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by 3am 13y ago
But that has the feel of saying that Newton didn't invent calculus because of the work Archimedes did with infinitesimals. And in Turing's case it's without a Leibnitz-esque independent co-discoverer figure muddying the water. Turing is th
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by 3am 13y ago
Maybe I read it differently than you, but I read the article as spurred by someone that was habitually late for meetings. More generally, excuse making. Not any particular sleep cycle. When saying "If you make a commitment to another pers
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by 3am 13y ago
Just a quibble: I think Englishman Alan Turing deserves a lot of credit for inventing computing. The US has done a lot with innovating it. Otherwise a good rant. edit: credit also to Babbage and Lovelace (also English)
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by 3am 13y ago
Its rotation produces the magnetic field which keeps the solar wind from stripping away our atmosphere and leaving the Earth a dead planet like Mars. We're getting our money's worth.
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Hurricane Sandy Shook the Earth(news.sciencemag.org)
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by 3am 13y ago
BitPay doesn't coun't. The merchants are all accepting whatever currency BitPay converts into. I'll sell you my car for a sack of turds, assuming someone will exchange it for $15K and hand me the cash first.
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by 3am 13y ago
Thanks for the link to their response. I am going to try to refrain from further comment until I've look at the other papers they reference and beyond the summary of what's alleged. That being said, and paraphrasing Yglesias, that associat
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by 3am 13y ago
I wasn't casting aspersions on their previous credentials, but if anything that magnifies the seriousness of this situation. It looks a lot like unethical cherry picking of data (the 'coding error' is really of secondary importance to me).
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by 3am 13y ago
"both very well respected economists" Not any more. This is a career killer. I wouldn't be surprised to see them accepting posts with the American Enterprise Institute or Cato in short order. EDIT: also, Barry Ritholtz is generally percei
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by 3am 14y ago
I'm saying that founding a startup is not terribly different than founding a bakery, it's just the ROI characteristics of the business model are better. If one's skills are lacking in marketing, the basics of business/contract/tax law, tim
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by 3am 14y ago
Regarding being ready to found a startup, I'll fall back on the Justice Stewart's line that, "I know it when I see it". When I was a young kid, I had an idea that I was going to have a plant store (really. I had just learned about splitting
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by 3am 14y ago
So, I guess I'll be the wet blanket here. It's pretty clear to me reading this that this person and their partner were nowhere near ready to found a startup. It highlighted the potential benefits for some people of getting a corporate(ish
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by 3am 14y ago
The first comment after the article ends the discussion: "This article is misleading from the beginning. India did not refuse to issue a patent for Gleevec, it refused to extend the patent Gleevec already had, based on merely superficial ch
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by 3am 14y ago
The Bitcoin craze is without a doubt one of the most insane things I've lived through. I feel badly for all the late arrivals who are (anecdotally) dipping into long term savings and levering up to buy them. The dynamic is identical to me
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by 3am 14y ago
I am maybe a little older than some of the readers here, pushing on the lower end of middle age, ie, I had to memorize phone numbers/rotary phone at home when I was very young, I had a Walkman, MTV had only one station and it played music,
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by 3am 14y ago
That's a cute response, but that's not how applications are written and presumably you know that. I'm not excusing this. If they did it the right way they'd have 1. Set a date to cancel the existing program 2. Sent a targeted email to eve
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by 3am 14y ago
I was in QA at a retail company. It's hard to do targeted notifications and updates. You miss one condition in a WHERE clause when defining your target and something like this happens. It is also fairly easy to figure out the size of the
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by 3am 14y ago
I can't believe your attitude. As a consumer, do you ever worry about whether Amazon is making a profit on EC2 or Prime? I don't. But I sign up for something, and I expect to either have my agreement honored, cancelled, or mutually replac
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by 3am 14y ago
I think PowerShell has its own idiom for doing this. You might want to look into BITS (and related PS cmdlets), too.
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by 3am 14y ago
In the situations where nc is useful then scapy is probably not an option. Nc, dd, and a few others are almost always present and great when you are in a real bind... something went wrong in a network install in pxelinux, and you want to c
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by 3am 14y ago
Commodities that are consumed are priced on the marginal cost of production. Saudi Arabia can pump oil for less than $5/barrel, but what drives the prices are the costs of fracked shale and frontier plays like UDW. Gold is the same. Gene
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by 3am 14y ago
I'm reminded of this: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/07/golden-cyberfett...
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by 3am 14y ago
Money itself is not a good asset. I don't understand the point of excessive cash savings - cash is a vehicle for trade and transfer assets, not an asset in and of itself. Ie, if I have leftover money, I will put it in investment funds that
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by 3am 14y ago
Hey, I'm going to call you out on, "Clearly it is not as brittle as the typical climate scientist would have us believe." What do you mean? Do you mean that you think the Earth's temperature will not rise as fast as climatologist consensus
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by 3am 14y ago
Many thanks for the info. I had a hell of a time trying^H^H^H^H^H^Hfailing to get Diablo working with XenServer, too. No ill will towards the project, and glad to hear it's maturing. It seemed to be in relatively good hands with Rackspac
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by 3am 14y ago
Is "considerably less than 10 seconds" that bad of a sign? I took that to mean in the neighborhood of 7 seconds, which is just fine for most usage. Probably depends on factors like temperature and charge level, which is a new problem for
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Mercedes Bringing Tesla-Powered EV to U.S. Next Year(wired.com)
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by 3am 14y ago
"OpenStack is like you think about the linux kernel. Most people want a distro, not raw source to setup their environments" Since he was comparing the relationship between a hypervisor and Openstack to that between the Linux kernel and the
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by 3am 14y ago
I know this, I'm asking which one of the supported hypervisors Paypal planned on using in their deployment.
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by 3am 14y ago
I've kept up a little on OpenStack since then and know people that work with the technology. I'm sure the keystone integrated auth system (or whatever it's called now) really improved things, and it seems like people are making really prog

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