Agathos

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by Agathos 17y ago
This may not be a helpful answer, but the most SICP-like experience in my biology education was probably a paper-reading class.
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by Agathos 17y ago
Heh. "standard text" So anyway, the journal asks why I'm citing Alberts so much and I write back, "Alberts is the standard text, editor."
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by Agathos 17y ago
This article is a writeup of someone else's writeup. Keeping an eye out for publications with surprising findings is a good way to fill that last bit of space in the science section, but it's not going to reproduce all the details. It does
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by Agathos 17y ago
Sometimes I worry that I don't daydream any more. Instead I just hit some websites, like this one.
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by Agathos 17y ago
You're my hero now. Mining financial disclosures is right at the top of my list of projects that need doing.
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by Agathos 18y ago
I don't know about "most." But yeah, the story of the poor African who uses a microloan to buy a cellphone that he/she rents to the rest of the village has been told so many times, it's a cliche. Also there's the one about the fishers and f
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by Agathos 18y ago
Me too. It seems that I reliably click on the titles I like least, just to see if they're as bad as I expect. Isn't that odd?
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by Agathos 18y ago
It's a little funny. The first I heard of Sam Altman was when Paul Graham said, "Ah, so this is what Bill Gates must have been like when he was 19." 2.5 years later Paul puts Sam on the list and leaves Bill off of it.
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by Agathos 18y ago
The card game, Chrononauts, has been around a while already. On the other hand, you'll only be frustrated if you bring too much strategy to the table for that game.
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by Agathos 18y ago
And then there's Kendall, which feels young, expensive, somewhat dilapidated, and miserable in the winter.
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by Agathos 18y ago
Compared to California, not so good. But heating is a lot cheaper in Chicago than in Boston, because the housing stock is newer and has some insulation.
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by Agathos 18y ago
In general if you sell your company (or pieces of it) you will get something less than the net present value of all its future dividends, as estimated by the buyer. You or your VC shareholders may choose to do so anyway because it's more co
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by Agathos 18y ago
Wait. Are you saying "critique" and "rebuttal" are synonyms? I never thought so, and I've never even been to Europe.
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by Agathos 18y ago
I don't know how demanding the degree program is but becoming a teacher includes a lot of hoops to jump through beyond that. A friend of mine wants to be a teacher and has just about finished her master's, but may move out of state for a co
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by Agathos 18y ago
So if I get married I'll run $1000 over my budget every month? And never update my budget?
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by Agathos 18y ago
I guess the point was to remind us that Microsoft was important back in the nineties.
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by Agathos 18y ago
Yes, as a matter of fact $100 per month is a lot of money. Start saving even a little bit now and you'll be surprised at how it adds up. Your college loan payment is so huge that even 3% of it would have a big effect. By the way, my dentist
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by Agathos 18y ago
$1000 over break-even would be wonderful. I'm nowhere near that point and yet I've saved more than enough to buy a few new alternators or flights to Tucson.
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by Agathos 18y ago
That's a popular one, but I find it so depressing. Here you've quit your job and thrown yourself into something you believe in, and from the first day you're thinking about how you'll unload it?
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by Agathos 18y ago
Martin van Creveld writes some serious analysis. Consider... Supplying War -- on logistics (as in "professionals study...") Command in War -- on communication, information, and the importance of local autonomy leading to quick action The Tr
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by Agathos 18y ago
"Just because I sleep with other men doesn't mean I'm gay!" --this guy I know
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by Agathos 18y ago
The problem with the compiler is that it implements a language whose rules, applied to the code I just wrote, yield a bug. That this language is consistent with the spec makes it no less a problem.
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by Agathos 18y ago
He put himself in a state where the only options were more difficult than printf. Therefore he exceeded his own standard for real manliness, and remains a real man. It seems like a simple transitive relation to me; are you saying his logic
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by Agathos 18y ago
Well I know he said real men use printf, but it sounds like he's putting the system in a state where it can't print to anything.
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by Agathos 18y ago
And then read this charming series of stick-figure comics about Walter Freeman. http://eyeteeth.livejournal.com/tag/walter+freeman
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by Agathos 18y ago
Exactly what power does the CEO hold over the board of directors (most of whom are independently wealthy anyway)? They treat the CEO well because he's their buddy.
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by Agathos 18y ago
I hope not. If it is then I need another name for whatever I have.
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by Agathos 18y ago
Pfft. Vacuum is just matter, without the fluctuations.
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by Agathos 18y ago
You mean, "I was on a bus, complaining about Thomas Friedman, when the driver looked back and said, 'A lot of essays are extrapolated anecdotes. It's not an intrinsically evil form.' And I realized it was true. You just have to do it right.
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Artifacts, machines, products, gizmos, and spimes(antipope.org)
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