BearOfNH

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by BearOfNH 17y ago
We're being asked to believe that starting around 1960 tree rings "suddenly" no longer reflected local temperatures, so we shouldn't rely on them after 1960. Doesn't this also imply that looking backward tree rings might be untrustworthy an
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The formulas used to adjust TIPS principal and interest are based on official US Gov't. statistics, which means they are slightly more trustworthy than a politician's promise. Still, if inflation is your concern then better a halfhearted ad
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Is there a plausible case that we cannot afford to wait? If it isn't caused by humans it's unlikely to be fixable by humans.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I agree opportunity cost is a better metric, but there's yet more to it. In another 10 years, Itanium might surpass x86 as the old architecture hits the wall and the new continues to speed up (if in fact it does). It's almost a matter of
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I applaud the $12M effort -- we need more transparency. "Sunlight is the best disinfectant", and apparently the most expensive, too. Does anybody else think this is an isolated example? I kind of think most US government projects are awash
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Does anybody know how to change that "Tk" in the upper left corner? I find it garish, and a distraction from the content. Using matplotlib for Python 2.5 on XP. I don't think there's any way to get the window handle to send it a WM_SETICON
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Pass. Sounds like they've been reading too many Google interview questions.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I know several parents of small children, and all of them have trouble getting their kids to eat. Likewise. My hypothesis is that the kids didn't like to eat food that was hard to chew. Hot dogs: yes, steak: no. Beets: yes, carrot sticks:
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The article is about more than just a bunch of vaccine-phobes. It's about many different superstitions people embrace irrationally. E.g., FTA: Famine remains a serious blight on humanity, yet the leaders of more than one African nation, ur
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Does the term Government encompass the U.S. "Defense" industry? How about "Health Care"? Ignore the current health care bill(s) debate -- there's plenty of opportunity just getting medical records online securely. Whether there are startu
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
FTA: the next part of our position is 1, and the square we should consult next is the third one. Doesn't he mean the second one (again)? This is a good article, but he really should have added an 8x8 illustration and/or mentioned his coor
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
One principle to bear in mind: give customers multiple payment opportunities, even if it's just a money-order alternative. Sometimes for PayPal-based payment there seems to be no way to pay without first signing up for PayPal. Not always
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Just reading the headline I couldn't tell if the poster was proud of having been included, or annoyed at piracy of his app. The name MacHeist actually suggests the latter, and their website only says they supply licenses -- not saying wha
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
FTA: CEO Kenneth Lin says that the site doesn’t ever sell user information, but instead shows users offers ... I'm sure Mr. Lin is sincere about this but I don't see how anyone can trust him. If the site is a success, who knows but that (
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Maybe I missed it, but how does somebody know how much data they've pulled/pushed in a month? And is CC counting just payload bytes, or do they include packet overhead? What about retransmissions?
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
This would certainly cut down on the number of poll responses, and those pesky "Vote up if you like chocolate" comments.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I use OpenAir because my employer requires it. Not for billing or salary but rather to see how much time is spent on each project. Most importantly to distinguish development time from maintenance time.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
there's a 9/10 chance they'll find the Higgs Are there any such wagers available in London? If so, what odds do they quote? Does Lloyd's of London sell insurance against a black hole event? :-)
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
FTA: "...All you need is the determination and the rest will work itself out." Hmmm...he left out the "and funding", which is often helpful in getting through the tough times.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
128 benefited mightily from Tip O'Neill when he was speaker of the house. Much of this coincided with the Reagan defense build-up. O'Neill made sure his state got more than its share of those dollars. This also held true, to a lesser extent
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
When I first saw the rationals placed in 1-1 correspondence with the integers I pointed out there were lots of mappings that don't work, e.g., mapping every integer to itself, thereby not having any integers left over for nontrivial fractio
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Is that $150/month the only plan available for Droid? Verizon has a number of (pay less/get less) plans for their more vanilla phones. Maybe it's a matter of waiting until next year. Been doing a lot of that lately...
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
It's a neat example, but surely you know you can't rearrange terms of an infinite sum unless it is absolutely convergent. That's not the case here.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I've been using duckduckgo; very nice. One UI comment: when I click on "More Links" I'd like some kind of cue -- say, a horizontal line -- so I know where to start looking when the results come back. I frequently click for "More" then while
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
When I was an undergraduate living in a dorm, I and several friends all learned Go together. Nobody knew what they were doing, and so no one was particularly nervous. Even keeping score was an exercise in passing around examples from the
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
Not to mention sabotage and blackmail. "Pay me millions or I'll chop your cables". Hmmm, new meaning for the term "Hacker"...
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
For financial markets, Portfolio Management Formulas by Ralph Vince develops a similar strategy. It too is based on the Kelly Criterion. But it assumes you already have a profitable strategy as opposed to saying "do this system". I'm not
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
I think it's a mistake to go for the startup with the idea that the MBA is some sort of "backup plan". When the going gets rough -- and PG assures us it will -- that "backup plan" suddenly starts to look attractive and you end up in the wor
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
The one that isn't a PDF.
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by BearOfNH 17y ago
In response to In response to cash is faster than debit , it never happens that way here in New England. I watch as the register total increments. Every $20 I pull another $20 out of my wallet so when I'm done I just hand the wad of cash t

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