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I'm pretty sure that this is to reduce the chance of bacterial growth on the warm raw meat (http://www.fsis.usda.gov/FactSheets/Big_Thaw/index.asp)
Is that actually true, or are you assuming that is true?

The comments on the post relate further evidence that was missing from the analysis the poster provides. Why? Because the poster made a judgement call that it wasn't relevant. That alone makes this just so much blathering... sorry.
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In pure monetary terms, probably not, unless you start your own hedge fund. But it'll let you work in areas that just a JD or MBA would not, and for a lot of people that's valuable. And you're not nearly as financially behind as if you'd gotten the straight Ph.D and played the tenure/academia game.
FYI - this format was popularized by Academy123 (a Los Angeles area startup that was acquired by Discovery Education).

They used Win32 software running on Tablet PC's and captured a teachers voice and handwriting in real time.

At their peak, they had about 400 teachers working from home creating thousands of 3-5 minute mini-videos each day.

See some examples here: http://www.nutshellmath.com/textbooks_glossary_demos/demos_l...
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I put my mail on the internet (in gmail) and I'd prefer it stayed private.
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Hmmm. There used to be a "David Mark" back in the day that trolled the Microsoft VB newsgroups when they were very active. Trolled hard. This guy's demeanor seems very similar.
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I think this post is on the money. You have to bear in mind that right now the "gatekeepers" you're referring to are mostly completely non-technical HR people who might as well be using an Ouija board for all their proclivity finding good programmers. One can argue the merits and demerits of judging someone based on their Stack Overflow participation, but it can't be worse than the current reality.
This doesn't make sense. For two reasons.

(a) It isn't zero-sum. Guede was convicted -- he is guilty, he did it. What we are determining is whether he acted alone.

(b) The priors are crap because they are weak, not because they are agreed upon. This is just a model, and it feels to me that the author is overfitting. The prior you mentioned as an example is so far away from the case at hand to be virtually useless.
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Pretty much every feature Facebook adds has encountered this reaction. I think that on average, the subsequent usage and adoption statistics do not support your claim that users don't want increased utility.

It is true that a few things have become less private, but on the whole, the privacy of things on Facebook is easier to control, finer-grained and clearer to people.
So, you're right in that Guede being guilty doesn't imply that Knox isn't. But, the evidence against him affects how the evidence against Knox has to be handled: for example, the lack of physical evidence against Knox becomes a big deal when Guede leaves tons of it. Re: priors being far away: a prior is the probability of an event occurring before any evidence has been observed. Priors are always necessarily that far removed; those are the correct priors.
Yeah. Not by extending it, but by changing some of the already available settings.
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Sorry, the ability to edit the headings disappears I think about 2 hours after submission. I posted this because it is an interesting relationship to explore (both the in the form EurekaAlerts has titled it and in the form of the study itself) though in re-reading it, I agree the title is inaccurate.
The requirement for reproducing the result is that the bucket containing the water be a good insulator. A wooden bucket works well, a metal bucket does not.

If you do that then the cooling mostly happens through evaporation. If you start with full buckets of water at different temperatures, at the point where the temperatures cross the bucket that started with hot water has less water in it and therefore is able to freeze faster after that point.
Lifestyle and environment definitely play into a "cycle of health." If you eat a huge burrito, your stomach will be kept so busy digesting it that you're not going to want to move around for hours afterward. If the air is smoggy, the weather unpleasant, or the streets pedestrian-unfriendly, going outside will be seen as a burden. If your feet and joints hurt when you run(which, as implicated in "Born to Run," is largely a product of our footwear) you will find it difficult to see pleasure in exercise. And so on.

So if you have trouble getting excited about exercise, try to change other lifestyle factors at the same time.

Edit: (This doesn't mean that exercise isn't helpful on its own, just that it may not be the easiest/best "health solution" to start with.)
I have never understood why google doesn't have a down vote button next to each link. If a domain gets too many down votes (from valid Gmail users) it is marked as spam. -- at the very least allow users to block the bad domain from coming up in their own personal future searches.

Any google search employees have an answer?

My only guess is that google seems to be anti crowd source and pro algorithm?
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Relaxation might not lead to happiness. Happiness can be a pretty subjective state of mind though I think what the underlying study is trying to get at is that having a more direct relationship between your time and the value you create can be more satisfying and therefore lead to happiness.

I think David Allen sort of explores this idea in GTD with the idea that people can be a lot happier with building widgets - a very direct relationship in terms of tasks, accomplishments, and satisfaction. More broadly this study (though I'd caution in reading excessively into it anyway as they open in the published paper by saying the effect isn't large) provides evidence for pay for performance.
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Edit: Leiningen works extremely well with Emacs swank-clojure adapter. All you do is "M-x swank-clojure-project" and point to your project that contains your Leiningen project.clj file and it automatically sets all the necessary classpaths for you based on your dependent libraries while bringing up a REPL session.
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I don't know. I'd seriously consider having a Thomas Jefferson instead of the last ten US presidents even armed only with the knowledge from his era.
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A lot of interesting articles/links never get voted up so I do try to spend some time on new submissions and vote.

I've given up trying to predict which of my links that I submit will get voted up (I just post links that I find interesting). I notice the types of subject matter that gets voted up can vary depending on the time of the day and weekend/weekday content so you might lose a lot if you just stuck to the front page for instance (though you do note sticking to the first few pages). That said, we all only have so many hours in a day.
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Don't you pretty much get this in the [comment] [promote] [delete] links after the cache link if you're logged in with a google account when you search?

(I haven't got time to go looking to see what the button class="w5" does, but I'll be good money Google records everytime you click one of those buttons)
$65B to go.. good luck with that.
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I see the problem as Google having reached a large enough scale for them to affect the web in the same way that you affect the price of a stock if your trade order is large enough.

When Google first wrote their search algorithm, they tailored it to the web in order to produce good results. Now we're in the opposite situation where everyone tailors the web to fit the algorithm. I believe this is a worse world. I would rather see site creators focus on creating the best experience for visitors to the site instead of trying to play the SEO game, either white or black hat.

In addition, it probably creates a feedback loop that stifles innovation in search algorithms. Google issues recommendations on how to do SEO, so sites follow those guidelines, which in turn leads to the web conforming to what Google's algorithm wants the web to look like.

A concrete example: Newspaper editors used to pride themselves on writing witty and clever headlines for their stories. But SEO guidelines dictate putting lots of search keywords in the headline and page title, leading to bland and boring headlines. Google could change their algorithm to accomodate the way headlines are written instead of the reverse.
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Nice description, from technomancy, who wrote bus-scheme, which accepts contributions, but only if you write them on the bus.

http://github.com/technomancy/bus-scheme

:)
Not quite. The author's point is that, at least according to released information and any unavoidable biases involved, the physical evidence strongly suggests Guede while hardly even slightly suggesting he had help.

More strongly the author is trying to argue that its an easy fallacy to get drawn into psychological motives because we're "great" at modeling other people's thoughts. In light of this implicitly perceived strength we tend to ignore the real likelihood of the evidences.

I don't know if it's something I agree about, however. I haven't personally reviewed the evidence and don't particularly put a lot of trust in any of the sources including the Less Wrong contributors.

See also: the experimental portion of this essay http://lesswrong.com/lw/1j7/the_amanda_knox_test_how_an_hour...
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The media has truely outdone itself is mis-reporting this case, and sadly this article - surprisingly for one focused on rational thought - is no exception. There is a body of hard evidence, including forensic, such as (but not an exhaustive list):

- 4 mixed DNA samples of the Knox and Kercher. Bloody footprints that match. Blood on the tap put Knox at the crime scene that evening or in the early morning.

- A bloody bra in the washing machine

- Attempts to frame an innocent man for the crime.

- Repeated lying to authorities regarding her whereabouts. Still no fixed alibi.

- Knox and Kercher's house was cleaned with bleach.

- Sollecito's trainers were cleaned with bleach. A defect in the sole match a blood print on the scene.

The decision went through going through 19 expert judges and 6 lay judges. Conviction was unanimous.

Certainly, we can ignore some of the strange behaviour of the convicted (the phone calls, the lies, her past). But the case is much stronger than what this article makes out.

This is an English translation of the judge's summary:

http://www.zimbio.com/Amanda+Knox/articles/58/Understanding+...

Other links:

http://truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/how_the_m...

http://www.truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/why_d...

http://truejustice.org/ee/index.php?/tjmk/comments/highlight...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article36...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/08/kercher-trial-kn...

edit: I left out a few other key points to the prosecutions case:

- Eye witness putting all 3 suspects together outside the cottage that night, and the night previous.

- Knox and Sollecito standing outside the crime scene when the police arrived with mop and bucket.

Rational thought takes anyone first to the conclusion that there was more than one killer. Guede left the scene soon after the murder (eye witness reports; evidence of cleaning, Guede's own statement). It is clear the crime scene was later returned to, and altered to cover evidence (faked break-in; footprints; removal of bra from the body). With all the additional evidence against Knox and Sollecito, physical and circumstantial, clear motive, and consitantly irrational behaviour, gives a very strong prosecution case.

This article touches on little of these facts.
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most of the widely known writers from China are no more ancient than the widely known writers from Greece, so "even further back," which I suppose you typed relying on the source you kindly linked to, is incorrect.

Actually, I was relying on early Taoist exercises for life extension predating comments on exercise I could find from Epictetus and other Greeks demonstrating their awareness of the beneficial effects of exercise. Whether or not Thales predates Confucius is irrelevant, unless either addressed the question of exercise (a quick Google search fails to uncover such a possibility).

Mention should also be made of India: yoga is estimated to go back at least 5000 years, though I have not the energy or interest to go digging for evidence that they realized the connection between exercise and life extension.
From a quick look, I can say that at least half the things listed on the article can be done on Windows Server through an intuitive GUI interface.

The simple fact that newbs and admins alike will never have to lookup the man pages for arcane commands to accomplish simple tasks like setting the timezone (dpkg-reconfigure tzdata) is a big difference in terms of usability.
It's awesome...except the new page tab is great too. There should be a way to combine them. Perhaps two columns?
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the other side of the coin is I can administer a server over a text based connection with linux, and I need a bandwidth heavy and low latency connection to do remote GUI admin for windows. Not that anyone would any more but you can fairly easily administer a unix server over a 56K modem still. Windows, not so much.
And once you get it, the console has a lot of expressive power that isn't as easy to reproduce graphically.
You could as well set your home page to a to-do list page (cookie-stored pwd protected.) I think under the hood, that is approximately what this add-on does.
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How exactly does the evidence against Guede affect the regarding of evidence against Knox? Assuming that everyone involved (if it was multiple parties) were equally involved equally competent and hiding their involvement and left equal evidence of their involvement is just that an "assumption". It's not necessarily true and is in fact highly unlikely to be true.

In the article actual physical evidence is dismissed because it's "small in quantity". The amount of blood is far less important than whose blood it is. You only need a little dna to prove contact. And you only need a little blood to prove prescence at the scene of an injury. It sounds to me like the jury was doing it's job and the article's author was just looking for a point to make.
Everything I've read by this guy is more or less the same bilious, angry screed. His monomaniacal obsession with John Resig is a little alarming.

Therefore, I'm sad to admit that, in this case, he almost has a point. The use of attr('height') to mean not the height attribute in the DOM but as an alias for height() smells wrong to me. However, it's clear that he has absolutely no intention of becoming a productive contributor to jQuery or helping in any way.

By contrast, let's take a minute to appreciate this Matt Kruse fellow. He has apparently strong objections to something in jQuery's design and is taking it to John Resig. He seems ready to engage in a real dialogue. The end result? He probably ends up a little happier and jQuery ends up a little better.

The real question is: how can we have more Matt Kruses and fewer David Marks in the world? Do the David Marks of world drive off the Matt Kruses? (I think they almost certainly do.) Why are there so many sociopathic personalities in circles such as this, and how do we mitigate the damage they cause?
More importantly, I couldn't care less whose problem it is. I paid $70/mo to T-Mobile for three lines on a family plan, in addition to three free (admittedly crappy) phones, and had a stellar reception everywhere. Now I pay $80/mo to AT&T/Apple for a single line, in addition to $250 cost for the phone, and I can't make a single call without problems in 90% of the places I go to. The important message is "shut up, stop pointing fingers, and fix it", not a guessing game about whose problem it is. It will only become interesting to me from a purely intellectual, technical perspective when they fix the problem. For now, I couldn't care less who's at fault.
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Ten years ago, I was a Windows Server admin and Win32 developer. Honestly, in the years I've spent with Linux since then, I can't imagine going back to that world.
> So politicians in the past were more informed because they had an easier time informing themselves.

"Easier" isn't enough - they had to have it easier than other people.

> Those capable of being more well-rounded may have found politics to be a better fit since it was still manageable at that time.

"may"?

How about some evidence (either way)?
In comparison to IE6, sure it does! In all honesty though, IE8 has many less issues than IE6 and even IE7.
Especially when you add in the fact that most distributions add in their own flair to configuration (like the location of config files). Unfortunately this is beginning to happen to Nginx as well, but for the most part the guides out there are agnostic and offer help for anyone looking to config nginx.
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Fair enough, I could see relative evidence being used as evidence. :-) I think that negates my first point, you are correct.

But I strongly disagree on your understanding of the impact of priors. There are several ways to look at it, all equivalent. The easiest is the single prior: Did she do it? None of us are psychic, so that isn't helpful, 'cause we cant estimate it at all. We have to break that down into some of its components.

In fact, your argument (which I totally agree with, BTW) is based on a very specific prior: that in cases with this kind of relative imbalance of evidence, there is a high prob that one party is guilty and the other isn't (or some such, I may not be stating it as specifically as I should be).

All the evidence presented has it's own implied priors, and the right combination of evidence has it's own prior, etc. These all need to be combined with weights based on other priors. Since noone can compute all of these priors in the space of one hour, that makes it all a judgment call, not a rational decision.

And this is where I think the post's pontificating gets it terribly wrong. There's nothing rational at all about the process, other than you're attempting to blindly apply the Bayesian formula.
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The other settings that became publicly available- I think it was a call they made, balancing what is good for the network and what is reasonable for the individual on a social networking site.

Who your friends are and what groups you are a member of is potentially consequential information. This was the fatal flaw in Livejournal's privacy system. Sure you could make your journal entries friends-only but your profile - your friends list, your interests, your groups and your profile pictures - were always public. If you were involved in anything that you maybe didn't want your current/future employer/cow-orkers (say) to know about, the ONLY safeguard was to keep your username a secret. Well on Facebook, you're supposed to use your real name...
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Apart from the minimalism I feel that the extension doubles up to hinder procrastination since the list is visible every time you fire up the browser or open a new tab.