Or rather, couldn't get through the purchase part until it was all over.

Why is anything wrong? Perhaps the simplest form of morality is that of the Golden Rule. Thus, how would you feel if you were stolen from? If something of yours went missing? It mi…

First define unpredictable. From your comment below, it seems to me you're saying that deterministic != predictable. Also, the halting theorem may apply.

It doesn't seem like this is really an AI vs. Humans issue. Rather, it's saying, regardless if you have some optimal algorithm X for a class of "Full Employment" problems, it is al…

I know that Quebec, for one, is horrible for contests/competitions. Something to do with having to give the province 10% of the value of the contest prizes.

Google Translate is definitely far from perfect. I once saw this forum post that was in German, that Google translated "A: Nyet." to "A: Yes." Since it was a question and answer po…