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adam-fn | 8 years ago | on: Poor Grades Tied to Class Times That Don’t Match Our Biological Clocks

Lewis Black [1] made this observation (with less diplomatic language) back in 2004:

    ... I flunked that course. It's not my fault.
    They taught it at 8 o'clock in the morning.
    And there is absolutely nothing that you can
    learn out of one bloodshot eye. After I flunked
    the first two tests, I grabbed the professor
    by the throat and I said, "Why are you
    teaching this **** at this ungodly hour?
    Are you *trying* to keep this stuff a secret?"

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0414224/quotes/qt0252382

adam-fn | 8 years ago | on: A Solution of the P versus NP Problem?

The Collatz conjecture ( https://xkcd.com/710/ ) may well be an example here.

adam-fn | 8 years ago | on: Lyft’s Radical Experiment in Charging for Free Parking

While I don't see the artist credited, there are strong similarities to the wonderful https://catandgirl.com/

(c.f. the vampire in the car, the tongue on the guy reading the book).

adam-fn | 8 years ago | on: Euro MPs back end-to-end encryption for all citizens

Do we need to have a discussion on so many of the media outlets, including ones which host pro-encryption / pro-user-privacy articles, either failing to provide SSL, providing SSL but the certificate is from their hosting provider or other affiliated company, or having it setup just to redirect users to their http endpoint with prejudice, as is the case here?

  $ curl -I https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40326544
  HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
  Content-Type: text/html
  Location: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-40326544

adam-fn | 8 years ago | on: Wells Fargo Is Accused of Making Improper Changes to Mortgages

I had a similar experience with discounted-if-paid-promptly hospital bill. I got a call saying, essentially "we didn't move the money around our internal systems in time and now we want the rest of the money".

Since I paid with a credit card I could make the case that I was charged before their deadline and they let it go.