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Seduction 101 for Logicians and Economists
John Allen Paulos over at abcnews.com: Suppose a man flirts with a woman and then asks her, “Will you solemnly promise to give me right now your telephone number if I make a true statement and, conversely, not give me your number if I make a false statement?” Maybe he can soften the statement a […]
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Why Publishers Don’t See Google As A Friend
The raging battle between publishers–particularly the newspapers–and Google has been so overplayed lately that I’m tempted to stop blogging about it until something actually happens beyond the war of words. Still, I recently read two paragraphs, in my view, neatly summarize the terms of conflict, and I felt compelled to share them. The first is […]
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class theory is dead: season 6, episode 4
The January AJS has an article called “Microclass Mobility: Social Reproduction in Four Countries” by Jonsson, Grusky, DiCarlo, Pollak and Brinton. I call it “Buffy stakes another undead servant of Marx.” Allow me to explain… If you aren’t familiar with recent debates in stratification research, a key issue is whether there really is such a […]
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Humans evolved as long-distance runners
Maywa Montenegro in Seed Magazine: Ann Trason, Scott Jurek, Matt Carpenter. These are the megastars of ultra-distance running, athletes who pound out not just marathons, but dozens of them back-to-back, over Rocky Mountain passes and across the scorching floor of Death Valley. If their names are unfamiliar, it’s probably because this type of extreme running […]
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Brzo čitanje je bullshit
Čini se da brzo čitanje uopće ne funkcionira. To je kao neka tehnika koncentriranja, a ne brzog čitanja. Kvaliteta pročitanog je niska, može se koristiti samo za beletristiku, odnosno za lijepu književnost koju ne bi smjeli čitati na preskoke nego bi trebali uživati u njoj, a ne služi za znanstvenu literaturu koju bi bilo OK […]
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QWebElement sees the light, do I hear a booyakasha!?
One of the main missing parts of QtWebKit so far has been a proper way to inspect and manipulate the document structure. In JavaScript this is provided by the Document Object Model (DOM) bindings — giving you methods like getElementById(), createElement(), and insertBefore(). These methods were also accessible in Qt 4.4 and 4.5 though QWebFrame::evaluateJavaScript(), […]